Sentences with phrase «major population centers»

This is particularly true in major population centers: renting is more affordable than buying in 76 percent of counties with a population of 1 million or more.

Reducing decision lead times from 72 to 48 hours for major population centers could save an average of hundreds of millions of dollars in evacuation costs annually, with substantial geographic variation in savings.

In the long - term, the program aims to build an efficient, high speed passenger rail network connecting major population centers 100 to 600 miles apart.

Other less rural areas outside of major population centers with a serious lack of mortgage credit may qualify with populations between 10,000 - 20,000 residents.

Unfortunately, with the escalating cost of real estate, most people wanting to go into farming have to look at rural land far away from most major population centers.

Maybe that's an argument that we shouldn't be building major population centers right on the coast, but that's another story.

Despite billions of dollars worth of damage in many parts of Chile, people in major population centers like Santiago, which enforces a strict set of modern building codes, fared much like the Hashrocket employees after the quake.

Jobs may be somewhat more numerous around major population centers like Honolulu, but the need for this type of medical assistant is apparent in healthcare facilities across all of the islands, including Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the big island of Hawaii.

Government operates hospitals or poly clinics in every major city and town and in other major population centers such as large villages.

Other major population centers include Launceston in the north and Devonport and Burnie in the northwest.

«Renting has clearly become the lesser of two housing affordability evils in many major population centers, with renting more affordable than buying in 76 percent of counties that have a population of one million or more.

Antarctica, meanwhile, is largely unaffected by soot because it lies far from major population centers.

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western US.»

For the Hayward fault simulations, the authors show that GPS data combined with a technology called SBAS (satellite - based augmentation system) could be used to issue warnings five seconds before strong seismic waves from a magnitude 7 earthquake reached major population centers such as San Francisco and San Jose.

«I was gob - smacked as we made our final approach into the ruins of the airport in Tacloban — the first major population center in the Philippines to be struck by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

As a result, railroading firms would compete with each other vigorously over price for long - distance hauling because their networks provided different routes to move goods efficiently between major population centers.

While many living near the potential route of American Transmission Company's 345 - kilovolt line remain steadfast against it, the project is drawing support from groups like Renew Wisconsin, which say the line will ease the delivery of wind power from Iowa and Minnesota into major population centers to the East.

More than half the island is still without electricity or potable water, and aid workers are struggling to deliver food and medical supplies to people living outside major population centers.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

The newest data, however, have changed the stakes for the northern sections of the zone, which could have implications for major population centers such as Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.

«Renting has clearly become the lesser of two housing affordability evils in many major population centers, with renting more affordable than buying in 76 percent of counties that have a population of 1 million or more.

The planned web of transmission lines will carry electricity from remote western parts of the state to major population centers like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio.

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western U.S.,» says study co-author Mathew Winnick of Stanford University.

As North Dakota's second largest city, it is experiencing double - digit population growth along with the state's other major population centers.

Today, its protects Israel's major population centers.

While you can't live in the center of a major population center, can can live fairly near the big city and still qualify.

Cuomo has long called for the plant's closure, saying operating a nuclear plant so close to a major population center is a potential safety hazard.

Cuomo, a Democrat, often has said operating a nuclear plant so close to a major population center poses a potential safety hazard.

Top online relationship websites in dating world is growing by a lot if you're in the metropolitan area as large as Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg, online relationship websites were very popular, and because that these cities are major population centers to satisfy someone with similar interests is very likely.

And thanks to The Five's status as the main route between the state's major population centers, the cell towers necessary to provide end - to - end coverage were built years ago, meaning I only lost signal a handful of times and for short periods — all due to unfavorable topography.

Eligible recreational property must be accessible by road from a major population center, or accessible by water from a public launch site using small watercraft on a navigable waterway.

While you can't live in the center of a major population center, can can live fairly near the big city and still qualify.

In a second «shock and awe» campaign, blockbuster bombs and cruise missiles should be dropped on all major population centers.

The Far North Management Area is sparsely populated with no major population centers.

Following the Civil War, when the southern agrarian economy collapsed and rural African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced to migrate for survival to major population centers — particularly in and around Birmingham, Alabama, where iron and steel production created jobs — a new and more public language of quilts, funerary, and yard arts arose.

Large - scale renewable energy installations are most likely to be built in sparsely populated areas — which will require advanced, interstate transmission systems to deliver this power to major population centers.

An accurate prediction of the AO could lead to improved seasonal temperature forecasts over the major population centers in eastern North America and Europe as it explains the largest fraction of temperature variance of any other climate mode over these regions.

Thank you for acknowledging how gerrymandered redistricting and constitutional amendments (such as eliminating «one county - one senator» representation) favor extremism from the major population centers of Oregon.

If the idea is to better connect the major population centers then there are of course many people - moving benefits.

The Marcellus Shale formation, located in the Northeast U.S., is of particular interest to the oil and gas industry, not just because of its large, untapped reserve, but because of its proximity to major population centers.

The legal markets in Northern Massachusetts are highly competitive, particularly within the major population centers.

For example, if you're volunteering in central Africa, this coverage could make the difference between being transported to a hospital in a major population center of your volunteer - site country, being transported to a hospital in a more developed nearby country such as South Africa, or being transported back to a hospital in your home country.

Inhabitants are packed tightly around major population centers but are also spread very sparsely through forested and rural areas.