Sentences with phrase «many vast areas»

It's a vast area that stretches south of the Ottawa river, east to the Quebec boarder, north of the St. Lawrence and as far west as Perth.

There is a vast area for research and development,» Rodrigo Santos, head of Monsanto in Latin America, told reporters on the sidelines of the Global Agribusiness Forum.

These projects look very much like strip mines and have some of the same environmental impacts, which include diverting and polluting rivers and streams, causing heavy erosion, and disturbing vast areas of soil.

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Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.

Whitehead's thought covered vast areas of learning in diverse fields.

Consider as well the so - called «sagebrush rebellions» against federal control of vast areas of the western U.S — a revolt that gave birth to many threats and acts of violence directed at Park Service personnel.

As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

This approach has also led to the secularization of vast areas of public life, marginalizing citizens with deep religious convictions.

Unless that technological, industrial establishment is radically controlled — thereby effecting a transformation of vast areas of our political, economic and social life — the culture has a very good chance of destroying itself through increasingly inadequate supplies, through endless conflicts for those ever scantier materials, and through the systems of control and authority necessary to cope with each of these dangers.

Wars and persecutions have stamped out Christianity in vast areas.

The Hebrews» achievement in their own peculiar sphere was so notable that the most ardent Judeophile need not hesitate to concede the vast areas where Israel accepted a status of secondhand scholarship.

Over vast areas both commerce and missions ceased.

Islamic armies, imbued with what Mohammed claimed was divine authorization, imposed Islam by force over vast areas, all the while extorting wealth from subjugated Jews and Christians to fund their ongoing conquests.

As long as vast areas of arable land remained untilled, care for the land seemed sentimental.

But for the prophet, Israel nevertheless stands at the very hub of existence as the nucleus of the vast area of God's concern.

This was at first an imperceptible change, for religious life was still a vast area.

There is simply no way the U.S. can police so vast an area.

In the vast area known from 1914 as the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Catholic missionaries were very active and the church's growth there was spectacular.

Having a far - ranging vision which was broader geographically than even that vast area, Loyola felt he could not spare so many from his then small company.

He was first in Goa, but he traversed the vast area from India to Malacca, the East Indies, Japan, and China.

Similarly, there are only limited major statistical studies in the vast area of uses and effects of religious broadcasts.

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

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I say «most everyone» because, unfortunately, millions of Americans live in what are known as «food deserts» (vast areas in low - income neighborhoods that are absolutely saturated with fast food chains and severely lack access to fresh produce and basic healthful foods).

European Parliament constituencies, based in 12 regions across the UK, cover a vast area, so communication is always a challenge.

The ELN and the government have announced the beginning of formal peace talks too, but as of now this group still controls vast areas of Colombian territory where the state is barely present, if at all.

Despite recent laws, vast areas of state spending by authorities, and via business subsidies remain hard to assess.

Congressman Faso represents a vast area of upstate New York covering 11 counties and stretching from Vermont to Pennsylvania.

The Fourth Judicial District encompasses Warren, Essex, Hamilton, Clinton, Franklin, Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, St. Lawrence and Washington counties, a vast area with about 840,000 residents.

Years of drought and a century of aggressive fire suppression have rendered vast areas of the West susceptible to large, severe blazes.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

And as the NAS report pointed out, uncertainties in counting the animals over such a vast area mean estimates could be far too low.

Because the Jump Glider uses the sun's rays to recharge, he envisages that the robots could be deployed in a swarm, communicating wirelessly, to carry out coordinated environmental monitoring or mapping missions across vast areas like the Australian outback.

Co-author of the study Professor Matthew Bennett, from Bournemouth University, said: «What we are seeing is the movement of people across vast areas of land.

Seeing the vast areas affected by climate change during this cruise has highlighted for me the importance of the science I play a small role in.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.

This discovery opens a vast area of application for water filtration and purification.

However, even in this vast area, changes in biological diversity and jaguar populations can come quickly.

With the ability to scan a vast area, it could one day rival the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, which was built to detect cosmic rays.

Most species of Commiphora and Acacia, which dominate vast areas of African savannas, have spines that can puncture our skin, feet, and eyes.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

With its vast area and long history of settlement, China ought to have hundreds of distinct languages and cultures.

«The benefits could be enormous and go well beyond carbon sequestration,» making vast areas far more livable and productive.

An NRC committee concluded that the controversial measures — which have banned fishing in vast areas off the New England coast and forced many fishers into bankruptcy — are helping some fish populations rebound.

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

These lakes may cover 20 to 40 percent of the landscape in vast areas of Arctic lowlands.

But when he pulls over trees, exposillg the soil at their roots, in a vast area of uninhabited mopalli (valley) forest, what does it matter?

The significance and future value of protecting such vast areas of coral reef and associated marine habitat can not be overstated.