Sentences with phrase «of widespread damage»

With no reported earthquakes and with storms common only in the western part of the state, Kentucky has one of the lowest rates of widespread damage from catastrophes.

The low rate of widespread damage from catastrophes is the main reason Kentuckians enjoy low homeowner insurance rates.

With no reported earthquakes and very few storms, Massachusetts has one of the lowest rates of widespread damage from catastrophes.

The low rate of widespread damage from catastrophes is the main reason Newton homeowners enjoy low homeowner insurance rates.

This is a result of what Coloradans have lived through in recent years — season after season of widespread damaging hailstorms and the state's most destructive wildfires.

Not exact matches

«If allowed to go into effect, the impact of this new joint - employer rule would be sweeping and widespread, create havoc for the franchise industry and, ultimately, would inflict serious damage to our nation's economy.»

The island suffered significant structural damage and widespread loss of power and communications.

«If allowed to go into effect, the impact of this new joint - employer rule would be sweeping and widespread... and ultimately, would inflict serious damage to our nation's economy,» Caldeira said.

The trio of hurricanes come after Hurricane Harvey brought widespread destruction to the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, estimated by AccuWeather to have caused damage of up to $ 190 billion.

Large meteorological events often drive lookups, and this year provided several big events to track: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria, all of which caused widespread damage to the southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean.

Clearly, the stakes are high when it comes to any allegations of misconduct — a cover - up and reports of a widespread culture of harassment have been shown to seriously damage businesses.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government is ignoring a report from the City of Prince Rupert that warned that ferry service cuts will do serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy, say the New Democrats.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

A widespread movement into metals at this time would damage the Bank State and its umbrella organization, the Deep State, because their future profits require the control and progressive expropriation of the people's money.

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have caused unprecedented and widespread devastation, forcing thousands of people out of damaged homes and communities in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Yet in our times this institution has been gravely weakened by the sexual revolution and the damage it has done to marriage and the family: widespread divorce; the dramatic increase in out - of - wedlock births; the casual acceptance of premarital sex and cohabitation; and a contraceptive mentality which insists that sex has an arbitrary relation to procreation.

Tom Wahl, owner of Red Fern Farm in Wapello, Iowa said drift damage was widespread over 14 acres of chestnut trees.

Those chemicals damage cells, promote widespread internal (and invisible) inflammation, and lead to a vast number of health concerns now considered common such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Eggs are universal on most restaurant menus and consumer shopping lists, but a widespread fear of salmonella poisoning has somewhat damaged their reputation or at least hindered their potential for new applications and further growth.

By Kathryn Jones ggs are universal on most restaurant menus and consumer shopping lists, but a widespread fear of salmonella poisoning has somewhat damaged their reputation or at least hindered their potential for new applications and further growth.

Cadmium (Cd) is a widespread environmental and occupational pollutant that has emerged as a major cause of pathobiochemical events and damage in a number of organs.

Furthermore, Article 8 (2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalizes «intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long - term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated.»

This is probably the most widespread and damaging allegation made against him, and to some extent it has stuck, partly a result of people abiding suspicion of the Tories when it comes to gay rights issues.

Now, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other members of the Texas delegation are requesting federal assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has caused widespread damage and flooding in Houston and other parts of the state.

During his tour of the island Cuomo said he saw hundreds of homes with structural damage and widespread flooding and noted that the island's electrical system has been knocked offline.

Jubilant scenes accompanied Megrahi's return to Libya, which prompted widespread condemnation around the world and damaged Tripoli's standing after a period of rapprochement with the international community.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said the day's «widespread delays and confusion with the electronic voting machines has damaged the public's trust in our Democracy» and «likely disenfranchised» thousands of voters.

There's a widespread view among those constituents that Build It Back has, despite some progress and success when the de Blasio administration first focused on it in late 2014 and early 2015, ground down into a bureaucratic nightmare largely incapable of making broad progress in repairing and rebuilding Sandy - damaged homes.

This suggests widespread problems beyond the specific site of damage, which may cause problems for communication in the whole system, not only in networks that have specific damage,» Sandberg said.

The address captured what some advocates had hoped to hear from Obama following the bruising impacts of widespread disasters last year, including a drought that sizzled 60 percent of the nation and damages from Superstorm Sandy exceeding $ 50 billion.

«I'm pleased that the Federal Claims Court has found what Missouri families, farmers, and business owners have been saying for more than a decade: The Army Corps of Engineers» mismanagement of the Missouri River has resulted in widespread damages with substantial costs,» Blunt said in a statement.

On the first global map of earthquake hazards, pink and red signal a more than 10 % chance of ground accelerations exceeding 25 % of the force of gravity within the next 50 years — high enough to cause widespread damage to buildings.

Such an earthquake will cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay).

With computers crashing and cell towers dropping offline, all of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties in California are instantly cut off from the outside world, so nobody beyond the immediate area knows how bad it is here or how widespread the damage.

At the same time, avoiding radiation and alkylators — which cause widespread cellular damage throughout the body — should reduce the risk of long - term HSCT - related complications, such as organ failure and cancer.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

These stroke - related alterations in the cervical spinal cord indicate pervasive and long - lasting BSCB damage that would severely affect spinal cord function, wrote the researchers, adding that the widespread microvascular impairment in the gray and white matter of the cervical spinal cord aggravated motor neuron deterioration and had the potential to cause motor dysfunction.

When states suffer a widespread loss of jobs, the damage extends to the next generation, where college attendance drops among the poorest students, says new research from Duke University.

Unlike blunt force trauma, where damage / injury is usually localised to one area of the brain, blasts create a shockwave that affects the whole brain — causing widespread damage.

«Widespread blocking of this part of the immune system after traumatic brain injury helps damaged brain tissue to survive and improves neurological recovery in mice.

But a few have been big enough to damage buildings, and now USGS says that it can't rule out the possibility of a magnitude - 7 temblor, which would cause widespread damage.

When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.

The Formosan and Asian subterranean termites, native to east Asia, are now widespread invasive species, causing billions of dollars of damage annually.

«Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death.»

However, unlike our previous analysis of Syria's World Heritage Sites, we're seeing a lot of damage that appears to be the result of widespread looting,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director of the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project, which authored the report.

The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread brain damage, but two injured areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.

«We do not yet have a precise guide to correlate loss of gray matter with specific cognitive deficits, but there is clear evidence of widespread neuronal damage or loss compared to the general population.»

With widespread social and economic impacts associated with a cyclone's power, improving the accuracy of tropical cyclone forecasts is of paramount importance for mitigating damage.

Shell states that tar sands are less damaging that coal: Well since when was coal and oil used to the same ends unless they are talking about widespread adaption of CTL technology which could happen in some countries with large scale coal rserves I guess but even I doubt that CTL projects will scale to 3 — 5 mbpd which is the projected output of Albertas oil sands come 2030.