Sentences with phrase «because of the large bodies»

New York is particularly vulnerable to flooding, not only because of the large bodies of water that surround it, but also because of heavy snowfalls in the winter.

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A large body of law and custom in the United States holds that because employers have far more power over their employees than businesses do over their customers, they must provide them with far greater protections — not least, a minimum wage and overtime pay.

The evidence for the importance of board diversity is somewhat stronger than the evidence recommending board sizes of five or greater, in large part because there is a significant body of literature indicating that team diversity generally improves performance.

Yet it was once believed — certainly when Mill wrote his Autobiography — that, whatever our familial, religious, racial, or physical limitations, our actions have meaning because they are embedded in a scheme of things larger than just our immediate bodies.

Because Religion be exempt from the authority of the Society at large, still less can it be subject to that of the Legislative Body.

At some point, however, charm alone won't be enough, because Francis will have to turn to the heavy lifting of actually governing the world's largest and most centrally organized religious body.

Humans can't drink large amounts of salt water because ironically in order to keep the delicate balance of salt and water in our bodies, the body will try to excrete the excess salt — through urine, and the result is dehydration.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

Because the state and other large institutions could reach individuals only through these mediating bodies, these thinkers provided them with defense against the state's overweening power, as well as the economic power of the large industrial enterprises.

According to the study, a large part of the problem is that because obesity is on the rise, the «socially acceptable body weight is increasing,» which keeps people from feeling like they need to lose any weight for health purposes because they're about on par with the people around them.

This is because it contains oxalic acid, which when eaten in large amounts, may interfere with your body's absorption of calcium.

In large part, this is because Type II Diabetes is a state of insulin resistance; Your body is no longer listening to the signals sent by that particular hormone.

I give Oettinger a slight edge because he has a larger body of impressive work, because he's had better development systems around him (dating back to the USNTDP), because he has more big - game experience and because Point plays in a weaker NCAA conference.

Lan Enterprises recalled its Zooper strollers because the opening between the snack tray and the seat bottom was large enough for a small child's body but not head to pass through, raising the risk of strangulation.

Because of this I want to give you some things to consider before you broach the topic of «obesity» with the parents of a child who happens to have a large body.

But funding for large projects is scarce because of property - tax caps that strictly limit the amount by which an Illinois taxing body such as a park district can increase its annual revenue, he said.

They appear not to wake up as much next to their mothers but actually in terms of small arousals and even larger ones they wake up more, but they do not necessarily alert the mother because they sense their own safety (or whatever emotion or physical sense that reduces stress or anxiety) which comes with smelling her milk and feeling her body, hearing her breadth and feeling her movements and rhythms.

Since premature babies are small and more fragile, and because the head of a premature baby is relatively larger in proportion to its body, the baby is unlikely to stretch the cervix as much as a full - term baby.

Because of the large ratio of head to body, it's important to keep the newborn's head covered.

«106 Some medical researchers preferred commercial baby food because its large - batch preparation allowed for nutritional uniformity, an asset to their research studies.107 The American Medical Association's Council on Foods, a governing body of doctors, in 1937 issued a report on infant feeding of fruits and vegetables.

Undigested food in the small intestine will pass to the large intestine where it will be released out of the body appearing greenish in colour because of the reduced colon transit duration.

In part, this is because they spend a large portion of their sleep time in «active sleep,» a light sleep state characterized by fluttering eyelids; rapid, irregular breathing; occasional body movements; and vocalizations (grunts or brief cries).

That's a good thing in terms of physical development, because it's the repeated movement of large and small muscle groups that builds and refines how well these parts of the body work.

An important point to remember is that — because the body can not store vitamin C — there is no merit in offering large quantities of foods rich in vitamin C all in one go.

Can we just take a minute to say how sad of a commentary it is that «I'm going to vote for a bill I don't believe in because someone else will fix it» is the standard operating procedure of the governing body for the world's largest economy?

The U.S. opposition surprised many because the world's largest economy has generally been a low - key member of the U.N. shipping body across administrations.

Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give - and - take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment — a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of water.

These «debris disks» are constantly fed by collisions among rocky bodies — the larger of which can survive and grow by continued accretion — because the tiny dust grains quickly fall onto the central star or get blown out of the planetary system.

Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.

Because many species of small - bodied theropods unearthed since the 1990s had been feathered, many researchers suggested that larger species of tyrannosaurs and their close kin could have feathers, as well, he notes.

Because the snake essentially follows its own tracks through the sand, the amount of slip generated by its motion is small, allowing it to move through the sand using less energy than the sandfish (Scincus scincus), whose movement pattern generated a larger fluidized region of sand around its body.

But an analysis of their DNA suggests that the largest lemurs were more prone to extinction than smaller - bodied species because of their smaller population sizes, according to this team of American and Malagasy researchers.

Cerium has proven to be an ideal choice for these studies because of its rich phase diagram which is supported by a large body of available high - pressure data, all of which are necessary to develop a strength - aware, multiphase equation of state.»

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

The two oldest and distinct groups of squid eaters, sperm whales and beaked whales, grew large body sizes because of the physiological demands for diving to the great depths where their prey lives — a pattern that pilot whales repeated.

«But because the passenger pigeon had a larger body, [Barksdale] took the step of slowing the recording to lower the pitch.»

That's most likely because they are fragments of a larger icy body, say a planet, that recently broke up, the researchers suggest.

«But you definitely don't want to skip meals to save calories because it sets your body up for larger fluctuations in insulin and glucose and could be setting you up for more fat gain instead of fat loss.»

You hear about the big ones, such as Eris [the largest known body beyond Neptune], because it led to the very justified death of Pluto as a planet...

Another is that a group of larger bodied hominins — H. erectus — reached the island of Flores about 1 million years ago only to shrink because of a lack of predators and scarce resources, a process called island dwarfing.

Six similar facilities — most of them much larger — already exist in the United States, where they are often called «body farms,» a term that Oostra says he avoids because he considers it disrespectful to the dead.

That's because compared with other primates, humans give birth to babies with larger bodies and brains — on average, human babies are 6.1 % of their mother's body size compared with chimp babies (3.3 %) and gorilla babies (2.7 %).

Because the blown - away material is primarily ice, this means that some large Kuiper belt objects could have been built from a small number of really big collisions among increasingly ice - depleted bodies, while others might have been formed from smaller, less powerful collisions that allowed more ice to remain.

Daniel Pauly, the study's lead author and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us at the Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, explains that as fish grow into adulthood their demand for oxygen increases because their body mass becomes larger.

Interpretation of genome sequencing data is a significant challenge because of the volume of genomic data to sift through, as well as the large, growing body of research on molecular drivers of cancer and potential targeted therapies.

Because of the way these bodies cluster together and share similar orbital angles, the duo have concluded that they are under the influence of a large planet.

Given that a Drosophila fly deviates from its path because it loses sight of its initial orientation point and temporarily becomes aware of another, that fly is then able to get back on its original course because a relatively large quantity of NO or cGMP has accumulated in the corresponding ellipsoid body segment.

The apparent extinction of this group of pachycormids at or near the end of the Cretaceous is also intriguing, because it occurs shortly before the earliest records of large - bodied, ram filter - feeding chondrichthyans (rhincodontids, cetorhinids, mobulids) in the earliest Paleogene (Shimada, 2007).

Female bodies are designed to store a large part of the excess fat in this area because this mechanism helped our ancestors survive and nourish their offspring during difficult times when food was scarce.