Sentences with phrase «as large swaths»

The team also used the Global Fire Emissions Database to estimate carbon dioxide emissions from biomass burning, as large swaths of Australian grasslands burn every year, dumping carbon into the atmosphere.

On the whole, the minimalist installation of the exhibition mimics Butler's trim prose, sometimes feeling a touch too spare, as large swaths of white wall divide the works.

The district includes a pair of hard - hit Rust Belt cities - Utica and Binghamton - as well as large swaths of rural farmland and bite - size villages and towns.

With 97 % of the vote counted, she has 58 % in the 7th Congressional District, which includes sections of the Lower East Side and Chinatown as well as a large swath of Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

Broadly speaking, the practice involves taking one large field and managing it as if it were dozens or even hundreds of smaller ones, in order to address the wild variability — in soil, topography and exposure to the elements — that exists across large swaths of land.

Additionally, most tech companies rely on foreign workers to fill large swaths of their technical roles, as the U.S. does not currently produce enough domestic talent to match demand.

From mid-May through July, an as yet unidentified hacker group gained access to a large swathe of this data — including names, birthdates, street addresses, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers — the company disclosed last month.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

As summit organizer Mark Goldberg has written on several occasions, the price of broadband isn't the only thing keeping a large swath of the population from getting online.

But of course, the rich consume in different ways — while a large swath of the population is pauperized and is stripped of its assets as well as future earnings after taxes and debt service are extracted from their paychecks.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

Employment has shifted to the coasts, and manufacturing jobs to the South — out of large swaths of key political battleground states, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

The government apparently can not control large swaths of territory, as Islamic State insurgents regroup, solidify footholds, and launch attacks targeting security forces and energy infrastructure.

A joint federal - state commission on Wednesday voted to move ahead with a rulemaking that would prohibit horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing across a large swath of eastern Pennsylvania, as well Continue Reading

A joint federal - state commission on Wednesday voted to move ahead with a rulemaking that would prohibit horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing across a large swath of eastern Pennsylvania, as well as the states of New York, Delaware and New Jersey.

It remains to be seen whether larger swaths of the country, as male joblessness persists, will eventually come to resemble the inner cities of the 1970s and»80s.

As I sifted through the Beige Book to see which areas of the economy were posting upward wage pressures and growing skilled labour shortages I could see a large swath — Technology, Construction, Transportation Services, Restaurants, Durable Goods Manufacturing.

What these pastors have said is awful and I condemn the statements but I refuse to classify large swaths of the American people as hate filled and awful.

But if Spengler's quip has at least a kernal of truth to it, it suggests that reconsidering this relationship will be vital to any post-liberal political theory, especially ones interested in resisting late - liberal urges to globalize ever - larger swaths of society as a way of covering up for centralization's previous disappointments.

It would have led to Israel's permanent annexation of 8 to 12 percent of the West Bank as well as a large area of settlements around Jerusalem, plus the long - term «lease» to Israel of the Jordan River Valley, plus Israeli «security control» (which is another way of saying «continued occupation») of the vast swathes of territory on which lie the bypass roads connecting the settlements.

The facts — things which are prominently missing from large swaths of his article — say otherwise: van Persie would play in all 38 matches his first season at United; he featured in only 21 and 27 the next two seasons respectively, failing to hit 20 goals in all competitions each of those seasons before being fucked off to the soccer retirement home known as the Turkish Süper Lig.

Man City's 5 - 0 drubbing of them back in September seemed to announce this, as Henderson, the most defensively competent in a midfield trio alongside Wijnaldum and Can, couldn't handle City's press and incisive attacks; against Tottenham, later in October, he was caught out several times, leaving large swathes of space for Kane and Son to sprint into.

Well, most of you reading this don't need to learn, but large swathes of the wider fanbase certainly do; when will fans accept that young players usually take time to settle, as do players coming to England from overseas, so when a new signing ticks both boxes maybe they deserve a little leeway?

As a result the match was dominated by the Monarchs, and they spent large swathes of the 90 minutes seemingly toying with the overmatched S2 side.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

Trailside also serves as the visitor center to the Blue Hills, the state's largest swath of protected land in a suburban / urban setting.

This powerbase, at the moment, appears to be a large swathe of the Egyptian public cheering on the crackdowns and arrests, and adulating Field Marshal Abdel - Fattah el - Sisi as their messiah.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

This meant that large swathes of the economy became «politicised», i.e. subject to categorical decisions binding on the community as a whole, rather than left to the spontaneous processes of the market order.

Arguably, issues of democracy and self - government gain currency when they are tied to a compelling ideological vision, as happened with the recent independence referendum in Scotland that mobilised thousands of people, including a large a swathe of new voters, in support of political autonomy not as an end in itself, but to create a more just and equal society.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is seen by a large swathe of her supporters - particularly those voters who have abandoned Labour - as a socialist standard - bearer.

As revenue was primarily land - based in the Middle Ages, membership on such councils was to nobles holding large swaths of land.

The revolt of MPs and councillors against the imposition of mayors in large swathes of the North is jeopardising the political hopes of a Chancellor yearning to prove himself as a reformer who reshaped the governance of Britain.

As a means to cut down on double - parking and disruptive deliveries, the city will also pilot banning curbside loading entirely during peak hours in a large swath of midtown — from 45th Street to 50th Street, between Sixth Avenue and Madison Avenue.

His presence would provide a critical breadth to the debate, ensuring that a good range of voices are represented, as well as reminding a mostly - invisible but always - large swathe of the public that Labour still retains much of its old appeal, & that we are (as we can comfortably be a good 30 years after the Militant tendency) a truly welcoming political family.

A majority of New York City residents, suburbanites and upstate dwellers, as well a large swath of voters across all age groups, races and religions showed support for the initiative.

Jeffrey Mailman has not raised nearly as much money as other candidates in the race for District 4, which covers a large swath of Manhattan's east side, but he has raised the most from real estate workers at companies including Douglas Elliman, and Warburg Realty.

All spoke to the fears of large swathes of the country who believed multiculturalism was being imposed upon them by a detached elite and who had been growing increasingly sceptical of immigration as the referendum approached.

It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal that large swathes of the country, including places supposed to benefit from classic compatible HS2 trains such as Liverpool, Lancaster and Glasgow, could lose economic activity if HS2 goes ahead.

As pioneered by his predecessor, Gov. David Paterson, Cuomo reiterated last night that he would use his budget extenders to pass large swaths of his preferred budget or have the Legislature risk a government shutdown.

The fact that he has been so successful is not only «on him» as the kids say, but on a large swath of the American people who mirror similar nativist groups in almost every other country including Germany, France and England.

«Covering Bear Mountain to the Rip Van Winkle is not a very large swath of the state, and people in the Hudson Valley tend to view our bridges... [as] local roads.

«Dispersal through slavery took large swaths of the Yoruba to Cuba, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Columbia, Venezuela, The Caribbean and other disparate lands, near and far, where the indigenous people refer to themselves as ethnic Yoruba and view Ile - Ife as their ancestral home.

As Gillibrand's top aide in the region, Deacon was responsible for a large swath of upstate New York.

As a result, it now includes larger swaths of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, and is now 55 percent Latino.

Today, it feels as if large swaths of the population are in complete denial that such moments really existed.

Affordable housing advocates, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James, say the plan will leave out large swaths of the city who make nothing near that much.

The results of this research could «impact our understanding of wind - based damage, such as the destruction by the recent Hurricane Irene,» he says, which toppled trees across a large swath of the northeastern United States in September.

Scorching temperatures and scarce rainfall has left large swathes of the United States in drought, with the «breadbasket states», such as Iowa and Indiana, among the worst affected.

As a result, large swaths of sub-Saharan Africa would fall into drought, the study says, while southeast Africa became warmer, wetter and more humid, transforming into prime real estate for early human groups.