Sentence examples for stop a tsunami from inspiring English sources

There is no way to stop a tsunami once set in motion, but there is certainly a way to avoid getting killed by one.

This is what Japan's Chubu Electric Power thinks it will take to stop a tsunami a touch bigger than the one that hit Fukushima, which is slightly farther from Tokyo to the north-east than Hamaoka is to the south-west.

Steeper topographic slope (hill) on each of the hypothetical topography is designated to stop a tsunami for inundating farther inland.

And he said a swift resolution to the severe capital pressures the bond insurers are facing is necessary to stop a "tsunami" of problems in the financial markets.

This is a ban that's going to be virtually impossible to enforce: as almost any music company will testify, stopping online filesharing by banning particular sites or devices is roughly akin to stopping a tsunami with a bucket.

But it feels like it's too late to stop the tsunami of technology because we have already been assimilated into the collective or become wired to the matrix (to use two rather dystopian film examples).

It's as if we're waving stop signs at a tsunami.

"There is simply no guarantee that seawalls will stop every single tsunami," says Nobuo Shuto, an engineer at Tohoku University.Mr Shuto, though not against all seawalls, wants a rethink.

Neither move had done anything to stop the financial tsunami.

Now that we understand how allowing judicial modification of mortgages on primary residences through bankruptcy would likely result in most parties negotiating private modifications without causing other significant adverse consequences, it's time for our policymakers to allow use of this proven tool to help stop the current tsunami of foreclosures.

She learns from Will that when he talked to Kali, the avatar manifestation of Big Bertha, into stopping the tsunami, he saw her father, who left her clues leading to a map leading to Hollow Earth, thought to be the home of every abnormal species on the planet.