Sentences with phrase «other catastrophes such»

Tornadoes are by far the biggest threat in Kentucky, but other catastrophes such as flooding, landslides and rockslides can happen just as easily.

Not exact matches

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

Though many were either illiterate or not very religious, many others could write and were indeed devout» men such as Colonel Patrick Guiney of Massachusetts, who lost his eye and his health at Chancellorville and wrote to his wife, «God rules in Peace and War» in the circumstances and the catastrophe.»

In an older day, insurance policies used to express this idea when they spoke about natural catastrophes and other such happenings as «acts of God.»

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

He also examines the larger lessons to be learned from such an ecological catastrophe — brought on by commercial exploitation and deforestations, among other causes — in this «planet's sixth great episode of mass extinctions.»

You might find it hard to believe a bag of chips or chocolate bar could create such catastrophe, but those and other processed foods send a rush of sugar that alerts your brain's reward center to release feel - good neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and beta endorphin.

Assets in interval funds might include investments like commercial property, such as tracts of farmland or forestry land, hedge funds and other private equity funds, business loans, catastrophe bonds and real estate securities.

Other potential catastrophes such as wildfires, residential fires and mudslides have the potential to cause a total loss to your home.

Of course geological history suggests that neither run away warming nor catastrophic cooling (within the time scales of years to several decades) are anything other than highly improbable (without some catastrophe such as a major asteroid strike), but it is the job of military planners to have some contingency for all eventualities.

There are other clichés for talking about climate change: You can warn that catastrophe looms by talking about tipping points and earths in the balance; you can use military language by talking about «a war on carbon» (related: the sporty «climate on steroids»); you can go retrofuturist with aspirational bridges such as the Apollo project, Sputnik, the Manhattan Project, to name a few.

I think so, because a) humans are so damn ingenious, and b) necessity is the mother of invention, and c) neither Malthus, Paul Ehrlich, nor any other of the many failed «we're running out of resources» serial doomcasters have ever made one successful prediction of such a resource - based catastrophe.

The document describes some of the current products and services and other innovative approaches used by the finance sector to tackle climate change, such as weather derivatives and natural catastrophe bonds.

Thanks to publications such as ABC's report: Sudden Death on the High Seas — Longline Fishing, a Global Catastrophe for Seabirds and subsequent advocacy efforts by ABC and others seabird deaths in Hawai'i and Alaska are down by up to 85 %.

The notion that CO2 is such a driver of climate that the projected growth in ambient levels carries the threat of probable catastrophe is so feeble, so lacking in observational and, indeed, theoretical support that we need other ways to understand the motivations of those who campaign so intemperately against this vital chemical.

When other unique areas of dispute — such as appraisal, matching and replacement cost — are considered, sometimes during catastrophe (CAT) operations, the importance of having legal counsel concentrating his or her practice in property litigation can not be underestimated.

Although Woburn residents have a very low risk of damages caused by tornados, other catastrophes, such as uncontrolled structure - fires, can be just as devastating.

However, other catastrophes, such as accidental fires and hurricanes, can lead to excessive damage to your home and the property you keep inside it.

Natural Disaster is defined as widespread disruption of human lives by disasters such as flood, drought, tidal wave, fire, hurricane, earthquake, windstorm, or other storm, landslide, or other natural catastrophe or event resulting in migration of the population for its safety.

If your home is struck by a catastrophe, such as a fire, tornado, hail storm, burglary or other disaster, your homeowners insurance provides a portion of the funds you need to repair and rebuild.