While subsidence is certainly a piper that must ultimately, one day, be paid, we have to think about these things on appropriate timelines. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Of all the threats facing southeast Louisiana in the age of global warming, subsidence is the most daunting, because it is a problem without a solution. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
They also inferred from the data that long-term subsidence rates are more on the order of a fraction of a millimeter per year rather than 10 millimeters. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Actually it says that "inferred from the data that long-term subsidence rates are more on the order of a fraction of a millimeter per year rather than 10 millimeters.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
He added the reason for the subsidence was a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference
The report blames the sinking, called subsidence, on a combination of overdevelopment, drainage, natural seismic shifts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference
The report blames the sinking called subsidence on a combination of overdevelopment, drainage and natural seismic shifts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference
Peat soils have contributed to subsidence, which is when the land sinks lower, further contributing to the risks of levee failure. From Wordnik.com. [Local News] Reference
The problem, called subsidence, has been around for more than a century, though recent figures pinpointing its national scale are lacking. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
The major cause of the subsidence is the water diversion into the Mississippi River channel at the Old River Control Structure north of Baton Rouge. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » New Orleans Two Years After Katrina:] Reference
Between the time he and I stood in Jax Square, the rate of subsidence, that is, sinking -- down, down, down -- for the coastal parishes of LA was ~10 mm/yr. From Wordnik.com. [R. Jude Wilber: It's the Sedimentology, Stupid] Reference
New road embankments and flood drainage structures also affect expected floodwater depths, as does land subsidence, which is particularly significant in coastal areas. From Wordnik.com. [Mapping Flood Risk] Reference
The word 'subsidence' tends to send home insurers running for cover. From Wordnik.com. [Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In geology and surveying, "subsidence" is the motion of a surface, usually, the earth's surface, as it shifts downward. From Wordnik.com. [Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio] Reference
And this reduction will sometimes go so far as to be a kind of subsidence out of the supernatural into the natural state. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference
Here in Southwest Florida, we will be far enough from this system that we get subsidence, meaning more stable air and lower rain chances. From Wordnik.com. [WBBH - News] Reference
Up to 10-km large areas that experienced 'subsidence' (gradual compaction and sinking owing to the weight of the layers) are still intact. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
Hagg Bank Road has been closed off since September last year, following subsidence, meaning Prudhoe residents have had to make a detour through Ovingham. From Wordnik.com. [HX News and Sport] Reference
Do. necessity of, to aid the subsidence of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
Lion's Den, formed by a natural sudden subsidence in 1847. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
This event is followed by quick subsidence of the symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
On subsidence, the contents of the pan will have divided into the following. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
A subsidence followed, and the scalawag-carpetbag-Negro governments began a fresh existence. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Thailand land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table; droughts. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Thailand: land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table; droughts. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Natural hazards: land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table; droughts. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
The poultice was merely continued, the caustic not being requisite from the subsidence of the inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
If the subsidence of the fever is accompanied by natural pulse, a free, but not profuse or prostrating perspiration. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
In many of the other patients it was palpable only with the subsidence of the primary swelling attendant on the injury. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The rate of subsidence of the latter is very slow at temperatures where it is hard enough to work reliably as a polisher. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
On subsidence of the congestion, as after miotics or iridectomy, the tissues may return to very nearly a normal condition. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
REEVES: The islands of the Sunderbans have been shrinking and shifting for centuries, partly because of silt and subsidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
Yet, there were but two alternatives, -- either to await the subsidence of the surf, or the arrival of some friendly vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Some time ago we were all mystified by what seemed a most authentic account of the sudden subsidence of the falls of Niagara. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
< 2 > During late Tertiary times, as a counterpart to the upward movement, a great subsidence commenced in the Pacific region. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Experts estimate that mineral extraction is directly responsible for a third of all the coastal wetland loss and land subsidence. From Wordnik.com. [Despite Spill, Louisiana Remains Wedded To Oil] Reference
There is another form of haziness that develops on sudden rise in tension and completely disappears on subsidence of the tension. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
Italy regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Italy: regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
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