Sentences with phrase «decades of heavy use»

It's understandable that after decades of heavy use, the BQE needs repairs — but we have to make sure that while we're repairing this artery, we aren't damaging our neighborhoods in the process,» Senator Brian Kavanagh said.

In fact, although marijuana is only half as addictive as alcohol, after decades of heavy use, the primary manifestation of a cold turkey stoppage of marijuana use is two weeks of insomnia as the body remembers how to relax normally prior to sleep.

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While other U.N. bodies had condemned sex - selective abortion and infanticide for decades, the women's body remained silent due to the heavy influence of pro-abortion feminists on Western delegations, primarily from the E.U. Indeed, the 2007 CSW statement conspicuously leaves out any use of the word abortion.

I'm sure that in part it's just the growing base of experience among web developers: after more than a decade of heavy web use, we have a good idea of what works, and sites tend to look alike for the same reasons that aerodynamic design leads to cars that tend to look alike.

But the approach, which critics contend is reminiscent of the heavy - handed tactics used by party bosses decades ago, can also elicit backlash.

Likewise, plants have been used for decades as indicators of heavy metal pollution.

Research findings over the last decade suggest inducing greater muscle cell activity by increasing the intensity of the exercise with the use of heavy weights in order to achieve greater growth.

In a departure from the past decade's heavy reliance on test scores to determine which students advance to the next grade, the New York City Department of Education said Wednesday that schools will use a basket of measures instead.

Later in that decade and into the 1980s, she began to use thick and heavy impasto in carefully designed arrangements; and in recent decades, she has developed a distinctive style of simplified organic motifs and areas of flat yet intense colour.

For more than two decades, Jessica Stockholder has been fashioning a new language for sculpture and installation art, one that applies a painter's sense of form, pattern, texture and color to three dimensional spaces through the use of a staggering variety of media, from heavy duty construction material to mass - produced commercial products and even live horticulture.Her sculptural and architectural interventions spread themselves over the spaces they occupy; planes of vivid Technicolor hues abut precisely arranged and patterned objects and assemblages of unlikely materials combine and bloom amidst the colorful chaos.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

Law departments initially began using Legal Services Outsourcing companies with a heavy focus on labor arbitrage, but the LSO industry has evolved significantly over the last decade in terms of the services provided, the service delivery models available, and the value provided.