Sentences with phrase «in large swaths»

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's designation of the the rusty patched bumblebee as endangered has already set in motion a rash of legal actions to block individual projects and stop all development in large swaths of land.

Amorphous sprays of x's and o's and other pixilated data are the result of various objects put through a scanner, digitally manipulated, enlarged or reduced, allowed to play out in large swaths, and sometimes corralled into shapes with drop - shadow edges.

The islands themselves are designed as short, easily digestible puzzles that can either be powered through in large swaths or taken individually.

Walker has been sharply critical of Obama administration plans to block development in large swaths of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

A City Council committee on Thursday paved the way a proposal to limit new self - storage development in large swaths of the city's industrial neighborhoods...

excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.

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.»

The fact that 20 of the state's 64 counties have higher loan limits should tell you that home prices in a large swathe of the state tend to be high.

The NAR said «New listings struggled to keep up with what was sold very quickly, and buying became less affordable in a large swath of the country.

A common error about this in large swathes of Christianity is that God just arbitrarily chooses whomever God wants to choose.

The revolt of MPs and councillors against the imposition of mayors in large swathes of the North is jeopardising the political hopes of a Chancellor yearning to prove himself as a reformer who reshaped the governance of Britain.

As a means to cut down on double - parking and disruptive deliveries, the city will also pilot banning curbside loading entirely during peak hours in a large swath of midtown — from 45th Street to 50th Street, between Sixth Avenue and Madison Avenue.

This would enable a Labour government to claim that there was no new funding to political parties, but also end any form of direct communication between Labour and its supporters in large swathes of rural and Tory Britain.

Deer were located in close proximity to «green spaces» located in a large swath stretching from Le Moyne College to the Syracuse University / SUNY ESF campus.

Besides being much easier and more efficient than replacing the dysfunctional exon with a working copy, simply snipping out the weak link is a strategy that would be effective in a larger swath of the patient population.

For six weeks this past summer pregnant women in a large swath of eastern Sierra Leone were unable to find a single person to perform caesarean sections.

In large swathes of the U.S., where more electricity comes from coal and natural gas than nuclear or renewables, that is a harder claim.

I also wrote it in large swathes, as different episodes became vivid for me, and then rearranged these in the editing, rather than writing straight through from beginning to end as I did with The Historian.

Kwartler's two recent paintings are made on standard plywood panels purchased at New York lumberyards that the artist painted in large swathes of pink, green, and lavender - tinted Venetian plaster in the fleeting moments before the plaster dried.

If claimants are no longer able to recover legal costs in large swathes of claims where they previously could, they are likely to seek to recover on existing or new insurance policies.

Auto - Owners provides auto insurance in a large swath of the United States, and covers a number of midwestern and southeastern states.

Not exact matches

Broadly speaking, the practice involves taking one large field and managing it as if it were dozens or even hundreds of smaller ones, in order to address the wild variability — in soil, topography and exposure to the elements — that exists across large swaths of land.

It would box in these characters, the way much of society already does, and erase large swaths of their personalities.

If Democrats and Republicans in Washington fail to strike a deal by midnight tonight, then large swaths of the U.S. government will shut down.

It's fine if you want to rotate out of tech and buy utilities, but if you are owning large swaths of the market in the form of mutual funds or ETFs — and I mean owning the S&P 500 — they are not going to matter much.

In January most large public companies adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a system already used in more than 100 countries (notably across the European Union and wide swaths of the Pacific RimIn January most large public companies adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a system already used in more than 100 countries (notably across the European Union and wide swaths of the Pacific Rimin more than 100 countries (notably across the European Union and wide swaths of the Pacific Rim).

Essentially, the two states are an island of marijuana legalization in the middle of a large swath where marijuana is not legal for any purpose, medical or recreational.

(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.)

But to give the wireless carriers large swathes of spectrum in the same frequency around the country, the FCC plans to free up airwaves that currently cover channels 37 and above in every market.

An analysis published Sep. 16 in the journal Nature noted that insecticide - treated bed nets, insecticides sprayed on indoor surfaces, and prompt treatment with combination drug therapy collectively helped reduce the spread of malaria throughout a large swath of sub-Saharan Africa.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

In sprawling suburbia, these large swaths of land could house densely - packed residential developments, shops, community centers, libraries, schools, and all sorts of other buildings that could help rebuild a long - lost sense of community.

The group seized a large swath of territory in Syria, including Raqqa, the city that has become its global base of operations.

Starting in late July, floodwaters swamped large swaths of the Southeast Asian country, leaving hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

The most recent batch of data from the American Apparel & Footwear Association suggests a large swath of U.S. consumers is opting for quality over quantity: in 2011, Americans spent 4.9 % more on apparel, while the number of items purchased dropped 5.3 %.

Imagine it in the extreme: If Amazon put all physical retail stores out of business, and private - label goods replaced all branded goods, you'd kill the source of a large swath of advertising demand.

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.

In a meeting with the president and other advisers, Summers warned that even after the economy recovered, large swaths of the population would be left without jobs.

Campbell sought an integrated holding company model to handle a broad range of duties including strategy, creative, digital, media planning and buying, brand PR and design across multiple regions, including the U.S., for large swaths of its soups, meals and beverages business, according to a request - for - proposal obtained by Ad Age in late 2017.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

To this list could be added many more examples of how the data have grown and grown to support the proposition that the sexual revolution has been resulting in disaster for large swaths of the country — a proposition further honed by whole decades of examination of the relation between public welfare and family dysfunction (particularly in the pages of the decidedly not - Catholic Public Interest magazine).

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

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.

ISIS was able to take over large swaths of land due to the lack of centralized authority in both Iraq and war - torn Syria.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate lifIn twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate lifin journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate lifin which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

«The kind of faith that Obama articulates is not the sort of Christianity that's understood by the media or by a large swath of Christians in the U.S.,» says Bass, a progressive Christian.

But if Spengler's quip has at least a kernal of truth to it, it suggests that reconsidering this relationship will be vital to any post-liberal political theory, especially ones interested in resisting late - liberal urges to globalize ever - larger swaths of society as a way of covering up for centralization's previous disappointments.

At any given time, in any given generation, there are large swaths of the population that are marginalized or excluded from it, whether by act of the church or individual act of conscience.