Sentences with phrase «times of disasters like»

Not exact matches

You could see when that little knob was flicked — coming to the rescue during times of disaster, like floods, fires and other emergencies.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The sky is not falling because other people live their lives differently from you and have joined their lives in marriage... Spend your time, energy and emotions on a topic that really matters - like world hunger, the pursuit of justice in the world, violence against women, natural disaster relief - these are issues that need your attention..

The average person is surprised to learn that banks lend the same money out multiple times, which is why a run on a bank is inevitably a disaster, as no bank has on hand anything like the sum of what all its depositors have deposited.

The website, called «Signs of End Times,» says pretty close to the top that they «never set dates,» but have drawn their conclusion from things like natural disasters, widespread violence, immorality and Christians around the world being persecuted.

One of them was running half on the grass at the time, so it almost looked like a disaster waiting to happen.

Never disaster, just a series of moderate disappointments that were infuriating at the time, but not so catastrophic that you could complain about them without feeling a little like a spoiled brat.

The Danish agricultural economist Ester Boserup argued that throughout history, population growth and the pressure of shortages have been necessary spurs to technological developments, which seem to arrive just in time to avert the sort of disasters that exercised the likes of Malthus and Ehrlich.

With a clock this accurate, scientists could gather more precise real - time measurements of continental shifts, potentially detecting natural disasters like earthquakes.

These outlets, which might also include the likes of LinkedIn and other tools, could be actively maintained to provide additional useful information and guidance for students during normal times as well as during and after disasters or emergency situations.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

I feel like my house is a disaster most of the time, and it certainly isn't this clean all the time.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

In the acting categories, at least two expected names — Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, both from Steven Spielberg's «The Post» — lost out in to the likes of newcomer Brooklyn Prince («The Florida Project»), Robert Pattinson («Good Time»), James Franco («The Disaster Artist»), and Andy Serkis («War for the Planet of the Apes»)

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

In that time the spoof genre has been repeatedly molested, with the likes of STAN HELSING, MEET THE SPARTANS and DISASTER MOVIE showing an absolute disregard for what was once known as comedy.

Now there are so many ways this could have been a joke, disaster or train wreck with all the jokes, pop culture references and the like about one of the greatest thinkers and minds of all time.

The numerous appearance of the mammoth - size whale result in the crew going back - and - forth between tension and disaster, each time feeling rather like a replica of the other (with slightly different plot drivers).

There's a reason he's long been considered the Charlie Chaplin of cinematic martial arts: His unbridled physicality and proclivity for self - wrought disaster prove that he's an obvious heir apparent to the master of the full - body blunder, a performer of such unparalleled precision and timing that he makes inevitable victory look like a practical mistake.

It almost feels like a sin to take delivery of a shiny new Aston Martin DB9 in the midst of one of the worst economic disasters in the history of the country, but it seems even more ludicrous to turn down time behind the wheel of one of the most gorgeous cars on the road, so we spent a weekend cruis

General and regular home maintenance, like clearing debris from gutters, is essential and will most definitely limit damages in times of disaster.

But the difficulties alleged by the rating agencies failed to appear, unless they were somehow sloshed into the hurricane disasters of 2004 - 5, or like eating an elephant — one bite at a time.

The best way to protect yourself, and to ensure that these resources are available for others in times of great need like natural disasters, is to have a renters insurance policy.

Having renters insurance actually gives you better odds of surviving a time - sensitive disaster like a fire.

«During times of natural disasters like the recent hurricanes, it's inspiring to see how the animal welfare community and pet parents come together.

The biggest frustration with the movement is when navigating through more confined spaces, regularly you'll find yourself bouncing off different surfaces, at times I felt more like a pinball than a surviving astronaut of a space disaster.

Some of those middling affairs, while holding up pretty creakily today, really didn't seem like complete disasters at the time: step forward, Triple Trouble.

Japanese novelist Kazumi Saeki, who experienced the March 11th earthquake from near Sakunami, likes series and published an op - ed in the New York Times this week in which he tries to make sense of disaster.

In the article, Debarati Guha - Sapir, a disaster analyst I've interviewed many times, said: «In a country like Brazil, which is not a poor country, where technological expertise and resources are really not a problem, large numbers of people dying from floods is not a good sign.»

Many seismologists and disaster response experts have stressed that initial counts are always low, particularly in a disaster zone like this one — spread over hundreds of square miles of vertiginous terrain, with many communities unreachable by road at the best of times.

Much of what I do is now funded by private sector and NGOs (like the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center), and done on my own time (like this blog).

In order to avoid offending you, Peter, I'm afraid this time you're going to have to supply me with the appropriate Mt.St.Helen's - like disaster scenario that doesn't offend any of your 27 delicate sensibilities.

Times News Network: Increased vulnerability of Himachal Pradesh to climate change has posed the threat of Uttarakhand like disaster.

Instead of the Koch brothers having the third largest political party in the U.S., it's way past time for WE THE PEOPLE» to form our own and get rid of this carnival which only serves to steal everyone's money, while also stealing resources and polluting OUR environment to the point we might have a real climate disaster on our hands, the likes of which, we may not be able to recover from.

>» a nation with a $ 2,000 per capita average GDP — about that of Honduras — should expect more than five times the number of disaster deaths as a country like Russia, with a $ 14,000 per capita average GDP.»

I would like to think that the time is coming when we can say with confidence that the true disaster scenarios are off the table and it's now all about finetuning our actions — choosing between a range of low - target, strong - mitigation futures in which we never go anywhere near catastrophe.

Prince Charles has called them the «biggest environmental disaster of all time,» while agriculture industrialists like Monsanto swear they're safe for human consumption and a boon for the environment.

Often these robots are built to go where man can not or at least to complete jobs that a human would have a much tougher time doing, like diving to deep ocean trenches or scurrying amid rubble after a natural disaster looking for people in need of help.

Most lawyers and law firms and malpractice insurers think of backup attorneys in cases of disaster, like death or disability, but, if you're intent on ramping up your vacation time, you should think of backup attorneys in terms of convenience.

That means that if my house burns down OR my storage unit gets broken into while I'm deployed, OR the moving company loses anything on the inventory the next time I'm moving (among many other disasters tht could hit), they're replacing all of my electronics, all of my china, all of my clothes, all of my furniture, all of everything except the irreplaceables like family photos.

The best way to protect yourself, and to ensure that these resources are available for others in times of great need like natural disasters, is to have a renters insurance policy.

Renters insurance, like homeowners insurance, is meant to rescue you at these times of disaster.

Even though these kinds of the disasters like a fire or a flood rarely happen, it is still a possibility that you could lose everything you own in as short a time as an evening.

Its really hard to discuss this anywhere without hearing «Oh your just trying to turn him against his mother» I know that happens alot and i know men and women are both guilty of it but in fact i had never heard of the term «parental alienation syndrome» until a couple days ago, i was actually starting to think based on everyones reaction when i brought up my feelings that it was all in my head and even my son told me i was dillusional right before he stopped talking to me and cut all contact.His mother moved him away to another state when he was 4 basically without more than a few days noticed after i had relocated closer to him to spend more time together, there was no history of abuse and i was paying support so that was a red flag anyway but hes 29 now and i feel like ive pretty much lost him forever.im in another location i moved to be able to see him more after my parents died in 2008 (about a month apart) but that has turned into a disaster since he no longer wants contact.He has a half brother here by myself and my present wife but my youngest son is mentally disabled and unable to take care of himself, myself and my 2 sons are all that is left of my family i have no other relatives anymore and i feel horrible for anyone else who has to go through this.

I feel like my house is a disaster most of the time, and it certainly isn't this clean all the time.

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