Sentences with phrase «covering large swaths»

This will be a remarkably easy game for your family to pick up and play, because even if you aren't sure about the fine details of the game you can help your team win by using a giant paint roller and covering large swaths of territory while you avoid the other team.

NBC covers a large swath of the PGA Tour schedule, but it's CBS that would probably be considered the first network of the Tour.

Jeffrey Mailman has not raised nearly as much money as other candidates in the race for District 4, which covers a large swath of Manhattan's east side, but he has raised the most from real estate workers at companies including Douglas Elliman, and Warburg Realty.

Her district covers a large swath of central New York including the cities of Binghamton, Utica and Rome.

Padavan, a Republican, said that although he was approached by several people to run for the 11th Senate District, which covers a large swath of northeast Queens, including College Point, Whitestone, some of Flushing, Bayside, Fresh Meadows, Hollis Hills and the neighborhoods bordering Nassau County.

Feral pigs eat the flammable, invasive grasses that now cover large swaths of the islands; without them, fires could become more common and destroy more native habitat than the pigs do themselves.

During ice ages, glaciers scour and cover large swaths of land, wiping out plant communities for millennia.

The COCOM restrictions are far - reaching, covering large swathes of technologies with strategic or potential military value, from computers and solid - state components to telecommunications equipment and machine tools.

The build - up of extra cells forms patches of red, itchy skin that are covered with silvery scales and can range from a few spots to major flare - ups that cover large swathes of skin.

But graphene's electrons expand, in a sense, to cover large swaths, effectively riding over impurities like the tires of a monster truck over potholes.

NYT journalist Ashlee Vance covers a large swath of relevant material about the Singularity and also mentions my upcoming book on longevity issues.

NASA's astrophysics director Charlie Pellerin had conceived of the «Great Observatories» program; envisioning four large space telescopes operating simultaneously to cover a large swath of the electromagnetic spectrum.

You could also head to the unspoilt wilderness of the Arikok National Park, which covers a large swathe of the island, and offers some spectacular hikes, plus mountain - biking and horse - riding trails.

By the same token, Southwest Airlines covers a large swath of the country, but it doesn't fly in or out of airports in places like Colorado Springs, Colorado; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Syracuse, New York.

Another thing that stands out almost immediately is the new, dimpled patternation that covers large swathes of the console.

Even more to the point is the set of white curtains that covers a large swath of the main gallery; look closely, and you'll see a clear vinyl silhouette attached to it, as well as a swarm of insects printed on the curtains themselves.

But when the DC Circuit's order dismissing the allegations was challenged, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts assigned the case to the 10th Circuit, which covers a large swath of the western United States, to review the matter.

With a national criminal database check you can cover a large swath of the more than 3,000 U.S. jurisdictions with a single search so it's tempting to search such a database and call it good.

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If Facebook flies multiple planes it could be able to cover much larger swaths of land.

(A Fortune magazine piece last year covered how GoDaddy worked to change the tone of its racy, sometimes sexist, ads in order to better appeal to women, who represent a large swath of the country's small business owners.)

But to give the wireless carriers large swathes of spectrum in the same frequency around the country, the FCC plans to free up airwaves that currently cover channels 37 and above in every market.

But if Spengler's quip has at least a kernal of truth to it, it suggests that reconsidering this relationship will be vital to any post-liberal political theory, especially ones interested in resisting late - liberal urges to globalize ever - larger swaths of society as a way of covering up for centralization's previous disappointments.

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.

Seismic energy travels through different types of rock at different speeds, and by combining datasets that covered a 500 - mile - wide swath of the Andean Plateau, Ward and Delph were able to resolve large plutonic volumes that had previously been seen only in pieces.

Since 1988, the ministry has relied on the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) to analyze land cover changes in the Amazon, which holds the world's largest intact swaths of forest.

Funded by tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner, it will set two of the world's largest radio telescopes surveying the million closest stars across a broader swathe of the radio spectrum, and will cover 10 times as much sky as all previous searches combined.

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.

Terry: If we're to go back 1.5 billion years, the earth is covered with a terrible poison which is killing off large swaths of life.

Investors who want to cover a spectacularly wide swath of the emerging world without compromising on cost could consider the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF — the largest emerging - markets ETF at $ 85.4 billion in assets.

As technology has advanced, there are now some variations available on this same basic idea — wireless systems that cover a circular area up to a certain distance from the transmitter, and even GPS - based models that allow you to «enclose» very large or irregularly - shaped swaths of land.

Although we often hear terms such as «Egypt's marine parks», there is no official national marine park that covers all or even large swathes of the Red Sea.

Best known for his large - scale paintings featuring black figures, defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been «invisible men,» Marshall's interrogation of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th - century American abstraction.

In 2010, I painted small fragments on large canvases rather than covering the entire swath of fabric.

Now, add all those up, with all the uncertainties involved in trying to get a geographic average when, for example, large swaths of the earth are not covered by an official thermometer, and what is the error on the total?

And once wide swaths of tree are cut, large land areas lose their shade cover, resulting in more evaporation from the soil, further reducing water flows.

But if large swaths of the country run out of water and are covered by swirling sands, the occasional blizzard doesn't sound so bad.

Auto - Owners provides auto insurance in a large swath of the United States, and covers a number of midwestern and southeastern states.

A solid entry - level pick Meizu's lineup of phones covers a pretty large swath of the smartphone price spectrum, but it's their budget - minded phones that have made them famous.