Sentences with phrase «over vulnerable areas»

Such can not be said for being able to control the movement of hurricanes so that they do not stall over vulnerable areas.

Not exact matches

The newest version Block IV Tomahawk missile employs several upgrades to its guidance and targeting systems that improve accuracy and flexibility, but may increase time over a target area, making the missile potentially more vulnerable to sophisticated air defense systems.

«We do know, however, that the risk increases over time because of growth in both the number and value of structures located in catastrophe - vulnerable areas.»

Carlos Souza, a GIS expert and executive director of IMAZON, a charity involved with monitoring the Amazon, thinks that more control over cultivation practices can be achieved with a system that predicts the most vulnerable areas for deforestation.

They also suggest that warming could exacerbate the release of CO2 from Arctic waters by allowing more vulnerable areas to be exposed to sunlight over time.

The fact that vials of this particular vaccine had to be stored in Nairobi is peculiar for two reasons: for one, according to the KCDA this is not usually required for vaccine distribution, and, for another, the Kenya Catholic Health Commission (as the medical branch of the KCCB) also manages a network of 448 Catholic health units consisting of 54 hospitals, 83 health centers and 311 clinical dispensaries plus more than 46 programs for Community Based Health and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children scattered all over Kenya's 224,962 square miles [93]-- an area larger than any US state in the lower 48 except for Texas at 268,601 square miles [94].

Its breakthrough approach was developed over years by Steph Creaturo to address all the vulnerable areas runners too often neglect.

We now have over 30 students going on a multi-adventure expedition to Norway in the summer, over 100 students doing Duke of Edinburgh (including every one of our most vulnerable students), we've won grants to create a Bushcraft Area within the school and the school has started a Combined Cadet Force.

The Statewide Special Education Task Force recommended that the state invest significantly in special education preschool programs; fund the over 130 regional special education local plan areas (SELPAs) more adequately and equitably; and, invest in support for special education and general education teachers who spend every day educating our state's most vulnerable student population.

While Heritage Academy continues to focus on vulnerable children in the area, other children are welcome and the school now includes classes up to Standard Six and over 550 students.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

Burnam blamed «multiple bad public policy decisions over the decades» for leaving Houston and other areas vulnerable to deadly flooding.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

These solutions will provide support for New York's most vulnerable communities and be a precedent for dense urban areas all over the world.

The policy leaves a vital national forest vulnerable to a host of environmentally damaging activities.The new policy was enabled by the Bush administration, which pushed for a new Idaho - specific rule that now replaces the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule — an act that protected over 58 million acres in 44 states.

I think Roger would argue that there are other factors we have more control over, which would be decisive and statistically detectable, such as whether to play the game in the first place (not so much settlement in vulnerable areas), or whether to incur damages of $ 10 or $ 1000 (build better dikes).

Steve's Reply: This amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.

You also claim that my comment «amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.»

Her practice in this area of law has grown over the years, alongside her need to ensure that those most vulnerable members of society receive the best possible representation.

I have practiced in the area of sexual abuse for nearly two decades, and have observed that when one «sees over and over again the profound damage wrought by sexual abuse and being constantly reminded of the depravity and evil perpetrated against vulnerable individuals, one has to question why it is that awards in this area are not more consistently, or even sporadically, higher than they have been to date.»

Over the past few weeks, Key Resource Group has partnered with area businesses and individuals to contribute to the relief efforts for one of the most vulnerable populations in our community — our area homeless.