On March 11, 2011 the country was subject to a devastating 9. 0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami as a result.

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

As a result, in 1999 and 2001, the DSP government of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit had to face two major economic crises that were caused mostly by the weak and loosely regulated banking sector ; the growing trade deficit ; and the devastating İzmit earthquake of 17 August 1999.

: This result is completely devastating to the inductive interpretation of the calculus of probability.

The result was a victory for the No campaign, with 55 percent of voters rejecting the treaty on a turnout of 69 percent, dealing a devastating blow to Chirac and the UMP party, as well as to part of the center-left which had supported the TCE.

The result was a devastating war that not only ended without conquests but also led to the loss of the South Jutlandic areas that he had already obtained.

They are a common and devastating result of certain explosive volcanic eruptions.

It was widely believed by the late 1930s that strategic " terror " bombing of cities in any war would quickly result in devastating losses and might decide a conflict in a matter of days or weeks.

The result was devastating, as the farms were now left without enough hands to harvest the fields, and famine struck the region.

Eventually, as the result of a devastating nuclear fusion accident at Oscorp orchestrated by the Green Goblin, Octavius ' harness becomes fused to his spinal cord.

Before any further plans could be made, however, Corey Gilchrist was hit by a train in October 2005 and had his foot amputated as a result, devastating all members of the band.

As a result of Psamtik's devastating campaign, Kush's power was crushed, and its kings from Aspelta onwards lost any opportunity of ever regaining control of Egypt.

The result was devastating ; most of the front-line trenches were overrun when the forward companies were almost wiped out.

The devastating 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a result of the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the North American Plate.

As a result, native horses have no acquired immunity to disease ; an outbreak on the island would be likely to be devastating to the breed.

In the summer of 1971, at age 16, he accepted an offer to join the Communist League ( SKJ ), which got extended to him and two other youth workers as a result of the exceptional effort shown at the youth work action in Banja Luka, organized in the wake of the devastating 1969 earthquake.

As an example of the potentially devastating power of Mako when harnessed as a weapon, the Sister Ray canon was moved to Midgar during the Meteor crisis, and was connected to the Mako reactors in an effort to enhance its power ; the result was a massive beam of raw Mako energy that destroyed Diamond WEAPON.

* The 2005 Indian psychological thriller film Anniyan, portrays Ambi, who has developed DID as a result of witnessing the devastating experience of his sister's death.

Recognising that military bases tend to be situated in remote rural areas, and that their closure ( as a result of the " Cold War peace dividend ") can have devastating economic and social consequences for local communities, MAM was established as a private sector business to transform closing bases into self-sustaining, profitable enterprises, encouraging and fostering economic regeneration in the process.

The hospital closed about 1993 and was demolished in 1998 as an indirect result of the devastating " South Ockendon Report " which redefined the borders of bad management of mental patients and led to a nationwide re-appraisal of mental care in the UK.

* Mutants in the video game Metro 2033 are the result of radiation after a devastating nuclear war.

Arguably some of the most devastating symptoms of A-T are a result of progressive cerebellar degeneration, characterized by the loss of Purkinje cells and, to a lesser extent, granule cells ( located exclusively in the cerebellum ).

Forwood was not up for re-election, but he was nevertheless a casualty of the election-in the aftermath of the devastating result, he was dumped as Leader in the Legislative Council in favor of Philip Davis, and also lost the Industrial Relations portfolio.

Masque's tenure as leader of the Morlocks would be equally devastating, as he used his flesh altering powers to forcibly disfigure all Morlocks under his rule, an act that caused many, many Morlocks to go insane as a result of having their faces and in some cases, bodies, warped into new inhuman forms.

However, Bede, like Gregory the Great whom Bede quotes on the subject in the Historia, felt that faith brought about by miracles was a stepping stone to a higher, truer faith, and that as a result miracles had their place in a work designed to instruct.

The Voortrekkers were those Boers ( mainly from the eastern Cape ) who left the Cape en masse in a series of large scale migrations later called the Great Trek beginning in 1835 as a result of British colonialism and constant border wars.

Louis Hartz explained the absence of conservatism in Australia or the United States as a result of their settlement as radical or liberal fragments of Great Britain.

By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

This was a result of the tactical surprise at the outset of the campaign, the leadership vacuum within the Soviet military left by the Great Purge, and the general inferiority of Soviet designs at the time, such as the obsolescent I-15 biplane and the I-16.

Thus, a Good attribute is considered to be Great if you were to roll two plus sides, one minus side, and one blank — the minus side cancels out one of the plus sides and the remaining plus side raises the result by one step.

All of the African Great Lakes were formed as the result of the rift, and most lie within its rift valley.

The result was a schism from the church by some of the non-intrusionists led by Dr Thomas Chalmers known as the Great Disruption of 1843.

Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.

As a result of this, a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the King's German Legion, which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic wars against the French.

As the political influence of London grew, the Chancery version of the language developed into a written standard across Great Britain, further progressing in the modern period as Scotland became united with England as a result of the Acts of Union of 1707.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

Karađorđe's paternal ancestors migrated during the Second Great Serb Migration in 1737-1739 under the leadership of Patriarch Šakabenta, as a result of the Austrian-Turkish War in which Serbs took part.

As a result, band societies such as the Shoshone of the Great Basin came across as extraordinarily lazy to European colonialists.

Severe starvation during the Great Chinese Famine, mass suicide as a result of the Three-anti / five-anti campaigns, and political persecution during both the Anti-Rightist Movement and struggle sessions all resulted from these programs.

When the Americans left in 1933 as a result of Sandino's guerrilla war and the Great Depression, they set up the Guardia Nacional ( National Guard ), a combined military and police force trained and equipped by the Americans, designed to be loyal to U. S. interests.

One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by the left / right axis, while in France, the T-axis was larger, and in the Middle East, the only dimension to be found was the T-axis: " Among mid-Eastern Arabs it has been found that while the tough-minded / tender-minded dimension is still clearly expressed in the relationships observed between different attitudes, there is nothing that corresponds to the radical-conservative continuum.

In 1931, at the depth of the Great Depression, the Pepsi-Cola Company entered bankruptcy – in large part due to financial losses incurred by speculating on wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War I.

The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers like Memphis and north to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo ( See: Second Great Migration ( African American )) meant that black and white residents were living in close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to emulate each other's fashions.

The idea that direct election is required for legitimacy also contradicts the spirit of the Great Compromise, whose actual result was manifest in the clause that provides voters in smaller states with slightly more representation in presidential selection than those in large states.

These fault lines are believed to be the northern and final portion of the Great Rift and are presumed to be the result of the slow rotation of the Arabian Peninsula counterclockwise in a way that will, in approximately 10 million years, close off the Persian Gulf and make it a lake.

Partly as a result of Athenian support to the Ionian Greeks, the Persian Great King Darius started moving against metropolitan Greece.

As a result, in 1927 the United Kingdom changed its formal title to the " United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ," usually shortened to the " United Kingdom ", the " UK " or " Britain ".