I am having to paraphrase of the letter because of computer catastrophes unforetold so keep the bears with me. |
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Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world. |
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In fact there was a series of catastrophes, all viticultural, which had devastating effects on both the quantity and quality of wine produced. |
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She is speaking to us from the security of her living room, safe in her culpable life, dilating on the most hopeless of catastrophes. |
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The financial disasters are directly traceable to the cultural and ideological catastrophes which these films represent. |
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The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes. |
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In Britain, local councils and the emergency services conduct dummy runs for major catastrophes all the time. |
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For decades I've sought sanctuary in the Grill Room at the Dorchester when the catastrophes of the art cooks all became too much. |
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Companies that could fail will most likely be those that are badly undercapitalised and already wounded by the recent spate of catastrophes. |
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Of the three really huge catastrophes impending in the next century, it seems improbable that we can avoid more than one or two. |
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For those of us looky-loos who can't resist such cinematic catastrophes, the film is one shameful delight. |
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Sophie's life, as rendered here, is a series of catastrophes nearly averted, not a string of triumphs. |
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People with GAD tend to overestimate the likelihood of harm coming from a given situation and view minor or ambiguous events as catastrophes. |
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Last week's unprecedented events could have a far more profound effect on economic psychology than other catastrophes. |
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Four years ago, we experienced one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in our history, and nobody covered it. |
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Khan said the disasters and catastrophes that this country has been experiencing were signs that the people need to have a change of heart. |
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And for weeks after the catastrophes, the sprawling mall and concourses inside Pittsburgh International Airport resembled a ghost town. |
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Collisions and environmental catastrophes can be more easily avoided with improved coordination and guidance of ship traffic. |
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It's difficult to remember that the two communities are enduring one of the worst natural catastrophes ever to hit the province. |
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The major global geophysical catastrophes that await us down the line are in fact just run-of-the-mill natural phenomena writ large. |
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Today, the environmental catastrophes of history are repeated almost everywhere on the planet, on an unprecedented scale. |
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What are a few entirely avoidable catastrophes to a thrusting modern economy? |
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This would be a cautionary tale of catastrophes narrowly averted and environmental damage now emerging. |
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On the contrary, the continuation of military armaments in their present extent will with certainty lead to new catastrophes. |
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Besides, economic catastrophes rarely occur in markets that everyone is watching and sweating over. |
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But before these problems can flower into full-blown catastrophes something even worse happens. |
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Most regional geomorphological catastrophes involve the sudden release of large volumes of water. |
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Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns. |
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This'll be the second time that we can point to impacts coinciding with major extinction events and other catastrophes. |
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Both of the world's major spacefaring nations, the United States and Russia, have had close calls and catastrophes. |
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It's not uncommon for survivors of catastrophes to feel benumbed by what they have experienced. |
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A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters. |
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The preachments of the archaeological community notwithstanding, the retentionist program they advocate is a prescription for future catastrophes. |
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That number was calculated before the BP blowout and it was based on the relative infrequency of any of these catastrophes up until now. |
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With the extreme weather events of the past few years, we have seen catastrophes like Katrina imperil people's health and even their lives. |
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Oil catastrophes have concretely shown that relying on good luck costs society dear. |
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One is that natural catastrophes can create a sense of shared sacrifice and purpose that discredits aggressive self-seeking, if only temporarily. |
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It is expected that sea levels will rise, species will become extinct and natural catastrophes will increase throughout the world. |
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Is this string of weather catastrophes simply an extreme coincidence or does it indicate that climate change is already in full swing? |
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Year after year, natural catastrophes deprive millions of people of their loved ones, homes and livelihoods. |
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Moreover, Lande and others regard random catastrophes as extreme cases of environmental stochasticity. |
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However, agricultural zone are not exposed to big catastrophes like inundations or severe droughts. |
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When a race has given its fruits, it progressively disappears or perishes violently through great catastrophes. |
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With the narrowness of the streets and the thinness of residents' walls, it is hard to insulate yourself from the dramas and catastrophes of the people who live near you. |
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What we did have was a fund of stories of catastrophes and narrow squeaks that encouraged us to temper our hopes for our day out with a great deal of caution. |
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Also, accurate and timely business intelligence is crucial to identifying problems before they become catastrophes. |
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One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher. |
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But there is a special place in our psyches for the fear of big, unlikely catastrophes. |
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Catastrophism: fossils were buried quickly by one or more major catastrophes. |
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Many of these catastrophes do not hit the headlines in the western media but they still lead to great suffering. |
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The Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and other 14th-century catastrophes further fueled the desire for final divine intervention. |
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There was no mention of displacement by natural catastrophes. |
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The Eurasians held that the war in Europe and the revolution in Russia were not simply political catastrophes but signs of the breakdown of European culture. |
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When lives are saved in catastrophes, there follows the task of guaranteeing that survivors are kept warm, well-fed and provided with medical care. |
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But I remember messengers coming to my father's house with tales of catastrophes that happened in where there was a barrel of wash ready to be distilled. |
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The God Clause and the Reinsurance IndustryBrendan Greeley, Businessweek The risk business can tell us a lot about catastrophes. |
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Subsequent analyses of the extinction episodes have convinced most experts that the average time between catastrophes varies too greatly to signify anything truly periodic. |
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Nature is regarded as the provider of bounty, but also as wild, awesome and capricious, with unpredictable catastrophes, like floods and storms at sea. |
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Less than a year ago, buyers were bravely keeping the economy afloat, being valiant and refusing to be put off by scare stories about economic catastrophes. |
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Along with many other noble agencies, they are always at the forefront of the relief effort following calamities and catastrophes at local, national and international level. |
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Will my nationally aired faux pas and charisma catastrophes ever desist? |
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Naturally there are naysayers who predict potential catastrophes from this kind of cooperation. |
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Living organisms without number have been the victims of these catastrophes. |
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A world in which poverty is endemic will always be prone to ecological and other catastrophes. |
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Wages policy is seen as a means of assuaging a failed redistribution policy and the crises and employment catastrophes resulting therefrom. |
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The history of the railway is also marked by catastrophes related to a poorly designed platform, rails in disrepair and a weakened bridge. |
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Medical catastrophes were more common in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance than they are today. |
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Add a mop, a whiskbroom, spray-on cleaners, and rags, and this narrow storage space holds rescue from many small catastrophes. |
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On top of the millions who are driven from their homes by war, famine and other catastrophes, millions more are forced to move in order to survive because they are simply unable to eke out a living in their place of origin. |
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Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland. |
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So many of the catastrophes we worry are going to happen go ahead and happen, but then prove not as totalizing and definitive as we imagined they would be. |
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Name other great catastrophes this world has seen, the floods, the fires, the earthquakes, plague or famine or drouth. |
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In case of unexpected nature catastrophes, as inundations and earthquake, concerned people are loosing among other things their living accommodations. |
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Matthew's work, however, emphasized the role of catastrophes in driving speciation similar to French zoologist Georges Cuvier's catastrophist theories in which new species emerged from mass extinctions. |
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The authors also reject the literalism of flood geology and the concordist approach of regional catastrophes in the Noachian deluge story. |
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With the primary focus on major catastrophes, the real cause of chronic unprofitability hasn't received the attention it deserves. |
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Also songs from before present scientific thinking that now might seem prophetic, or about historical environmental catastrophes that may or may not be linked to humans. |
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Putting these numbers into the context of other catastrophes helps to understand the devastation to Ireland in particular. |
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Federal Aviation Administration has also conducted a study about civilizing such thrust vectoring systems to recover jetliners from catastrophes. |
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The remains of such catastrophes exist all over the world, and sites such as Alexandria and Port Royal now form important archaeological sites. |
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Citing the continuous drop in raw material prices over the last 50 years, he estimated that it had led to the ruin of raw material producers and foretold of more catastrophes in the future if they were not protected. |
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When God decides, when the planet Earth is better, when there are no more catastrophes, when the world, that goes to rack and ruin, stops crying for the dead, then all is fixed, the Church will revive and the men will change. |
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The pugnacious Fulgence Bienvenüe continued his project, overcoming failures, unforeseen setbacks and catastrophes such as the 1903 fire at Couronnes, which killed 84 people. |
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Parents can meet these challenges by remaining available, setting rules in a noncritical way, not belittling the adolescent, and avoiding lectures or predicting catastrophes. |
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In the end, the catastrophes on the horizontal bar didn't doom them. |
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This is the only country which can invest massively in all sorts of infrastructure projects in a country which is regularly ravaged by climatic catastrophes. |
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Here are no great catastrophes as the cause of terrifying experiences and the loss of acres of farm land: just little streams eating away their banks or a slight fall in the underground water level. |
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Sarah has shared many of her dating catastrophes with her friend Xenia Karayiannis who is divorced. |
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As a matter of fact the kind of artificial selection applied to our animals, also to pet animals, is very much like the type of natural selection during environmental catastrophes. |
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Today, confronted with the imminence of major catastrophes, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make a major change of direction in our approach to economic life, production and consumption. |
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I am not raising this point on the environment to tell tall tales of dark horses and earth shattering catastrophes but simply to outline all of the consequences a separate Quebec will have on our nation and that province. |
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Often, an epic moment in the history of a social praxis is catalyzed by catastrophes like the one we are experiencing, particularly those that permit fundamental changes in attitudes and social behaviour. |
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In general however just as Bates and Jackson state above, evolutionary geologists still tend to favor gradualism, allowing only for occasional and rare catastrophes, which may, but are not likely to, involve the entire globe. |
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Our response to this series of catastrophes typifies The Zurich Way. |
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Thanks to premonitions one can warn people of catastrophes or accidents. |
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For instance, a frequent criticism of GDP is that it classifies ecological catastrophes as blessings for the economy, because of the additional economic activity generated by repairs. |
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Operational risk is the risk of incurring losses due to system failures, human error, breaches in internal control, fraud, catastrophes or other unforeseen events affecting its operations. |
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As any ethical tour operator can tell you, these days tsunamis and melting icecaps are seen not so much as unalleviated catastrophes as sustainable holidays you haven't yet taken. |
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As for an eventual outperformance, we need to wait two or three months to be sure that the post-summer holiday period doesn't bring any new catastrophes. |
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As an assumer of risk, PartnerRe's earnings and capitalization are subject to large shock losses including natural catastrophes. |
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The Chilean Government also declared the Bio Bio Region, along with the areas of Florida, Quillon, Ranque, and San Rosendo to be catastrophes zones after fire damage. |
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One report after another, in true multifariousness, has been persuasively arguing that we are teetering on a cliff before climatic catastrophes send us over. |
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Arbereshe and Schiavoni were used to repopulate abandoned villages or villages whose population had died in earthquakes, plagues and other catastrophes. |
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Set in 1942 in a country vicarage, home to the hapless Rev Lionel Toop and his actressy wife Penelope, minor misunderstandings soon become social catastrophes. |
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