Sentences with phrase «year after a major disaster»

Not exact matches

In the few years following publication of the 2007 scenarios, at least three major energy - market events failed to fit the world energy model: the 2008 financial crisis; the U.S. shale - gas boom; and Germany's decision, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to speed up its transition to renewables.

After the disaster of a year we've had in the big budget spectacle realm, from Oz: The Great and Powerful and Jack the Giant Slayer through Man of Steel and Pacific Rim, nearly every major release with a 100 + million dollar budget has been either dreadful or disappointing.

Director Roland Emmerich, who had loads of practice destroying major landmarks in Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and the Godzilla remake, will direct this disaster movie based on the ancient Mayan prophecies foretelling the end of the world in the year 2012.

Such disasters have befallen the New York City Opera and Long Island College Hospital, two major New York institutions that collapsed in financial disarray in recent years, and the Crystal Cathedral in California, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010 after accusations that its board had imprudently borrowed against the endowment.

Prior to the 1990's (pre-350ppm atmospheric levels) the world suffered year after year major and extreme weather - related disasters... (Ramez Naam denies this)

If only we'd seen one press release this year or last from any of the major publishers even vaguely alluding to the fact that they have to work within various strictures and that there is a desire, however minimal, over time to develop a dialogue with China's authorities to talk about legal issues such as human rights environmental rights issues and a myriad of other social rights concerns, as well as other issues in the PRC, from housing law to dealing with the fallout of local government mismanagement after disasters such as the earthquake in Sichuan.

«Even with all the national attention after Hurricane Katrina, five years later millions of Americans still have not taken even some of the most basic steps to prepare for the potentially devastating impact of a major disaster,» says Robert Rusbuldt, Big «I» president & CEO.