Sentences with phrase «good swath»

I'm thinking something like your typical college «survey» course but that covers a good swath of guru teaching.

«I think we're getting close to having the data that will let us rule out a good swath of these proposed ideas.»

I stumbled across part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition website, where I found a good swathe of the 6th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation available online in PDF.

Not exact matches

Even though there are certain high - profile states where finding a home could be more difficult, «the best takeaway is that housing remains affordable in large swaths of the country.»

Nevertheless, new formulations of vitamins and supplements continue to crop up every year, promising a wide swath of benefits including weight loss, improved skin, and better athletic or sexual performance.

Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the company should be giving away personally identifiable information, but said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.

It is what makes possible the very popular 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage with a down payment that is manageable for a wide swath of creditworthy borrowers (20 %, with or without primary mortgage insurance for a conforming borrower), but also maintains other underwriting standards as well.

According to the map, those with the best optics for viewing the Lyrid meteor shower are on the East Coast from Pennsylvania to Maine as well as a swath on the West Coast that includes parts of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and California.

(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.)

Part of the App Store's growth have been simple tweaks: splitting Apps and Games into two different tabs, for instance, as well as adding a new «Today» section to allow users to better get a sense of the broad swath

But of course, the rich consume in different ways — while a large swath of the population is pauperized and is stripped of its assets as well as future earnings after taxes and debt service are extracted from their paychecks.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigration.

Good for them if they can afford to forego the thumping great swathes that taxes will chew out of their investment returns, on top of whatever income tax they pay on earnings.

A joint federal - state commission on Wednesday voted to move ahead with a rulemaking that would prohibit horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing across a large swath of eastern Pennsylvania, as well Continue Reading

A joint federal - state commission on Wednesday voted to move ahead with a rulemaking that would prohibit horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing across a large swath of eastern Pennsylvania, as well as the states of New York, Delaware and New Jersey.

Through my experiences and discussions with countless other animal advocates representing a broad swath of our movement, I've come to realize organizations with the best cultures espouse these two philosophies:

The Martin Prosperity Institute is broadening its mandate and is dedicated to exploring ways in which democratic capitalism can bring prosperity and well - being to the broadest swath of citizens within its jurisdictions around the world.

Pat, however, SEEMS to be saying that the Almighty is a poor marksman and has no problem with taking out large swaths of good Christians to send the sinners to hell now.

It is also true that large swaths of the mainline are fat and happy with the status quo and need a good kick in the rear, but if you want to find a church whose passionate pursuit of Christian justice has been consistent over decades you'd do well to start looking in the mainline.

Get lost in people's eyes today and in swaths of sun on any afternoon, and lose track of time and get lost in a good book, and smile abundantly, till your cheek hurts, because you are alive after all, and you have time to feel wind on your face and you have time to reach out to one person and remember how we all belong to each other and each of us gets a place to belong and the abundance of your life is not measured in the ways you gained — but in what you gave away.

It would have led to Israel's permanent annexation of 8 to 12 percent of the West Bank as well as a large area of settlements around Jerusalem, plus the long - term «lease» to Israel of the Jordan River Valley, plus Israeli «security control» (which is another way of saying «continued occupation») of the vast swathes of territory on which lie the bypass roads connecting the settlements.

Saddam Hussein might well have maintained contact with, and provided safe passage to, al - Qaeda leaders, but it took the American invasion and the botched occupation to give al - Qaeda control of large swaths of Iraqi territory.

To create the difference between just another good - quality wine industry and a highly innovative industry that can cut a swathe in the global market — and even export its innovations and expertise to France — requires a lot of investment in research and development, in training and experience, and in marketing and production.

An ancient dish, well known to nomads and herders across a wide swath of the Caucasus and Central Asia, shashlyk became popular in Russia in the mid-19th century after Georgia, Azerbaijan, and part of Armenia were absorbed into the Russian Empire.

They're the primary network partner of the PGA Tour, with NBC getting several swaths of the schedule as well, and the West Coast swing is one of their better stretches.

In isolation, these teams made their teams better, and they didn't give up vast swaths of their farm systems.

As for the resume: Georgia are SEC Champions with one loss, and that's good enough, but for added spice, look at the swath of destruction they wrought through the bulk of their schedule.

Well, most of you reading this don't need to learn, but large swathes of the wider fanbase certainly do; when will fans accept that young players usually take time to settle, as do players coming to England from overseas, so when a new signing ticks both boxes maybe they deserve a little leeway?

Given that, I can see that a huge swath of society would feel a whole lot better if women would just get with the program like their moms did — marry, stay at home and manage the kids while bringing in some income.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

Why not, in the very least, take a swathe of territory across the northern part of what is today Bangladesh for better access to the Indian northeast?

Take the greenbelt: a phenomenally good idea to protect great swathes of our countryside from urban sprawl.

Even if you ignore the growing evidence that more equal societies perform better, you can not escape from the fact that increasing absolute poverty while leaving vast swathes of unproductive wealth untouched will only make the recovery that much harder.

Surely it's better to allow as much time as is necessary for events to take their course, without cutting a swathe through the constitution as you go?

His presence would provide a critical breadth to the debate, ensuring that a good range of voices are represented, as well as reminding a mostly - invisible but always - large swathe of the public that Labour still retains much of its old appeal, & that we are (as we can comfortably be a good 30 years after the Militant tendency) a truly welcoming political family.

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.

That by trimming their sails to policies that are anathema to many inside the party — and a betrayal of all the bold, good things that were achieved in terms of domestic policy by the Blair / Brown Labour governments — they have caused swaths of the party's supporters to turn away in bewilderment and disgust.

Yarborough, who was a two - term Jacksonville City Councilman representing a big swath of his current House district, is also one of the better grassroots candidates in the area.

His strategy, of focusing relentlessly on Brexit, demanding a referendum on the final exit deal, had been expected to play well in pro-EU marginal seats across a swath of Britain.

The district is also one of the most Republican House seats in New York, encompassing a broad swath of the Adirondack Park, as well as the area to the immediate north and south.

Despite the fact that huge swathes of the electorate voted with Labour, believing it to be their best way to stop Brexit, the Tories were able to spin the last general election as giving a huge mandate to pro-Brexit parties.

With 97 % of the vote counted, she has 58 % in the 7th Congressional District, which includes sections of the Lower East Side and Chinatown as well as a large swath of Brooklyn.

The group New Yorkers Against Corruption includes a broad swath of organizations — from environmental groups to the New York State Rifle And Pistol Association, as well as labor unions and the Conservative Party.

The district includes a pair of hard - hit Rust Belt cities - Utica and Binghamton - as well as large swaths of rural farmland and bite - size villages and towns.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

The fact that thousands of people are willing to contribute is a good sign that a swath of the electorate is energized, and probably bodes well for a candidate's ability to find volunteers in the weeks before an election.

This is code for further privatisation and deregulation even though it was a privatised and deregulated market economy which produced the biggest financial crash for nearly a hundred years as well as turning off vast swathes of Labour's electoral base.

«And as long as we have useful tools who purport to be Republicans, like Dean Skelos, Bob Turner, and a swath of other who are not willing to stand up for principles, but who would rather knuckle under to the most extreme demands of far - left Democrats, Public Service Unions and well - funded special interests in exchange for job security, and who could not lead a one - car funeral on an abandoned stretch of the Thruway, idiots like me — Andrew Cuomo — will continue to roll over the legislature, the taxpayers, the bondholders, and the rest of New York's victims with nary so much as an objection.»

Affordable housing advocates, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James, say the plan will leave out large swaths of the city who make nothing near that much.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.