Sentences with phrase «as a reservoir of»

The Malvern conference of English churchmen said in 1941, «We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend.

Storm water absorbed in the winter can then serve as a reservoir of summer refreshment for growing crops, says U.C. Davis's Helen Dahlke.

Parker suspects that it acts as a reservoir of healthy, protective bacteria that can replenish the intestine after a bacteria - depleting diarrheal illness like cholera.

The spleen, which is 4 inches long and sits in the upper abdomen, acts as a reservoir of immune cells that speed to the site of heart injury after a heart attack to begin clearance of damaged tissue.

Adult stem cells serve as a reservoir of cells for repair of damaged tissue throughout the life of an individual, but the maintenance and regeneration of tissues, such as skin, liver, blood and muscle, dramatically decrease with age.

Excess calories, regardless of whether they are from carbs, fats or proteins, are shuttled into your lipocytes (fat cells) where they sit as a reservoir of excess energy until it is needed.

Bones also allow us the gift of movement, they act as a reservoir of minerals to maintain acid / base balance in the blood and they actually produce red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the bone marrow.

It functions as the reservoir of all of the information about your veterinary business.

The Brown Dog tick has recently been identified as a reservoir of Rickettsia, causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Ehrlichia canis.

If one understands memory as a collection of reminiscences, then art can be said to operate as a reservoir of complex ideas and relations which need to be activated by the observer in order to unfold.

Some employ such media as hare's blood or margarine, or are realized on envelopes, emphasizing their function as a reservoir of ideas for Beuy's sculpture, «actions», performance art and other enterprises.

The resulting drawings function as a reservoir of forms, rhythms and tectonics as well as autonomous works.

Before the negotiations got into high gear, we were able to escape for a day to a visit some community - managed forest projects that are hoping to gain some financial support through aspects of the proposed climate agreement related to maintaining or restoring forests as reservoirs of carbon.

The warm water stuck around through the winter and was available as a reservoir of heat that could be tapped into the following year.

During the winter months in middle and high latitudes, the lower parts of the troposphere over continents often serve as reservoirs of cold air as heat is radiated into space throughout the long nights.

«Nothing can happen unless you believe in the neighborhood and see it as a reservoir of long - term value,» says Cheryl Jones, sales associate with RE / MAX Results in St. Louis.

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Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

As the Seascapes Director at Conservation International, Laure Katz, a University of Virginia EMBA, raised $ 38 million dollars to protect Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape, which she describes as «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.&raquAs the Seascapes Director at Conservation International, Laure Katz, a University of Virginia EMBA, raised $ 38 million dollars to protect Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape, which she describes as «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.&raquas «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.»

As a result, there is a growing reservoir, a whopping 200 at last count, of private companies whose valuations exceed $ 1 billion, causing a huge bulge at the entrance to the IPO funnel.

The reason efficiency is declining is due to decline in oil reservoir quality the world over as the best reserves of this finite resource were produced first and more recent production is more energy - intensive using enhanced oil recovery techniques.

Southeast reservoirs were 33.6 % full as of Aug. 10, according to ONS, the local regulator.

Shale producers are drilling new wells closer together, and closer to older wells, all in an effort to drain as much of the available reservoir area as possible.

As I expected, he's been an endless reservoir of energy, insight, and networks.

You know, my God, that I can now scarcely discern in the world the lineaments of its multiplicity; for when I gaze at it I see it chiefly as a limitless reservoir in which the two contrary energies of joy and suffering are accumulating in vast quantities — and for the most part lying unused.

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

It should also be used for public works, such as the construction of schools, bridges, water reservoirs, and the like.

«Pope Francis is starting off with a huge reservoir of goodwill in the U.S. Eighty - eight percent of American Catholics questioned in our survey approve of his selection as pope,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Thus in Adventures of Ideas he contrasts the divine «Eros» with «the Adventure in the Universe as One» (pp. 380 - 81), which in Modes of Thought (New York: Macmillan, 1938) he refers to as «the reservoir of potentiality and the coordination of achievement» (p. 128).

There was a sober sense of the judgment of the hour and of the role of the Church as a resource to hold back bitterness and to tap the reservoir of a genuine concern for a just and lasting peace.

For the most part the experiential occasions (such as those in the inorganic world) are only minimally affected by the reservoir of novelty.

In order to do this, however, he or she must dip into the reservoir of moral beliefs held as a person.

Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a other sea or reservoir.»

Some interpreters of reincarnation emphasize deeds as acts, others as knowledge, and still others as love, but from whatever aspect of self we act, the result is stored in the reservoir.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

As an additional complication, the «growing satisfaction» seems able to grow continually in spite of Zeno's Paradox and the logical necessity that all change be temporally atomized, «God includes incessantly, like a reservoir, which grows incessantly» (PS27 330).

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

As it is difficult to keep the sun off all parts of the system outdoors, the reservoir in particular will grow algae.

A poignant two - page photograph of a little boy swinging a huge club on a nine - hole course in Iowa taps into the same reservoir of optimism as an AP / Wide World Photos shot of President Bill Clinton and a friend watching a playing partner hit his drive into the Arkansas fog.

Yet, reservoirs of fresh energy continue to occur in how my wife and I share our interests and values as individuals and long time companions (sometimes war buddies).

To do this, you could use a Supplemental Nursing System (a silicone tube attached to a reservoir of a supplement which is attached directly to the breast, so that the baby gets the supplement at the breast as he also draws out your milk).

As the reservoir is translucent you can easily see the level of water.

If milk flow is not sufficient with any one tube size, even when the bottle is as high as it can go, another option is to tape both tubes of a given size together on one breast, or to tape one tube to the side of the bottle, facing upwards and unclamp it, allowing air to enter the reservoir more quickly.

A regular stomach not only acts as a large reservoir of now - liquified broken down food (it can hold roughly 1.5 to 2 quarts!)

Philips reservoir is considered as one of the most practical baby bottle warmers for home use.

While the reservoir for E. sakazakii is unknown in many cases, a growing number of reports have established powdered infant formula as the source and vehicle of infection.

Journal of Applied Microbiology: Used Cot Mattresses as Potential reservoirs ofBacterial Infection: Nutrient Availability Within Polyurethane Foam

Build up a reservoir of time so your absence isn't quite as difficult.

The baby gets most of her calcium from your bones, which act as a kind of calcium «reservoir.»

[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

The commission is also empowered to advise the Minister on fiscal and other issues pertaining to the petroleum industry, establish framework for the validation and certification of national hydrocarbon reserves, undertake evaluation of national reserves and reservoir management studies as well as conduct regular audits of the activities of operators engaged in petroleum operations and oil service companies in order to ensure compliance with Nigerian laws and requirements for petroleum operations.