Sentences with phrase «at vast scales»
The strong reactions to the findings of the Inquiry were not so much based on an inability to conceive that such events took place but at the vast scale of forcible removals and the often abusive experiences of those taken from their families.
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-- Relative wealth effects from the housing bubble: Yes, there are a lot of people who own shares of stock but the vast majority of stock market wealth is concentrated at the top of the wealth scale: 80 % of stock market wealth accrues to the top 10 %; over a third to the top 1 %.
At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.
The vast majority of coffee is processed commercially on a large scale, but small - scale roasting has grown significantly with the trend toward «single - origin» coffees served at specialty stores online.
Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.
MOND has it that gravity works differently at vast cosmological scales than on the scales we are used to.
«We tested a traditional ecological principle at a completely new scale — in this case, the vast and under - explored Andes and Amazon region,» Asner explained.
Research at Case Western Reserve University's telescope concentrates on the large - scale distribution of galaxies, including the vast, near - empty cosmic regions known as voids.
The large - scale studies, most of which are made possible by the vast data generated and collected by new technologies like sensors and cellphones, are very good at describing the big picture, but don't provide much detail at the individual level.
These first papers show the world that we're capable of doing science at this scale, and yet they represent just the tip of the iceberg of what is hidden in these vast data sets.
We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.
The vast scale of Nielsen's vision for Endless is evident from the 300sqm stand — by far the largest at the fair — that stretches the length of the back wall in the first hall.
Create anything you can imagine one brick at a time, or use large - scale landscaping tools to create vast mountain ranges
Create anything you can imagine one brick at a time, or use large - scale landscaping tools to create vast mountain ranges and dot your world with tropical islands.
However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.
The review found «an industry of mediocrity,» with the vast majority of programs earning fewer than three stars on a four - star rating scale - and many earning no stars at all.
If you're in the mood for chic sophistication inspired by Europe's coveted Mediterranean coast, along with such grand scale amenities as beachfront villas, a vast poolside piazza, and the luxurious pleasures of a Six - Star, all - suite enclave, then the Mediterranean Village at our Antigua beach resort is for you.
Create anything you can imagine one brick at a time, or use large - scale landscaping tools to create vast mountain ranges and dot your world with tropical islands.
Teresita Fernández's latest solo show of new work As Above So Below, opening at MASS MoCA on May 24, 2014, combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.
Teresita Fernández's latest solo show of new work at MASS MoCA As Above So Below will combine graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.
In her first solo show at this pocket - sized space, local painter Karen Marston focuses on such potentially destructive events, attempting to capture something of the vast scale and frightening power of tornados and forest fires.
The «Anagrams» at Pace are large scale, linguistically playful paintings (including frescos) that Rauschenberg started making in the three - year runup to the vast Guggenheim retrospective in 1997 and continued making until 2002 (he died in 2008).
Anyone weary of the vast white - box spaces of Chelsea may want to visit the refreshingly human - scale Lower East Side, where a show of recent work by Robert Moskowitz at the Kerry Schuss Gallery presents a potential beacon.
For nearly 20 years his subject has been the ravages of heavy industry, seen at a scale so vast as to be unimaginable.»
Combining precise geometry with vast scale, his remarkable installations gave fresh impact and new meaning to the experience of looking at art, while enhancing and expanding the appreciation of the surrounding world.
Rejecting firm distinctions among conscious, animate, and inanimate matter, these theories conceive the universe as a vast collection of self - organizing matter - energy flows operating at various scales.
Hundley's choice of found, often ephemeral objects embeds each work with sentimentality and personal meaning, but these small - scale details are at times suggestive of more universal imagery and ideas: mythology, forces of nature, and aerial views of vast and fantastic landscapes.
Due to the scale of the work, at least some of the artwork will remain in the viewer's peripheral vision, contributing to the overall sense of scale, similar to the vast expanse of the Mediterranean sea.
To accommodate the monumental scale and scope of the work, Thinking Big is on public view at The Sorting Office on New Oxford Street, a vast former postal depot in central London.
Having started by creating unusual, small - scale assemblages out of urban junk retrieved from downtown Manhattan, he spent an increasing amount of time in his later years - having achieved a degree of international fane - on vast international, ambassadorial - like projects, many of which were conceived in his huge studio at Captiva, off the south - western coast of Florida.
First Sight contains a vast array of previously unpublished sketches and drawings, printed here in facsimile, at a scale of 1:1, and spanning the entire career of the artist, from 1950 to the present.
Vast amounts of electricity storage, which is extremely expensive, inefficient, and — in eco-conscious places like California — near - impossible to build at scale.
«This heroic campaign shall be carried out on a vast scale, transforming our economy at wartime speed,» The Climate Mobilization writes, because «climate change is causing immense human suffering and damage to the natural world.
On a larger scale, the EU emissions trading scheme handed large companies vast numbers of permits to emit greenhouse gasses, which they sold on at a profit.
It is a recent discovery that the oceans can act for decades at a time as net absorbers OR net emitters of previously accumulated solar energy on a vast and highly variable scale yet AGW proponents still ignore the overwhelming evidence because to acknowledge it would destroy years of fond memories of a publicly funded gold rush encouraged by their fanciful claims to understand climate and be in a position to influence it.
«We're really excited about [this project] because it's effectively, as far as we know, the first utility - scale solar - plus - storage project done on a purely commercial basis that is affecting the shift of the vast portion of PV production to the nighttime peak,» Bob Rudd, SolarCity's director of energy storage project development, told the audience at a recent storage conference.
As a brilliant earth scientist — until 1998 he was head of the geology department at James Cook University in Australia — he understood perfectly well that on the geological scale our planet has experienced shifts in climate of a magnitude so vast as to make a mockery of the notion that humans can influence or control it.
A vast majority of the world's population is dependent on small - scale food producers — climate change puts all of this at risk.
After many years of reviewing solutions to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) I believe this technology can manage Carbon for the greatest collective benefit at the lowest economic price, on vast scales.
«Given the vast scale of these reforms, a full analysis of the new regulations would be a serious undertaking, and a costly exercise for any financial institution» said Monica Sah, Financial Regulatory partner at Clifford Chance.
In fact, one of the lesser known models, continuous improvement (known as CI), has already been implemented on a vast scale at Clifford Chance, one of the world's ten largest firms.
Vast sums are spent user testing games and analysing behaviour as a result, but by employing large - scale analytical techniques, researchers can target this problem at the scale of populations.
While the vast majority of CryptoKitties critics perceive the platform as a simple collectibles game, prominent venture capital investor, Andreessen Horowitz partner, and Earn.com CEO Balaji Srinivasan explained that CryptoKitties has demonstrated frictionless international trading of digital assets on a Blockchain at a large - scale.
Having a system that can go to scale, encourages self - sufficiency, and can reach vast numbers of parents — as Triple P does — means the impact can be seen across the society - at - large.