Sentences with phrase «swamped by»

Seriously, though, much as we love our tablets, smartphones and computers, we're in danger of being swamped by the sheer amount of power cables, USBs, adaptors and convertors needed to keep a home office fully functioning.

The great thing about destructiveness in the garden is that it's also connected to renewal and growth — if you don't cut back the plants, your space will be swamped by them, so hack away!

Swamped by a deluge of retail bankruptcies, restructurings and resizings over the past two years, and experts contending that the U.S. is over-retailed, retail development remains at a pace well below historic highs.

I could be grocery shopping, looking forward to a quiet night at home with Indian food, red wine and my laptop, and then glance up to see a couple ahead of me, hand in hand, and I'd be swamped by a sudden wave of longing or doubt.

With competition so fierce, employers are often swamped by hundreds of resumes and cover letters in the first 2 — 3 days of any job being advertised and have little time to read each one in detail.

The main reason companies opt to post confidentially is to avoid being swamped by phone calls from candidates and recruiters.

The platform was swamped by an influx of new users looking to set up trading accounts as Bitcoin entered a massive bull run in November, 2017.

I'm a big guy at 6» 2 ″ and in need of losing more than a few, so my big wrists suit this style quite nicely, but those with smaller wrists might feel swamped by this.

This is a safety precaution to prevent against the system being swamped by any one individual trying to put through millions of transactions at once.

Exchanges have been hacked, servers have been swamped by waves of traffic, and customers have even had accounts erroneously drained of cold hard cash.

Amidst the news of Lollipop updates finally beginning to roll out to consumers» phones, we're also being swamped by a whole host of Material Design - influenced app updates from developers everywhere.

In years past, the cheaper, smaller handsets had a design and look all of their own, but this year we're swamped by pint - sized versions of the flagship models.

How to mute iMessage threads Have you ever had your regular (important) iMessages swamped by a flurry of notifications for that inane group conversations about matcha - flavored KitKats?

Even more is at stake for an American patent system swamped by millions of low - quality patents, many of them — like the one belonging to Alice Corp — related to software.

While Apple invested in earlier IV funds, its reluctance to do so again may stem from the fact that it is being swamped by trolls itself; in February, the company complained that it has had to go to court with trolls 92 times in the last three years.

California bankruptcy lawyers understand that nearly 90 percent of those who file for bankruptcy are swamped by job / income loss, family breakup, medical problems or some combination.

As it was a CVA they were swamped by the votes of unsecured creditors and those not connected to the closed premises who stood to lose nothing under the CVA.

In a matter of days, the German car company was swamped by lawsuits.

In recent years, underwriters have been swamped by electronic information on the risk from insureds in the expectation that «material circumstances» would be discovered somewhere among it.

All of this obscurity, deflection, and conditional information are swamped by what will stay with the public: the headline.

Experts at the conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute said it was likely that global warming would create huge flows of refugees as people tried to escape areas swamped by rising sea levels or rendered uninhabitable by desertification.

Where we use unduly optimistic predictions; then we risk one mitigation effort, after another, being swamped by the rate of change.

He actually has a few peer - reviewed science papers, although they are swamped by the poli sci / policy stuff.

«The signal's going to be swamped by fossil fuel [emissions].»

Weeks Bay gets pretty rough and the booms that had been strung across the entrance to the river were constantly being swamped by waves.

These effects are utterly swamped by the recent mortality due to bark beetle outbreaks, in which mortality rates are vastly higher, and over a vastly larger area.

There, he co-authored an article for Science arguing that the warming effect caused by rising amounts of carbon - dioxide in the atmosphere would be swamped by the cooling effect caused by aerosol pollution like dust and smoke.

I am a «the signal will be swamped by variability and feedbacks..

As for the signal being swamped by feedbacks and natural variation, well, what the hell do you think has turned James Hansen into a walking shadow?The possibilty that a 1C signal will be swamped by natural variation and feedbacks!

We're talking about a very expensive program that is swamped, every year's reductions are swamped by one month's increase in Chinese emissions.»

Everything survived and we are still swamped by past natural variation.

There is undoubtedly some small amount of sequestration due to reforestation in North America, for example, but this may well be swamped by deforestation elsewhere, and is certainly swamped by anthro emissions generally.

Yeah, let's not use top of atmosphere solar irradiance to measure incoming solar irradiance, which effect is swamped by incoming cosmic rays (not!

And if the ocean bulk were taking some of the energy from extra DLR it would supply such an enormous buffering effect that the effects of human emissions on the climate would be deferred for millennia and would still be swamped by natural variability even then.

2nd Conclusion does not appear to be supported with data referenced in Section 3.2; Specifically the conclusion «But, this effect is swamped by the larger effect of siting bias in the non-compliant stations, particularly in the trends of the Tmin, suggesting a sensitivity to heat sinks within the thermometer viewshed, which is the basis of the Leroy classification system».

IOW: The argument over what, exactly, the precision of the instrument is when confounded by tall observers or differing standard procedures is probably swamped by the accuracy errors associated with the geographic extrapolation.

Because the world faces a fossil fuel glut in the future — the torrents of new shale oil and gas that increasingly flood world markets could themselves be swamped by next - generation methane hydrate fuels — Canada's energy resources could depreciate if left to stagnate in the ground.

I'm probably one of those conspiracy wing nuts for wondering if it because human production of CH4 is swamped by natural production.

The «Questions» section is often swamped by skeptics, I do my best but it gets a bit lonely in there, and I'm no expert.

At the outset, Broecker develops the theme that drives most of the support for geoengineering research in contemporary society, despair over feckless climate policymaking, or as Broecker characterizes it «nibbles by developed countries... swamped by increased energy demand in traditionally poor countries.»

Except if «the CO2 signal is super imposed on a longer term trend,» and we can't really determine what is causing that longer term trend (and thus can't determine at what point that imposition of the ACO2 signal will be swamped by long term trends), and we have growth in ACO2 emissions, wouldn't we expect that the magnitude of the impact of the ACO2 signal will increase?

That will be true here in spades, where the damage includes hotter summers, more crop losses, more disease, more destructive storms, and whole communities swamped by rising sea levels.

That 0.19 % «positive feedback» would be totally swamped by the negative feedback of wind resistance.

UPDATE: http://www.thelocal.de/20150612/reagan-to-gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall ======================================== Sorry for the interruption in blogging and comment moderation over the past 24 or so hours — I was a bit swamped by other things.

We had a live Q&A for Mark Steyn Club members around the planet over at SteynOnline the other day and I thought it would be like when I was a teenager in radio and we used to do open line phone - ins and I'd sit there twiddling my thumbs for the first 40 minutes desperate for the first call to come through but in fact we were swamped by questions from every time zone around the globe.

More on Briffa — perhaps a decent chap, perhaps just trying to walk that fine line (maybe he just got swamped by the system):

Is the effect of higher concentration of CO2 i.e. the CO2 signal or fingerprint, hopelessly swamped by other variables, some cyclic and some chaotic, some probably unknown and possibly unknowable and greatly variable in just about any timeframe from minutes to millions of years?

In a style suited for a culture swamped by typically Arminian thinking, Mr. Gore assures his readers that salvation is in their hands.

Now, of course, our best understanding says that in the beginning the effect was small and swamped by other forcings.

The projects which are associated with reductions in emissions could be swamped by increases in emissions elsewhere.