Sentences with phrase «by vast swathes»

So now I'm thinking: Am I living in a fairyland that's not inhabited by vast swathes of the female population?

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It will take an army of workers to reconstruct a vast swath of southeast Texas, including the sprawling metropolis of Houston, that was devastated by Harvey.

Lib Dems, led by veteran Shirley Williams, made clear at the party's autumn conference they would not budge an inch on a vast swathe of remaining objections - including the legislation's rather vague approach to who is actually responsible for the NHS.

Lincolnshire (the actual county, not just the area covered by Lincolnshire County Council) has three large conurbations — the City of Lincoln and the towns of Great Grimsby and Scunthorpe, several smaller towns including Cleethorpes, Brigg, Skegness and Grantham and vast swathes of countryside.

«It is fanciful to believe this can be achieved merely by savings in administration, or freezing certain departmental spending limits while ring - fencing vast swaths of the public sector.

A five year survey of job creation in New York, compiled by the State Comptroller, finds, though, that vast swaths of upstate are still struggling.

But five - year survey of job creation in New York, compiled by the state comptroller, finds that vast swaths of upstate are still struggling.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Or maybe Rothschild's zeal was simply an extreme form of that peculiar Victorian passion for plundering the world of its then - abundant natural riches, an ardor that was abetted in part by access to a British empire that stretched across vast swaths of Africa, India, and Australia.

Korean Sign Language or KSL (Korean: 한국 수화 언어 韓國手話言語 Hanguk Suhwa Eoneo or 한국 수어 韓國手語 Hanguk Sueo) is the deaf sign A video taken from a helicopter by Chilean police showed a vast swath of the remote town of Villa Santa Lucia, near Chaiten in coastal Patagonia, buried

The vast swath of the municipal bond market tracked by the S&P Municipal Bond Index makes this analysis possible.

The perfect landscape for breeders — small farms that weren't bought by agri - giants; vast swaths of plains between its two major cities; and a live - and - let - live ethos in flyspeck towns — it has long been the number - one state in the nation for licensed operators.

Vast swathes of the north, east and south coasts are accessible only by boat.

For the best chance of seeing them head to Scandinavia, and in particular southern Iceland where vast swathes of countryside are still untainted by pollution and overcrowding.

A pioneer of postwar art, Jasper Johns opened up vast swathes of territory for future artists by changing the way we look at and think about how pictures are made and are visually consumed.

The exhibition opens with Red W - L (1982)-- a piece (which is part of the artist's «Waterfall Series»)-- which displays vast swaths of electric blood red splashes interrupted by jet black and opalescent splatters, bridging four distinct but descending varnished panels.

In the years prior to 1985, several publications reported the scientific consensus that acid rain emitted by coal - fired electricity generation plants belching sulfur dioxide was destroying vast swathes of forests and lakes in the eastern United States.

It is evident in pretty much everything we write about and thankfully, it is a vision that post-Paris Agreement has been adopted to varying extents by virtually every government on the planet and vast swathes of the business community (with one bright orange exception).

Land clearing laws have seen savannah — maintained by indigenous peoples over millennia --- give way to woody weeds, feral species and declining biodiversity over vast swathes of the Australian landscape.

In California, the added heat has been compounded by the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016, which dried out vast swaths of wilderness and opened the door to a devastating beetle bark infestation.

Like the rest of its Puffleg brethern, it has «little cotton balls above [its] legs,» said Luis Mazariegos - Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy, in an interview with the AP.The bird's tiny territory in the Cauca province is under siege, however, by the environmentally destructive drugs industry, which relies on slashing and burning vast swathes of land for growing illegal crops such as coca, otherwise known as the raw material in cocaine.

Not only would it have jeopardized funding for mass transit and axed important pedestrian and bicycle programs, but Republicans were planning on paying for the increased costs by opening up vast swaths of public lands for oil and gas drilling.

Ocean overturning is a diurnal event, and since the average wind speed over the oceans is little more than BF4, there must be vast swathes of the oceans where the conditions for long periods are BF2 or less when there would be very little ocean / top surface mixing by wind waves or swell.

Abstract The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy along a vast swath of the East Coast of the United States made clear just how vulnerable coastal communities are to sea - level rise resulting from climate impacts.

Searchers relying on a single search engine are missing a vast swath of web content that they could easily find simply by trying their queries on other engines.

«This Judgment may encourage criminal and other law enforcement bodies to exploit a company's vulnerability to adverse media and other reporting of wrongdoing by writing to, and requesting, the company to investigate the wrongdoing itself, pay for the entire cost of that investigation and then produce vast swathes of material generated by its investigation to the law enforcement body in question, whether it self - reports or not.

Pending appeals, a vast swathe of mesothelioma claims is poisoned by an uncertainty that simply did not exist at the time of the «Success Fee» mediation.

Facebook has been under pressure since the revelations that vast swathes of data were held by British firm Cambridge Analytica, after it was obtained from a researcher who shared the data without the social network's permission.

Case in point: While XRP investors might be charmed by the thought of holding a cryptocurrency that one day a large swath of the banking system may use, the vast majority of Ripple's banking clients are using the company's xCurrent product — a glorified messaging platform.