Paul Ryan

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

American Politician

John Terry

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

English Athlete

Nell Scovell

I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.

American Journalist

Kevin Rollins

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

American Businessman

Martin Luther King III

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.

American Activist

Barkha Dutt

The army's original job description was to protect borders, but a demanding country depends on it for everything else too, from rebuilding bridges after a tsunami to keeping the peace when religious riots erupt.

Indian Journalist

Al Roker

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

American Entertainer

Zygmunt Bauman

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Polish Sociologist

Richard Reeves

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.

American Writer

Anne M. Mulcahy

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

American Businesswoman

Used to describe a natural catastrophe involving a large wave, typically after an earthquake.

Natural Disaster

Often implies suddenness and unpredictability, like the wave itself.

Unexpected Event

Can convey the powerful emotional effects of a catastrophe.

Emotional Impact

Used metaphorically for an overwhelming or unstoppable force or quantity.

Metaphorical Use

Can express positive or negative overwhelming amounts, not only troublesome ones.

Not Just Negative

Shows an excess that is challenging to manage due to its volume or intensity.

Expressing Excess

 or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you? What other problems do you have and you want us to take care of now that the city will have to be rethought from scratch? And what they said was, look, fine to protect the city against future tsunamis,

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 predictors were correct these three girls are talking to one another with without the awkward discomfort of eye contact I call that advancement we were supposed to be caught up in a communication tsunami the likes of which the world has

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 volcanic eruptions landslides meteorites or the most common culprit earthquakes in the deep ocean a typical tsunami wave is barely noticeable and poses little threat but the waves can spread out thousands of miles rolling across the

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 enter shallow waters friction with the ocean floor lowers the wave speed and raises their height until it landfall they can engulf story unlike ordinary waves a tsunami wave doesn't crest and break instead it

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 technology left an enormous amount of visual evidence for studying years to come and can perhaps help us better understand the power of earthquakes and tsunamis and prevent loss of life in the future

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 English a tsunami washing away other languages not likely English is the world's second language your native language is your life but with English you can become part of a wider

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 empathy and compassion even more so in my work so with this idea I mean I've done a lot of this as you seen humanitarian work in the past but this was covering the tsunami right

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 unlike ordinary waves a tsunami wave doesn't crest and break instead it advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything in its way reaching even as

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 come and can perhaps help us better understand the power of earthquakes and tsunamis and prevent loss of life in the future

 winds higher than 600 miles an hour the colossal earthquake followed by a ring of massive tsunamis