Sentences with phrase «broad swath»

This choice, coupled with a palate of broad swathes of green littered with more muted industrial hues, evokes the cities surrounding the Yangtze that were abandoned and submerged during the earth - moving Three Gorges Dam project.»

«The upcoming year will see a great deal of resurfacing work taking place across broad swaths of Staten Island, including many main thoroughfares,» Oddo said in a statement.

Against a background of royal blue shot through with broad swathes of dripping black paint, words and symbols are scrawled in white, yellow and red, with the artist's signature crown gleaming like a beacon at the centre.

Against backgrounds painted in broad swaths of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor of the central scene depicted.

That is because your lips — unlike your wrists — do not lump together tactile inputs from broad swaths of skin and so can discern much finer details.

Temperature and other climate changes in open expanses, such as the Amazon basin or Sahara Desert, will cover broader swaths of land than steep peaks, meaning that «large geographic displacements are required to change temperature appreciably,» wrote the researchers.

Can we ever trust an estimation of the effects of anything on broad swathes of humanity by the IPCC?

The Bolt EV makes the prospect of owning an electric vehicle plausible — and desirable — for much broader swath of the car - buying public.

Representatives of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan both have votes on PACB, a relatively obscure state entity that has power over broad swaths of spending.

The governor has touted his and lawmakers» budgetary deal making in advance of the start of the fiscal year (Cuomo has effectively used the threat of including broad swaths of his preferred budget and policy measures in extender legislation should the budget be late).

Some focused on the power of social media to reach broad swaths of people during an epidemic, relating its perks — messages can be disseminated quickly and concisely and are easily and widely shared — and its pitfalls — social media can foster rumors, and its reach doesn't include everyone.

A NASA Earth Observatory image acquired from a Landsat satellite in 1975, when Istanbul's population was around 2.5 million, shows a relatively small area of urban settlement (depicted in gray) surrounded by broad swathes of red (representing «plant - covered land»).

While Grubhub represents the first wave of change in online food ordering, having the largest impact on dense, urban markets, it's left broad swaths of territory untouched - namely the smaller cities and towns that dominate the rest of the country.

In fact, the simpler you make the process by focusing on index funds or ETFs that track broad swaths of the stock and bond markets as opposed to market niches, the more successful an investor you're likely to be.

The article describes the not - so - stealthy encroachment of global accounting giants into broader swaths of legal work, as being focused and disciplined:

Off Grande - Terre, Aquarium and Japanese Gardens provide broad swaths of colorful reefs.

It is not how you educate broad swaths of the world's population.»

The situation promises to keep broad swaths of the continent in poverty, diminishing agricultural production and inhibiting access to education and health care.

It is widely acknowledged that AYP is so ill - defined that it has depicted an overly broad swath of schools as «failing,» making it difficult for states to distinguish truly underperforming schools.

Sarah Hinckley creates paintings using broad swaths of diffused color that align in ways suggestive of horizons.

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.

Donihue et al.'s research uniquely demonstrates that the effects of glades cascade to a far broader swath of the savanna's plant and animal inhabitants.

A promising test ground for probing motivation is Wikipedia, a website used by a remarkably broad swath of humanity as a one - stop shop for basic information on almost any topic.

Some are blimps that sit in the sky, surveying broad swaths of territory.

It does real damage to individuals and communities when they don't have agency, when they lack the ability to control broad swaths of their own lives.

This option increases maximum boost and fuel flow slightly — increasing peak horsepower to 220 and spreading maximum torque over an even broader swath of rpm.

I'm less interested in reading about conspiracy theories about posting bans and efforts to fleece broad swaths of investors than I am in trying to figure out just what it is you are proposing.

American Express Membership Rewards has 21 travel partners, which isn't quite as many but still gives you a pretty broad swath of choices.

As with many of the other beaches that pepper the Caribbean coastline of this country, you will find broad swaths of white and -LSB-...]

For a latecomer to Long's oeuvre like me, it offers work from a helpfully broad swathe of his career.

If the late 20th century was defined by the graphical user interface made popular by personal computers, the early 21st century is marked by the proliferation of touch screens, which mediate increasingly broad swaths of everyday life.

Overlaying broad swaths of open weaved fabrics, with colored plastic and fine wire meshes, Maine creates freely hanging unstretched collages that seem to shimmer as one approaches.

Her compositions often feature broad swathes of color contrasted against sharp linear elements, the latter both defining space and lending her pictures a bold, expressive character.

Splashes and splatters of bright red, hot pink, and black combine with details of periwinkle purple, millennial pink, and yellow sienna against broad swaths of bold black and white paint.

A spokesman for Sen. McCain said the approach outlined by the EPA «would give a small, unelected group of bureaucrats unprecedented power to regulate broad swaths of our economy — effectively placing production, employment and investment decisions under government control.»

School budgets passed by overwhelming margins across broad swaths of Nassau and Suffolk counties last night, as the region's education leaders waited to see if 2017 would be the year when approvals hit an all - time high.

Multiflavors, a 1982 painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat, presents the artist's signature crown set against a background of royal blue shot through with broad swathes of dripping black paint, words and symbols.

With 182 commission - free ETFs — some of them Schwab's proprietary funds that invest in broad swaths of the market and charge annual expense ratios of 0.04 % — why go anywhere else?

But researchers report today that they've figured out how to predict the structures of hundreds of unmapped proteins by gleaning insights from one of the strangest of places: «metagenomics» projects that sequence DNA from broad swaths of microbes in the soils and seas.

But you'll be able to achieve the goal of broad diversification much easier by focusing on index funds or ETFs that cover broad swaths of the market.

And, the stagnating labor market performance for broad swaths of the population has captured considerable recent public and scholarly attention.

One possible answer is that Section 232 allows the issue to be framed broadly, paving the way for the president to impose restrictions on broad swaths of steel imports, if not all of them.

Other chefs are incorporating whey into much broader swaths of the cooking process.

Studying how animals plan over these different timescales has been challenging, in large part because it requires many brain areas operating at once, and neuroscientists have lacked the tools to observe neural activity over broad swaths of the brain.

The governor already wields broad influence over the budget process itself and a late budget could empower him to include broad swaths of his preferred spending plan in emergency extender legislation.

Might a process called «hydrofracturing,» implicated in the 2002 breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, leave broad swaths of the Antarctic coast with 300 - foot tall cliffs of ice exposed to the open ocean and subject to collapse under their own weight?

The law is often blamed for a much - maligned curricular narrowing and an overly broad swath of schools deemed as «failing.»

Consider the rain events across broad swaths of Greenland last summer.