Sentences with phrase «than storming into»

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Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures agreed: «My sense is that the initial Dropbox enterprise strategy of converting «rogue» users into true enterprise customers may perhaps have proven harder than anticipated.»

Maria, however, blew out windows at some hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more than 4 feet.

It's been less than two weeks since Hurricane Irma slammed into the Eastern Caribbean as a Category 4 storm, devastating many of the tiny islands in its path before barreling into Florida.

It was even stronger than Hurricane Irma that storm roared into the Florida Keys earlier this month.

But what started out as a forceful gust of wind with the potential to transform into a hurricane has at least temporarily turned into nothing more than the passing of a springtime storm.

Although I agree with the basic premise of this argument, I would be remiss if I did not point out that the inroads science has made into those realms previously occupied by religion is far greater than just storm prediction.

Since he stormed into the NHL in «05 - 06 and single - handedly reversed the fortunes of a moribund Capitals franchise, his 600 goals are 195 more than anyone else (Sidney Crosby) and his 225 power play tallies already rank 10th in history.

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

He easily absorbed the information and surprisingly, started putting it into practice right away by telling me about how he was feeling rather than just getting mad and storming off.

Facing what could be the most powerful storm to slam into the United States in more than a decade, Trump and the team he has put in place at FEMA were bracing today for one of the most important tests of his presidency.

But Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in the Keys and Southwest Florida little more than two weeks ago, threw a monkey - wrench into the contest, temporarily putting campaign activities on hold after the massive storm knocked out power, internet, cable and mail delivery to much of the district.

An Investigative Post analysis of state data shows the Niagara Falls sewer system has spewed more than a half - billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with storm water into the Lower Niagara River since May 2016.

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The shadow Home Secretary ran into a similar storm of criticism last summer when he compared life in British inner cities to the popular American TV series The Wire, set in Baltimore, where the crime rate is far higher than anywhere in Britain.

Three storms that raged near Bermuda in 1995 boosted the flow of CO2 into the air over part of the Atlantic Ocean by more than half, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

As a result, a small storm in February pushed hundreds of millions of litres of water into the aquifer below — far more than normal.

More than six years after Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, a plan has finally emerged to protect the area from future storms.

La Niña favors a jet stream pattern which more consistently sends storms into the Pacific Northwest, leaving the Southwest drier than normal.

Based on modeling well into the future and with continued sea - level rise, «we see a pretty significant increase in flood risk» even as many of those storms may track further east of the coast than is common now.

As a hurricane, Sandy had a warm core, meaning that temperatures near the storm's center were warmer than the surrounding air, but colder air eventually worked its way into the center of the storm.

This week was a little different than normal because of the Memorial Day holiday and my flight complications due to the storms — I was only at the client location for two business days, which means lots of meetings crammed into those days.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Throw some storm chasers into the mix and you have a movie that bites off far more than it can chew.

Magic Mike XXL certainly dances up a storm of steamy yet silly action sequences and effectively showcases the deft physical talents of Channing Tatum, who is more than happy to charm people into forgetting that the movie itself is pure fluff.

She blows into the theater, drenched by the storm (seemingly a victim rather than a ruler of nature) just as Thomas is packing up from a long, fruitless day of auditions.

It's been more than six months since director Bryan Singer first suggested that Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm could be recast in «X-Men: Apocalypse,» and now we may have an idea of who could step into two of those roles in the 1980s - set sequel.

The «Battlefield» series has stormed through more than a century of warmaking in search of a good time — World War II, Vietnam, the Iraq War, and even a couple of trips into the near - and not - so - near future.

Storming into UK showrooms now, and due to face the glare of the nation's motoring media at a launch event in the next few days, the latest Leon is nothing less than the most powerful SEAT yet offered for sale in the brand's 25 - year UK history.

While the new BlackBerry Bold is slightly larger than I imagined, the Storm is smaller than I expected, and fits comfortably into my pocket.

With a little more than 25 centimetres of snow covering my hometown's streets (I live in Toronto) and an even stronger snow storm that plowed into the Maritime provinces over the weekend, I was left wondering what kind of person braves this type of nasty weather to search for their dream home.

So rather than get too bogged down fitting individual pegs into economic sized holes, I think the key insight is that one should cover each economic condition with one or more assets that not only weather the storm but also thrive in that situation.

Far Cry 2 - I feel like I should dive just a little bit deeper into this title than just the «meh» I threw its way during the last Scatter Storming.

There are so many variables in a fight - what you happen to be holding, what your enemy is holding, if there are any fires or boulders around, if you're in the eye of a lightning storm and so need to unequip everything metal - that it's almost always better to wing it and try new tactics on the fly than to settle into a groove.

It seems Resident Evil 5 certainly wanted to make its debut into the UK All Formats chart this week a memorable one, as it stormed straight in at number one, selling more copies than the rest of the titles in the top ten combined.

Established in 1960 as a way to showcase the majestic paintings from the Hudson River School movement, Storm King Art Center has evolved into one of today's leading sculpture parks, with more than 100 contemporary works dotting a dramatic landscape of pastoral hills, breathtaking vistas, and tranquil ponds.

People are even more into storm trooper outfits than previously suspected.

Now, we face the threat of 2 more hurricane force storms landing in our area in less than 1 week, and you dare to bring election politics into this discussion!

When the droplets turn to ice, they are much more likely to «blow off» into the cirrus anvil of the storm rather than fall as precipitiation.

«Since aircraft reconnaissance into storms was routine in the Northwest Pacific during the earlier period of our record 1983 - 1987, the best track intensities during this period are likely to be more accurate than the later period 1988 - 2004 after the termination of reconnaissance.

Wilma has blown up from a tropical storm into a very strong Category Five hurricane faster than you can say «Andrew.»

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

Along with a porous paving system and a network of natural swales, the living roof will retain storm water, allowing it to percolate slowly through the soil rather than flow swiftly from impervious surfaces into the nearby river.

This is only one step along the way from mine to market — coal trains derail far more often than you might think (in North Dakota, Michigan, and Nebraska, just this past month), loaded barges crash into bridges (just this week), terminals flood when severe storms come through, and ships even crash into the loading docks.

And current climate change trends could easily increase the chance of bad flooding — there's more water vapor in the atmosphere now (ready to condense into storm clouds and precipitation), for example, than there was 70 years ago.

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

Scienceofdoom disagreed with me about that on the ground that the hydrological cycle is closed, but it seemed obvious to me that if the rain is cooler at the beginning of a storm than in the middle it will cool the ground, which K&T don't take into account.

The report warns that, under global warming conditions, Irene - like storms of the future could put a third of New York City streets under water and flood many of the tunnels leading into Manhattan in less than an hour.