Sentences with phrase «large extents of»

Source: Oliver, T. H., et al. (2017) Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming.

«For me, one of the most interesting things in thinking about biological conservation is that biological corridors — large extents of land that connect reserves — are often ineffective,» he said.

«If you asked me what is the most important thing that can happen between now and Vancouver, my answer would be that the member churches have to realize that the future of the WCC, and to a large extent of the ecumenical movement, is at stake.

Planks of wood with donated blankets make up a large extent of the interior.

The Maori Wrasse Bommie dive site is in the north western corner of the reef, and includes broken sandy bottom with small bommies and boulders, plus a large extent of staghorn coral which seems to be a favourite haunt of the turtles.

The village is compromised to a large extent of second homes, and is quiet for much of the year.

This exhibition, which brings to life the book of the same name published by NSCAD's first president, Garry Neill Kennedy, seeks to examine a pivotal 10 - year period of art production in Halifax with the intention of positioning the art college as, according to the press release, «the epicentre of art education — and to a large extent of the post-Minimalist and Conceptual art world itself — in the 1960s and 1970s.»

It would appear that it is the only one not showing a large extent of drought during the early 20th century.

This group consists to a large extent of signatories of public statements disapproving of mainstream climate science, many of whom are not publishing scientists.

As a result, at least a thin layer of ice will form, establishing a large extent of frozen ocean.

Meanwhile, last month Brazil — which has the world's largest extent of tropical rainforests and the world's highest rate of forest loss — said it promote a similar initiative at the talks.

Brazil houses the largest extent of rainforest in the world, most of which lies within the Amazon.

In some cases, you may be tragically injured in an accident and the at - fault party's insurance company doesn't cover the large extent of your medical bills.

Not exact matches

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

The claim: Trump praisedExxonMobil on March 6 for making a $ 20 billion investment that will create 45,000 construction and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. «This is something that was done, to a large extent, because of our policies and the policies of this new administration, Trump said in a video on March 6.

JM: I think what's interesting is just the larger trend that's happening and how even though things like Zoosk are coming to the market and Okcupid and Match are actually still growing somewhat to an extent, the fast growing area of the market is obviously more like Hinge and Tinder.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

«But in other areas, to a large extent franchisees have a lot of freedom in what they do.

In terms of cloud computing, the military has security concerns and wants to keep sensitive data «in house to a large extent» rather than crunching it on a third party's computers, Newmeyer said.

Daiichi Sankyo's press release comes in the wake not only of Ranbaxy's highly unusual criminal guilty plea and $ 500 million in fines and penalties — the largest ever against a generic - drug maker — but also a lengthy Fortune article that exposed for the first time the depth and extent of the fraud charges leveled at the company and the knowledge of senior company executives.

Your outcome depends to a large extent on the progression of daily returns in the stock market.

While the bank has recently said that its plan to merge the two units remains on track for the second quarter, it has also pledged to achieve annual cost synergies of 900 million euros by the end 2020, to a large extent by cutting the workforce.

Thanks largely to the app revolution that took the smartphone world by storm, software developers (and to a larger extent, IT companies) are getting involved in a number of interesting ways.

«The strong improvement of the budget balance in 2017 was to a large extent the result of the improving economic environment,» Maartje Wijffelaars, an economist at Rabobank, told CNBC via email.

Economic development organizations like the one I work for are judged to a large extent by their ability to create a base of thriving employers.

The decline of Venezuela's oil production for the foreseeable future has been assumed, and to a large extent, already priced into the market.

Shopping cart abandonment is the single largest obstacle for ecommerce retailers to overcome, and the extent of the problem is shocking.

Financial conditions affect households» and firms» decisions, so that the transmission of U.S. monetary policy to the real economy depends, to a large extent, on how changes in monetary policy help deliver the appropriate financial market conditions to support our objectives of price stability and maximum employment.

Over the last ten years, it's trailed growth to the largest extent since the inflating of the dot - com bubble.

Since a larger share of deposit rates are fixed than are loan rates, this will overstate the effect on cash flows over longer time horizons, though the extent of this bias has not necessarily changed over time in an obvious way.

It is to a large extent connected with the company care of the environment.

I believe that the president can not allow too sharp a contraction in credit growth until he feels fully secure politically, and for me the pace at which credit is brought under control is, to a large extent, an indication of the pace of the process of power consolidation.

Efficient pricing in fixed - interest markets depends, to a large extent, on the existence of a well - defined yield curve for an asset of undoubted credit worthiness.

Its strategy is focused on undervalued mid - and large - cap equity securities, with a significant portion of its assets in foreign securities and, to a lesser extent, distressed securities and merger arbitrage.

Some advocates of helicopter drops have argued that central banks should «permanently» finance larger budget deficits, but to some extent that misses the point.

To a large extent, the evolutionary shift reflected the absence of a catalytic crisis such as the radical program of economic reform that occurred in New Zealand following a prolonged period of poor economic outcomes, or in the case of the UK and Sweden, the sudden departure from the ERM.

The extent of Amazon's responsibility is debatable, given that other cities with large, younger workforces have seen dramatic rent and cost - of - living increases in recent years, including Washington D.C..

In the United States during much of the 19th Century, an erratic and unstable financial system combined with the huge infrastructure needs of a rapidly expanding continental economy meant that the US was almost always in short supply of money and capital *, and so to a large extent its growth rate was constrained mainly by British liquidity.

«Since Canadian productivity performance is often compared to the productivity performance in the United States, the methodology behind the estimates for Canada should be comparable to the largest extent possible to that used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),» wrote (pdf) Wulong Gu, of StatsCan's Economic Analysis Division.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

On the other hand, stock prices are — to a certain extent — a function of earnings growth, and smaller companies are often able to increase their profits at a faster speed than larger businesses.

By: Sebastian Whyle 17th June 2016 Rope access service and equipment provider Skyriders is, to a large extent, immune to the current commodities price slump, as inspection and maintenance is an essential part of keeping sites operational, notes marketing manager Mike Zinn.

The large amount of equity raised was offset to some extent by a sharp increase in the value of buybacks in the quarter.

Low overall inflation has, to a large extent, been a result of relatively subdued growth in unit labour costs.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Model 2 — Income Portfolios that are designed to generate income for their owners often consist of investment - grade, fixed income obligations of large, profitable corporations, real estate (most often in the form of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs), treasury notes, and, to a lesser extent, shares of blue - chip companies with long histories of continuous dividend payments.

This is to a large extent because of the fact that the relationship one has with God might be dented when one does some types of...

The nature of the business enterprise can vary to a large extent.

We already knew that Germans were complaining about the impact of the post-crisis regulatory framework in the small savings and cooperative banks of the country, and that this was reflected to an extent by the debate in the US over the slow disappearance of their small regional banks (while large banks kept growing).

This trend is largely due to the fact that Hong Kong has been dominated to a greater extent than other financial centers by a small number of very large incumbents.