Sentences with phrase «influence over the region»

Some of these preachers exerted enormous influence over their regions.

The focus on what China is doing is critical because of its influence over the region, especially in terms of pricing power.

their U.S. - trained National Guard as a strategy to sustain their influence over the region.

Not exact matches

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

This can be expected to have a positive influence on the Australian economy in coming years, given Australia's proximity to the east Asian region and the strong trade links that have been cultivated with it over the past decade or so.

It must be as large as those regions of the brain from which it receives data and over which it exerts an influence.

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Having its troops stationed in Transnistria also allows Russia to maintain control over the former Soviet region, which it regards as its sphere of influence, and to have a narrow foothold in Central Europe, also a worrisome prospect for the EU.

Moreover, the situation in Transnistria is important for the EU, because of Russia's desire to maintain a direct influence over this Moldovan region, where it currently has troops stationed, as part of a strategy to prevent NATO's expansion in the Black Sea region.

Iran's growing influence in the region, control over proxy governments in Syria and Lebanon, hold over parts of Iraqi politics and involvement in the civil war in Yemen has led to the strange bedfellows of Israel and Saudi Arabia finding common ground in counteracting Iranian influence.

I call on those in the region with influence over Hamas to use that influence to bring about an end to the attacks.»

The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

Over the last few years, research has increasingly suggested that ice loss in this region is heavily driven by the influence of the warming ocean.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

The jet stream influences weather patterns over the northern mid-latitude region, a place most of the world's people call home.

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The diverse regions and foreign influences over the centuries have left their mark on Croatian cuisine.

Referred to as a «masterpiece of British engineering» the railway bridge was completed in 1900 by the British as a way of increasing their influence in the region (with the parts shipped over from the US).

Throughout the 15th century and into the next, the Inca Empire exerted enormous influence over the people and cultures of the Andean region — and it still captures our imagination today.

The exhibition shows how the storied light and natural beauty of the region became a primary focus of, and major influence on, the work of Freilicher and Wilson, close friends whose professional and personal lives converged and diverged over the course of the next five decades.

«As the Arctic sea - ice cover continues to disappear and the snow cover melts ever earlier over vast regions of Eurasia and North America, it is expected that large - scale circulation patterns throughout the northern hemisphere will become increasingly influenced by Arctic Amplification.»

The argument is then that the reason trends outside the Atlantic are weak is that they aren't being influenced by the AMO; the other explanation is that the other regions are already over the threshold, so that the Atlantic basin is more sensitive to changes in SSTs and atmospheric moisture than the other regions... or the data may be poor.

As LST closely tracks air temperatures over the instrumental period, we can also infer that air temperatures in this region of East Africa varied in concert with the global average and thus were controlled primarily by the major forcings influencing temperatures over this timescale, both natural (solar radiation, volcanism) and anthropogenic (greenhouse - gas emissions; refs 19, 20).

The results show that when considering climate change over the next 20 - 30 years, taking into account the influence of short - lived pollutants dramatically changes the relative benefit of emissions reductions from a particular activity or region.

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

Earth Minsitry / WAIPL is a member of the Environmental Priorities Coalition, a network of over 20 leading environmental groups across the region that influence policy at the state level.

The Environmental Priorities Coalition is a network of over 20 leading environmental groups across the region that influence policy at the state level.

The region has relatively low - lying topography, allowing a stronger synoptic - scale influence on temperature variations than over the high, East Antarctic plateau (Bromwich and Wang 2008).

Over recent decades, scientists have watched the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions respond in starkly different and perhaps surprising ways to the effects of increasing human influence on the Earth's climate.

Over recent decades, scientists have watched the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions respond in starkly different and perhaps surprising ways to the effects of increasing human influence on the Earth's...

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

climatology, climates 1: a region of the earth having specified climatic conditions2 a: the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation b: the prevailing set of conditions (as of temperature and humidity) indoors < a climate - controlled office > 3: the prevailing influence or environmental conditions characterizing a group or period: atmosphere < a climate of fear >

Sensors provide total column water vapor data over large regions and are not highly influenced by clouds.

Anthropogenic influences have contributed to observed increases in atmospheric moisture content in the atmosphere (medium confidence), to global - scale changes in precipitation patterns over land (medium confidence), to intensification of heavy precipitation over land regions where data are sufficient (medium confidence), and to changes in surface and subsurface ocean salinity (very likely).

There is medium confidence for a detectable human contribution to past observed increases in heavy precipitation in general over global land regions with adequate coverage for analysis (e.g., IPCC AR5) and over the United States (Easterling et al. 2017), although an anthropogenic influence has not been formally detected for hurricane precipitation alone.

Because the 40degree 90degree N region accounts for up to 40 % of the simulated global ocean heat uptake over one hundred years, the process described here influences the global heat uptake efficiency.

Her sphere of influence stretches from Bakersfield to Tahoe City and encompasses over 22 counties within the region.