Sentences with phrase «huge swathes of»

Since it was late August, we had huge swathes of the beach to ourselves and sat right down in every restaurant.

Research, including that from the Boston Consultancy Group, Oxford University and Deloitte, has predicted huge swathes of jobs, ranging from those in accountancy to manufacturing, will be lost to robots in the not too distant future.

Never in our history has the LSUC ever contemplated selling any molecule of ownership of the legal profession to non-lawyers, let alone huge swathes of it.

A volume practice based on defendants is in an entirely different position; there, repanelling by a hostile general counsel or company takeover can, at a stroke, remove huge swathes of revenue which for a quoted entity could be disastrous.

, we have a nice cool «global» anomaly of MINUS 0.25, but huge swathes of grey frankly admit there was zero data for 80 % of the land surface areas, except SE Australia proudly shows virtually the only positive land anomaly (0.2 - 0.5, which is bad news for Garnaut, as it must reduce the anomaly post-1910).

As they swept across Asia, they decimated populations and destroyed huge swathes of farmland, which reverted to natural forest (not that we think mass slaughter of mankind is a solution).

Big El Ninos always have an immense impact on world weather, triggering higher than normal temperatures over huge swathes of the world.

From Alaska to Australia, an unprecedented heating of planet Earth is underway with rising temperatures across huge swathes of land mass and oceans

LONDON, 16 July, 2016 — Powerful tropical storms − known variously as cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes − bring death and destruction to huge swathes of the Earth's surface.

Referring here to engineer Tom Kieran's Grand Canal plan to build a dam across James Bay, raise the water level enough to generate electricity (and flood out huge swathes of Ontario) and then build a giant pipeline to the Great Lakes to solve America's water problems.

Huge swathes of the game find you shooting at Weyland Yutani's private army, a seemingly endless parade of identical grunts with AI that barely registers.

Zooming out lets you see huge swathes of land and this is equally filled up by the population count, now increased to 250.

Ignoring the irritating day - one issues which left people with huge swathes of the game missing entirely there are some framerate issues to deal with, at least when using my own admittedly modest setup.

But these events mean so little when it's entirely possible for huge swathes of your base to get wiped out and it be nothing more than a mild inconvenience.

Meanwhile, huge swathes of Sony's marquee IPs are missing from Vita and will never be on it.

Would so many people still be playing Skyrim if it wasn't for the wealth of mods available that add huge swathes of content to the game and make it more beautiful?

But while many people can envision marching columns of Roman troops conquering everything they came near there are huge swathes of their history that is much lesser known.

The grand strategy genre is one of my personal favorites, even if it is entirely capable of consuming huge swathes of time if you aren't careful.

You'll be rewarded with a real insight into local village life, and more than a few Instagram snaps of the mind blowing scenery: think, rice terraces, rolling hills and huge swathes of jungle!

And if that includes dramatically over-weighting, under - weighting, and / or ignoring huge swathes of the available investment universe, and trading less risk for less reward, then so be it...

Inheritance tax can cost loved ones hundreds of thousands in the event of your death, yet it's possible to legally avoid huge swathes of it, or possibly pay none at all.

On the other hand, there were huge swathes of the market that were languishing as if those industries were on death row.

Without these forces doing most of the heavy lifting (these forces are also partly behind the success of businesses like Amazon, at least the second one if not the first, enabling the retailing giant to develop a business model that undercut existing retailers and took advantage of almost infinite shelf space to appeal to huge swathes of customers) authors and self publishing would still be clamouring for attention not demanding a place at the table.

The imposing size of the vehicle's body — the key to its huge swathes of interior space — is particularly clear when viewed from the rear.

Combined, but decade - old badoo, which has a bit more focus on friendship than speed, takes huge swathes of latin america, eastern europe and asia.

The atmosphere is a problem for astronomers for two big reasons: it's turbulent, so it smears out the light from cosmic objects, and it blocks out huge swathes of the electromagnetic spectrum.

He cited a series of recent studies by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Park Williams that found that, by midcentury, the Southwest will see conditions worse than the worst historical drought conditions, ones that are likely to wipe out huge swathes of forests.

Huge swathes of forest in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas have been cleared.

Over the last century, logging and farming has turned huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest into a ragged patchwork of disconnected stands.

A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective

«In south Somalia to this day you can't figure out where a town is, and there are huge swathes of the Congo that are terra incognita,» Gayton says.

What you can see is how huge swathes of the state have been given over to agriculture.

«OccupyGhana has noted with concern the huge swathes of plastic...

Across Nigeria, there are huge swathes of ungoverned space that lend themselves to lawlessness in the absence of a functional state security apparatus.

«But our membership of the European Union prevents us being able to change huge swathes of law and stops us being able to choose who makes critical decisions which affect all our lives.

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.

She said quitting Labour would be «horrific», but said she no longer felt welcome by «huge swathes of people» now in the party.

Stephen Crabb's warm words on devolution, or promises of money for rail improvements after the next election, doesn't alter the fact that on his watch more than huge swathes of the Welsh workforce have entered a Tory twilight zone of insecurity, low pay and under - employment.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

I am sure this is the case for huge swathes of the country.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

By alienating and humiliating huge swathes of people, they destroy trust and confidence, making it difficult for victims and witnesses to co-operate with them.

The truth is that politicians regularly depict huge swathes of the country as «less than human», to use Twitter's phrase.

I think the days of players like Thierry Henry or Stephen Gerrard staying at a club for huge swathes of their career are over.

They looked for sweaty feet to wash and when terrible plagues hit and huge swathes of the population fled the cities, abandoning the sick, the Christians stayed behind, nursing the ill back to life, with some of the carers dying as a result.

ResearchKit, an open - source platform for creating iPhone apps that collect healthcare research data, will bring together huge swathes of personal data from a significant portion of the population.

Ben Libberton, a microbiologist at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, says hackers could conceivably gain huge swathes of information from embedded microchips.

In another, geospatial company Spaceknow will show off its tech, which processes and tries to make sense of the huge swaths of data that satellites and drones collect.

Even in the cases of Siri, Amazon's Alexa, or IBM's Watson, systems that possess huge swaths of knowledge are actually fairly limited.

Flood waters might kill some animals and high winds might knock over huge swaths of trees.