Sentences with phrase «leaving swaths»

The incidents reflect mounting competition for areas of Syria where Islamic State (IS) insurgents are in retreat, leaving swathes of territory up for grabs and posing the question of what comes next for U.S. policy that is shaped first and foremost by the priority of vanquishing the jihadists.

Watson left a swath of human ruin in his wake, just as emotional wreckage lies everywhere child molesters have been.

The new research finds easterly winds in the tropical Pacific Ocean stalled a potential El Niño in 2014 and left a swath of warm water in the central Pacific.

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

Not exact matches

Searches of vast swaths of the Indian Ocean continue, pegged to a cocktail of science and optimism that we hope will provide some answers for those families left behind - and for the rest of us.

Hurricane Irma drove toward Florida as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind 21 deaths and a swathe of catastrophic destruction.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

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

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.

The resulting economic shrinkage is leaving large swaths of real estate with negative equity.

He cut vast swathes of what be believed to be nonsense and was left with a much thinner tome.

This has left huge swaths of acrid smoke over many thousands of acres of land.

You forgot to mention the swath of excellence he cuts through organizations, leaving success in his wake.

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.

Man City's 5 - 0 drubbing of them back in September seemed to announce this, as Henderson, the most defensively competent in a midfield trio alongside Wijnaldum and Can, couldn't handle City's press and incisive attacks; against Tottenham, later in October, he was caught out several times, leaving large swathes of space for Kane and Son to sprint into.

Tidy passing exchanges in the midfield area led to a lofted through ball aiming for Dele Alli; instead, Chris Löwe managed to recover vital ground to cut off that path, but sliced his clearance into the possession of left - back Ben Davies, who had advanced through large swathes of the Town half to ensure that he could keep his cool and slot the ball past Jonas Lössl with relative comfort.

This meant that large swathes of the economy became «politicised», i.e. subject to categorical decisions binding on the community as a whole, rather than left to the spontaneous processes of the market order.

There are vast swathes of voters in the UK who are socially conservative but economically left - wing, and expect the state to support them against the middle and upper - classes.

Or, for that matter, if he's simply too far to the left for huge swaths of the country.

Even if you ignore the growing evidence that more equal societies perform better, you can not escape from the fact that increasing absolute poverty while leaving vast swathes of unproductive wealth untouched will only make the recovery that much harder.

The so - called «coup» launched in June was really an overlapping series of revolts — partly planned among really hard - core anti-Jezites, in all probably, but across the Soft Left and among large swathes of the councillor base, more of a «riot of despair» than anything else.

If McDonnell stood and won, swathes of centrist and centre - left MPs would inevitably defect, ripping the party in two.

Vote Leave points to a broader swathe of parliamentary support and is being run by Matthew Elliott, who masterminded the No to AV campaign, and Dominic Cummings, an abrasive former special adviser to Michael Gove who left government after falling foul of Nick Clegg.

The Tory plans to repeal the HRA, together with the restricted access to our courts already brought about by the restriction on judicial review introduced by Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, will silence the vulnerable and leave great swaths of executive action unchecked and unaccountable.

Instead of defending it, a swathe of the left is engaging in the most inane conspiracy theory nonsense about it and then loudly telling their allies to withdraw their support.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Swathes of the population got left behind in the process... The gap between the bottom socio - economic group and the rest started to grow, and it's grown ever since.

Mr Osborne may also have just seen his own hopes of becoming Prime Minister go up in smoke as a swathe of his colleagues attacked his last ditch attempt to scare Brits into not voting to leave on June 23.

«And as long as we have useful tools who purport to be Republicans, like Dean Skelos, Bob Turner, and a swath of other who are not willing to stand up for principles, but who would rather knuckle under to the most extreme demands of far - left Democrats, Public Service Unions and well - funded special interests in exchange for job security, and who could not lead a one - car funeral on an abandoned stretch of the Thruway, idiots like me — Andrew Cuomo — will continue to roll over the legislature, the taxpayers, the bondholders, and the rest of New York's victims with nary so much as an objection.»

It is also true that the Jonathan government left large swathes of territory in the hands of Boko Haram even while voting an average N1 trillion annually for security and his men heartily emptied the treasury on the pretext of fighting the insurgency.

Affordable housing advocates, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James, say the plan will leave out large swaths of the city who make nothing near that much.

Scorching temperatures and scarce rainfall has left large swathes of the United States in drought, with the «breadbasket states», such as Iowa and Indiana, among the worst affected.

The tree, above, also reveals that in 6000 years of domestication, breeders have left a vast swathe of possible varieties unexplored.

That widespread melting leaves huge swaths of dark ocean water that absorbs more heat from the sun than the white, reflective sea ice it replaces.

The village planners left a broad swath of green down the main road, dubbed King Farm Boulevard, that sported along its sides a mix of different types of housing and amenities, such as shops, within walking distance.

Sea - level rise and subsidence of the Mississippi Delta are causing large swaths of land to turn to marsh, then open water, leaving narrow strands of land barely above the muddy waters.

The microscopic arachnids — which leave behind feces and corpses that can trigger allergic responses and asthma — are sparse across large swaths of the Great Plains and Mountain West, according to a new survey of the arthropods that inhabit our homes.

The determined absence of dialogue for large swathes of the film — superbly shouldered by Blair's array of facial tics, if laboured a little when left too long — is paramount to its streamlined structure, which focuses firmly on actions and reactions, and the incitement to both.

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.

is likely no Moby Dick, but what excites me about that movie and its reception is the swath of room we've all left for it to change our minds.

Plus, housing values plummeted and remain below their pre-recession peak in major swaths of the country, leaving many homeowners more cautious about drawing on home equity to make large purchases.

Those reports caught the No Child Left Behind wave perfectly, presenting a searing condemnation of middle schools» failures to educate a large swath of children.

«Either whole swathes of the curriculum will remain uncovered or teachers will skim the surface, leaving pupils with little remembered useful knowledge of Britain and very little affection for the subject of history.»

«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.»

The Limited Package also brings with it enough leather, wood and suede to make a custom - ordered Porsche jealous; semi-aniline leather with contrasting stitching covers the grab handles and speaker covers, black suede is swathed over the pillars and headliner from front to rear, and open pore matte finish ash wood covers pretty much every other surface besides the windows — likely left off as a safety consideration.

Wide swaths of text can be hard to read, and you'll lose engagement if a reader's eyes have to travel too far left and right.

That's because for a wide swath of boomers, the financial crisis has left them without adequate assets and savings to survive for long without a paycheck — tarnishing the gleam of their golden years.

Investors systematically overpay for high - volatility, high - beta stocks because they like the thrill (kind of like gambling or buying a lotto ticket) leaving a large swath of the market undervalued and underowned.

First Hurricane Harvey flooded huge swaths of the South and now Irma has left hundreds of thousands of Floridians without power more than a week after it struck the state.

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, cutting a mile - wide swath of destruction that ultimately left 150 dead and destroyed many more homes and livelihoods.