Sentences with phrase «for large swathes»

Biofuels also are contributing to the hikes but mainly because the EU and the United States are subsidizing domestic production of crops like corn that offer low efficiency when turned into fuel and compete with other foodstuffs for large swathes of land in these already densely populated areas, Clini said.

This affords greater flexibility within the engine, ultimately aiding in streaming data for large swathes of space.

No good for cold climates but fine for large swathes of the world.

The determined absence of dialogue for large swathes of the film — superbly shouldered by Blair's array of facial tics, if laboured a little when left too long — is paramount to its streamlined structure, which focuses firmly on actions and reactions, and the incitement to both.

After a disastrous few weeks for large swathes of the country, the opposition should really have focussed all their efforts this week on putting the prime minister's reputation under several feet of water.

After the quick chance following the goal, the Sounders kept control for large swathes of time, but rarely made it into the DC United third of the field.

With strike partner Robin Van Persie injured for large swathes of the season, Manchester United have been more reliant than ever on the England forward's goals.

That's extremely important for the large swath of the population that isn't particularly tech savvy.

Campbell sought an integrated holding company model to handle a broad range of duties including strategy, creative, digital, media planning and buying, brand PR and design across multiple regions, including the U.S., for large swaths of its soups, meals and beverages business, according to a request - for - proposal obtained by Ad Age in late 2017.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

To this list could be added many more examples of how the data have grown and grown to support the proposition that the sexual revolution has been resulting in disaster for large swaths of the country — a proposition further honed by whole decades of examination of the relation between public welfare and family dysfunction (particularly in the pages of the decidedly not - Catholic Public Interest magazine).

As Gillibrand's top aide in the region, Deacon was responsible for a large swath of upstate New York.

(People infected with hepatitis C, often through contaminated needles from injection drug use, accounted for a large swath of paid donors.)

Indeed, Hegelian dialectics was a crucial reference point for Rivette — as it was for a large swathe of 1950s French film criticism, not least due to the influence of Bazin.

Must have forgotten her, much as the movie does for large swaths of time.)

So, writer friends, you can push all the promotional buttons you want, but if the book doesn't deliver the goods for a large swath of readers, it's all for naught.

With the help of a network of 14 professional trappers, Lawrence, the alligator coordinator for a large swath of south Florida, responds to complaints ranging from alligators threatening pets to alligators in swimming pools.

The average sea surface temperature for December to February was 0.84 C above the 20th century average of 15.8 C, with record highs for large swaths of the tropical Pacific Ocean (5), various regions of the North and South Atlantic, much of the Indian Ocean, and the Barents Sea in the Arctic (6).

For a large swath of the web's users, Bing results are perfectly acceptable.

De Tocqueville's observation of American individualism driven by an abiding faith in opportunity rang less and less true for large swaths of the populous.

But, as a believer in «consumer advocacy «i.e. voting with my feet and my dollars, the only way to get (Mark) Zuckerberg to rethink his business model is for large swaths of us to change the way we engage Facebook or leave it entirely.

The sub is also quite musical, and it compensates for the bar's smaller drivers seamlessly from the lower mids down, accounting for a large swath of our favorite moments with the system.

We're able to show that it actually matters for a larger swath of the population than we thought.»

This has made it nearly impossible to build a single - family home that can be sold for less than $ 300,000, which is out of reach for a large swath of America's population.

Not exact matches

Now, Keir Dillon and his six - person team at Frends are on a mission to seize a large swath of the market with premium headphones for women that are treated more like designer handbags than the «shrink - it - and - pink - it» products that had plagued the category to that point.

Point solutions addressing smaller problems are being ignored while investors search for companies that can take on and transform larger swaths of the care system.

It took very little time for this so - called controversy to spread to every corner of social media, proving once again the immense power that occurs when you combine large swaths of people with unprecedented communication tools.

To do that the six largest broadband providers refused to widen the pipes into their networks, slowing access to huge swaths of the Internet for millions of Americans.

«We are seeing large swaths of centralized utility scale solar be procured primarily because of how cost competitive it is,» said Cory Honeyman, who follows the U.S. solar industry for market research firm GTM Research.

Essentially, the two states are an island of marijuana legalization in the middle of a large swath where marijuana is not legal for any purpose, medical or recreational.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

For some locals, these buses have become a tangible symbol representing the aggressive wave of gentrification sweeping through large swathes of San Francisco and Oakland.

The most recent batch of data from the American Apparel & Footwear Association suggests a large swath of U.S. consumers is opting for quality over quantity: in 2011, Americans spent 4.9 % more on apparel, while the number of items purchased dropped 5.3 %.

While the breakout hits «House of Cards» and «Orange Is the New Black» appeal to large swaths of Netflix viewers, for its next crop of original series Netflix is looking for shows that appeal to «specialized markets,» Mr. Sarandos said.

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

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.

A large swath of Christian theology teaches that God sent Jesus to die on the cross, that it was God Himself who wanted an innocent victim to die for the sins of the whole world.

(CNN)- Though large swaths of the Muslim world cheered Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, there has been relatively little sympathy expressed for him from those quarters since his killing Sunday - a testament to the dramatic falloff in global Muslim support for the al Qaeda leader in the last decade.

But sadly, you may also stumble on large swaths of land that have been cleared for unsustainable rice cultivation and illegal timber logging.

A few years ago it might have indicted a large swath of the crowd, but it doesn't take long for fair - weather fans to turn obsessive.

Man City's 5 - 0 drubbing of them back in September seemed to announce this, as Henderson, the most defensively competent in a midfield trio alongside Wijnaldum and Can, couldn't handle City's press and incisive attacks; against Tottenham, later in October, he was caught out several times, leaving large swathes of space for Kane and Son to sprint into.

Tidy passing exchanges in the midfield area led to a lofted through ball aiming for Dele Alli; instead, Chris Löwe managed to recover vital ground to cut off that path, but sliced his clearance into the possession of left - back Ben Davies, who had advanced through large swathes of the Town half to ensure that he could keep his cool and slot the ball past Jonas Lössl with relative comfort.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

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A majority of New York City residents, suburbanites and upstate dwellers, as well a large swath of voters across all age groups, races and religions showed support for the initiative.

It's not too difficult to see Democrats gaining 10, or even 20, seats in November, but gaining the 30 required for a majority is more difficult and will require Democrats winning a large swath of seats where Republicans are currently heavy favorites.

So large swathes of the government benches were never going to do anything other than rubbish Mann's calls for reform.

The Commons» culture, media and sport committee has published a report laying, in no uncertain terms, into large swathes of the press for their slapdash approach.

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.