Sentence examples for sudden thaw from inspiring English sources

It needs frozen ground, good snowpack and a sudden thaw.

One reason for the sudden thaw in the market is that time has cured some old troubles.

But the sudden thaw could, at the very least, bring a reprieve in the months of acute tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

A sudden thaw supervened to hamper the Red Army's transport of supplies and reinforcements across the swollen courses of the great rivers.

Fear of a sudden thaw, releasing millions of gallons of water through river channels and narrow canyons, has disaster experts on edge.

While frigid weather might not be considered good fortune on the eve of spring anywhere else, in Fargo, the state's most populous city, the cold snap put the brakes on a sudden thaw and the threat of widespread flooding.

But those frozen lifelines are increasingly unreliable, prone to sudden thaws, weak ice and dangerous openings.

If the snow melts gradually, this can cause mild flooding, while sudden thaws can lead to more serious problems.

This sudden thawing of inter-Korean relations comes after North Korea responded with alarm to American battlefield successes in Afghanistan and President Bush's subsequent listing of North Korea, Iran and Iraq as an "axis of evil".

For amid a sudden thawing of relations with Syria that will see Foreign Secretary David Miliband meet Bashar in Damascus this week - having already been courted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy - Syria will argue that far from having to move in its positions, what it always predicted has come true.

Changing weather patterns might lead to sudden thawing of permafrost, releasing more heat-trapping methane into the air.