Sentences with phrase «by later waves»

Their lines of descent must have eventually died out or were overprinted by later waves, as they have contributed little or nothing to our current genetic make - up.

This new genetic evidence might indicate that perhaps an early wave of humans moved through Asia, mixed with Denisovans and then relocated to the islands — to be replaced in Asia by later waves of human migrants from Africa.

The Iranian economy is sclerotic and stands to be crippled by the latest wave of sanctions.

Not exact matches

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human trafficking.

Known by some as the «Silicon Roundabout,» London has been making waves for its tech credentials of late, yet many of London's other industries from high finance to high fashion are equally high flying.

Late last week, the Food and Drug Administration gave its stamp of approval to the marketing of the world's first device designed to help diagnose ADHD — a disorder that plagues some 6.4 million children — by scanning a child's brain waves.

Until late last year, Indian SMEs were growing at their own pace, undeterred by the fast technological wave that seemed to be hitting every other sector.

But the explanations why the rate fell by nearly half a percentage point in Statistics Canada's latest jobs report hint at another trend — the first wave of baby boomers leaving the workplace.

Two days later, I was walking down the sidewalk where these two men still stood, still waving their signs and still motioning at cars as they drove by.

Prompted by the emergence of John Wimber's Vineyard movement in the late 1980s, Professor Peter Wagner proposed a «three waves» reading of 20th Century outpourings of the Spirit.

The late 80s and 90s saw an intensification of the rock identification with leftist activism that had always been there, but which had suffered through some hesitant and confused years when punk and new wave crashed onto the scene with their anti-hippie and sometimes even anti-Labor ire in the late 70s and early 80s, a confusion heightened by the Thatcher / Reagan victories and the mainstream «morning again» mood they brought.

After years of violence between persecuted Rohingya and Rakhine Buddhists, the latest wave of violence ignited in August when security forces launched a counter-offensive in response to coordinated attacks by Rohingya militants.

The latest book by Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design, published on 9th September, just before the Pope's visit to Britain, launched another wave of media frenzy over the religion vs. science debate.

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

Five churches in a predominantly Christian area in the Southern Borno state were completely destroyed on Friday in the latest wave of violence carried out by the extremists who were responsible for abducting over 200 schoolgirls from a Christian village earlier this year.

Later this year, the WSL will stage its first ever top flight event at an artificial wave — the so - called surf ranch devised by none other than Slater.

«Our latest report shows the next wave of this trend is complemented by tang.

Barca were hoping for a penalty of their own moments later but the referee waved away appeals for a foul by Alvaro Arbeloa on Cesc and it showed how the home side were becoming more frustrated at their inability to create clear - cut chances.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

The recent wave of protests in South Africa is just the latest in a series of efforts by students, scholars and governments across Africa to tackle these challenges.

By now most of you will have seen the latest nonprofit fundraising effort to catch the moment and ride a wave of attention, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

The divestment represents the latest move by the city's pension funds to dissociate the city's $ 160 billion worth of assets, one of the largest public pension systems in the country, from gun retailers, and firearm and ammunitions manufacturers in response to a wave of mass shootings.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

He left the Hill staff job for an appointment to the state Legislature in 2005, won election to the House in the GOP wave of 2010 and got to the Senate four years later by ousting incumbent Democrat Mark Udall.

The governor's campaign had $ 25.7 million on hand as of July, which means Cuomo could plausibly have $ 30 million by April of next year — probably the latest he could wave off a reelection run given New York's electoral calendar.

New York (CNN)- New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, who began his campaign as a long - shot but surfed a late wave of momentum by tapping into liberal anxiety over the three - term administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overwhelmed his opponents on Tuesday to finish first in the city's Democratic mayoral primary.

Garcia was in the city for a fund - raiser last night organized by de Blasio's friends at the Working Families Party, and his supporters were eager to make the connection, to see Garcia's surprise forcing of an April 7 runoff against Rahm Emanuel as the latest manifestation of a grassroots wave building across the nation.

He finally made it official late last month at a tightly - choreographed kick - off event at the gilded United Palace Theater in Washington Heights, where he was joined by a chorus of vocal backers waving campaign signs.

The eight - term Republican Congressman, who was expected to face a tough re-election this November, is the latest in a wave of retirements by members of Congress from California.

We can gain unique insight by looking at the latest wave of the British Election Study, a key resource for academics who study elections.

By late evening, the House chamber was in near bedlam at times, with sign - waving and singing Democrats attempting to shut down Republican efforts to act on legislation.

The email from MoveOn.org is the latest in a wave of electronic entreaties from politicians, politicos and other liberal leaders to help prevent the WFP from being superseded by the WEP and Howie Hawkins» Green Party.

By the time those radio waves reached us, some 13 billion years later, the universe would have expanded by factor of 1By the time those radio waves reached us, some 13 billion years later, the universe would have expanded by factor of 1by factor of 10.

LIGO's Livingston detector saw the waves first, followed by the LIGO Hanford detector 8 milliseconds later, and by the Virgo detector another 6 milliseconds after that.

Pottery remains and tomb types suggest the first immigrants came from Brittany in north - west France to southern England, followed around 100 years later by a second wave from north - eastern France who settled in Scotland.

Some have tried to reconcile these findings with the late - exodus narrative by claiming there may have been an early, but ultimately doomed, first wave migration out of Africa some 120,000 years ago, after which humans more or less stayed put on the continent for another 60,000 years.

[NOTE: The Lusitania survived the rogue wave but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat five years later.]

A month or more later, the process was repeated, except that those who had their sleep disrupted the first time were allowed to sleep through the night undisturbed, and those who had slept uninterrupted the first time were disturbed by beeps when they began to enter slow - wave sleep.

This latest study is part of ongoing research by the University and key partners into waves as a renewable energy source.

A week later the students were asked to transfer what they had learned about bats to a second knowledge domain: the navigational use of sound waves by submarines.

The authors showed that after the initial waves of human arrival, mammal extinctions followed, presumably first caused by hunting and later by forest clearing for agriculture, which reduces the habitat for native mammals.

Now, 5 years and several gravitational wave observations later, a neutron - star merger that Messick helped spot by analyzing gravitational wave signals is Science's 2017 Breakthrough of the Year.

The Stella Maris virtual periscope is just the latest technology developed by the researchers, who have also found ways to exploit «underwater flicker,» i.e., random change of underwater lighting, caused by the water surface wave motion.

By late afternoon, the wave of negative publicity had depressed the value of both Celera and Incyte stock by 21 %; many other biotech companies suffered losses as welBy late afternoon, the wave of negative publicity had depressed the value of both Celera and Incyte stock by 21 %; many other biotech companies suffered losses as welby 21 %; many other biotech companies suffered losses as well.

Six years later, a group of researchers led by Barbara Romanowicz from the University of California at Berkeley, US, said the hum was in fact caused by the pounding of waves, not air.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in a wave of legal cases filed by children against states and the federal government that accuse government of depriving them of the fundamental right to a stable climate.

My latest story, «Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs,» is about a mathematical discovery that allows physicists to plan out that quantum dance step by step, like directors of a Broadway show.

(That means that what they are observing actually happened during the late Middle Ages here on Earth, since that's how long it has taken the radio waves generated by those objects to reach us.)