Sentences with phrase «in vast tracts»

With the World Bank documenting that in vast tracts of India on any given day, one public - school classroom in five has no teacher present, parents craving an education for their kids must look to other providers.

In vast tracts of the country, meaningful deliberation has not even begun.

Instead, the disease - linked genetic changes appear to occur in vast tracts of sequence between genes where ENCODE has identified many regulatory sites.

In vast tracts of the country — Massachusetts, New Jersey, southern Wisconsin, Pennsylvania — there were almost no deer at all.

Not exact matches

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexico.

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

Steve Lohr (pictured), who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts

Steve Lohr, who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts of property that make up J. Lohr Vineyards, rather than squeezing every last dollar from the ground.

The Northfield parks ceded away both tracts in 1976 under the Techny Agreement, a boundary pact in which local school and park districts and the Villages of Northfield, Northbrook and Glenview divided up Techny, a vast, undeveloped tract owned by two Catholic orders.

A chief in the Eastern Region, has given out vast tract of land to the youth in his area, and non-indigenes, who have interest in the cocoa sector, but are hindered by lack of land.

Although they create jobs and bring in money to local and national economies, airports also create noise, pollution and transport problems as well as taking up vast tracts of land.

A vast tract of land which was once the home of 19th Century industry in iron and steel manufacturing is closer to becoming home for a vast 21st Century manufacturing complex.

Teachout and Sanders, by contrast, captured the vast but patchily populated tracts of the state in between.

Although the vast majority of research on the gut microbiome has focused on bacteria in the large intestine, a new study — one of a few to concentrate on microbes in the upper gastrointestinal tract — shows how the typical calorie - dense western diet can induce expansion of microbes that promote the digestion and absorption of high - fat foods.

A graphic representation maps the local superclusters of galaxies in our universe, but also something else: vast tracts where few galaxies exist, called voids.

All around the world, rural depopulation is leading to forest regrowth in abandoned areas — from the vast tracts of secondary broadleaf woodland in America's New England states to tropical forests in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and many other areas.

During the last century, the Australian government encouraged farming on difficult land, handing out water licenses to just about anyone willing to put in the backbreaking toil of making the country's vast tracts of scrub desert bloom with citrus orchards and vineyards.

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

Now, countries including China, Kuwait and Sweden are snapping up vast tracts of agricultural land in poorer nations, especially in Africa, to grow biofuels and food for themselves.

In clearing vast tracts of land, those prolific loggers released so much sand and dirt that open - water bays turned into swamps.

The ultimate goal of Woolly Mammoth revival is to bring back this extinct species so that healthy herds may one - day re-populate vast tracts of tundra and boreal forest in Eurasia and North America.

Due to its porous nature and negative electrical charge, activated charcoal can bind to a vast variety of drugs and toxins in the digestive tract, preventing them from absorbing into the bloodstream and safely escorting them out of the body.

The vast majority is converted from T4 in the liver and from the bacteria in the GI tract.

These organisms predominantly reside in the small intestine or the upper gastrointestinal tract (GI) where a vast majority of your immune cells reside.

Since the vast majority of our immune system is in the gut, keeping the intestinal tract healthy while traveling will help keep you feeling great so you can enjoy your time away to the fullest.

Since the vast majority of secretory IgA (sIgA) is normally present in the GI tract, where it prevents binding of pathogens and antigens to the mucosal membrane, it is essential to know the status of sIgA in the gut.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

The riches of the world were there for the taking in the sixteenth century, and there were vast tracts of ocean that had never been crossed.

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexico.

Some studies have shown that in cats under 10 years of age, the vast majority of urinary tract infections (UTI) have no bacterial component, so treatment with antibiotics may not be necessary.

Historic routes with grand names, like Empire Builder, California Zephyr, Southwest Chief and Coast Starlight provide opportunities to see vast tracts of America in a comfortable environment.

Despite the critical role they play in coastal ecosystems, vast tracts of mangrove forests are commonly cleared to make way for shrimp ponds or beachfront developments.

Along with flinty mining history, its vast tracts of mountainous wilderness that define this region, the West Coast is Fiordland's closest rival in the untamed nature stakes.

Gillis looks at the warning signs from the world's forests and the signals aren't good: wildfires, drought and insect infestations are putting vast tracts of forests under extreme stress, leading to feedback loops that result in more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Vast tracts of forests in Indonesia are being burned to make way for plam oil plantations.

This is a minor infraction, obviously, but the rate at which we are assaulting the newly exposed areas of the arctic, the leasing of vast tracts in the Chuckchi Sea... we as a species, it seems, are unstoppable..

Ditto for the design features of a carrier operating in an environment where «vast tracts of America's coastal states» are «flooded» vs. current designs.

The US Navy plans that its new Ford - class aircraft carriers will remain in service to the year 2100 and beyond... foreseeably in a strategic environment in which the Arctic ice is gone, and the Greenland and Antarctic ice is melting at a pace sufficient to flood vast tracts of America's coastal states.

«[S] ince vast tracts of land worldwide have experienced similar booms of agricultural productivity in recent decades, it is possible that other areas of the world have experienced similar climatic effects due to agricultural intensification, especially in light of recent observational connections between extreme temperatures and agricultural intensification in other intensely cropped regions (Mueller et al., 2017).»

But when plantations and processing plants move in, they clear cut vast tracts of tropical rainforest, destroying critical habitat for endangered species and violating the rights of forest - dependent communities.

«With lifetimes of hands - on experience drawn from across vast tracts of Amazon rainforest, Indigenous groups are well - placed to provide leadership in efforts to measure and monitor their forests - forests which they, themselves, have sustainably managed for centuries,» said WHRC Assistant Scientist Wayne Walker.

In Asia, shrimp farming has destroyed vast tracts of mangrove swamps.

The 1997 Delgamuukw decision evoked visions of vast tracts of hunting territory, «exclusively used and occupied» by a First Nation (essentially, being under the sovereign power of a First Nation), that were declared to be, in the present day, lands from which the First Nation was entitled to exclude all others, even the Crown.

This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the six reserved legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land grab.

At the bottom are lots of states with vast tracts of rural land: North and South Dakota, Idaho, and Arkansas, all clocking in around 20 - 22 lawyers per 10,000 people.

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.