Sentences with phrase «functioning as rivers»

In this country there are 3.5 million miles of rivers, and 1.7 million of those miles are not functioning as rivers should.

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The Pentagon has described the attack as «unprovoked» and started by forces loyal to the Syrian government that crossed over the Euphrates River, which functions as a border between US - backed troops and Russian - backed ones.

Indeed, the river almost always flows in the opposite direction: our informal, intuitive notions of cardinality, time, space, and causality in fact drive the evolution of abstractions such as functions, geometric spaces, real numbers, and coordinate systems.

He also initially told them that he kept a logbook of how much water the property takes from the river — as is required under NSW law when meters are not properly functioning.

Nkanga is renouned in causing ethnic division and hatred, as military governor in Akwa Ibom state, he brought so much hatred between the Annang and the Ibibios, he banned the Annang language in the state and accused Annang people of putting JUJU on his seat at a function in Ikot Ekpene, He is Godswll Akabio's house boy, a campaign manager who could not win elections for his party in his polling unit, Akpabio is promoting the rivers crisis and so those his apologist Nkanga, Nigerians and the good people of rivers should never take a man like Idongesit Nkanga seriously, he is not regarded as an elder in Akwa Ibom where hails from.

For example, as restoration is completed along the Truckee River in Reno and Sparks, restoring and encouraging native plants that support specific insect herbivores will help keep the ecosystem and food chain stable and functioning into the future.

In its modern form, this «riverine barrier hypothesis» posits that the Amazon's major rivers functioned as natural barriers to gene flow between populations.

«Streams and rivers are not only passive conduits of water and terrestrial carbon dioxide, but also function as reactors that generate and release carbon dioxide during transport downstream,» said Erin Hotchkiss.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

The weird, otherworldly flooded caves and subterranean rivers have been found to host lifeforms in the same way as parts of the deep oceans and lakes — providing scientists with a better understanding of how these hidden worlds function.

Think of lymph as a slow moving river washing away the waste products created in the normal functioning of the cells.

Readers familiar with the city will be surprised to learn that the pedestrian mall on 42nd Street functioned in the 19th century as a trail where cattle were driven to slaughterhouses along the East River.

Surrounded by virgin forests and an unadulterated African landscape of mountains, river and ocean views, this well - maintained property consists of 3 adjoining houses and functions both as a guest house and self - cate...

Once it gave up on the idea of functioning as a major seaport, thanks to the sandbank at the mouth of the Kowie River, its navigable river and great beaches began to function as a mini Riviera on the Sunshine CRiver, its navigable river and great beaches began to function as a mini Riviera on the Sunshine Criver and great beaches began to function as a mini Riviera on the Sunshine Coast.

It's a busy little slip road that functions as a pedestrian thoroughfare on the river wharf, upstream from the river mouth.

Sandalford boasts unique facilities such as bi-lingual winery tour, a charming restaurant that showcases alfresco dining under vines, expansive indoor and outdoor function facilities, major concerts and events Perth's first luxury river cruiser the Miss Sandalford, wine appreciation classes, wine blending classes and gift emporium.

Surrounded by virgin forests and an unadulterated African landscape of mountains, river and ocean views, this well - maintained property consists of 3 adjoining houses and functions both as a guest house and self - catering establishment.

The Rhine flows through six countries and functions as a border in places between Germany and France with its main tributaries being the Moselle, Neckar and Main rivers.

The lighthouses both function to protect mariners from the rough and ever - changing Columbia River Bar in the treacherous area known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.

It's about the choice of river boulders that were hollowed out to function as natural stone baths in the sunlit, garden bathrooms.

Xiaoshi Vivian Qin's gossipy art magazine Ruthless Lantern examines mass media rhetoric and how gossip functions as the major infrastructure in today's media beauty contests, and artist duo Mountain River Jump!

River's primary agenda is to function as a progressive commercial space in Los Angeles that specializes in the exhibition and sale of contemporary art via physical and online systems.

This journeying becomes both gesture and sustenance for the drawings, field recordings and performance films that follow, where the river comes to function as a metaphor for grief.

As Egypt tries to fashion a functioning democracy after President Hosni Mubarak's departure, land grabs to the south are threatening its ability to put bread on the table because all of Egypt's grain is either imported or produced with water from the Nile River, which flows north through Ethiopia and Sudan before reaching Egypt.

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