Sentences with phrase «seconds from catastrophe»

They are a common measure of solar activity — the higher the number of sunspots, the higher the probability of a major storm that could wreak havoc on Earth (see Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe).

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Dividends also took a hit with the insurer declaring a final dividend of 4c per share, down from the 33c payout a year ago, after catastrophe claims contributed to a $ 632 million after tax cash loss during the second half.

We wonder if there does not exist a comparable relationship of correspondence between the Joseph story and that third phase of Israel's history which is separated from the second by the sixth - century catastrophe of the Fall of the state of Israel and the Babylonian Exile.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

We are actually as a club right on the brink of a catastrophe that will take years to recover from i find it so ironic and not a little bit stomach turning that the man who did so much for us in the first decade has been so complicit in destroying us in the second decade

The second (May 18) isn't likely to deviate from the bro - friendly formula, but there's reason for hope in the «X-Force» additions of «Atlanta's» Zazie Beetz as the luck - controlling Domino, and internet comedy mastermind - «Catastrophe» co-creator Rob Delaney as Peter, whose superpowers seem confined to his dad bod and robust mustache.

Second, the damage cost of a ton of CO2 (at 3 % discount rate) ranges from negative to $ 22 at the 99 percentile [from Richard Tol's paper «The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes»], with a median of about $ 4.

It wasn't until the second Clinton administration, the lunacy from Gore and the escalation of catastrophe in subsequent IPCC reports that inspired me to do my own due diligence and is when I became a skeptic.

Yet as recent history has shown time and again, nothing short of global catastrophe will prevent a popular nostalgia - fueled Nintendo product from selling out in seconds.