The worst of all possibilities is if the patient has slipped into an irreversible coma due to a cerebral hemorrhage or some other catastrophe. |
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It is loathsome to think that balefulness of an unknown cause could create such a catastrophe. |
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Even then, long after the defeat of the saints, the myth of the coming catastrophe and reformation is never dead and forgotten. |
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The deep fall in shares and the increasing flight of capital warns of a catastrophe for the economy. |
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The method is an application of the weak transversality theorem used in catastrophe theory. |
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Of course, this anarchic competition among rival capitals could destroy us all, bosses included, in a nuclear catastrophe. |
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As the harvesting effort is increased, the two equilibrium points eventually converge to one point, at which there is a catastrophe. |
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Another close call with catastrophe narrowly averted by EFF vigilance, we're sure. |
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Prices cannot go much higher without us beginning to feel the foreshocks of a peak oil catastrophe. |
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The catastrophe into which the world has thrust the socialist proletariat is an unexampled misfortune for humanity. |
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He was confident that, with just 5,000 troops under his command, the catastrophe could be averted. |
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Whatever the motive, federal misfeasance is getting the blame in many media anatomies of the catastrophe. |
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Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe. |
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The fact that practically all dinosaur trackways are straight strongly favours animals desperately trying to escape some catastrophe. |
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Because of our great dependence on science, we assume that humanity should have the means to deal with any catastrophe. |
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He faltered when he lost his faith in capitalist catastrophe and the workers' revolution. |
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Depression is guilt based, and relates to past fantasied or real events, while anxiety is based on the fear of some future fantasied catastrophe. |
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The destruction of New Orleans was caused by a natural catastrophe over which no man had control. |
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This catastrophe has at least had the holistic consequence of making us aware of our common humanity. |
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It posits a near-future scenario in which society has crumbled due to some unexplained catastrophe. |
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Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation. |
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So it came as something of a surprise that the dawn of the new Millennium brought nothing but catastrophe and confusion to the aerospace giant. |
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The catastrophe that made all of that a distant memory was equally unprecedented in the history of mankind. |
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A social catastrophe would therefore pose no more than a minor indisposition for the regime. |
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The catastrophe affords a rehearsing of the insecurities that lie in wait beyond a solidary family and considerate neighbours. |
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A broken relationship with a boyfriend dealt a serious blow to her confidence and again was made out to be a major catastrophe. |
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This emergency-aid fundraiser strikes a note of hope after the catastrophe, and so does the conclusion of Dr. Hussain's statement. |
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The doomsayers predict that the world is still hurtling towards a major catastrophe as resources run out. |
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Homemade cheese curds, pillowy and sweet, round out the cardiac catastrophe, and I mean that in the best possible way. |
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It had one of the strongest Communist parties in the world, which suffered a political catastrophe as a result of the policies of Stalinism. |
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When vision becomes unshakeable obsession, the potential for catastrophe may not be far away. |
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You don't explain away a near catastrophe at an atomic power plant by saying that it was caused by negligence. |
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Infractions from the standard can only invite misinterpretation at best, catastrophe at worst. |
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The leaders of the tribe began the assiduous task of sending the entire clan under miles of glacial ice, silently hoping to avoid catastrophe. |
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In short, the Soviet legacy worked as a hindrance to full marketization, and as a safeguard against utter catastrophe. |
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We see time-lapse photography of plants springing to life and decaying, then images of floods, war and catastrophe. |
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Maybe we'll just wait for the catastrophe and anyway, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. |
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This suggested a rapid resolution, only for those hopes to be dashed when the mission turns out to have come terribly close to catastrophe. |
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It has been a catastrophe for Third World producers whose livelihoods have been destroyed by neo-liberal policies. |
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Here, I seized what I thought was the opportunity to turn the subject away from catastrophe, horror, vileness and woe. |
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Can it really be right to have children when they'll grow up in a world dominated by narratives of social and environmental catastrophe? |
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What are the frontlines of defence against such an unthinkable catastrophe? |
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You cannot run a national grid on wind turbines, it would be an economic catastrophe. |
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Then chaos and catastrophe theories jump on board and my analogy come crashing down in a shower of mixed metaphors. |
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For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy. |
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We have great mass transit, but who can say what the nature of the attack or the catastrophe might be that could knock out that system? |
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We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe. |
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Had the mission ended in catastrophe, the cast of doubters and second-guessers would probably be much larger. |
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Any attempt to force the world economy back into the corset of the nation state will inevitably end in a catastrophe. |
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I think the catastrophe demonstrates that we are not as completely attuned to the forces of nature as we think we are. |
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Or perhaps the father envisions catastrophe, seeing such grades as foreclosing the possibility of a top college, thus dooming his son's future. |
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Human productivity and excellence, if achieved by way of human desecration and abuse, can only result in eventual catastrophe. |
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During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe. |
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The election campaign begins officially tomorrow, barring some catastrophe overnight. |
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Whether it is global catastrophe or death on our doorstep, compassion fatigue can overcome us. |
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The lure of money has typically overcome the genius loci that might otherwise have protected the city's sites of catastrophe and loss. |
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Kanal's subplots sketch different human reactions in the midst of this Dante-esque catastrophe. |
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I am only too aware of the potential catastrophe if the stock market were allowed to go into free fall. |
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The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days. |
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Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe. |
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The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater. |
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They found, not surprisingly, that averting a major catastrophe would not be easy. |
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As one prediction after another was falsified, he segued unblushingly onto the next predicted catastrophe. |
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The final death and casualty figures for this catastrophe will never be certain, and are so large as to be difficult to comprehend anyway. |
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The cremation of the royal remains was therefore a catastrophe that shook Malagasy society to the core. |
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Blessed with cataclysmic vision, we don't admit gentler outcomes, such as mere catastrophe or ruin. |
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Had they been accepted we would have had a local environmental catastrophe and a national commercial disaster. |
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The Caribbean may be in for a greater catastrophe if shelters used in the event of natural disasters are not properly constructed and located. |
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Before this year of disasters even began, it was heralded by a natural catastrophe as sudden and violent as anything that followed. |
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This event was a total catastrophe for the colonies that were left in total isolation, forced to survive alone. |
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And without a change of policy, the winter snows will soon begin to tilt this disaster into an international catastrophe. |
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In the event of a financial catastrophe, they expect to be bailed out by government deposit insurance and the Fed. |
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After such a demoralizing outing, it would have taken a miracle to avert a catastrophe. |
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The enemy in this case is our imaginations, avid for the spectacle of catastrophe. |
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I mean, it's a catastrophe for the industry that really doesn't need one more. |
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Overall it is not thought that the film industry will be too severely affected by yesterday's catastrophe. |
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The compartmentalization that academics have allowed themselves to fall victim to is a catastrophe. |
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Horace's sudden leaps to another plane were prophetic of catastrophe theory. |
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Could some of the individuals brought down in this catastrophe have had astrological foreknowledge? |
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The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs. |
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He took refuge in booze and the beginnings of drug availability, and was headed, if not for catastrophe, at least for significant vicissitudes. |
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The author then shares his sources, which range from catastrophe theory, and quantum physics, to epistemology, and constructivism. |
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In this case, the ideas came from topology, and specifically from Rene Thom's work in catastrophe theory. |
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For twenty years I lived in a world with no catastrophe theory, no chaotic growth, no knots that wouldn't untie. |
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We'll have to forgive him for forgetting that it's chaos theory, not catastrophe theory. |
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The Empires disappeared suddenly, as though in an instantaneous catastrophe. |
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To avert feline catastrophe, head over to the blog deemed Most Deserving of Wider Recognition and drop a few shekels in the tip jar. |
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Finding the resources yourself and paying out of pocket can be extremely expensive and difficult in the aftermath of a catastrophe. |
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Borges denounced Hitler almost from the start, decrying the arrival of Nazism as a catastrophe for German culture. |
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Newspapers still blazoned headlines on the catastrophe, and articles described the bombing as the work of one man. |
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That dawn the first catastrophe came when a steam ship broke its moorings and took out all three bridges to the mainland. |
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I don't think the current malaise is a catastrophe on the order of Black Monday. |
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For Barthes, the catastrophe is unavoidable because time obliterates the punctum, or small space, registered in the photograph. |
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As ever, Roth has the ability to suggest a vast historical catastrophe through the tiny apocalypses of ordinary life, which he renders with all of Baudelaire's poetic acuity. |
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Staring at a midterm catastrophe, the Democrats lob increasingly desperate charges. |
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Here in northern Idaho, near where the deluge began, I survey the rounded mountains and river deltas, trying to imagine the force of such a catastrophe. |
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The idea is to prevent the snowballing of a catastrophe into an ever bigger one. |
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The army took ship on 5 April, but was struck by catastrophe. |
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To make sure there is enough in the coffers to pay for a worst-case scenario, the state was forced to create its own catastrophe fund, to backstop insurance companies. |
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The catastrophe showed what these weapons can do in the wrong hands. |
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For the life of me, I cannot imagine any non-comatose thinking person in the 1930s not seriously contemplating a socialist solution to capitalism's self-induced catastrophe. |
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Other evidence for the quick deposition of sediment on organisms as seen in a great catastrophe is provided by the presence of soft-bodied organisms in the fossil record. |
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Its dramatization of the clash between utopianism and geopolitical catastrophe becomes more potent with every passing year. |
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But in the final analysis, we must surely concede that Stravinsky's serene Apollonian vision of order and harmony was unequal to the moral catastrophe of his century. |
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But it's either that or un-ending resource wars and their concomitant blowback, increased nuclear proliferation and instability, and ecological catastrophe. |
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On Thursday, he had warned that a rushed pull-out would be a catastrophe. |
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He added that seeing people come to terms with tragedy and catastrophe had played a profound role on his spiritual beliefs and influenced his faith. |
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The dread of even a single potential catastrophe and its implications for all industry members outweighed any objection to a reporting system for near misses. |
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You know when things keep progressing in a satisfactory manner and then catastrophe theory dictates that everything switched round and the path is in some other direction. |
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True complexity involves the study of real-life processes and goes beyond the approximations of statistics, and methods such as chaos theory and catastrophe theory. |
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Even more important was the debate over the so-called catastrophe theory. |
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What happened in 1964 was an unredeemed and unmitigated catastrophe for Republicans and conservatives. |
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These are the types of scenarios that would make the current catastrophe in Sendai look piddling by comparison. |
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Off the coast of Vietnam, a shipboard catastrophe cut short your chances to soar in combat. |
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Professional catastrophe, which occurs both to Hugh and to Helen's sleazy father, is little more than an inconvenience to be sidestepped or diverted by trusted retainers. |
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The catastrophe, though unique in France, was not unexampled further east. |
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The castle was not insured against such a catastrophe, but the ensuing concerts helped fund the long reconstruction. |
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In 1966, this hazardous situation led to a catastrophe costing the lives of 44 men, injuring hundreds more, and causing millions of dollars of damage. |
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Up until that moment, Ian had blocked out the sheer size of the catastrophe, and his senses were suddenly overwhelmed by scene of suffering surrounding him. |
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London is facing a transport catastrophe, costing business hundreds of millions of pounds a year and individuals incalculable stress, as well as damaging tourism. |
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At first blissfully unaware of the looming nuclear catastrophe, their muddling path towards doom is in equal parts pathetic, frightening and funny. |
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Looking at the world today and comparing the respective positions of education and catastrophe, one could be excused for thinking that education was lagging far behind. |
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Germany is well prepared in its strategic oil reserves, and there are no glaring factors that would force a drawdown of reserves, barring a global catastrophe. |
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The spectacle of the dreamworld of the modern inaugurates a posthuman moment, one in which the experience of the marvelous unfolds as both a utopian gesture and a catastrophe. |
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I have assumed that this event is the end of the action, and have given no consideration to the idea of falling action, wherein the cycle of events is concluded through catastrophe or solution. |
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Only a churl would refuse to acknowledge the president's success in crafting national unity out of catastrophe, and even liberals have been obliged to pay tribute. |
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Its attack on that people is a political and humanitarian catastrophe. |
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Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity. |
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His characters live with the imminence of catastrophe on a daily basis. |
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Never before has a natural catastrophe had such a devastating effect on at least 11 countries scattered thousands of miles around the rim of an ocean. |
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Without pussyfooting around, I can state that Catwoman is a catastrophe. |
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Experts fear a humanitarian catastrophe if food isn't delivered to the refugees soon. |
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Without a proper thinning, my hair is a catastrophe of unmanageableness. |
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Because his narrative is unmoored to any conceptual anchor, Halberstam tends to imbue events such as the decade-long Balkans catastrophe with too much significance. |
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A second coming of Rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away. |
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Continued temporizing could destroy the euro and precipitate another financial catastrophe. |
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For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands did not. |
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The contagious catastrophe presents London with a situation in extremism which the dichotomy between brute physicality and brainwork may be clarified. |
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There have been rumblings of a military coup, although the military brass is not anxious to assume power under conditions of economic catastrophe. |
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The culmination of this is the present unfolding catastrophe, which required the moral connivance, in one way or another, of nearly every sector of civil society. |
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But for the one who was blindsided when the papers were served and had no intention of ever signing, D-day is a catastrophe. |
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Parents kept vigil, wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry. |
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But a Western policy that is blind to the urgent need for reform and justice is certain to end in catastrophe. |
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This is a critical system that leaves you one failure away from catastrophe, as in this case. |
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State officials, military and aviation experts in both countries hurried to shift the blame for the catastrophe. |
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The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the greatest nuclear catastrophe in world history. |
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Following the catastrophe, the tired foot soldier, virtually alone among his peers, sought to defend the court-martialed generals of the ill-fated campaign. |
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These images also act as a presage of impending catastrophe. |
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What seems a minor complication to the anesthetist, such as the dislodgement of a tooth, may seem a catastrophe to the patient. |
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It's how we project our own catastrophe of infantile adulthood. |
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The refugee crisis could also ensue should a climate catastrophe ravage South Asia. |
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The eruption of the Toba supervolcano, approximately 70,000 years ago, was one of the largest eruptions ever, and a global catastrophe. |
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To avoid the catastrophe of open warfare between the Bruce and Balliol, the Guardians and other Scots magnates asked Edward I to intervene. |
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This radical shift from a chemically inert to an oxidizing atmosphere caused an ecological crisis, sometimes called the oxygen catastrophe. |
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This is, in every conceivable way, a recipe for catastrophe. |
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It would take well into the Triassic for life to recover from this catastrophe. |
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Operating such convoy usually needs special permission, but there are exemptions for emergency and catastrophe intervention. |
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If the Allies did not react as expected, the German offensive could end in catastrophe. |
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Relevant to the hypothesis is that its description has led some to connect this catastrophe with prehistoric flood myths. |
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The main cause of the catastrophe has often been portrayed as the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their longitude. |
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The epidemic known as the Black Death and an associated famine caused demographic catastrophe in Europe as the population plummeted. |
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Artificial pricing set by a monopsonist government buyer is a recipe for economic catastrophe. |
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Can catastrophe theory explain the properties of school reform as well as the dynamics of physical systems? |
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The other two races arose by survivors' escaping in different directions after a major catastrophe hit the earth 5,000 years ago. |
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This road also faced a catastrophe in 2011 when it was sumerged with rainwater. |
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The Pope bitterly felt this catastrophe as a double blow to Christendom and to Greek letters. |
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Solar and lunar eclipses were considered to be especially dangerous events that could bring catastrophe upon the world. |
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There were Katrina stories even in the sports pages where catastrophe is usually dealt with as a schedule impeder. |
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In 1127, Kaifeng was sacked, a massive catastrophe known as the Jingkang Incident, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. |
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The former presidential candidate warned about economic catastrophe by Washington's interventionists in both Republican and Democratic parties. |
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The six reactors in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe had been designed by General Electric. |
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But these attempts are diddling around the edges of a massive health catastrophe, a viral Katrina. |
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He plays top physicist Richard Feynman, who is asked to join the commission to find out the reason for the catastrophe. |
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Meanwhile, the cross-bench peer Lord Rees-Mogg says that Gordon Brown is suffering a catastrophe a day. |
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It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. |
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Because most rudists lived in the tropics, their die-offs give the impression that the K-T catastrophe focused there, says Raup. |
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While funds were raised by private individuals and charities, lack of adequate action let the problem become a catastrophe. |
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An independent Scotland would be a catastrophe as a country. |
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The effects of this catastrophe were so devastating that it took life on land 30 million years into the Mesozoic Era to recover. |
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Events were soon to prove false those predictions of catastrophe, predictions of a fate that was forewished rather than foreseen. |
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Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. |
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When the negotiations failed, his attempt was revealed to Germany, resulting in a diplomatic catastrophe. |
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Scottish Tory MEP Struan Stevenson, attending a fisheries conference in the Faroe Islands, warned of job cuts and a catastrophe for mackerel stocks. |
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He said the recent devastation has reminded to strengthen of our national disaster institutions to effective counter and minimise the effetely of natural catastrophe. |
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Naples, like Los Angeles and Mexico City, has always existed in a state of postmodernity, a stratified agglomerate on the brink of natural catastrophe. |
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But what about the neo-Malthusian proposition that unsustainable economic practices lead, at some point, to environmental overload and social catastrophe? |
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It was inevitable that a catastrophe of such proportions would affect some of the greater building projects, as the amount of available labour fell sharply. |
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Small populations generally lack genetic diversity and may be threatened by increased predation, increased competition, disease and unexpected catastrophe. |
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One investor grumbled incessantly during a session on collateralized reinsurance at a catastrophe bond conference in New York City in late January. |
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The addition of several new perils and enhanced technology are among improvements modelers have made to catastrophe models following the past two years' hurricane seasons. |
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Then it will be onto the island of Wallsend, created spheric shanty town entertainment in wh ence has a role to pla sole survivors of an catastrophe. |
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When Victor returns to our world as megalomaniacal super-villain Dr Doom, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must pool their new abilities to avert catastrophe. |
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It was clear that had an atomic bomb exploded in a British port, it would have been a catastrophe worse than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Due to this catastrophe, new procedures were implemented that require the SAOs to make a backup of their data and upload it to ISAARMS at least once a month. |
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She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization and that mages really can alter reality for short periods. |
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An inarguably concrete form of catastrophe was visible in the Baron's lumberyard, where a massive stack of logs was being sprinkled to keep off beetles. |
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He whose laws are everywhere incessantly self executing needs not to select and group and reserve his friends or foes for any climateric catastrophe. |
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Recognizing an opportunity, Wall Street developed catastrophe bonds, including cat-linked securities, as a capital market alternative to traditional catastrophe reinsurance. |
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The single XRay machine at Casualty Ward could not bear load of patients during emergency situation like bomb blasts, accidents or natural catastrophe. |
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During the slow recovery from this catastrophe a previously obscure group, archosaurs, became the most abundant and diverse terrestrial vertebrates. |
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There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. |
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Eventually, a renewed edifice may grow large enough even to bury its somma, or sommas, completely, leaving no clue in its shape to a history of former catastrophe. |
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Our analysis demonstrates that this feature places limits on catastrophe bond penetration, even if the structure possesses frictional cost advantages over reinsurance. |
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The chief minister while apprizing the catastrophe of flood and relief activities to the minister said the province had undergone the worst ever flood of history. |
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Later, about 70,000 years ago, perhaps after the Toba catastrophe, a small group left the Levant to populate Eurasia, Australia and later the Americas. |
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Lisbon was not the only Portuguese city affected by the catastrophe. |
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The largest environmental catastrophe in the North Sea was the destruction of the offshore oil platform Piper Alpha in 1988 in which 167 people lost their lives. |
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The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals. |
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The Toba catastrophe theory relating to this eruption suggests the event caused a decade-long global volcanic winter that was possibly followed by 1,000 years of cooling. |
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