Sentence examples for crippling floods from inspiring English sources

Thirteen years on from the Asian financial crisis, it seems there is nothing that can stop the Thai economy: not violent protests on the streets of Bangkok, not crippling floods, not regulatory concerns over the country's largest industrial zone.

In the same way sprawl has left some cities vulnerable to crippling floods, it has also created vast, industrialized "heat islands" — urban places without much vegetation, but blocks of impervious surfaces such as asphalt and concrete that absorb heat all day, then release it slowly into the night, causing nighttime temperatures to spike as well.

The April Fool's Day shift in the worm's functions could also reveal its purpose, triggering it to steal financial information, tamper with infected machines, send spam or target Web servers with crippling floods of requests for information.

PATERSON, N.J. — President Obama, surveying some of the most crippling flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene, vowed on Sunday that budgetary wrangling in Washington would not delay federal aid to stricken communities.

This thorny and provocative first book — it's about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty — floods over you like a narrative dam break.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune-related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages--a type of white blood cell--damaging the lungs and other organs.

A massive new landslide along California's iconic coastal Highway 1 has buried the road under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt, the latest hit in a winter of crippling slides and flooding.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Maria lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday after destroying homes, causing widespread flooding, crippling economies and killing at least 25 people on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands.

While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now upon us.

Declining productivity and the crippling effects of the floods last year, which not only destroyed standing crops but also the irrigation network and property, exacerbated an already difficult food supply situation.

Many researchers have been unequivocal that while hotter oceans, rising seas and other factors are not the sole cause of any event, the warming climate is contributing to more intense storms and more frequent, more crippling storm surges and flooding.