Sentences with phrase «widespread disruption»

This week its price collapsed because the largest exchange on the network did not handle a known design flaw in bitcoin properly, which caused widespread disruption and possibly some loss of bitcoin.

The result, he suggests, would be widespread disruption of health services.

Some of them predict that widespread disruptions in modern amenities such as electricity and telephone service will arise from the Y2K computer problem; others foresee religiously ordained cataclysms.

Ryanair posted an increase in profit of 12 percent in the three months to the end of December despite widespread disruption.

Ian Bauckham, ASCL's president, said it was not possible at this stage to know whether there would be widespread disruption as a result of the action, as the only information the NUT were obliged to provide was the number of members it had in a school.

It is a clear sign that unions feel their concerns over plans to make them work longer and pay more towards their retirement are being ignored, and raises the prospect of widespread disruption before the end of the year.

«The city's protocols help instill confidence throughout school communities and prevent widespread disruption and fear.

The PETM brought on ocean acidification, which likely caused a major disruptions to ecosystems, including the widespread

The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association has released its latest assessment of the impact of Hurricane Irma, reporting widespread disruption across the region.

The triennial features an artistic examination of the themes of connectivity and isolation, against the backdrop of a society dealing with widespread disruption of social conventions.

So it is worth a few pages on the Little Ice Age and contemporary crop failures, just to give you an emotional base, one from which you might conceivably manage to further extrapolate to abrupt climate flips lasting centuries with tenfold greater temperature excursions and far more widespread disruption of ecosystems.

D - Link IP cameras were a major contributor to the immense IoT denial of service attacks that occurred last year causing widespread disruption on the internet, including taking down Domain Name System services provider DYN.

After bravely enduring back - to - back - to - back tropical storms last year that caused widespread disruption of life on the island, the people of St. Martin have once again weathered mother nature's battering and, showing their signature resilience and spirit, have brought the island back to its usual splendor for those discerning travelers who know the secret pleasures of life on this Caribbean gem.

After bravely enduring back - to - back storms that caused widespread disruption of life on the island, the people of St. Martin have once again weathered mother nature's batterings and, showing their signature resilience and spirit, continue to work to bring the island back to its usual splendor for those discerning travelers who know the secret pleasures of life on this Caribbean jewel.

Hundreds of trains have been cancelled and there's widespread disruption to Madrid's underground network.

Pinkerton President Jack Zahran said terrorist attacks and natural disasters were becoming more frequent, potentially causing widespread disruption to supply chains.

Pester came under fire from customers and politicians last week when he claimed the IT migration had gone «smoothly» despite the widespread disruption.

Cuts to fiber optic cables caused widespread disruptions to telephone, television and Internet service across the Northeast for several hours yesterday, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications reported.

Strike action was solid across 17 London bus operators, as Unite members mounted picket lines across the capital bringing buses to a standstill and causing widespread disruption.

Union leaders said they were «overwhelmed» by support after a strike by public sector workers caused widespread disruption.

If the state decides to build a tunnel or hybrid tunnel - boulevard, traffic would still have to be diverted onto Interstate 481 during a decade of construction, Stirpe said, causing widespread disruption to the community.

Mr Cable continued by remarking that «the usual suspects will call for general strikes and widespread disruption», before being interrupted by further cheering and applause.

«What happens in the worst case, a widespread disruption and failure of mitigation policies?

A hack that manipulated the location of 20 ships in the Black Sea may be the first use of GPS spoofing, a form of cyberwarfare capable of widespread disruption

«We think that widespread disruption to synaptic connectivity — the brain's communication pathways — is what makes surgery possible, although effective anaesthetics such as propofol do put you to sleep first,» he said.

It is possible that climate change will cause major and widespread disruptions to key planetary life - support services.

Daylight savings time represents a subtle but widespread disruption to daily circadian rhythms.

Takeuchi and her colleagues hypothesize that TCA - like contaminants are probably absorbed into the fat layers that make up the cell membrane to cause widespread disruption of the channels.

From small businesses to global corporations, including startups and middle market companies, the landscape today is the same for all: the economy has shifted, and organizations need to adapt to accelerated business cycles and the widespread disruption of markets.

Political instability in some overseas destinations has also added an undesirable dimension to some holidays abroad, while climatological factors such as flooding and heavy snowfall have caused widespread disruption that has had a big impact on overseas travel.

Against this backdrop of widespread disruption of conventional social frameworks and values, Yokohama Triennale 2017 embarks on a multi-faceted examination, through art, of the themes of connectivity and isolation, under the title «Islands, Constellations & Galapagos.»

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

«What happens in the worst case, a widespread disruption and failure of mitigation policies?

Gov. Jerry Brown: «This is a horror» - «We're going to have widespread disruption, more conflicts, more terrorism, more insecurity because of climate disruption.

The cold temperatures and heavy snowfall caused widespread disruption to transport and power supply, closure of work places and public services, and damage to crops.

«We're going to have widespread disruption, more conflicts, more terrorism, more insecurity because of climate disruption.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

For example, at this very moment it's telling me that Facebook had a widespread disruption in service two hours ago and is now encountering some problems.

Natural Disaster is defined as widespread disruption of human lives by disasters such as flood, drought, tidal wave, fire, hurricane, earthquake, windstorm, or other storm, landslide, or other natural catastrophe or event resulting in migration of the population for its safety.

Just last week, Kaspersky Labs found that June's suspected ransomware attack focused on oil, gas and manufacturing targets, likely to cause widespread disruption.