Sentences with phrase «from other land uses»

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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

Because it can takeoff and land from any paved general aviation airport — with or without use of a runway — TriFan 600's operational versatility makes it uniquely possible to utilize any one of the thousands of smaller airports in the U.S. with runways otherwise unavailable to other business jets.

isn't that Evoulation in reverse?all other creatures on land have a thick skin (hair or wool) except humans!if God creates us he made us this way but provide us with the brain to complete our creation so we becomae as independent at other species using our heads; from riding a horse to a car to aplane to maybe self propelled engines?but why did we start covering ourselves: Are we really made with a built in shame or is it just the enviroment?

I heard a story about farmers in Haiti who, a few decades ago, were given tractors and other farm machinery so they could use new techniques to keep their land from eroding away.

Occasional remarks are found such as «before there reigned any king over the children of Israel» (Genesis 36:31), which seem to imply that from the standpoint of the writer the monarchy had already been established; and «the Canaanite was then in the land» (Genesis 12:6, 13:7), which implied that it was being written after Hebrew occupation; and finally repeated instances of the use of the phrase «on the other side of the Jordan,» in reference to events occurring in the lifetime of Moses, which led scholars to doubt if Moses could have been the author at least of the whole of the Pentateuch.

The result was the CV (Citrus Vineyard) zone, unique at the time because it allowed smaller parcels, encouraged the development of small wineries selling their products from their vineyards and allowed for other compatible commercial uses as long as 75 % of the land was in agriculture.

They earn a steady income from selling cocoa from the farm, whilst also using the same land to grow various other food crops for their families.

In other action, the council approved a developer's request to rezone nearly 5 acres at the northwest corner of Washington Street and Ring Road from a commercial land use to residential to allow for 20 town homes.

Older wireless receivers used analog signals, but these are open to interference from other wireless devices like cell phones, cordless land line phones, radios, etc..

Architects with Phillips Swager Associates said they still need a master plan from the Park District to determine parking and other land - use needs, even if the current plan only involves redesigning the library.

It would essentially forbid the club from selling its land near Irving Park and Bloomingdale Roads for any use other than as a golf course or open space.

The Kirchners (and other Peronists before them) have certainly done a lot to tax the large land owners in «the campo» and use the revenue to provide programs from the poor, although she faced a political backlash in 2007 when people thought she was going too far with that policy.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

In the initial petition, a litany of allegations have been levelled against her, including spending GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the erstwhile John Mahama - led NDC government, spending about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorised her to use only $ 7.5 million, as well as attending Cabinet meetings during the tenure of the President John Mahama, among other issues.

The petition against her, alleged among others the funneling of GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, the receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the Mahama government, and the use of about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million.

The petition against her, alleged among others the funnelling of GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, the receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the Mahama government, and the use of about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million.

The earlier petition against her, alleged among others the funneling of GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, the receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the Mahama government, the expenditure of about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million.

«The N84bn generated by LIRS excludes revenue from Land Use Charge; it is from strict application of taxes from Pay As You Earn (PAYE), withholding taxes, direct assessment and other taxes.

A litany of allegations leveled against Charolotte Osei including spending GHc3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a bullet - proof Toyota Land Cruiser from the previous government, spending about $ 14 million for district offices when the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million as well as attending Cabinet meetings under President John Mahama's administration, among others.

The Board hears presentations from City officials and others and, as part of the land use review process, is sometimes called upon to vote on land use questions that impact more than one Community Board District.

A litany of allegations have been leveled against Mrs. Osei, including spending GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the previous government, spending about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million, as well as attending Cabinet meetings under President John Mahama's administration, among other things.

Among other advantages, legalizing pot would would eliminate the strain on public lands resulting from its clandestine cultivation as well as meet higher standards for the use and disposal of toxic substances

Other places have both The study shows a map with a splash of red from south to north in the nation's center, depicting an area that's sensitive to both intensifying land use and climatic changes.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

Unique among codes used in other exascale computing projects, it can run on all current and prototype architectures, from the basic X86 chip used in most home PCs, to graphics processing units, to the newest Knights Landing chip found in Theta, the ALCF's latest supercomputing system.

Rice was part of a group of 18 authors from around the world who wrote the chapter pertaining to agriculture, forestry, and other land use.

Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.

Engaging stakeholders and society in an issue that takes place miles from land and fathoms underwater can be a daunting task, especially in the face of economic arguments for mining the deep sea for materials used in products that society values, like cell phones and other electronics.

5) Cremating a human body releases 15 kilograms of carbon dioxide (along with other pollutants, such as mercury from dental fillings), while traditional burial uses up scarce land.

Globally, salt marshes are being lost to waves, changes in land use, higher sea levels, loss of sediment from upstream dams and other factors.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

Cumulative emissions of CO2 since 1870 are set to reach 2015 billion tonnes in 2013 — with 70 per cent caused by burning fossil fuels and 30 per cent from deforestation and other land - use changes.

CO2 emissions from deforestation and other land - use change added 8 per cent to the emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The Berkeley researchers developed their own statistical methods so that they could use data from virtually all of the temperature stations on land — some 39,000 in all — whereas the other research groups relied on subsets of data from several thousand sites to build their records.

That, in turn, could obviate the need for making biofuels from corn, sugar, and other food crops and thereby reduce the need for using prime agricultural land to grow biofuels.

If the land devoted to growing food for cattle in the United States were used to grow peas, barley, and other crops for people instead, beef production would drop by 55 %, from 31 million to 14 million beef cattle, the team reports today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

«The quantity of carbon expected to be released from thawing permafrost is high, with emissions from Arctic waters expected to be equal to those from land - use change in other regions of the world.

And where your assignment was to go from 36 billion tons a year to essentially zero, you know, now you can have a footnote and say, «Okay, poor countries are still allowed to emit» and the livestock land use era deserves its own footnote because, you know, short of something like artificial meat, which is a whole other topic, we actually don't have — mostly we talk about energy: household, factory, office, transport.

Despite these hurdles, several years ago the team discovered chlorobenzene, a ring - shaped molecule containing six carbons, along with other chlorinated organics, using a sample from a mudstone Curiosity drilled at Yellowknife Bay near its landing site in Gale crater.

The authors believe their findings can be used by land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.

It is important to note that this analysis concerns itself only with CO2 from energy and not with CO2 emissions from land - use changes or other greenhouse gases.

The region also has vast areas of forest land that are converted each year to agricultural and other uses, making land use change and reduction of emissions resulting from deforestation a top priority for the region.

In particular, the complexity of carbon sink and source accounting requires separating the contributions from land use, land use change, and forestry from those of other areas.

Importantly, land designated for growing grasses would come primarily from land used for grazing or land that's not being used at all — in other words, food prices would be largely unaffected under both scenarios.

To do that, scientists use the technique called ion soft landing to select a particular ion of interest from the mixture of other ionic species in solution and deposit it onto electrodes.

It makes sense, then, that high - vitamin cod liver oil should serve as a safe standalone supply of vitamin A even during the winter, while liver from land animals should either be used during seasons where the supply of UV - B rays from the sun is rich enough to guarantee adequate vitamin D, or in conjunction with vitamin D - rich foods such as lard from pastured pigs, oily fish, shellfish, and egg yolks from pastured chickens, all of which supply smaller but substantial amounts of vitamin D. (For a list of these and other food sources of vitamin D with specific concentrations listed, see Appendix 3.

A cricket match on 11 and 12 February 1851, played by teams from Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and Port Phillip District (now Victoria), was the first Official Google My Business Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Google My Business and other answers to frequently asked questions.

It supports environmental / geography studies / colonial history in the Australian curriculum but it also has wider appeal for teachers from other countries wishing to explore human land use activities in marginal environmental areas.

• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... • Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.