(1) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(2) In the case of the Mississippi, however, the flood risks are compounded by bad city planning and a century of trying to squeeze rivers into tighter spaces through the levee system.
(3) "The ministerial code has been found to be breached," he said, as if it were like a hurricane battering a levee, a force of nature for which nobody is to blame.
(4) The flood-swollen waters still have 1,000 miles to go before they reach the Gulf of Mexico and forecasters warned there was considerable danger further down river in the days ahead, especially if there is more rain or if the levees fail.
(5) On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
(6) Residents in flooded towns have worked desperately to build sandbag levees in the hope of holding back the rising waters.
(7) "I think what we are seeing along the Mississippi is all of those things: climate change, bad planning, bad development and inappropriate levees."
(8) A levee up to 20ft high would guard part of Staten Island and dunes would be built to strengthen the city's Atlantic shoreline.
(9) Gonadotropin leves were studied in 111 postmenopausal women to determine if weight loss and cachexia could similarly affect gonadotropin function.
(10) An estimated 80% of New Orleans , much of which lies below sea level, was flooded in the storm and from levee breaches that followed.
(11) Red cell phosphoribosylpyrophosphate leve,ls were not changed by the therapy.
(12) The system of levees cut off the river from the delta, choking off the sediment needed to shore up the coast.
(13) After the evacuation of mole the serum level of these glycoproteins decreased, the leve of hCG-alpha declined more rapidly than hcg.
(14) The procedure by which the plans were developed consisted of: 1) conventional larval sampling by dipping along rice field levees that divided each field into pans; 2) counting the number of 2nd through 4th instar larvae observed in two dips taken at each sampling location; and 3) determination of the appropriate statistical parameters from which probability curves, number of samples required, and cumulative larval totals for specific sampling plans could be derived.
(15) Apparently and excess of iodide depressed the capacity of perchlorate to influence its concentration in the gland, and thereby the process of iodine organification and of the thyroid hormone secretion maintained at the optimal leve.
(16) This dose did not depress to a significant degree the white blood cell count, red blood cell count, hemoglobin leve., hematocrit value, or the peripheral differential blood counts after 14 daily applications.
(17) In Study 2, the leve of Process S (at 2400 h prior to an 8-h sleep episode) was varied by studying subjects when they had not napped or had taken 2-h naps beginning at either 1000 or 1900 h. As predicted by the model, SWS varied reliably depending on the level of S at bedrest, as did indices of sleep continuity at night.
(18) In June 2004, the corps' project manager, Al Naomi, went before a local agency, the East Jefferson Levee Authority, and requested $2m for "urgent work" that Washington was now unable to pay for.
(19) "We have a one-size-fits-all military model that is out of date – building levees – when we should be managing water."
(20) In patients treated with antihypertensive drugs the plasma renin leve often is the result of opposing influences.
Permissible
Definition:
(a.) That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(2) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(3) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(4) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(5) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
(6) A human Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-cell line (IC.1) was characterized for cell surface antigen profile and permissivity to immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
(7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(8) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
(9) In contrast to the defect in another packaging-deficient mutant ts1201, the block in the formation of dense-cored, DNA-containing capsids in ts1233-infected cells at the NPT could not be reversed by transferring the cells to the permissive temperature in the presence of a protein synthesis inhibitor.
(10) With thermosensitive mutants non-defective for G and M antigens, cell fusion is much more extensive at the non-permissive temperature (39-6 degrees C) than at the permissive one (31 degrees C).
(11) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(12) Crandell feline kidney cells in which the ADV-G strain of ADV was permissively replicating contained virion and non-structural proteins, large amounts of single stranded virion DNA, duplex replicative form (RF) DNA, and mRNA.
(13) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
(14) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
(15) These results support the idea that P. aeruginosa may be a more permissive host than E. coli for the heterologous expression of genes from gram-negative bacteria.
(16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
(17) United do not need permission from the Premier League or any other governing body to arrange the games, so the decision will be taken on a logistical basis.
(18) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(19) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
(20) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more “We have the permission for this plane but we have logistical problems for the landing.