The EU antitrust regulator found that the merger would have reduced competition in the European markets for image intensification night vision devices and image intensification tubes.
|
|
Rapid intensification is rare Because all those pieces must be in place, rapid intensification is rare, with just one or two Atlantic storms per year undergoing such an acceleration.
|
|
Rapid-intensification, as the name implies, is when a storm quickly strengthens (officially a storm has undergone rapid-intensification if its wind-speed increases by 35 mph in 24 hours).
|
|
"This intensification of repression is equal to the intensification of the fight (against slavery)," Biram Dah Abeid, head of the IRA and an opposition politician, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Dakar, Senegal.
|
|
The Morey incident is a further intensification of that trend.
|
|
Rapid intensification is a growing phenomenon associated with climate change.
|
|
Remarkable comparison of the rapid intensification of Hurricanes Michael & Harvey.
|
|
This intensification rate, if it comes to pass, would be astonishing.
|
|
Or, you experience an intensification of internal pressure to keep succeeding.
|
|
And who will the intensification of these issues impact the most?
|
|
As the commissioners had anticipated, intensification of arms-making had an
|
|
The week has also seen a marked intensification of the violence.
|
|
But the window for intensification looks to last the weekend only.
|
|
The intensification in state-sanctioned violence has spread across the country.
|
|
Why do they, as described here, provoke intensification of difficult situations?
|
|
But it's notoriously hard to predict rapid intensification because forecast models fail to pick up on all the different variables that feed into it -- and because rapid intensification doesn't always happen when the variables are present.
|
|
Thats a lot of stretching and a possible explanation for vortex intensification.
|
|
"The main cause of the decline is agricultural intensification," Sánchez-Bayo said.
|
|
One is an intensification of the trade war between America and China.
|
|
So far, Irma has hit nothing but perfect conditions for its intensification.
|
|
Rapid intensification isn't necessarily rare, but it is very hard to forecast.
|
|
"We are very concerned about the military intensification," the official told Reuters.
|
|
The reports come amid an intensification of moves towards peace negotiations in Afghanistan.
|
|
This also brings about the accumulation, spread, and even intensification of political conflicts.
|
|
The libretto of "Huguenots," by Eugène Scribe, is a crafty exercise in intensification.
|
|
NO LONGER SAFE The week has seen a marked intensification of the violence.
|
|
The storm's rapid intensification gave emergency officials and residents little time to prepare.
|
|
"Rapid changes in intensification is still our biggest forecast challenge," Mr. Brennan said.
|
|
Rapid intensification is very dangerous, because it can catch coastal communities off guard.
|
|
Hurricanes Irma (center), and Jose (right) are examples of hurricanes that experience rapid intensification.
|
|
The "bomb" refers to the rapid drop in pressure and intensification of the storm.
|
|
But the main element is likely to be an intensification of Xi's personal leadership.
|
|
Emerging research shows that climate change may make rapid intensification a more frequent occurrence.
|
|
"And we expect intensification of fires in Siberia as direct effect of climate change."
|
|
Its rapid intensification in the warm waters of the Gulf took many by surprise.
|
|
" A senior U.S. administration official commented, "This is not really about intensification of pressure.
|
|
So, an intensification in weather extremes has to be included in future supply strategies.
|
|
Rapid intensification happens about 5 percent of the time and is difficult to predict.
|
|
This intensification has accelerated the mass displacement of those within Idlib, Tskurov told me.
|
|
"It also signaled an intensification of activity among African-American collectors," Mr. Levin added.
|
|
He called for an intensification of airstrikes and more raids by US special operations forces.
|
|
"So far, there have only been some very weak indications of this intensification," NOAA writes.
|
|
"Really, this is an intensification of the evacuation, which has been happening gradually," he said.
|
|
The data revolution, with its accompanying intensification of divisions in society, will also play out.
|
|
The intensification of construction during the pandemic is raising fears among residents of Ajo, Ariz.
|
|
When they researched lexicons, "chroma" stood out for its meaning as an intensification of color.
|
|
The intensification qualification is based on the storm's central pressure, which is measured in millibars.
|
|
Low prices stimulate an increase in oil use and an intensification in greenhouse-gas emissions.
|
|
The number of people fleeing Mosul has surged since the re-intensification of hostilities this month.
|
|
This drop was more than twice the intensification rate required to be considered a bomb cyclone.
|
|
So-called "colony collapse disorder" has been attributed to numerous factors, including pesticides and agricultural intensification.
|
|
Relatively low atmospheric wind shear also favors strengthening, and a period of rapid intensification is possible.
|
|
And HFIP, while not a model per se, is aimed at better gauging intensification of storms.
|
|
"Irma has become an impressive hurricane," the National Hurricane Center said Thursday, noting the rapid intensification.
|
|
The 2014 study prompted an intensification of the measures already in place to protect the animal.
|
|
The last five years has seen an unprecedented intensification of efforts to undermine women's reproductive rights.
|
|
Clinton called for an "intensification and acceleration" of Mr. Obama's military campaign against the Islamic State.
|
|
Thanks to climate change, however, the sudden intensification of hurricanes appears to have become more common.
|
|
One of the reasons for this unpredictability, and the storm's rapid intensification, is warming global temperatures.
|
|
Intensification comes when he raises the stakes to make sure he gets the attention he wants.
|
|
There's an intensification of emotions when you're living in historical times, as if it's more real.
|
|
"We trace our intensification to the election of President Trump and the heating up of rhetoric."
|
|
Conversely, a better understanding of intensification would also help ensure that evacuation orders are not issued needlessly.
|
|
Third, an intensification of U.S. trade protection has the potential to slow U.S. and global economic growth.
|
|
All that seems to have happened is an intensification of the trend toward ever-lower interest rates.
|
|
Matthew behaved similarly, its intensification also unforeseen and sudden, occurring just two days before it overwhelmed Haiti.
|
|
This intensification threatened to draw more rain clouds towards its eye and drop more precipitation on land.
|
|
Politics ___ Predicting the storm's path was straightforward, but a number of factors contributed to its sudden intensification.
|
|
Kouyaté said that rice intensification uses up to 40 percent less water than traditional rice growing methods.
|
|
Konaté went across the country to get training on rice intensification from another farmer two years ago.
|
|
"So one measure of intensification is changing by two categories of drought in two weeks," says Pendergrass.
|
|
We have had an intensification of moments, but with them a paranoia that players will miss something.
|
|
But it is not just the intensification in the streaming war that has Wall Street on edge.
|
|
That process of rapid intensification – "bombogenesis," as it's called – is where the "bomb cyclone" name comes from.
|
|
Since it's still sweeping across the mild waters of the Gulf of Mexico, continued intensification is likely.
|
|
New technologies, in turn, are often focused on the intensification of visual verisimilitude (virtual and augmented reality).
|
|
Studies have shown that rapid intensification of tropical cyclones is becoming more frequent due to global climate change.
|
|
Last year, in the Atlantic basin, forecasters correctly forecasted six of 39 instances of rapid intensification, Brennan said.
|
|
Sadly, all of this holds out the prospect for an intensification of a U.S. currency and trade war.
|
|
In other words, Willa's rapid intensification may represent the third sucker-punch storm in a row this year.
|
|
This will occur as the storm "bombs out," or undergoes the process of rapid intensification known as bombogenesis.
|
|
Last year, Hurricanes Matthew and Nicole, which became Category 5 and 4 storms respectively, both underwent rapid intensification.
|
|
Forecast models, the hurricane center said, suggested that Nate would undergo "steady intensification" as it crossed the Gulf.
|
|
Its intensification was aided by unusually mild waters, with a high ocean heat content extending to great depth.
|
|
But "this is an intensification and an acceleration," Mary Joyce Carlson, attorney for Fight for $15, told CNN Business.
|
|
Climate change, parasites, the intensification of pesticide use, urbanisation and an obsession with tidiness are causing colonies to collapse.
|
|
Lift is also key to the formation of a surface area of low pressure, as well as its intensification.
|
|
An intensification of law enforcement by Indonesia could help deter companies and individuals from using fire to clear land.
|
|
All three devastating storms this year so far have undergone periods of rapid intensification: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
|
|
"Multiple regions in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans are particularly vulnerable to marine heat wave intensification," they wrote.
|
|
To be sure, 2016 started with the intensification of China's slowdown, Fed uncertainty and falling crude prices, he said.
|
|
As a member of the currency union, Germany is financially exposed to a re-intensification of the eurozone crisis.
|
|
Rapid intensification occurs when a storm's maximum sustained winds increase at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less.
|
|
The intensification of malaria in human populations may also have accelerated the spread of the protective sickle cell mutation.
|
|
I wrote earlier this week that climate change could be a cause of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Florence.
|
|
Once the storm moves east over open water later in the weekend, there is a better chance of intensification.
|
|
"I think their opinions are being intensified because the intensification of contrary sentiments is increasing polarization," Mr. Galston said.
|
|
That said, most storms that reach the highest categories -- 3, 4 and 5 -- reach these intensities through rapid intensification.
|
|
Bowen, himself a former college athlete, argued against the unquestioned spread of an arms-race of "athletic intensification" characterized by the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges; an intensification that was pulling institutions from their core educational missions.
|
|
The onset of sustained capital outflow from China may be linked with the intensification of the authorities' anti-corruption campaign.
|
|
There are still uncertainties involved in the forecast for Harvey, particularly concerning its continued rate of intensification and exact track.
|
|
"Once Harvey did develop this inner core, the intensification could proceed for the most part steadily and rapidly," Rogers said.
|
|
We "call for the continuation and intensification of protests," a group of unions behind the protests said in a statement.
|
|
After a massive intensification over the weekend, Hurricane Willa is whirling toward Mexico's west coast as a Category 4 storm.
|
|
That intensification made it as strong as a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour.
|
|
After a bout of rapid intensification last night, Hurricane Matthew has now achieved Category 3 status, packing 120 mph winds.
|
|
Hurricane Matthew has meteorologists all in a tizzy on social media, remarking on its impressive strength and sudden, dramatic intensification.
|
|
The rise of the feudal governors also coincided with the intensification of efforts by organized crime to control local territories.
|
|
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria all underwent rapid intensification on their way to becoming major hurricanes earlier this season.
|
|
But that outreach ultimately led to intensification of anti-Western rhetoric and crackdowns on actual reformist trends within Iranian society.
|
|
Last week, the House Oversight Committee asked Rhodes to testify about his remarks, in an intensification of the public scolding.
|
|
It's fairly normal for hurricanes to gain strength over short periods of time, but rapid intensification is becoming more severe.
|
|
And there are new findings unforeseen by early studies, such as the extremely rapid intensification of storms, as on Sept.
|
|
That said, most storms that reach the highest categories, Cat 3, 4 and 5, reach these intensities through rapid intensification.
|
|
I'm a bit concerned that this could be the start of a rapid intensification cycle of the tropical cyclone. pic.twitter.
|
|
"Studies have also noted that in a warmer environment, we should see more storms which undergo rapid intensification," Collins says.
|
|
It was also a turning point in the intensification of European prejudice and bigotry against minorities, particularly Jews and Roma.
|
|
"We expect a rapid intensification of Florence tomorrow," Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, said on Sunday.
|
|
The demand for palm oil is growing, and Indonesia aims to increase the yield of existing plantations through intensification methods.
|
|
A recent intensification of both vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccination movement has led to an increase in global infections.
|
|
Hurricane Patricia also set a record for the most significant 24-hour intensification rate ever observed in the western hemisphere.
|
|
Any unilateral threat or blackmail will only lead to intensification of conflicts and damage to the interests of all parties.
|
|
The year of 28500 dovetails with intensification of negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal, agreed to on July 6900, 2628.
|
|
" Turning to Avdiivka, he added, somewhat ominously: "The intensification of hostilities there can trigger more activity in the wider area.
|
|
"I'm not going to be the one to say 'stop building up' because I think intensification is inevitable," he said.
|
|
Analysis of this data shows that rapid intensification is not happening more often these days, as related studies have already suggested.
|
|
"There is an intensification of our talks with the EU and we are moving into a decision-making phase," Nunes said.
|
|
Though the WCRP models accounted for greenhouse gas emissions and other human and natural factors, they did not consider agricultural intensification.
|
|
ECMWF 12z w/intensification trend for Hurricane Hilary down to 968 mb w/an eye on simulated satellite in 36-hours.
|
|
In Fitch's view, Germany has sufficient fiscal space to manage the recent intensification of the migrant crisis without negative rating consequences.
|
|
His strategy of intensification through restraint paid off in the final pages, when the string section achieved an uncanny, hovering stillness.
|
|
That energy fed Dorian's rapid intensification from Category 1.53 to Category 5 on Sunday—just as Dunion was flying through it.
|
|
The big problem with Trump's callous and destructive abuse of his office is that it requires regular renewal, intensification and amplification.
|
|
This week marked a substantial intensification in tensions between the United States and the rogue nations of Iran and North Korea.
|
|
But the fact is that the relationship between Iran and the Houthis has only strengthened with the intensification of the war.
|
|
Atmospheric scientists suspect that in a warming world, rapid intensification of storms will become more common, fueled by increased sea temperatures.
|
|
The last six months have seen the intensification of an already intense debate about immigration, both in Europe and the United States.
|
|
This phenomenon, known as rapid intensification, is now happening with greater ferocity than it did three decades ago, according to new research.
|
|
A recent report by CLB calls the "intensification of social contradictions" in China a "direct threat to the legitimacy of the regime".
|
|
Cáceres had expressed fear of being alone because of a recent intensification of the death threats she had been receiving for years.
|
|
"Ocean heat content is anomalously high along the track of Nepartak as well, likely contributing to the extreme intensification rates," Maue said.
|
|
The complexities of the first globalised economy and the accompanying intensification of social problems meant the empire needed more and better economists.
|
|
"In terms of the Corn Belt, the degree of agricultural intensification we've seen in the last 30 years isn't sustainable," he says.
|
|
Europe is worried about further intensification of its "migration crisis," which already includes the movement of many thousands of Syrians through Turkey.
|
|
One model, which was recently upgraded with more computing power behind it, also accurately forecast the storm's intensification into a major hurricane.
|
|
"The intensification of conflicts is a key reason behind the recent resurgence of world hunger levels," the Food and Agriculture Organization said.
|
|
The process, known as "rapid intensification," has happened four times in the last month with hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and now Maria.
|
|
While prediction of a storm's path has grown increasingly accurate, the ability to predict rapid intensification has lagged somewhat, said Dr. Jiang.
|
|
The more time they have to prepare for a storm the better, but Hurricane Michael's rapid intensification left thousands with no escape.
|
|
Yet, rice intensification has remained largely experimental, with no governmental policy in place to bolster the adoption of the practice, Kouyaté said.
|
|
"This is yet another example of Beijing's intensification of repression of Chinese Christians and members of other religious groups," the statement added.
|
|
Today, after the advent of the mobile Web and the intensification of terror-inspired travel constraints, 22007 billion people fly every year.
|
|
"It is quite clear that rising sea levels and warming seas contributes to the intensification of these weather events," McClean told CNN.
|
|
Volker Hues, its chief financial officer, describes "persistent intensification of business" from clients in the food, car-making and retail industries in particular.
|
|
"When conditions in the tropical Atlantic are good for hurricane intensification, they are bad for it near the coast," Kossin told USA Today.
|
|
But observers fear it will have significant blowback, resulting in an intensification of the already bloody dispute over this multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
|
|
And so is crop intensification: Boosting yields by growing more food on the same area of land inevitably leads to more pesticide use.
|
|
On the whole, "climate change will dramatically increase the potential for expansion and intensification of Aedes-borne virus transmission," according to the study.
|
|
Furthermore, Nike's own branding choices have contributed to this latest battle in the culture wars mark an intensification — and complication — of that trend.
|
|
Explosive rapid intensification from low-end tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in 48 hours -- zooming in on the core of #Willa pic.twitter.
|
|
The most destructive and infamous storms of 2017—Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria—all underwent rapid intensification, according to The Washington Post.
|
|
Maria became the latest Atlantic storm of the year to undergo rapid intensification after its wind strength increased 23 mph in one day.
|
|
Indeed, 70% of Atlantic storms that hit that mark do so through rapid intensification, according to a 2016 study published in Nature Communications.
|
|
And, as I said, I think we're going to see an intensification of Iran's own nuclear activities in contravention of the nuclear deal.
|
|
Michael has undergone a period of "rapid intensification" -- defined as an increase of sustained winds of 28 mph in a 22-hour period.
|
|
It was like fights in high school, where everyone gathered around holding their cameras, and there was an unconscious intensification of the violence.
|
|
As homeland security expert Clint Watts noted discerning observers of Russian information warfare noted the intensification and expansion of Russian efforts by 2014.
|
|
According to the NWS forecast office in Tallahassee, the storm's intensification means that a "potentially catastrophic event is developing" for that part of Florida.
|
|
It refers to a low-pressure area that sees an air pressure drop, or intensification rate, of more than 218.1 millibars in 24 hours.
|
|
But his new strategy, which centers on thousands of additional U.S. troops and an intensification of airstrikes, has only just begun to produce gains.
|
|
Ramping up corn ethanol production since the RFS's 2005 passage required additional corn harvest, either coming from cropland expansion or intensification of existing operations.
|
|
To allow for an intensification of his political efforts, his schedule nearer to Election Day has remained flexible, with no major foreign trips slated.
|
|
Cyclone Kenneth underwent a period of rapid intensification between Wednesday and Thursday, leaping from a Category 1 to Category 4 storm in 24 hours.
|
|
At the beginning of 2019, the Thai authorities began an "intensification campaign" along the country's northern border with Myanmar, according to the UNODC's Douglas.
|
|
"Other than land interaction between 24-36 hours, environmental conditions look conducive for intensification of the depression," the NHC wrote in a forecast discussion.
|
|
Domestic politics, reform fatigue and intensification of the conflict in eastern Ukraine remain risks for the Ukrainian economy and performance under the IMF programme.
|
|
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered an intensification in the war on drugs in the Southeast Asian country that includes the execution of traffickers.
|
|
The storm continued its rapid intensification throughout the day on Monday, finally reaching Category 5 status with 160 mph winds at 7:45 pm.
|
|
The rapid intensification of the storm, which means growing in wind speed by 35 miles per hour over a 24-hour period, was unexpected.
|
|
FITCH-INTENSIFICATION OF DOWNSIDE GLOBAL RISKS SINCE FED CUT INTEREST RATES IN JULY NOW LOOKS LIKELY TO PROMPT ANOTHER 25BP CUT IN DECEMBER 2019
|
|
De-intensification for older diabetics has gained traction only slowly — "a lost opportunity to reduce overtreatment," a 2015 study in JAMA Internal Medicine reported.
|
|
"There was an intensification, the rhythms of the city and the street and how that influences you, there was a ratcheting up," he said.
|
|
Music blasted in a perfect rite of intensification; enemies were identified, trivialized and vanquished — Creepy Joe, Crazy Bernie, Pete BOOT-EDGE-EDGE and more.
|
|
The International Livestock Research Institute identified Indonesia, besides Myanmar, Nigeria, Peru and Vietnam, as future hot spots for AMR based on livestock intensification patterns.
|
|
"Italy has signaled it won't budge on its plans, which would point to further intensification of this standoff," said ING rates strategist Benjamin Schroeder.
|
|
This has led scientists to believe that storms are more likely to undergo "rapid-intensification" as a result of climate change warming the oceans.
|
|
"Most of the increase in rapid intensification that we observed can be attributed to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, a natural climate phenomenon," Balaguru told Gizmodo.
|
|
Winds at the upper levels of the atmosphere, within the highway of air that steers weather systems, promoted ascending air and storm intensification, Lamers said.
|
|
"The upper-level conditions were perfect for rapid/explosive intensification," said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist for the private weather firm WeatherBell Analytics, in an email.
|
|
Kenneth underwent a rapid intensification process, jumping in intensity from a Category 1 to Category 4 storm in just 24 hours before it roared ashore.
|
|
"It is unclear what caused Trump's latest intensification of the trade war," Tapas Strickland, an economist at National Australia Bank, wrote in a morning note.
|
|
As the world continues to warm, hurricanes are expected to contain stronger winds as well, and may be more prone to periods of rapid intensification.
|
|
"The good news is it is expected to stay weak, we don't expect any more intensification as it goes north," said CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar.
|
|
Platforms could also be used to monitor the heat content of Gulf of Mexico waters, surveying for conditions that promote the rapid intensification of hurricanes.
|
|
Rapid intensification In just 30 hours, Maria's intensity exploded from 65 mph on Sunday to 160 mph by Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said.
|
|
"Maria tied Hurricane Wilma (in 2280) for the most rapid intensification, strengthening from tropical depression to a Category 2000 storm in 29.8 hours," Smith said.
|
|
Recently, forecasters were caught off guard by the sudden intensification of Hurricane Florence, a case in point of how tricky forecasting hurricane intensity can be.
|
|
The new measures put restrictions on farming intensification, conversion of land for dairying, and the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser farmers can use on fields.
|
|
"Usually you don't see rapid intensification in just one day, usually that happens to weaker storms because they have more room to grow," he says.
|
|
What Pound discovered in Noh echoed of his own developing Imagist aesthetic: suggestiveness, allusion, the static intensification of a single image that unifies each play.
|
|
Take his 1989 reaction to President George H.W. Bush's special White House address calling for an intensification of the law enforcement assault on crack cocaine.
|
|
But its rapid intensification over the Gulf's warm waters hours before landfall and its fury inland caught many by surprise, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
|
|
Contemporary political polarization reflects the intensification of the endless struggle to integrate America and, more recently, to assimilate millions of newcomers, some legal, some not.
|
|
In the longer term, those data will also shed light on the atmospheric and oceanic physics that underpin intensification, making better forecasts possible in the future.
|
|
This is the only Category 5 storm to strike Dominica on record, and may be among the fastest rates of intensification of any hurricane on record.
|
|
This week saw the intensification of two threads of national security concerns continue to get airtime on Capitol Hill that could have massive ramifications for startups.
|
|
Intensification of food production in the last decade has contributed to deforestation, declines in soil health and freshwater resources, plus an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
|
|
Trump's move marked an intensification of U.S. pressure on Cuba and also appeared aimed at punishing Havana over its support for Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
|
|
The first one, which qualified as a bomb cyclone due to its rapid intensification, led to at least $4 billion in damage, mainly from widespread flooding.
|
|
An abundant supply of warm waters in the southwest Indian Ocean fueled the storm's rapid intensification, along with favorable atmospheric conditions (for the cyclone, that is).
|
|
That marks the third-fastest intensification of a hurricane in a 24-hour period, behind hurricanes Wilma (2005) and Felix (2007), CNN meteorologist Jenn Varian said.
|
|
He believes that accurately simulating and understanding climate change at the local level will require a look at cases of agricultural intensification like Nebraska's corn boom.
|
|
Second, it's important to recognize what the delivery of more munitions to the Saudis would mean for civilians on the ground: an intensification of the conflict.
|
|
"We are concerned by developments in southwest Syria, particularly the intensification of Russian airstrikes and pro-regime ground attacks," a U.S. State Department official told Reuters.
|
|
"There is going to be an intensification of a no-deal Brexit scenario as October approaches," said John Wraith, head of UK rates strategy at UBS.
|
|
The move marked an intensification of U.S. pressure on Cuba and also appeared aimed at punishing Havana over its support for Venezuelas socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
|
|
However, dry air nearby the storm could cause minor weakening to occur, before it moves into a more favorable environment for intensification in a few days.
|
|
Russia on Wednesday launched a second wave of airstrikes in Syria from a base in Iran, underlining its intensification of an air war in the country.
|
|
So it is vital that this ceasefire (recently announced between Washington and Beijing) leads to a durable agreement that avoids an intensification or spread of tensions.
|
|
A storm undergoes rapid intensification when its maximum sustained winds increase at least 224 mph in 25 hours or less, according to the National Hurricane Center.
|
|
Perfect conditions are needed While there isn't much definitive data on rapid intensification, a few key atmospheric ingredients help it occur, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
|
|
These storms are more dangerous Storms that undergo rapid intensification tend to be more dangerous than other storms because they frequently end up as major hurricanes.
|
|
Why this matters: The storm is not expected to be a threat to land, but it's rapid rate of intensification is of interest to hurricane researchers.
|
|
Hurricane Research aircraft recorded key signs of intensification, including a drop in atmospheric pressure at the center of the storm and an increase in wind speeds.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - UBS Wealth Management cut its exposure to emerging market stocks and bonds late on Thursday, changing its portfolio as an intensification of China-U.
|
|
With hunger a constant menace, Malians are cautiously turning to a controversial farming technique, known as rice intensification, to adapt to the effects of climate change.
|
|
The storm went from 2100 mph on Sunday to 75 mph on Monday and is expected to undergo rapid intensification again in the next 24 hours.
|
|
A storm undergoes rapid intensification when its maximum sustained winds increase at least 2016 mph in 24 hours or less, according to the National Hurricane Center.
|
|
The Republicans' Monday letter is an intensification of their concerted scrutiny of the FBI's decision, which removed a potential legal deathblow from striking Clinton's presidential campaign.
|
|
The move marked an intensification of U.S. pressure on Cuba and also appeared aimed at punishing Havana over its support for Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
|
|
Obama's presidency saw the US lead a "strategic pivot" toward Asia-Pacific, which meant an intensification of US presence in the region to counter Chinese hegemony.
|
|
Super Typhoon Yutu underwent a period of extremely rapid intensification, going from a 50-mph tropical storm to a 53-mph Category 5 in just 48 hours.
|
|
Officials say they are close to restoring flights, but intensification of Islamic State's campaign in Cairo and elsewhere would create further obstacles to any recovery in tourism.
|
|
"The intensification of the trade war dynamic has had a more negative impact on BRL," wrote Sacha Tihanyi, deputy head of emerging markets strategy at TD Securities.
|
|
"On a global level, this research is important because it proves the influence of agricultural intensification is really an independent problem from greenhouse gas emissions," explains Alter.
|
|
But the organisation saw risks surrounding a possible intensification of international trade and geopolitical disputes as well as imbalances in the Swiss real estate and mortgage sector.
|
|
The 183s and 1970s were also a time of great political polarization given the protests around the Vietnam War and the intensification of the civil rights movement.
|
|
"The odd part about Ophelia is seeing this intensification take place in what's normally a much cooler region of the Atlantic Ocean," CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar added.
|
|
They're also harbingers of an intensification of Islamophobia as a foreign policy agenda, one that parallels his increasing attacks on prominent African Americans in the United States.
|
|
Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria went through a process of "rapid intensification," meaning their maximum sustained winds increased at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less.
|
|
A new twist on the classic 2011 fragrance Neroli Portofino, this intensification aims to transport the wearer to a leisurely boat ride off the coast of Italy.
|
|
Part of the reason for the intensification of the Vatican's approach, however, may be that Francis himself has recently been implicated in participating in a cover-up.
|
|
But in the first days of November, the coalition dropped five times more airstrikes on Hodeidah than in October's first week, signaling an intensification of the conflict.
|
|
With the help of an international project called Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING), they began building dams, terraces, and recharge ponds.
|
|
"(Rice intensification) asks for a lot of time spent in planting rice, because the seedlings are planted very young, 8 to 15 days old, maximum," he said.
|
|
A European Union official said that the intensification translated in practical terms into more discussions at the technical level beginning late Friday and going through the weekend.
|
|
The fires are a vivid signal of the global crisis of climate change, which can make ecological conditions more suitable to the ignition and intensification of wildfires.
|
|
The depreciating lira was again responsible for an intensification of cost pressures, with input price inflation accelerating further after a relatively moderate trend in the third quarter.
|
|
Increasing numbers of major hurricanes, along with a greater propensity of storms to undergo "rapid intensification" are expected consequences of warmer ocean waters resulting from climate change.
|
|
" But they also acknowledged that "we face several challenges, including the intensification of fighting, access restrictions and bureaucratic hurdles to bring lifesaving supplies and personnel to Yemen.
|
|
And sensors are needed, too, in the ocean ahead of a storm, for another thing that affects intensification is the temperature of the sea in the storm's path.
|
|
The roast whole chicken, with smoke in its meat and blackened chile rub on its skin, isn't so much an alteration of the Peruvian standard as an intensification.
|
|
"The explosion of the number of [deforestation] alerts in the past couple of months should lead to an intensification of inspection operations, but that hasn't happened," Rittl said.
|
|
What we're watching: Scientists will conduct research on this storm to make sure that the official forecasts anticipate such rapid intensification rates, rather than being caught off guard.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads How can our understanding of history and reality be enhanced through an intensification of subjectivity, thereby altering the relationship between the two?
|
|
Rather than being something explosive and new and revolutionary, this whole operation is an intensification, an output of something that's been powering along for more than two decades.
|
|
"This means, you can start answering questions like, during the 20th century, was there an intensification of drought or wetness in some region of the planet," Adhikari said.
|
|
"If there is any further intensification in the trade war issue and no quick resolution, we see gold prices could potentially bridge its $1,400 resistance level," Gan said.
|
|
What's unusual about this particular storm is that it's likely to greatly exceed the typical intensification rate to qualify as a weather bomb, perhaps even doubling that rate.
|
|
"FX markets have been resuscitated by renewed hard Brexit fears and the intensification of trade/currency wars," Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said in a research note.
|
|
He said he believed there was still time to do a deal within the current timeline, but that would require an "intensification" of negotiations between London and Brussels.
|
|
And another study by hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel of MIT shows that future hurricanes will be more likely to undergo rapid intensification as the world continues to warm.
|
|
However, intensification risk with North Korea is high, and an escalation to even limited military action could reach a level that would draw other countries into the conflict.
|
|
In the case of Michael, the National Hurricane Center forecast the storm's path with great accuracy, but its sudden intensification as it approached land was harder to predict.
|
|
Haid sees nomadism as a solution to our technologized, globalized lives, but it seems less like a fix than like an extension or intensification of the same condition.
|
|
The result was almost 20 years of authoritarian military rule and the disappearance and torture of thousands of Chileans – and the intensification of anti-Americanism in Latin America.
|
|
Against that backdrop, Mr. Trump's escalation is less a break with his predecessor than an intensification of a trend that dates to Mr. Obama's last year in power.
|
|
They warned about rising temperatures, the threats of sea level rise, floods, the loss of sea ice and the intensification and frequency of extreme weather events like hurricanes.
|
|
Since Mohammed bin Salman has come into power, we have actually seen an intensification of the repression of human rights defenders in the country, including women's rights activists.
|
|
The materials and the body of the artist cooperate toward an intensification that can best be thought of as ontological — art as a eurythmic, responsive mode of being alive.
|
|
The U.N. Libya mission's humanitarian coordinator, Maria Ribeiro, said the intensification of the conflict had created an urgent need for humanitarian access and they had been denied repeated requests.
|
|
Why it matters: This storm's strength and rate of intensification is unusual for the Plains states, with low pressure records likely to be challenged or broken in multiple locations.
|
|
The country has faced an apparent intensification of airstrikes in the last 48 hours, a seemingly deliberate attempt by those on the ground to send a message of strength.
|
|
"In the short term, a renewed intensification of trade tensions between the United States and China could fuel further volatility and lead to temporary setbacks," analysts at Credit Suisse.
|
|
"Uncertainty shocks weighed on investment growth in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, as well as more recently amid the renewed intensification of Brexit uncertainty," the economists said.
|
|
Such explosive strengthening is known as "rapid intensification," defined by the National Hurricane Center as having its wind speed increase at least 30 knots (35 mph) in 24 hours.
|
|
"Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East," Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni said.
|
|
An expected intensification of fighting around Hawija, 130 km southeast of Mosul, could displace another 114,000, adding to the 82,000 who have fled since August, risking ambushes and death.
|
|
This was both a continuation and an intensification of the long-term goal of European integration: to harness German power to the benefit of the continent as a whole.
|
|
Dubbed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), the new rice production method involves planting fewer seeds of traditional rice varieties and taking care of them following a strict regime.
|
|
For Faliry Boly, who heads a rice-growing association, the prospect of rice becoming a "white gold" for Mali should spur on authorities and farmers to adopt rice intensification.
|
|
"As for the Minsk process and intensification of shooting attacks - we are concerned about it, no doubts," Prystaiko told a joint news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.
|
|
The intensification of the trade war between the United States and China trade war has seen cargo demand drop across the airline industry, with the downward trend expected to continue.
|
|
Such lifting is typically triggered by dynamics associated with rapidly intensifying storm systems like the one undergoing bombogenesis, or a process of rapid intensification, south of Long Island on Wednesday.
|
|
Between the lines: Overnight on Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, Hurricane Michael underwent a period of explosive intensification that was not explicitly forecast by any computer models or human forecasters.
|
|
Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 storm, is going through an astonishingly rapid intensification process, and could hit anywhere from the Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic by Thursday or Friday.
|
|
Remarkably, this bomb cyclone, so named because of its rapid rate of intensification, is following on the heels of another such storm that struck the same general region last month.
|
|
The storm had been a Category 133 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale until it underwent a period of rapid intensification on Wednesday, growing to a far more damaging Category 4.
|
|
Heat waves often have natural causes but the report said "there is growing confidence that the observed intensification is due to human activities", led by the burning of fossil fuels.
|
|
"In the U.S., as well as the U.K., there has been an intensification of big brewers acquiring craft players," Jonny Forsyth, global drinks analyst at Mintel, told CNBC via email.
|
|
"Rapid intensification is a possibility over the northwestern Caribbean or southern Gulf of Mexico while the system is traversing rather warm and deep waters," the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
|
|
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the intensification of raids on residential areas in eastern Aleppo, saying at least 14 people had been killed on Thursday, mostly civilians.
|
|
For example, researchers and forecasters are studying ways to overcome the challenges of predicting storms that experience rapid intensification, which is especially critical when quick changes occur close to land.
|
|
Investors are concerned that a trade war could negatively affect global economic growth, with the intensification in trade tensions between the U.S. and its trading partners keeping markets on edge.
|
|
For instance, forecast models did not predict the rapid intensification that made Harvey a Category 4 storm in such a short period before it hit the Texas coast last month.
|
|
This will lead to further displacement of peoples and intensification of calls for 'technological solutions' of surveillance and border controls, through biometrics and AI systems, thus generating yet more data.
|
|
President Obama, increasingly concerned, ordered multiple reviews, including the one in early 19503 in which he authorized an intensification of covert cyberstrikes and electronic strikes on the North's missile program.
|
|
"Jose does not show any signs of the rapid intensification that both Harvey and Irma underwent," Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the center, said in an email on Friday evening.
|
|
Although pundits characterized the Spock trial as a lost opportunity for the antiwar movement, it heralded an intensification of confrontation between citizens and the Johnson and, later, the Nixon administration.
|
|
" Proust's prose inspires in Woolf an "astonishing vibration and saturation and intensification," a pleasure that "becomes physical — like sun and wine and grapes and perfect serenity and intense vitality combined.
|
|
For instance, forecast models did not predict the rapid intensification last year that made Harvey a Category 4 storm in such a short period before it hit the Texas coast.
|
|
There are additive blood-thinning effects (fish oil or vitamin E taken with Coumadin), additive sedative effects (valerian used with antihistamines) and the prolongation or intensification of drug effects (St.
|
|
Weather models also failed to predict Dorian's rapid intensification or show that its top sustained winds would reach 185 mph, making it among the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record.
|
|
It was listed as a tropical storm on Wednesday morning, and in a process known as "rapid intensification," it quickly grew into a highly organized Category 3 hurricane by Thursday afternoon.
|
|
What has changed, however, is that powerful storms are gaining strength more quickly within the 24-hour rapid-intensification periods than they did 30 years ago—and to a significant degree.
|
|
With the intensification of the financial crisis in September 2008, the global economy headed deeper into recession through the second half of the year and in the first half of 2009.
|
|
"So it should be no surprise that, as the factory line moves into retail work, that one of the primary demands would be the de-intensification of that work," Cox said.
|
|
Likewise, a 2225 emendation and intensification of the act was also ratified, in part, as a response to the death of another child, Victoria Climbié, at the hands of her guardians.
|
|
A warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, and an intensification of rainstorms was one of the fundamental predictions made by climate scientists decades ago as a consequence of human emissions.
|
|
During the most recent quiet period, from the 1960s through the early '90s, Kossin's data shows that hurricanes were several times more likely to undergo rapid intensification near the Eastern seaboard.
|
|
Some of these groups argue in favor of grid intensification, more local energy and distributed resources, rather than an expanded grid as a way to add flexibility and accommodate more VRE.
|
|
After a bout of rapid intensification yesterday, the storm is now a major hurricane, and it's closing in on Bermuda, which could see a direct hit in just a few hours.
|
|
While hurricane hunter aircraft found maximum sustained winds were still at 20163 miles per hour, the storm's minimum central air pressure had dropped from earlier in the day, which indicates intensification.
|
|
"For storms that are changing really quickly, you could miss something like rapid intensification," said Christopher Ruf, principal investigator for CYGNSS and a climate science professor at the University of Michigan.
|
|
Almost all the main oilfields operated by the group have been targeted by U.S. military airstrikes, reflecting the intensification of the U.S.-led coalition against the group in Syria and Iraq.
|
|
In a guest commentary in the German daily Die Welt on Tuesday, he called for an intensification of ties, saying the two countries should assume responsibility for peace, stability and prosperity.
|
|
This is because it is traveling across extremely mild ocean waters — some of the warmest of anywhere in the North Atlantic basin — and because atmospheric conditions are also ideal for intensification.
|
|
Seemingly every thunderstorm complex in the basin turned into a hurricane over the past two months, with many undergoing "rapid intensification" and reaching the top levels of the Saffir-Simpson scale.
|
|
As we saw last year with Hurricane Michael, explosive intensification can occur over the span of a few hours very near the coast, and this leaves very little time for preparation.
|
|
One would think that the last thing that Brazil's already fragile economy now needs is a further intensification of U.S. import protection or a more rapid increase in U.S. interest rates.
|
|
The intensification of sanctions comes as President Trump prepares to attend the Summit of the Americas next month in Lima, Peru, where the crisis in Venezuela will be a central issue.
|
|
The recent intensification of the United States' rivalry with Iran in Iraq under President Trump has served to only further weaken the central government in Baghdad and embolden the Islamic State.
|
|
Van den Berg's previous work, her short stories in particular, are prized for their thoughtfulness and descriptive intensity, and this book seems to me a refinement and intensification of those skills.
|
|
"An intensification of trade tensions, and the associated rise in policy uncertainty, could dent business and financial market sentiment, trigger financial market volatility, and slow investment and trade," the IMF said.
|
|
California and the Southwest are expected to be dry, likely leading to the return of drought to California and intensification of drought in the Four Corners of the Southwest, NOAA said.
|
|
The predominantly Buddhist country's treatment of the Rohingya has long been a point of contention and attacks on the Muslim minority have been reported for months prior to the recent intensification.
|
|
Heeding sanctions would avert a further intensification of disputes with the United States but reduce China's oil buying options, reduce its supply security, and risk further upward pressure on oil prices.
|
|
"We used to observe storms less frequently and with satellites that had lower resolution, and consequently, we likely couldn't measure rapid intensification as well as we can now," Klotzbach told CNN.
|
|
"Any unilateral threat or blackmail will only lead to intensification of conflicts and damage to the interests of all parties," the Chinese State Council, a government body, said in a statement.
|
|
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Foreign Minister said on Thursday that he believed a Brexit deal will be reached but that it will require an intensification of negotiations that has not happened to date.
|
|
Between the lines: Hurricane Willa is yet another tropical cyclone this year to undergo an extended period of rapid intensification, as the destructive Hurricanes Florence and Michael did in the Atlantic basin.
|
|
Using assessments from 350 experts on fireflies from around the world, the researchers determined the top threat was habitat loss and fragmentation caused by factors such as urbanization, industrialization and agricultural intensification.
|
|
They attributed the changes to general sea level rises driven by climate change, as well as an intensification in trade winds, driven by both a warming of the atmosphere and natural cycles.
|
|
Using assessments from 350 experts on fireflies from around the world, the researchers determined the top threat was habitat loss and fragmentation caused by factors such as urbanization, industrialization and agricultural intensification.
|
|
It has warned in May that an intensification of the dispute between the U.S. and China would likely knock as much as 0.7% off the level of global GDP by 2021-22.
|
|
After a bout of rapid intensification last night,…Read more ReadMatthew hit Category 5 in the early hours of Saturday morning, becoming the first to do so since Hurricane Felix in 2007.
|
|
There's now almost nothing holding back the storm from further intensification as it approaches land, bringing not just destructive winds but perilous surges of ocean water into the Florida and Alabama coasts.
|
|
Once the storm moves into the warm waters of the Gulf, it has the potential for "rapid intensification" meaning conditions are just right and would allow the cyclone to gain strength quickly.
|
|
"But if it manages to stay together while over Central America, it will be able to take advantage of those warm waters and quickly strengthen, maybe even undergo 'rapid intensification,'" he said.
|
|
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it was concerned about the prospect of an intensification of conflict in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with rival regional power Iran.
|
|
In short, the real reason to worry about an intensification of U.S. trade protection and the possible consequent drift to a global trade war is not that it will raise domestic inflation.
|
|
For France to double down on the state of emergency will not prevent these horrors any more than its recent intensification of airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria will.
|
|
In 2015, Hurricane Patricia, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, went through one of the fastest and most drastic rapid intensification cycles, with winds increasing about 120 mph in 24 hours.
|
|
The NHC said last year it failed to adequately predict the rapid intensification of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 to a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph).
|
|
Also part of the explanation for the intensification was warmer-than-average waters in the Gulf of Mexico, which in some places was up by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or two degrees Celsius.
|
|
But he changed his mind over the two-week October recess in reaction to what he viewed as an intensification of partisan tactics by House Democrats and their impeachment inquiry into Trump.
|
|
They speak to the intensification of racial tension in a political climate that has emboldened whites frustrated with a perceived loss of power and fueled fear and anxiety in communities of color.
|
|
However McCarrick's ouster from the College of Cardinals, as well as the Pope's decree that he remain in confined seclusion pending trial, represent a serious intensification of the actions taken against him.
|
|
Including Harvey and Irma, Hurricane Maria is the third storm seen in quick succession this season to undergo a period of rapid intensification over warm ocean waters and favorable conditions in the atmosphere.
|
|
For the study, researchers with the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) looked into a hurricane-building process known as rapid intensification.
|
|
"A recent outburst in fighting in the Donbass, observed since January 28, follows a cyclical pattern of intensification and de-escalation, characteristic to this conflict," Tursa said in a note out last Friday.
|
|
As Kossin explains, two of the most important factors governing the formation and intensification of hurricanes are sea surface temperatures and vertical wind shear, a change in wind speed or direction with altitude.
|
|
Computer models had projected the rapid intensification of the storm, the track that it took, and the likelihood of massive waves for hundreds of miles surrounding the storm center — about five days beforehand.
|
|
A freakishly rapid intensification In just one day, Hurricane Matthew went from a Category 33 hurricane (whipping winds of 74 to 95 mph) to a Category 5 (winds of at least 157 mph).
|
|
UBS Wealth Management cut its exposure to emerging market stocks late Thursday, changing its portfolio as the intensification of trade tensions took its toll on markets, the asset manager said in a note.
|
|
PARIS, April 30 (Reuters) - Orange shares fell sharply on Tuesday, after an executive's comments about the intensification of the price war in France's telecoms market unnerved investors and hit shares in the sector.
|
|
In addition, Riyadh and Tehran already have proxies fighting in Yemen, and intensification of conflict in this strategically located country on oil's main shipping lane poses a potential risk to global oil transit.
|
|
"A study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that the magnitude of these rapid intensification events increased from 1986 to 2015 in the central and eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean," the Post noted.
|
|
The book's emphasis on the fierce jousting between Congress and the Obama White House over the pace and scope of sanctions deftly foreshadows the intensification of partisan politics during the final nuclear negotiations.
|
|
The quieter season is due to oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have become "much more inhospitable to hurricane formation and intensification," said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
|
|
The United Nations Libya mission, UNSMIL, said in a statement sent to Reuters that it was "following with great concern the intensification of air strikes in civilian areas in the past few days".
|
|
The current intensification of tensions is not the result of North Korea's decades-long nuclear ambitions, but rather of the rapidly increased pace and success of North Korea's nuclear and missile testing regimen.
|
|
He said the government was undergoing a "crop intensification program," aiming to increase the amount of rice yield from under two tons per acre to almost three, through farmer training and new tools.
|
|
The attack represents a further intensification of an insidious trend that has been proliferating steadily since Donald Trump's campaign and inauguration: the resurgence of toxic, and, at times, violent anti-Semitism in America.
|
|
"There's still room for countries, I think, to engage in a more multilateral set of discussions to take advantage of the set of dispute resolution mechanisms in place to avoid any intensification," Obstfeld added.
|
|
"... The possible intensification of jihadist propaganda following this death, which could possibly call for acts of vengeance, requires the most extreme vigilance, notable during public events in your departments in coming days," Castaner said.
|
|
An unusually warm winter followed by what is expected to be a warmer-than-average spring "would mean intensification of the existing drought conditions across parts of eastern Australia", the bureau's outlook report said.
|
|
The actions were seen as a dramatic intensification of already fraught relations between the U.S. and Iran, and now Britain, which seized an Iranian tanker suspected of carrying oil to Syria several weeks ago.
|
|
Though studies have yet to be conducted around the world, Alter says that areas that have experienced substantial agricultural intensification have likely experienced similar benefits: more rainfall and cooler average temperatures during the summers.
|
|
The apparent intensification of efforts to police how foreign businesses refer to Chinese-claimed territories - even if only in pull-down web menus - underscores how sensitive the issue of sovereignty has become in China.
|
|
Michael Brennan, branch chief of the hurricane specialist unit at the National Hurricane Center, said the 2017 hurricane season saw a great deal of rapid intensification when storms quickly picked up, or lost, power.
|
|
On Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported that Michael's intensification "defies traditional logic," because it continued to grow stronger despite the presence of a westerly wind shear, which usually helps to downgrade a hurricane.
|
|
Roberts said that coalition bombing in Raqqa had appeared to be well targeted so far, but that the city's hospitals would not be equipped to handle the sort of injuries resulting from an intensification.
|
|
Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by phone on Monday about Syria, with the Kremlin saying the two leaders "called for an intensification of the process for a political settlement" to the conflict.
|
|
And even countries with plenty of land have little to spare near their growing cities; given the difficulties of moving fresh produce over long distances that makes intensification near the big markets particularly attractive.
|
|
"There's still room for countries, I think, to engage in a more multilateral set of discussions to take advantage of the set of dispute resolution mechanisms in place to avoid any intensification," he said.
|
|
The next steps in this proxy war will be an Iranian intensification in Eastern Province and Yemen, whilst the Saudis and Turks will ramp up the anti-Assad, anti-Iran forces in western Syria.
|
|
"The revitalized peace process has led to a fragile peace at the national level in South Sudan, the conflict having shifted to an intensification of ethnic violence at a localized level," the report said.
|
|
U.S. Treasury yields fell as expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in October rose following a big drop in the U.S. producer price index and an intensification of trade tensions with China.
|
|
With Germany heading into recession, and the International Monetary Fund warning against the risk of an intensification of trade tensions between the U.S. and China, the appetite for a no deal is very low.
|
|
Still, the pace of intensification that Hurricane Michael went through is startling, with the winds jumping from 110 mph to 155 mph in 24 hours, and the air pressure dropping 46 millibars during that period.
|
|
But the trio of actions — coming after last month's enactment of tariffs on half of Chinese exports to the U.S., amounting to $250 billion — amounts to a significant intensification of the U.S. offensive against Beijing.
|
|
Karoblis said Lithuania has seen an intensification of cyber attacks aimed at shutting down websites and that these attacks seem aimed more at military, government, and energy sites than at the websites of financial institutions.
|
|
When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August 2017, for instance, forecasters used timely and high-resolution data from GOES-16 to really understand the dynamics of the hurricane eye wall and the storm's rapid intensification.
|
|
Several countries vowed to push ahead on efforts to fight climate change this week even as they expressed dismay at U.S. President Donald Trump's intensification of his effort to reverse President Obama's climate change measures.
|
|
"An intensification of trade tensions or a disorderly Brexit outcome - with further repercussions for global growth and risk aversion - could .... affect other economies that are highly dependent on foreign demand and external financing," it said.
|
|
PARIS (Reuters) - France plans to launch mini surveillance satellites to enhance the protection and defense of French satellites from 2023, its defense minister said on Thursday, signaling an intensification in the race to militarize space.
|
|
The big picture: The inflection point was 2017, coinciding with President Trump's assumption of power and the intensification of U.S.-Chinese brinkmanship, according to data from the National Travel and Tourism Office, an industry association.
|
|
American intelligence agencies are looking for ways to step up sabotage of the program, beyond the intensification of cyber attacks launched against some of its missile sites, secretly ordered by President Barack Obama in 2014.
|
|
Mervan Qamishlo, a spokesman for Syria&aposs US-backed Kurdish-led force, said the intensification of ISIS attacks began even earlier, since October, when Turkey began a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
|
|
Since January 85033, despite the fact that there has been an intensification in geopolitical tension that normally would have supported the dollar, the dollar has managed to lose more than 10 percent of its value.
|
|
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mauritanian anti-slavery activists jailed last month have been tortured in detention and transferred to a remote desert location in an "intensification of repression" by the state, a leading campaigner said.
|
|
"Bombing is simply the rapid decrease or drop in surface barometric pressure of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours and [signifies] intensification or strengthening of the storm system," said meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather.
|
|
The US followed through on its promise of intensification Friday, announcing a new raft of sanctions against 27 entities and 28 vessels either registered or flagged in several countries, including North Korea, China and Singapore.
|
|
The conclusion of an accompanying article argues that the guideline "has the potential to increase hypertension awareness, encourage lifestyle modification and focus antihypertensive medication initiation and intensification on U.S. adults with high" cardiovascular disease risk.
|
|
Some analysts believed that although Tesla's current lithium has an edge over other batteries in the industry, the intensification of the battery business would see Tesla facing pressure from other manufactures in China and Germany.
|
|
Putin ordered an intensification of Russia's diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria, which has dragged on for five years, killed thousands of people and displaced millions, many of them seeking refuge in Europe.
|
|
It exploded off the coast of South Carolina on Sunday, undergoing a period of rapid intensification that meteorologists refer to as "bombogenesis," causing a large area of 50-foot or greater seas in its near vicinity.
|
|
The Geneva talks broke up last month after the opposition delegation quit, accusing the government of ignoring the ceasefire, and recent weeks saw an intensification of fighting, particularly near Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war.
|
|
"We have simply heard concepts from the UK, so what's required is an intensification of the negotiations in Brussels," Coveney was quoted by the Irish Times newspaper as telling reporters at a Brexit event in Cork.
|
|
Willa is the third devastating hurricane in the last month to experience "rapid intensification," a phenomenon in which a hurricane's sustained wind speeds increase by at least 22001 miles-per-hour over a 22015-hour period.
|
|
Rapid intensification is dangerous because it gives businesses, industry and people on the ground less time to take appropriate precautions ahead of hurricanes like Michael that hit shore with far more furious winds than originally expected.
|
|
"We are doing everything possible to avoid the 2017 scenario," UNICEF and WHO officials said in a statement last week, but warned that an "intensification of fighting," and "access restrictions" presented challenges to the emergency response.
|
|
While prediction of a storm's path has grown increasingly accurate, the ability to predict rapid intensification has lagged somewhat, said Haiyan Jiang, an associate professor in the department of earth and environment at Florida International University.
|
|
Rapid intensification is dangerous because it gives businesses, industry and people on the ground less time to take appropriate precautions ahead of hurricanes like Michael that hit shore with far more furious winds than originally expected.
|
|
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, by contrast, voted against that rate cut, but said on Monday she was also keeping an eye on the market's reaction to the latest intensification of the U.S.-China trade war.
|
|
That the voice prostheses don't last as long as they once did is "unfortunate, but not surprising when one considers the significant effects from the intensification of our cancer treatment regimens on our patients' bodies," Lewin said.
|
|
What I do see is a narrowing of the prospects for further diplomatic engagement between the United States and Iran and the intensification or the escalation of the possibility of a direct conflict between the two governments.
|
|
"Our findings unravel the ultimate causes of the recent intensification - wet season getting wetter, and dry season getting drier - of the water cycle of the largest hydrological basin of the planet," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
|
|
Hurricane Harvey is rapidly intensifying over the bathtub-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, rocketing from a tropical depression to an 85-mile-per-hour hurricane in less than 24 hours, with more intensification to come.
|
|
Yes, but: The storm's forward motion of 17 miles per hour, along with some wind shear — winds blowing with different speeds or direction with height — could act to keep a lid on the storm's rate of intensification.
|
|
What we're watching: The storm has shown signs of intensification on Tuesday, including a burst of thunderstorms near the center of the storm, and increasing wind speeds as observed via satellite, radar installations and hurricane hunter aircraft.
|
|
The mixed signals come amid an intensification in the trade war that has seen the U.S. increase tariffs to 25% against $200 billion in Chinese goods while threatening to put levies on another $300 billion of imports.
|
|
According to a 2016 study from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, mephedrone users report "euphoria, stimulation, alertness, empathy, sociability, talkativeness, intensification of sensory experiences and light sexual arousal", which makes it sound pretty much indistinguishable from MDMA.
|
|
The clearest signal of an intensification of this intervention came days before nationwide local elections in March 2019 that would deal a blow to Erdogan's party, more than a dozen investors, bankers and Turkish officials told Reuters.
|
|
The clearest signal of an intensification of this intervention came days before nationwide local elections in March 2019 that would deal a blow to Erdogan's party, more than a dozen investors, bankers and Turkish officials told Reuters.
|
|
The report also noted that: Some of the highlighted issues in the U.S. State Department's report on China include: A significant intensification of the campaign of mass detention of members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang.
|
|
Rapid warming up north, in turn, is contributing to profound shifts on land, including a greening of the Arctic tundra, the collapse of permafrost banks along Alaska's northern shores and elsewhere, and an intensification of fire season.
|
|
Despite the intensification of the trade and currency fights between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump remains open to a deal that would lead to flexibility on tariffs, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Tuesday.
|
|
It's not an inherently negative thing—the eye of others is always with us, psychologically, even when we're offline—but there is perhaps an intensification of that feeling that comes with the further technologization of that phenomenon.
|
|
While the revolution in France was doomed to set off an era of anti-democratic reaction throughout Europe, the ethic of reciprocity was also undermined in the nineteenth century by an intensification of individual and particular interests.
|
|
The committee gathered in Rome this week is looking at high-yielding crop and cattle breeds and the intensification of farming as one way to help reduce poverty in rural areas and to feed a growing population.
|
|
Digna Isabel Durán, deputy director of the chief prosecutor's victims unit, said the intensification of efforts to exhume Colombia's unmarked graves is a step towards reconciliation in a country that has known only war for two generations.
|
|
"It is difficult to read the environment in coming hours because you have a mixture of intensification of fighting and politicization of humanitarian aid ... It is high time to de-link humanitarian work from politics," Mardini said.
|
|
The hacking, they said, reflected an intensification of spy-versus-spy operations that never entirely abated after the Cold War but that have become more aggressive in recent years as relations with Mr. Putin's Russia have soured.
|
|
The process, known as "rapid intensification," took Michael from a tropical storm with sustained winds of 24 mph at mid-day Sunday to a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph by mid-day Monday.
|
|
The results formed the bulk of WEF's new risks perception survey, which feeds into its global report, and showed a large increase in the number of responses signalling there would be an "intensification of risks" in 2018.
|
|
Looking at 2017's back-to-school shopping season, analysts appear to be "most worried about declining [mall] traffic ... and continued intensification of Amazon competition," Cowen and Co. analyst Oliver Chen wrote in a note to clients.
|
|
Harvey is trapped close enough to the Gulf that it's able to siphon an endless supply of energy and moisture from exceptionally warm waters, which are also likely to have contributed to the storm's rapid intensification last week.
|
|
But it might also lower its view on inflation in two or three years' time after sterling rose recently and bond yields in financial markets jumped, potentially reducing the chances of an intensification of its rate hike plans.
|
|
Sea level rise means that storm surges are also worse, and there's some emerging evidence that climate change makes the rapid intensification of storms more likely (Kenneth increased from Category 1 intensity to Category 4 in one day).
|
|
Hurricane Willa put on an astonishing display of rapid intensification over the weekend into Monday morning, going from a tropical depression to a Category 4 hurricane in just 48 hours and intensifying further into a Category 5 storm.
|
|
He says he is seeking an "intensification" of the negotiations, which so far have failed to resolve big differences on key issues, including the amount Britain must pay to settle its financial obligations to the 28-nation bloc.
|
|
"It&aposs a really surprising and puzzling observation showing that a moon with a magnetic field can create such a tremendous intensification in the power of waves," Yuri Shprits, the lead author of the study, told the Independent.
|
|
" "The overall intensity and frequency of extreme events are increasing over the region," the study said, adding that projected changes showed "further intensification of extreme precipitation over most parts of the subcontinent by the end of the century.
|
|
The National Hurricane Center said in a report last year that it failed to adequately predict the rapid intensification of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 to a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph).
|
|
Daily oil output dropped 33,000 barrels to 21,93 barrels in the same time period, which according to IHS reflects the intensification of efforts by the US-led coalition and Russia to target oil production facilities with air strikes.
|
|
Daily oil output dropped 33,000 barrels to 21,000 barrels in the same time period, which according to IHS reflects the intensification of efforts by the US-led coalition and Russia to target oil production facilities with air strikes.
|
|
"We will no longer take funds from the E.U. and its member states in protest at their shameful deterrence policies and their intensification of efforts to push people back from European shores," the charity said in a statement.
|
|
READ: U.S. escalates trade war with steep new tariffs on Chinese goods We should expect an intensification of non-tariff measures that penalize American firms and executives, says China-watcher and author of the Sinocism newsletter Bill Bishop.
|
|
And the intensification is in the direction of idiosyncrasy, which the gawky Ms. Dorrance both embodies and encourages in her dancers, especially in solos that help offset a machine-dance quality that hardens some of the ensemble sections.
|
|
Michael was not the only tropical cyclone in recent years to undergo what scientists refer to as "rapid intensification," defined as an acceleration of wind speeds of at least 35 mph (56 kph) in 24 hours or less.
|
|
Security officials said the scale of the fighting in northern Afghanistan reflected both the expected intensification of combat following the collapse of peace efforts as well as a last push before winter weather restricts fighting in the mountains.
|
|
While it would be ahistorical to relate Kirchner's works immediately to the catastrophes that would befall Germany in the decades to come, his art is an authentic response to the "intensification of nervous stimulation" prophetically diagnosed by Simmel.
|
|
"An intensification of the U.S.-China trade spat is a near-term negative for risky assets, raising the specter of an economically damaging trade war in which high tariffs are imposed on most or all U.S.-China trade."
|
|
New research published today in Geophysical Research Letters presents evidence showing that a subset of hurricanes, namely those that undergo rapid intensification, are now doing so at rate that's faster and with greater strength compared with 30 years ago.
|
|
"The combination of warm sea surface temperatures about 2 [degrees Fahrenheit] above average, plus the warm eddy, were responsible for Harvey's intensification," Jeff Masters, the director of meteorology at The Weather Underground, said in an email to The Verge.
|
|
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish militants killed five members of Turkish security forces in three separate bomb attacks on Tuesday near the Syrian and Iranian borders, the army and security sources said, in an intensification of conflict in southeast Turkey.
|
|
The intensification of political repression has been accompanied by one crisis after another, including an outcry in Italy over the torture and murder of an Italian graduate student, which the Italians believe was carried out by Egyptian security services.
|
|
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, condemned the airstrike on the hospital and said he was "deeply disturbed by the intensification of airstrikes and continuing ground fighting and shelling" in Yemen, according to his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.
|
|
NEW DELHI — Bangladesh, reeling from a sudden intensification of terrorism this summer, has begun an urgent search for men suspected of building an Islamic State presence in the country and recruiting young Bangladeshis to fight in Syria and Iraq.
|
|
"It is most likely that the very warm water in the Gulf ... is likely contributing to the intensity and the intensification that we have seen," said Jim Kossin, an atmospheric scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
|
|
Rhode Island is already seeing more heat and drought, shifting precipitation and the intensification of plagues such as the red pine scale, a nearly invisible insect carried by wind that can kill a tree in just a few years.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States began collecting higher, 25% tariffs on many Chinese goods arriving in U.S. seaports on Saturday morning in an intensification of the trade war between the world's two largest economies and drawing retaliation from Beijing.
|
|
What's more, beyond the intentional destruction of records, impeachment has demonstrated the intensification of a deep epistemic crisis in which Americans are not only divided by our political affiliations and policy preferences, but basic beliefs about what's really happening.
|
|
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields fell Tuesday morning as expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in October rose following big declines in producer price index data and an intensification of trade tensions with China.
|
|
"It is most likely that the very warm water in the Gulf ... is likely contributing to the intensity and the intensification that we have seen," said Jim Kossin, an atmospheric scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
|
|
While the maternity center was spared, an intensification of air strikes and shelling in northwest Syria has caused the biggest single displacement of Syrians of the 238-year conflict, in which hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed.
|
|
While the maternity center was spared, an intensification of air strikes and shelling in northwest Syria has caused the biggest single displacement of Syrians of the 238-year conflict, in which hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed.
|
|
Thune said Lighthizer did not specify a time frame for a vote, but Republicans are aiming for passage by Congress' August recess, avoiding potential budget clashes in the fall and an intensification of campaign activity for the 2020 presidential election.
|
|
"This artificial buffoonery over the routine Zapad-2017 exercises is aimed at justifying the sharp intensification of the NATO bloc (activities) along the perimeter of Russian territory," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told the Interfax news agency on Friday.
|
|
"One could have wished to see more progress than we have… but what I state is that we have seen in recent days an intensification of efforts by the Greek authorities," EU commissioner for economic and tax affairs Pierre Moscovici said.
|
|
And taking storm frequency, duration, and intensity into account, this is the region's most active hurricane season on record, he says The Verge spoke with Klotzbach about hurricanes in the Pacific, Willa's speedy intensification, and why this year is so odd.
|
|
Whether this leads to a solution to the six-week stand-off over Catalan independence, or to an intensification of Spain's constitutional crisis, depends on how much resistance the government will now face in one of the country's most important regions.
|
|
Despite an intensification in anti-terrorism initiatives by the Nigerian military, the failure by neighboring countries to respond in kind has afforded Boko Haram space in which to regroup, recruit and re-energize its armed uprising against the Nigerian state.
|
|
A second reason for expecting that we could be in for an intensification of global market turbulence in the months ahead is that two systemically important and troubled countries face upcoming major challenges of their own before the year is out.
|
|
"We are extremely concerned at the intensification of fighting in northern Syria and its impact on civilians, as well as humanitarian delivery to the area, and continue to monitor the situation closely," said Ariane Rummery of the U.N. refugee agency.
|
|
"I think it's almost certain that as we get closer to the 2628 election, you'll see an intensification of this kind of activity," Paul Barrett, deputy director of New York University's Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Hill.
|
|
"I think it's almost certain that as we get closer to the 2020 election, you'll see an intensification of this kind of activity," Paul Barrett, deputy director of New York University's Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Hill.
|
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailer stocks have moved from buoyant to bruised this year and the intensification of the U.S.-China trade war makes them especially vulnerable because consumer products would be targeted in the next round of threatened tariff increases.
|
|
The combination of a newly elected House Democratic majority and the rapid intensification of investigations into wrongdoing and corruption means that Mulvaney will spend much of his time trying to keep this ship from sinking -- and himself out of trouble.
|
|
Maria was the fourth storm in a month's time to undergo a process known as rapid intensification, which can turn a minimal tropical storm into a destructive major hurricane in less than a day, and Maria did it in record fashion.
|
|
The expanded surveillance operations and added manpower are the latest intensification in a conflict between the Trump administration and cities that refuse to help with deportations, including Boston, New York, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and Newark.
|
|
"A confluence of adverse developments weighed down consumer sentiment during 2019, including the intensification of the electricity crisis to the point of level 6 load shedding by December 2019," said Mamello Matikinca-Ngwenya, chief economist at FNB, in a statement.
|
|
Geriatricians often encourage older and frailer patients with diabetes to ease up on efforts to achieve very low blood sugar levels (an approach called "de-intensification"), pointing out that the balance between benefits and risks shifts with age and illness.
|
|
An intensification in American bombing raids — the United States flew more raids in 2018 than during any previous years of the war and is on track to do the same in 2019 — and offensives by Afghan forces have occurred in parallel.
|
|
"The intensification of talks to around-the-clock bargaining and at the main table should mean that they're in striking distance of reaching an agreement," said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research.
|
|
"We are extremely concerned at the intensification of fighting in northern Syria and its impact on civilians, as well as humanitarian delivery to the area, and continue to monitor the situation closely," said Ariane Rummery of the UN refugee agency.
|
|
The apparent intensification of efforts to police how foreign businesses refer to Chinese-claimed territories - even if only in pull-down menus - underscores just how sensitive the issue of sovereignty has become in a China that is increasingly emboldened on the international stage.
|
|
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. retailer stocks have moved from buoyant to bruised this year and the intensification of the U.S.-China trade war makes them especially vulnerable because consumer products would be targeted in the next round of threatened tariff increases.
|
|
However, other factors are forecast to limit the storm's intensification, and in fact the National Hurricane Center is calling for slow but steady weakening — to a Category 3 or 4 storm — by the time it nears or makes landfall in Florida this weekend.
|
|
MANILA (Reuters) - Police killed at least 5003 people overnight in a crackdown in the Philippines capital Manila, authorities said on Thursday, a second night of heavy bloodshed this week in an intensification of President Rodrigo Duterte's fierce war on drugs and crime.
|
|
But given this, Lazzarato does not succeed in defining what makes our present neoliberalism structurally distinct from previous economic forms — what it is that has allowed not only for the intensification of the debt regime but also for its new conceptual salience.
|
|
"There is a risk that the intensification of international cross currents could weigh more heavily on U.S. demand directly, or that the anticipation of a sharper divergence in U.S. policy could impose restraint through additional tightening of financial conditions," she said on Oct.
|
|
A further intensification in air strikes poses a grave risk of increasing civilian casualties - and fueling support for the Taliban - which were 39 percent higher for the first half of 2019 from the same period in 2018, a July U.N. report said.
|
|
This phrase describes a way of practicing art that is not only embedded within the work of grassroots organizing but that actively contributes to the acceleration and intensification of that organizing work as it approaches a direct challenge to state power and capital.
|
|
Up to 20 million farmers now use rice intensification in 61 countries, including in nearby Sierra Leone, Senegal and Ivory Coast, said Norman Uphoff, a senior advisor at the SRI International Network and Resources Center at Cornell University in the United States.
|
|
"The intensification of the conflict between the U.S. and China, the increased risk of a military conflict in the Middle East and the higher probability of a no-deal Brexit are all casting a shade on the global economic outlook," he added.
|
|
The arrests come as the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cern receives criticism for the intensification of its already tough crackdown on the gangs, both because of allegations of rampant human rights abuse, and because the murder rate keeps breaking records anyway.
|
|
By feasting off of intense atmospheric disturbances as well as sharp differences in air masses and ocean temperatures, including the moisture rich, near record-warm Gulf Stream waters, the upcoming tempest is projected to exceed that intensification rate by several more millibars in 22018 hours.
|
|
There are many uncertainties with this storm, primarily concerning its structure and intensification, but computer models are coming into agreement that residents from coastal Louisiana to the Gulf Coast of Florida should be paying close attention to weather forecasts during the next few days.
|
|
He called for Greece to be supported in its efforts to deal with the migrants, for an intensification of efforts to honor existing European agreements, and for the deployment as soon as possible of a NATO mission to reduce migrant flows by stopping human traffickers.
|
|
Harvey officially reached hurricane status in the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon after a period of rapid intensification, setting the stage for the first landfall of a major hurricane in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005, per The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.
|
|
Peace talks on Syria were hanging by a thread after the opposition said it was demanding a pause (not quite, as yet, a walk-out) after an intensification of attacks by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in apparent violation of a month-old ceasefire.
|
|
The WWA study looked only at the role climate change played in the amount of rainfall Harvey produced, ignoring other variables that made Harvey so exceptional, such as the rapid intensification before landfall and the unusual lack of movement it had in the following days.
|
|
Reuters reported on Wednesday that intense fighting was ongoing in multiple provinces, noting that security officials had explained that this was, at least to a certain degree, part of the "expected intensification" following the end of peace talks with the US.US Marine Corps Gen.
|
|
The alert promised emergency measures such as the creation of a special prosecutor's office for gender crimes, new protocols for the police, the intensification of efforts to find missing women, and the creation of shelters where women forced to flee their homes could live.
|
|
BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of Serbs protested outside President Aleksandar Vucic's official residence in the capital, Belgrade, on Sunday to push for greater press freedom and free and fair elections, an intensification of rallies that have been held every weekend for more than three months.
|
|
James Kossin, a climate scientist with NOAA and an author of the Nature paper, noted that hurricanes like Michael, which slammed into the Florida panhandle last year, show the kind of rapid intensification described in the paper, as did Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017.
|
|
More than anything, though, these appeals encapsulate what's wrong with the liberal response to Trump in general: treating Trump as something entirely new and aberrational in a largely noble national history, when he is just an intensification — a caricature — of what has come before.
|
|
These include more deaths of vulnerable infants and the elderly during heat waves, higher levels of air pollutants; altered patterns of infectious disease; changes in growing seasons affecting farmers; military threat intensification as refugees are set in motion worldwide — who will pay for these?
|
|
Mexico has been identified by the UN as a country that's especially vulnerable to irreversible changes as a result of climate change, including an increase in the sea surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico, sea level rise affecting coastal areas, and intensification of hurricanes.
|
|
In more recent years, we saw a number of courageous journalists expose the underside of the war on terrorism, ranging from the use of torture under President George W. Bush to the intensification of targeted killings, including the assassination of a US citizen, under President Obama.
|
|
The rapid intensification of Hurricane Michael over the last two day, from a tropical depression to a category 4 hurricane, caught many Florida officials off guard — unlike Florence, which made its way slowly towards the Carolinas, giving officials plenty of time to prepare and residents to evacuate.
|
|
Since 2009, Rafa has been documenting the intensification of far-right extremism in Europe, beginning with the segregation of the ethnic minority Romani population in his native Slovakia, when locals constructed a huge, concrete wall in the neighborhood of Michalovce to cordon off the unwelcome neighbors.
|
|
"While on the one hand the reduction in deaths is positive, the continued intensification of terrorism in some countries and its spread to new ones is a cause for serious concern and underscores the fluid nature of modern terrorist activity," said Steve Killelea, the IEP's executive chairman.
|
|
Now, the Pentagon has given him a secret plan, but it turns out to be a little more than an "intensification" of the same slow and steady approach that Trump derided under the Obama administration, two senior officials who have reviewed the document told NBC News.
|
|
Washington (CNN)The dramatic intensification of the Russia investigation on Monday reignited President Donald Trump's fury at the controversy clouding his presidency, prompting his aides to urgently advise him against lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller as they work to revive a halting policy agenda.
|
|
Survival of the Soviet Union might have perpetuated the perception of a bipolar world, but it would not have precluded the emergence of al Qaeda, the Islamic State or WMD proliferation, or for that matter intensification of genocidal regional conflicts, international organized crime and other scourges.
|
|
His decision to call out his chief rivals by name underscores the pressure Mr. Buttigieg faces for a strong finish and signals an intensification of a race that has been relatively polite for nearly a year, as it enters its final days before caucusing on Monday.
|
|
"While the immediate trigger has been the intensification of tensions with the US, including threats of sanctions and tariffs, the weakening of the currency fundamentally reflects the delay in adequate policy response to the deterioration in the fiscal and external accounts and in bank asset quality."
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is "very concerned" about the intensification of the conflict in Libya, with a rising number of reported Russian mercenaries supporting Khalifa Haftar's forces on the ground turning the conflict into a bloodier one, a senior State Department official said on Saturday.
|
|
"The additional thing we have seen this year is an intensification of the drag on business investment from uncertainty about Brexit, investment has been relatively weak since the referendum, certainly compared to comparable economies …But that effect, I think, has intensified through the course of 2018," he said.
|
|
Tensions have risen in recent weeks as North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump have traded war-like threats and insults over the North's nuclear and missile development programs, leading to an intensification of diplomatic efforts and a renewed push on sanctions against it.
|
|
Super typhoon After a period of rapid intensification Monday and Tuesday, which saw Meranti grow from a Category 24 equivalent storm to that of a top-scale Category 5 in only 24 hours, the super typhoon has maintained winds of 190 mph (305 kph) for nearly 24 hours.
|
|
Michael, whose rapid intensification as it churned north over the Gulf of Mexico caught many by surprise, made landfall on Wednesday afternoon near Mexico Beach, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Panama City in Florida's Panhandle region, with top sustained winds reaching 155 miles per hour (249 kph).
|
|
In his classic essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life," (1903) Georg Simmel offered a famously suggestive characterization of city life: The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
|
|
The decision follows the intensification of regulator scrutiny of many electronic trading products in recent months, with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirming last December that it was considering extending its oversight to include, among other products, binary options which are currently only regulated by the Gambling Commission.
|
|
The rise to prominence of Sheikh Nimr, who was scarcely known outside of Saudi Arabia before his arrest in 2012, corresponds closely with the intensification of the strategic and sectarian rivalry between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia that has put them on opposing sides of conflicts across the region.
|
|
"Despite the difficulties the Cuban economy is faced with, particularly due to the intensification of the blockade imposed on Cuba... we will continue to focus on the development goals set," Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in his opening remarks at the meeting, attended also by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
|
|
"We have ... recognised the intensification of uncertainty, the bigger impact uncertainty is having on those spending decisions and we have projected it out, projected it to last a little longer than we had previously expected," Carney said at a news conference after the BoE slashed its growth forecasts for Britain's economy.
|
|
TRACK TROPICAL STORM NATE Rapid intensification possible Some forecast models had predicted Nate would become a much stronger hurricane and make landfall on the Florida Panhandle, but those models now have fallen more in line with predictions of a landfall along the central Gulf Coast, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
|
|
"While some see it as a possible knee-jerk reaction to the rapprochement with Israel and Russia, given the preparation involved I think it is part of a general response to Turkey's intensification of security measures along the Turkey-Syria border," said Ege Seckin, political analyst at IHS Country Risk in London.
|
|
The details: Michael will continue to move through a region of the Gulf of Mexico that is conducive to rapid intensification on Tuesday night into Wednesday, with warm ocean waters to fuel the storm and a lack of impediments in the atmosphere, such as strong wind shear, to limit the hurricane's organization.
|
|
"The child poverty rate is increasing, particularly in the areas that we serve in south Los Angeles, especially with the change in immigration policy on the federal level and intensification of attacks on immigrant families," said Jim Mangia, president and CEO of the St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles.
|
|
HONG KONG — The immediate causes of the recent diplomatic breakthrough on the Korean Peninsula are well known: stronger international sanctions against North Korea, approved by even China and Russia, and President Trump's bellicose response to the recent intensification of nuclear and missile tests under Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader since 2011.
|
|
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR DORIAN: Hurricane Dorian underwent rapid intensification several times during its life-cycle -- including when it became a hurricane as it passed by Puerto Rico and over the Virgin Islands, and again as it became one of the strongest hurricanes on record when it made landfall in the Bahamas.
|
|
The big picture: Studies have shown that storms may be undergoing rapid intensification — during which the maximum sustained winds in a storm increase by at least 35 miles per hour in 24 hours, more frequently in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean Basin, and that this may be due to human-caused global warming.
|
|
"We studied data from the past 30 years and found that the intensification of corn production has increased average summer rainfalls by about 35 percent and decreased [average summer] temperatures by as much as one degree Celsius," says former MIT researcher Ross E. Alter, now a research meteorologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
|
|
With both sides likely to feel strongly justified in their divergent views on China's currency depreciation, it also does not bode well for an early resolution of trade tensions between China and the U.S. Needless to add, any intensification in U.S.-Chinese currency and trade frictions could cast a dark cloud over the global economy.
|
|
Related: In push for Mosul, US coalition pummeling ISIS Terror spread 'cause for serious concern' "While the reduction in deaths is positive, the continued intensification of terrorism in some countries and its spread to new ones is a cause for serious concern and underscores the fluid nature of modern terrorist activity," IEF chief Steve Killelea said in a statement.
|
|
The likely cause is the fact that the rest of the ingredients needed for rapid intensification were there — plenty of unusually warm water, moist air, and an upper level wind pattern over the northeast Gulf of Mexico that was particularly conducive to evacuating the air the storm vaulted upwards, like venting the exhaust from a giant engine.
|
|
Why it matters: The official intensification of the warning — caused partly by geographical expansion of cases including at least one in the large, international city of Goma, plus renewed violence against health care workers that killed 2 recently — is expected to spur WHO's 196 members to offer more resources and better organize an international response to this outbreak.
|
|
"These participants cautioned that an unduly slow pace in removing policy accommodation could result in an overshoot of the Committee's inflation objective in the medium term that would likely be costly to reverse or could lead to an intensification of financial stability risks or to other imbalances that might prove difficult to unwind," the minutes said.
|
|
"I think this is going to be a year of greater turbulence, greater intensification of practically every geopolitical tension, and that is going to play into the Democratic primaries but also the 2020 election in a big way," Inderjeet Parmar, visiting professor at the London School of Economics and head of City University's department of International Politics, said Thursday.
|
|
And you wouldn't have to lean too hard into this interpretation to start seeing the song — which was conceived as a corporate-branding exercise, germinated in a mulch of data and audience testing, optimized for maximal engagement and delivered via algorithmic targeting — as a troubling intensification of existing trends in the production of culture under capitalism.
|
|
"We note in particular that the intensification of airstrikes, which have paved the ground for an S.D.F. advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,20173 civilians fleeing their homes," Mr. Pinheiro said in a report, presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
|
|
It needs to rebuild those to prepare for an intensification of the "three warfares" should a conflict arise, push back now against the tenuous claims of China's inevitable "rise," and begin to target the regime with an information campaign that saps its morale and takes advantage of the Chinese population's deep mistrust of Chinese political leaders.
|
|
Now with the intensification of the American war in Vietnam, the plantation was in rapid decline, having suffered from physical destruction wrought by herbicidal chemical defoliation — Agent Orange — as well as the bulldozing of large stands of rubber groves that the American military claimed had served as convenient camouflage for Communist insurgents and the North Vietnamese Army.
|
|
Mr. King, a longtime Iowa lawmaker who narrowly won re-election in November, drew rebukes from Democrats as well and sparked talk of a House censure resolution this week after The New York Times published an article about Mr. King's influence on President Trump, the border wall debate and the intensification of white identity politics in the Republican Party.
|
|
I've been talking about these since my days as a scientist at NASA, because there are studies that show that when you have these hot towers, they're more likely to indicate that the storm will go through a rapid intensification phase because they're releasing so much heat that all that water vapor is condensing into cloud water in the storm.
|
|
READ: Video shows American sailor apologizing for Iran incident Such provocations include recent ballistic missile tests that the U.N. says infringed a Security Council resolution, the holding of several Americans inside Iran, close calls with the U.S Navy in the Persian Gulf, intensification of the proxy war against Saudi Arabia and a doubling down of support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
|
|
We would see an intensification of an ugly and retrograde politics that seeks to build walls to keep out people "not like us"; replace liberal concepts of individual rights and dignity with ethnic and religious identity politics; roll back globalization and freeze technological change, protecting existing jobs at the expense of new ones; and turn our backs on terror and oppression abroad.
|
|
"We note in particular that the intensification of air strikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 2000,22014 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, told the Human Rights Council Wednesday.
|
|
"We note in particular that the intensification of air strikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, told the Human Rights Council Wednesday.
|
|
Like other species, insects are responding to what Chris Thomas, an insect ecologist at the University of York, has called "the transformation of the world": not just a changing climate but also the widespread conversion, via urbanization, agricultural intensification and so on, of natural spaces into human ones, with fewer and fewer resources "left over" for nonhuman creatures to live on.
|
|