Sentences with phrase «what rises to the level»

What is considered legal contamination and what rises to the level of an emergency is an important distinction, the supervisor said.

«It is for the attorney general's office to determine what is incompetence and what rises to the level of prosecutable charges,» he said.

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The passion these customers feel for the company rises to what we might call «tattoo - level» in that people love the company so much they are willing to permanently attest to that with some ink on their skin.

I am glad that Elon Musk, the IPCC, Leonardo Di Caprio, Al Gore, and others are doing what they're doing, but CO2 levels continue to rise and uninhabited remote Pacific Islands continue to to be covered with garbage.

As the clock counted down to the end of Howard Stern's five - year deal with satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM, speculation about what he might do rose to feverish levels.

I don't know what to do if the water stays at this level or if it keeps rising, I have no idea what to do.

And as they slowly began regaining weight, leptin levels rose a little, but got stuck at about half of what they'd been at the start of the show — which would help explain why they felt such strong urges to eat.

What the Russians did during the recent U.S. elections is serious, but it's unclear if it rises to the level of cyber warfare.

More from Balancing Priorities: What to do with your bond portfolio as Fed rates rise Credit scores are set to rise Don't make these money mistakes when you're just starting out «There is no sense in bearing the risk of an adjustable rate when you can lock in a fixed rate at essentially the same level,» he said.

If the strengthening persists, inflation may rise to levels above what is regarded as consistent with maximum sustainable growth and full employment.

You ask yourself, to what level would the Fed fund's rate have to rise to trigger the next credit crisis, and that level is in the region of 2.5 %.

While the rapid rise in the divorce rate does appear to be leveling off as we end the 1970s, the numbers confirm what most of us have already experienced among our own families, friends and parishioners: that...

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

It has become very difficult, in the world's present state of upheaval and distraction, to form any idea of the significance of what is going on except, by rising above the individual level.

What is meant by «risen to the level of taboo.»

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I didn't hear one complaint at the time, and with Rambo stepping up and showing finally what most of us knew he could do, and Kos rising to a level most of us didn't know he had, along with Theo (who I think is Henry markII) and will become a lethal striker in time.

That's what they want, so they need to rise to those occasions and play to the level that's required.

I don't even know what point you're trying to make here, but it is so convoluted that I hope you attempt to clarify what you mean and why that, in itself, doesn't rise to the level of abuse.

We all know what it's like to watch that milk level rise and try to rally those last few splashes of the good stuff before calling it a session.

The lighter sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals promote, gives rise to what we consider to be «safer sleep» for infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human infants must pass.

Dopamine gets involved because it inhibits prolactin (which is what makes the milk) so dopamine levels need to drop for prolactin levels to rise in order to make more milk.

We all need to know what exactly the Russians did to influence the election and to fire Mueller now would most likely rise to the level of obstruction of justice.

They alleged that the level of insecurity in the state had risen to what they described as an unbearable level, thereby forcing their candidates to stop campaigning across the state.

I had always been interested to know what prompted that to happen but I believe the dates of sea levels rising — and how they correspond to the volcano physically changing — offer a potential explanation.

«That necessitates taking a flexible approach, where possible: building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea - level rise that are likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond that.»

«It turns that what the paper documents is things we've been doing there already have started to reveal what one would predict would happen with accelerated sea - level rise,» Goodbred said.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

Are sea levels already starting to rise accordingly, and if so what effects is this having?

Scientists still do not know what triggers the breakup of an ice shelf or when future ones will occur, so they struggle to estimate how quickly glaciers will dump their ice into the ocean and therefore how much sea level will rise.

Scientists need to know how fast the ice shelves are disintegrating and what is causing the demise so that they can better estimate future sea - level rise.

The researchers chose their range of sea level — rise projections based on what is most likely to happen to the west coast, according to dozens of regional and global studies.

As glaciers collapse toward the sea, scientists struggle to figure out how fast the southern continent is melting and what that means for sea - level rise

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

Understanding what's causing the changes in the ice shelves «puts us a little bit closer to knowing what's going to happen to the grounded ice, which is what will ultimately affect sea - level rise,» Fricker said.

They discussed the importance of talking about sea - level rise and climate change as they brainstormed what advice they should give to university presidents.

(laughs) So okay, so then in this session we've been doing here at AGU, this all, kind of, comes down to sea - level rise and what can we expect.

«If the IPCC comes out with significantly less than 100 cm of sea level rise, there will be people in the science community saying we don't think that's a fair reflection of what we know,» said Bob Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, speaking to Associated Press.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

«What I like about this paper is it shows the cost,» said Benjamin Horton, an expert on sea - level rise at Rutgers University who did not contribute to the paper.

Others present what the area could look like with construction to protect against sea - level rise, like a sea wall or an eco-berm, a landscaped levee.

But what if scientists could prevent the brain from rousing itself hundreds of times per night in response to rising CO2 levels, while allowing it to reestablish regular respiration again?

What Girard has found is that «it's almost better to sit down and talk face to face with certain people,» to discuss broad topics like sea - level rise or the threat of storms like Superstorm Sandy at the local level, project by project rather than systematically.

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«What this work shows is that we have been blind to a huge phenomenon, something that will be as big a player in sea level rise in the next century as any other contributor.»

Lead author Dr Ivan Haigh, Lecturer in Coastal Oceanography at the University of Southampton, says: «Our results show that by 2020 to 2030, we could have some statistical certainty of what the sea level rise situation will look like for the end of the century.

That's equivalent to a 10 per cent rise over what the CO2 level would otherwise have been — small compared to the effect of today's human emissions of around 120 parts per million, but perhaps enough to trigger local change.

And will sea levels continue to rise no matter what we do?