Sentences with phrase «in huge swaths»

Countries in sub-saharan Africa, countries in huge swaths of desert such as Saudi Arabia, and countries in dense jungles have never had very high populations and consequently saw very little development.

In the early 1990s the Clinton administration put a stop to logging in huge swaths of old growth forest in the U.S. to protect a small, non-descript brown bird that was facing extinction: the northern spotted owl.

About the only thing in common is federal disaster relief, but it is hard to believe that people only build houses in huge swaths of tornado - susceptible territory because they believe they will be bailed out.

The instrument is the «best tool» for picking out dim, extremely distant objects lost in huge swaths of sky, Batygin said.

Even as the subways reach the breaking point, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers face an additional commuting crisis: the lack of fast, reliable transit service in huge swaths of the boroughs outside Manhattan.

Cell phones are the primary method of communication in huge swaths of the developing world.

Just like winter seems unwilling to give up its grip in huge swaths of the country, I'm unhappy to report that this year's flu season seems set to be just an tenacious.

«We know we have these huge investments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion - dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,» Kenney said.

Not exact matches

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.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

Whereas huge swaths of the country remain hobbled by scarce credit, depressed home prices, and high levels of unemployment, the technology hubs in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City are booming.

For huge swaths of the knowledge - working, laptop - or tablet - toting world, technology has already made a desk in an office obsolete, or at least optional.

On the other hand, for a huge swath of the population, there has been a downward recalibration of expectations, which makes them wonder if there is a place for them in the new economy, Kessler says.

Smoke also blanketed huge swaths of Northern California last week, which presents a more widespread concern for the marijuana industry, according to Nick DiNicola, whose company, DiNicola Insurance Services, brokers insurance for companies in the cannabis space.

The breach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump's campaign in 2016.

Technologies are becoming advanced enough to draw in big data about huge swaths of users; this will soon make it possible for Google and other search engines to learn even more about how their users interact with sites.

The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird.

There are huge swaths of areas where people do not believe in supernatural beings in China and much of Asia, Russia, much of Europe.

In its heyday, communism looked set to hang on for the long term, dominating a huge swath of the Eurasian continent and seeking to expand its tentacles elsewhere.

In those words, and the words of many others, I think we can see the outline of an ethic that avoids self - indulgence yet does not deny the physical facts of a planet with 6 billion people who may soon nearly double their numbers — a planet that grows hotter, stormier and less stable by the day, a planet where huge swaths of God's creation are being wiped out by the one species told to tend this particular garden.

You now have a huge swath of people who are «culturally» Catholic (much like the culturally Jewish) who know and understand the customs but have no interest whatsoever in supporting the doctrine.

What you don't do is go into a track meet against Arsenal, especially when you don't have the players to do so, leaving huge swaths of space all over the park for players like Ozil and Ramsey to operate in.

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.

But what you tend to learn (usually pretty quickly, in the grand scheme of things) is that every child is different and the swathe of normal is actually pretty huge.

Previously, she saw huge swaths of colors and big bold shapes, but now she's starting to zero in on that teal button on your blouse, the glare that glints off your gold earrings and oh my god, is that a sparkly chain around your neck with purple gemstones on it?

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.

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

It added that the breach allowed Cambridge Analytica to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate and develop techniques that underpinned its work on the Trump campaign in 2016.

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

The current system, in which taxpayers fund closed primaries that exclude huge swaths of voters, is unsustainable.

As the legislative session started last month in Albany, two huge swaths of the Bronx lack a representative at the table, as the Councilwoman explains on Facebook:

«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.

In nearby Brazil, huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest have been cleared to make way for cattle, farmland and commercial logging.

Driven by personal narratives of patients, researchers and allied health workers in the field and exploring the multidisciplinary science that is transforming wellness across the world, LIVES informs a huge swath of health stakeholders.

Yet today, an aerial view reveals huge swaths of the countryside surrounding Canberra blackened from a firestorm that threatened to engulf the city in 2003, after months of scorching weather turned pine forests into a giant tinderbox.

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

By surveying swaths of North Africa, Stefanescu's team confirmed that the painted ladies virtually disappeared from the area during the hot summer months and returned in huge numbers in October.

That all changed in 1995, when astronomers began using large - format digital cameras to photograph huge swaths of sky in a single exposure.

Cattle ranching has been the primary driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as huge swaths of rainforest are cleared to make way for agriculture.

The light buckets will act like floodlights in reverse, pulling in radio waves from a huge swath of sky.

Like Genghis Khan seizing huge swaths of Asia and leaving only a trail of bastard children behind, Friedberg and Seltzer moved onto romcoms with Date Movie and popcorn blockbusters the next year with Epic Movie, both of which have at best passing interests in the genres they're supposed to be spoofing.

Every year, we are greeted with the possibility of hundreds of new films: wide releases across the nation, independent gems in the art houses, huge swaths of new opportunities at a litany of film festivals.

«States can adopt policies that leave huge swaths of kids without access to a free and appropriate education [and] many southern states would adopt the same strategy as Texas in order to reduce education spending.»

But our schools, particularly in Philly, are not training a huge swath of students to succeed in college — and also not training non-college bound children for the workforce in any way.

This car isn't likely to blaze a swath through the dense forest of big - name competitors, with their huge built - in base of repeat buyers.

Meanwhile, I support indie books in single issues, pay for digital content from creators I think are doing it the right way (just bought Once Upon a Four O'Clock in the Afternoon, by Madeleine Flores), and read a huge swath of webcomics, buying merchandise when I can afford 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.

For example, General Motors reduced its stock allocation from 40 percent in 2006 to 30 percent in 2007; IBM cut back from 63 percent to 52 percent; and Ford cut a huge swath of its stock allocations, from 70 percent to 53 percent.