Sentences with phrase «as swathes»

This risks depriving poor people of food crops and destroying ecosystems as swathes of land are converted to growing biomass for energy.

As is typical of Nilsson's style, wiggling limbs weave between each other pell - mell as swathes of color trifurcate the picture plane into three intertwined scenes.

Mid-tier devs could be forced out completely as swathes of developers release their games on Steam, says Jeff Vogel

As the swathes of substitutions that do so much to render friendlies irrelevant disrupted Australia's hitherto impressive organisation, a Gareth Bale corner passed across the box, missed by everyone until Darcy Blake made a potentially tricky header on the bounce look simple, and tucked home his first goal in senior football.

According to the map, those with the best optics for viewing the Lyrid meteor shower are on the East Coast from Pennsylvania to Maine as well as a swath on the West Coast that includes parts of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and California.

As the swathe of red swept across...

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Mr Osborne may also have just seen his own hopes of becoming Prime Minister go up in smoke as a swathe of his colleagues attacked his last ditch attempt to scare Brits into not voting to leave on June 23.

Lindsey said he's concerned about future growth in WEAC because of teachers» wage increases being limited by Walker's Act 10, as well as a swath of young teachers who may not make enough annually to feel inclined to join a union and pay dues.

There are a number of major cities in North Carolina as well as swaths of rural areas that are great to explore on a bike.

We spent five weeks driving between Charleston and New Orleans, experiencing incredible southern food and friendly hospitality, as well as a swathe of cultural and historical sights.

However, these items then reduce the gameplay to a complete farce as you swathe through mounds of enemies with little to no effort.

However, as the swath of high scores came in from gaming publications, the box art alone reminds how much progress remains to be accomplished in our society.

Since there is a formula in place, and we produce solo exhibitions at the gallery, I look at the pairing or secession of shows as swath to reflect on when thinking about hitting a streak, or a stride, or as you put here nailing it.

This astonishingly unnerving photograph was posted today on the Flickr.com feed of the Guatemalan government and shows a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City as a swath of Central America was drenched by tropical storm Agatha.

Tim, the odds of being hit by a tornado are pretty small as the swath of destruction is usually limited to less than 1/4 of a mile.

There are a number of major cities in North Carolina as well as swaths of rural areas that are great to explore on a bike.

The supply of houses is actually decreasing as swaths of neighbourhoods are assembled and flattened to make way for new condo buildings and communities.

Not exact matches

LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

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.

The lengthy and complex set changes, known as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), will impact a broad swath of financial firms across the globe, but especially investment banks that do business in Europe.

Porter tells potential clients that he focuses on not guessing the market by buying index funds that buy broad swaths of the market; keeping costs as low as possible, such as fewer transaction costs and not paying analyst fees; and focusing on tax efficiency, by relocating assets from tax - inefficient types of investments to tax - advantaged accounts.

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.

Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the company should be giving away personally identifiable information, but said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.

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.

Hurricane Irma drove toward Florida as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind 21 deaths and a swathe of catastrophic destruction.

As it turned out, there were swaths of new - employee knowledge that she stumbled upon by accident.

Stories like Dar's are newly resonant as a wide swath of industries are confronting the powerful men who harass and abuse women at work.

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

Thursday was a tough day in Canadian retail as both Target and Sony announced a swath of store closings.

It is what makes possible the very popular 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage with a down payment that is manageable for a wide swath of creditworthy borrowers (20 %, with or without primary mortgage insurance for a conforming borrower), but also maintains other underwriting standards as well.

Such a scenario would lead to the creation of a swath of companies known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), who effectively buy discounted minutes and data from network owners, then resell them under their own banner.

But the new standard highlights the huge swaths of the country where individual ISPs function as broadband monopolies...

This didn't appear to hurt Spotify much, given its brand cachet among a wide swath of US households, as average Joe retail investors were willing to gobble up enough shares to get the company's liquidity event rolling.

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.

DEA assessments have painted broad swaths of the US as territory under the control of Mexican cartels — chief among them the Sinaloa cartel, an embattled organization previously run by Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman.

As he points out, we can automatically eliminate whole swaths of the periodic table for various reasons.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

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.

Part of the App Store's growth have been simple tweaks: splitting Apps and Games into two different tabs, for instance, as well as adding a new «Today» section to allow users to better get a sense of the broad swath

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.

But the wildfires that scorched vast swaths of the US this year can scarcely be described as natural disasters, since human activities exacerbated them at every step.

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.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigration.

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.

Rushing to fix something without fully understanding the root cause, in an industry with such wide consequences as real estate and home ownership, will see dramatic effects across a much broader swath of the economy.

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