Catastrophic breaching of the hypothetical land bridge allowed salt water from the Mediterranean to pour into the Black Sea. |
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Catastrophic things can happen from accidents during transportation and handling. |
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Catastrophic failure of the containing ice or glacial sediment can release this water over periods of minutes to days. |
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Catastrophic processes can see the sudden deposition of a large amount of sediment at once. |
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Catastrophic failures in grinders and shredders can cost enormous amounts of time and money to repair, not to mention the opportunity costs of the down time. |
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What had been shining bright and brand spanking new was now a total catastrophic loss. |
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Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown. |
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Early and accurate diagnosis of cornual ectopic pregnancy is critical, since rupture can cause sudden catastrophic bleeding. |
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We are now so dependent on the financial system, without parallel systems of support, that the result could be catastrophic for humanity. |
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It may be these catastrophic ruptures in unscarred uteri that cause the misguided fear of cesarean scars rupturing. |
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We have previously reported that half of the cases were associated with unpreventable catastrophic events or antenatal hypoxia. |
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The energetic particles floating in the space around Earth also can damage spacecraft without causing immediate catastrophic failures. |
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Does the development team have the power and flexibility to instigate catastrophic events in the game? |
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Not that anything catastrophic happened, mind you, but I felt extremely underqualified to handle some of the things these kids were doing. |
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Although uncommon, large blowdowns generated from inland hurricanes provide an opportunity to study the effects of catastrophic windfall. |
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Fire suppression builds up an unnatural accumulation of fuel that creates conflagrations far more implacable and catastrophic than nature's fire. |
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If they misdiagnose an illness it can have a catastrophic effect on our lives. |
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To lose this development would be nothing short of catastrophic for the economic life of the town. |
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Here again, the emblem suggests a chain of catastrophic, unspeakable events triggered by irresistible emotions. |
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Our better performances go unrewarded and our poor showings become catastrophic. |
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But without effective compartmentation, a single, well-placed mole can trigger an intelligence leak of catastrophic proportions. |
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The fourth flight experienced a catastrophic tailfin failure at launch as well as an electrical short in the umbilical. |
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As the months groaned by there were rumours of big price increases, insatiable thirst and catastrophic suspension failure. |
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It defends itself by saying it pays competitive wages and provides employees low cost, catastrophic healthcare coverage. |
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Variceal bleeding is the most catastrophic complication of portal hypertension associated with cirrhotic and noncirrhotic forms of liver disease. |
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Close inspection showed a catastrophic failure of two of the main wheel hub bolts. |
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Once it died down, and I ceased to be hot news, I was stranded in this catastrophic place. |
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The survivalist groups operate on the basis of the near certainty of a catastrophic breakdown. |
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His enforced retirement from the scene would have a catastrophic effect on paediatric morale. |
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Some of the largest mafic magmatic events may be related to catastrophic mantle overturn events or slab avalanches. |
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Her relationships with men were catastrophic and her love of the high life, cigarettes and whisky took a devastating toll on her health. |
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Ill health can also be an important cause of poverty through loss of income, catastrophic health expenses, and orphanhood. |
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Prophylactic surgical treatment should be recommended in this situation to avoid a potential catastrophic strangulation of bowel later. |
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The stranglehold placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic. |
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Similarly, Darwin also describes the formations of rocks and minerals from the catastrophic effects of dynamic geological periods. |
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These sandstone monuments display evidence of large-scale catastrophic deposition and immense watery erosion. |
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Any sharp changes in the temperature proxy would then be caused by catastrophic interglacial climate oscillations. |
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Those living in the most economically deprived areas receive the worst care and suffer catastrophic economic consequences from their illness. |
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The nomination, unfortunately, was followed by a truly catastrophic general election campaign in which he won only six states. |
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As a result of the aircrew's actions, no injuries were suffered while preventing potentially catastrophic damage to a valuable combat asset. |
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These men died because of the catastrophic consequences of a dangerous social phenomenon. |
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The institutionalization of welfare was catastrophic because of the extremely high rates of mortality that typically characterized these asylums. |
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In five years time, will I have forgotten how gut-wrenchingly awful catastrophic data loss feels? |
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Through them, he learns about the history of apartheid and the catastrophic effect it had on the lives of black South Africans. |
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You built your whole life around these relationships, it's no wonder that the damage is so catastrophic for you. |
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The damage, described as catastrophic, caused failure to all of the networks which make up telecommunication infrastructure on the island. |
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For years scientists and engineers have warned that a major hurricane could inflict catastrophic damage on the city. |
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The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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The upper plate moves seaward, and a massive tsunami can be produced along with catastrophic destruction from earthquake shaking. |
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To date the only known such work triggered by those catastrophic events, it extruded new sounds from the instrument. |
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A sudden eruption or collapse of one of these volcanoes would have catastrophic effects, but current research is not just about assessing risk. |
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But clearly, there are human factors behind the extensive damage caused by catastrophic storms. |
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The worst storm, a Category 5, has winds greater than 155 mph and can cause catastrophic damage. |
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Tonight those winds are picking up in the Mexican resort town of Cancun, which could suffer catastrophic damage from this powerful storm. |
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The point is, a wafer-thin line divides near-mishaps like the one at Kalpakkam and catastrophic health hazards faced by local populations. |
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It's a classic example of why a catastrophic warmist can never be wrong, they just move the goal posts after the fact. |
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It's abundantly clear that divisionalising love and marriage into separate departments has been a catastrophic failure. |
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His goal is to reduce the number of catastrophic injuries to horses on the racetrack. |
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But sooner or later, a large object will threaten to hit the earth-moon system causing catastrophic damage. |
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The fact is that disasters come in a thousand different shapes and sizes, and they don't have to all be catastrophic to do significant damage. |
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Thanks for keeping a cool journo's head and reporting on these catastrophic events. |
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A single adventurist move can have catastrophic consequences for millions of people. |
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For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought. |
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Unemployment and poverty have reached catastrophic levels, especially in the east of the country. |
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It was a very deep and profound meditation on the widening gyre of human history and the ever-present possibility of catastrophic encounters. |
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Out of over 30 cousins on one side alone, there are few renegades, and any sort of self-reliance is seen as catastrophic, or worse, deluded. |
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Future generations will surely look back and laugh grimly at this catastrophic moral and intellectual failure. |
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The really catastrophic collapse in Labour's vote took place in Labour's heartlands, the urban working-class areas. |
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Water flowing from the damaged levee near Lake Pontchartrain could have equally catastrophic effects, only unfolding more slowly. |
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The accumulation of excessive electric charge in dielectric insulation is extremely rare, but when it does occur, it is often catastrophic. |
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You don't have to be in the path of a catastrophic hurricane to feel its punishing impact. |
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Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, apocalyptic implications if he is correct? |
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Furthermore, to add to the evidence for catastrophic burial, the authors tell of fossil raindrops and ripple marks being found at the site. |
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These fires were not catastrophic infernos but rather a life-giving natural event for the forest. |
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In the 14 years since the Montreal Protocol banned most ozone depleters, a catastrophic global menace has begun to recede. |
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Significant rates of debt reduction by way of the bankruptcy route have consequences that can only be called catastrophic. |
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Organizations that face trying conditions with catastrophic potential have now become the rule rather than the exception. |
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The pronghorn, like all other large North American mammals, suffered catastrophic population losses as the continent was settled. |
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If one person makes a mistake or gets careless, the results can be catastrophic. |
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The result is that local producers in developing countries are driven out of business, with a catastrophic loss of jobs and income for the poor. |
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In her brain began the methodical and often machine-like thought process of dealing with catastrophic equipment failure during a freefall. |
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In an instant, an avalanche of electrons is rolling over the surface in a catastrophic flashover. |
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All she wanted was to sleep for a week or so and then try sorting out this catastrophic tangle of events. |
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The global cooling trend that began in the Oligocene epoch and accelerated in the Miocene and Pliocene was catastrophic for the crocodiles. |
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There were no catastrophic epidemics but people were more susceptible to malnutrition and injuries. |
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I don't want to be a scaremonger but it would be catastrophic if these trains were attacked. |
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To avoid an eventual catastrophic world conflict, the U.N. must be strengthened with a standing army. |
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It was bad for Sri Lanka, but not catastrophic if they can win at least one more game. |
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Andrew, who has been a City season ticket holder for 13 years, said it would be catastrophic if the club folded. |
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It's used to avoid defects in nuclear reactor pressure vessels or it may be on an aircraft to avoid catastrophic failure of an air structure. |
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In those first, terrible days after the storm and catastrophic flood, the poorest citizens were locked in a desperate struggle for survival. |
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Together they connive in cahoots and scheme to create the world's worst musical, a guaranteed catastrophic dog of a show. |
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This was catastrophic for some of the local animals, especially the big marsupial carnivores. |
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Kelly thought back now on the events that had set them all on this catastrophic course. |
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As early as the eighteenth century, two theories were proposed to account for the formation of the solar system: the catastrophic theory and the nebular theory. |
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By the early nineties, the damage was inescapable and catastrophic. |
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A tantrum that does not yield the desired result has catastrophic consequences. |
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The potential economic consequences that could arise from a travel ban on West Africa, says Eisenbarth, could be catastrophic. |
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Ten years ago I bought a catastrophic policy for even less than that, despite an autoimmune disease and raging asthma. |
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We also averted potential really catastrophic problems with critical infrastructure. |
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Have you had bereavement or other catastrophic disruptions in your recent life? |
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What we most wanted in a policy was a bulwark against financial devastation from a catastrophic illness. |
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Despite the catastrophic consequences of the accident, they said the standard of Martin's driving was not serious enough to warrant a longer sentence. |
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Its wrath, had it been rebuffed, was potentially catastrophic. |
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In the enormous densities of the early moments of the Big Bang the result would have been a catastrophic annihilation of matter and antimatter into radiation. |
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Other authors are mining the same rich seam of catastrophic potential. |
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Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people. |
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Had the riverbanks been broached then the damage caused would have been catastrophic, both in human terms and in its effect on the business and commercial life of the city. |
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While a tank might survive such an overpressurization, repeated overfilling will induce cylinder wall fatigue that could cause a catastrophic rupture. |
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As a safety valve for parents who desperately need alternatives to schools in catastrophic condition, vouchers may work as a short-term balm, and as a prod to reform. |
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These three patients show how chemotherapy can sometimes reverse the catastrophic physiological state of terminal cancer, even in seemingly hopeless cases. |
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Mechanical failures considered minor in terrestrially based equipment can prove catastrophic in space because we cannot service the system hardware. |
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Most of them have insurance, and only a small percentage face catastrophic illness. |
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Just letting Citigroup melt down could have been catastrophic. |
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He did not mend his ways and the result of that failing was catastrophic. |
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Although this will not cut much ice with cynics, it is the same argument used to explain why the millennium bug failed to have the catastrophic effects predicted. |
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After a long spell of torrential rain, there's been catastrophic flooding this month in the northern hill state of Uttarakhand. |
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Mayer cited two instances as models of how corporations can successfully defuse a catastrophic mistake by public disclosure. |
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One must be conscious that the culture of catastrophic memorialisation is sinewed with manipulations, lacunae and corruptions of historical reality. |
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A freak straight-line windstorm caused a massive blowdown of trees in the area in 1999, and the profusion of fallen timber raised fears of a catastrophic firestorm. |
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If they are allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, the results would be catastrophic. |
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The truck mounted the central median during the incident, and could quite likely have ended up on the southbound carriageway with potentially catastrophic consequences. |
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He believed in a recent, six 24-hour-day creation and a global catastrophic Noachian Deluge, which by its nature would have produced most of the strata of the earth's crust. |
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured intracranial aneurysm is a catastrophic event usually treated by craniotomy with clipping of the aneurysm. |
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He put in charge a woman, Rhonda Cornum, who is the poster child for resilience under catastrophic combat stress. |
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The catastrophic damage resulting from the 1906 earthquake proved to be the springboard for a century of advances in the understanding and science of earthquakes. |
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But in 1950 and 1966 it suffered two more catastrophic earthquakes. |
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Forecasters are warning that a hurricane making landfall at or near New York City could cause catastrophic damage in the U.S.'s largest urban center. |
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The magnitude of the natural disaster that the Indian Ocean rim countries suffered from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami is said to be the worst in living memory. |
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Officials say the hurricane could cause catastrophic damage. |
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In no other area of the housing market has the intervention of government been so pronounced, so unsuccessful in its implementation, and so catastrophic in its effect. |
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More than twenty years after Rampton's landmark report, years of failure to educate Black children have been catastrophic for those young people and their communities. |
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Intravenous fluid loading before, during, and after rescue may protect against a catastrophic fall in blood pressure that can follow sudden release after prolonged entrapment. |
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In contrast, the mineralized zones, above the topography created by the pre-mineralization igneous rocks, were not affected by this catastrophic sedimentation. |
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A number of contrasting geological processes can produce circular structures, ranging from catastrophic gas expulsion to form pockmark craters to meteorite impacts. |
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The Russian imperial throne was the first monarchical casualty of the most catastrophic conflict to date in European history, the First World War. |
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In fact, data consolidation imposes such catastrophic operational compromises as to render it practically impossible and commercially inadvisable to follow as a direction. |
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It's the recognition that we all risk some day of coming down with a catastrophic illness or having an accident and it's a risk we want to protect ourselves from. |
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Still, barring a catastrophic fightback, the carnage may end soon. |
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A converse prize for the most catastrophic failure to use force, leading to the greatest net detriment to the human condition, would also be interesting. |
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The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea levels. |
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Without the heroic efforts of locals who turned out in a flotilla of tiny boats to ferry passengers ashore, the loss of life could have been catastrophic. |
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While young and healthy workers can obtain catastrophic insurance relatively cheaply, many are still hard-pressed to pay the premiums and deductibles. |
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We used a low dose of the drug to prevent catastrophic depolymerization of actin and major morphological changes, which both would have biased our analysis. |
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This caused a catastrophic flood that engulfed the whole island. |
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Such an event is usually catastrophic for the tooth, except in the case of multi-rooted teeth where it may be possible to amputate a root or hemisect the tooth. |
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Secondary succession is initiated on land that previously bore vegetal cover, which is accidentally destroyed by natural catastrophic events such as tornadoes or thunderstorms. |
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The conditions of humans found were catastrophic, as well the treatment of the animals was found cruel. |
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In the future, antibiotic resistance could have catastrophic consequences. |
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Researchers believe the vehicle may have suffered a catastrophic implosion of a glass sphere used to keep ABE buoyant. |
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He interpreted partial remains as having been transported into the deposit by water, and strongly refuted a catastrophic accumulation. |
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This event would have had a catastrophic impact on the contemporary Mesolithic population. |
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A distinction can be made between normal sedimentation and sedimentation caused by catastrophic processes. |
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In summer there can be strong rains, which have on some occasions provoked catastrophic floods and landslides. |
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Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash. |
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The result has been catastrophic for the poor and working poor. |
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If you're an NAIA school, you need to buy catastrophic insurance above your basic insurance. |
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The Soft Landing Torus will be instrumental in preventing catastrophic injuries and death. |
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Volcanic islands such as those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and landslides. |
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A catastrophic collapse at Detroit Seamount flattened its whole structure extensively. |
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The two women duplicitously assist Bond unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions. |
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The effect of increased sediments loads on aquatic ecosystems can be catastrophic. |
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After returning from that catastrophic nightmare, Dallaire subsequently become the military's poster boy for PTSD sufferers. |
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Twitter is a great tool but, rather like a power drill, if you use it incorrectly the resulting damage can be catastrophic. |
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Before its catastrophic eruption of 1991, Pinatubo was an inconspicuous volcano, unknown to most people in the surrounding areas. |
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He was one of the founders of the Bank of England and was one of the main proponents of the catastrophic Darien scheme. |
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He emerged from BB5's catastrophic compound several steps behind his enormous protruding snaggletooth. |
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The most catastrophic was the Huang Chao Rebellion, from 874 to 884, which affected the entire empire for a decade. |
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This catastrophic failure was found to have been initiated by fracture of an eyebar at a pin connection. |
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England's security office Terry Minish was also at the scene and helped in preventing a catastrophic incident. |
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Tyler Vallance left 12-week-old Isabella with catastrophic brain injuries from which she never recovered. |
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In contrast, catastrophism is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. |
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But we need not jury-rig a means-tested voucher onto an independently crafted catastrophic coverage system. |
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The report judged the risks of catastrophic nuclear power plant accidents to be socially acceptable. |
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The entire arena floor is given over to tectonic plates, a fire storm and even the final catastrophic meteor strike. |
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Preoperative aortogram may confirm the diagnosis and identify the vascular supply, in order to avoid catastrophic intraoperative bleeding. |
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The spill would undoubtedly have been catastrophic for both the environment and local economy if it had occurred during the summer months. |
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Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and dams may suffer seepage or catastrophic failure. |
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This often causes catastrophic failure of the joint when the fasteners unzip. |
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This was later found to be due to catastrophic metal fatigue, not well understood at the time, in the airframes. |
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In 2001, scientists identified Lake Thorthormi as one that threatened imminent and catastrophic collapse. |
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The catastrophic German politics between 1914 and 1945 are interpreted in terms of a delayed modernisation of its political structures. |
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The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury. |
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Like mechanical resonance, acoustic resonance can result in catastrophic failure of the object at resonance. |
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It was a potentially catastrophic event and the ship immediately began to take water. |
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Hurricane winds and windborne debris can cause catastrophic damage, however wind is just one part of the risk. |
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The nominal profit made was significant, helping to bring income and expenditure together, but it had a catastrophic effect on the overall economy of the country. |
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Moreover, blood or secretion or any foreign body in the airway in a lightly anaesthetised patient may also trigger laryngospasm which may result in catastrophic circumstances. |
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Sharp never married, but in about 1812 he adopted an infant, Maria Kinnaird, who had been orphaned by a catastrophic volcano eruption in the West Indies. |
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It may cause violent swaying motions and even catastrophic failure in improperly constructed structures including bridges, buildings, trains, and aircraft. |
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The North Sea was cut off from the English Channel by a narrow land bridge until that was breached by at least two catastrophic floods between 450,000 and 180,000 years ago. |
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There is no indication of herding, or of catastrophic burial of such a herd, or catastrophic accumulation of animals that previously died isolated elsewhere. |
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Event warning systems, such as tsunami warnings and storm surge warnings, can be used to minimize the human impact of catastrophic events that cause coastal erosion. |
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After the catastrophic Russian campaign, and the ensuing uprising of European monarchies against his rule, Napoleon was defeated and the Bourbon monarchy restored. |
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Following the catastrophic events in Asia Minor, the monarchy was abolished via a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. |
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Historically, volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines. |
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Meteorite lakes, which are also known as crater lakes, are lakes created by catastrophic extraterrestrial impacts by either meteorites or asteroids. |
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According to Dominic Cummings, special advisor to Michael Gove, it was a catastrophic decision which led to a collapse in the integrity of the exam system. |
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Following the catastrophic loss of life in World War I, the Paris Peace Conference established the League of Nations to maintain harmony between the nations. |
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Following the catastrophic loss of life in the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference established the League of Nations to maintain harmony between countries. |
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The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. |
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Gary Guller survived the catastrophic fall at Pico de Orizaba, an accident that claimed the life of his best friend and eventually led to the loss of his his left arm. |
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Deregulation of the rendering process enabled the agent that causes BSE in cattle and NVCJD in humans to pass into the food chain, with catastrophic results. |
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This was a time of major climatic change, especially cooling, not obviously linked with any single major impact or any catastrophic volcanic event. |
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Other geologists, without going to see for themselves and driven by uniformitarian dogma, absolutely refused to accept a catastrophic explanation. |
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Once sold in every pub, mild experienced a catastrophic fall in popularity after the 1960s and was in danger of completely disappearing from many parts of the United Kingdom. |
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If uncrystallized PLA enters the drying process and is exposed to heating above 140 F, it will agglomerate and cause catastrophic blockages throughout the vessel. |
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Nobody is saying that disappointing earnings, or aborted IPOs, or catastrophic mergers, or senior management doing the perp walk are cause to break out the Veuve Clicquot. |
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Clunk Click Ltd specialises in data backup, storage, archiving and disaster recovery to prevent clients suffering catastrophic data loss and business failure. |
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Seagal's compassion might be more apparent if he hadn't just murdered 700 oil-rig and security guards and set off multiple catastrophic explosions on behalf of plankton. |
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Preliminary findings suggests that excessive rubbing of the engine fan blades created increased stress and wear and eventually resulted in catastrophic failure of the fan. |
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As if this wouldn't be unnerving enough for Rafi, a darkly comic incident with a lethal block of frozen soup ups the acceptance stakes to catastrophic odds. |
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In some sedimentary environments, most of the total column of sedimentary rock was formed by catastrophic processes, even though the environment is usually a quiet place. |
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A catastrophic bioterrorist attack using a strain of crude-petroleum eating bacteria on Saudi Arabia's largest oil reserve threatens disaster for the world's fuel supplies. |
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Meanwhile, the Liberal Party declined rapidly, and the party also suffered a catastrophic split which allowed the Labour Party to gain much of the Liberals' support. |
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