Sentences with phrase «massive swathes»

From Midwest «missionaries» to Wall Street speculators, investors are grabbing massive swathes of common land, says Fred Pearce, especially in Africa

At the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon, a massive swath of the 102 companies that took the stage on Sunday presented hacks with disaster relief in mind.

Panthera's President and publication co-author, Dr. Luke Hunter, noted, «Many African nations have allocated truly massive swaths of land as protected parks and reserves.

For a start there's a massive swathe of burr walnut across very nearly the entire dashboard.

Since then he oversaw a massive swathe of Nintendo's history (including a major part of the Metroid saga), from the GameCube console right up to the current Wii U.

In their scale and willingness to subsume massive swaths of the visual field, the works in Brushstrokes share a theoretic disposition with the architectural forms of Held's Alphabet Paintings, which were completed around the same time.

In Indonesia a massive swath of rainforest and peatlands holds 57 billion tons of carbon in one of the planet's largest sinks.

At the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon, a massive swath of the 102 companies that took the stage on Sunday presented hacks with disaster relief in mind.

Not exact matches

Throughout history, the nations of the world have built and sent massive fleets to do battle with one another to take control of swathes of the oceans.

«We know we have these huge investments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion - dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,» Kenney said.

We have a long and distinguished history of massive capitulations to a variety of teams, under a swathe of different managers... I can remember 12 goals conceded in consecuative away games against Blackburn and Everton when I confidently predicated an upturn after the first defeat.

The Salvagnos, who as AAR Contractor and AAR Environmental were based in Albany County, New York, perpetrated massive asbestos removal scams that effected public and private buildings across a broad swath of New York State.

His new career path — real estate — has brought him to the Bronx, where his firm is attempting to rezone a swath of land in West Farms / Crotona Park to build a massive affordable housing complex.

One Sunday in August, McCarty, of Miami University in Ohio, was surprised to see massive plumes of what appeared to be white smoke over a swath of Greenland.

To the west, a huge swath of the fault remains locked and has been accumulating strain since 1505, when a much more massive magnitude 8.5 quake went off.

Fertilizer runoff and fossil - fuel use lead to massive areas in the ocean with scant or no oxygen, killing large swaths of sea life and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

The first clue to the new genes came in the mid-1990s when molecular geneticist Juha Kere of the University of Helsinki and his colleagues linked increased susceptibility to a massive, 20 - million - base swath of chromosome 7.

There's a quartet of bridesmaids swathed in bubblegum pink, and each is trimmed with not one but two massive bows: in their hair and on the backs of their dresses.

With your two companions taking hearty swings at a massive Cyclops as you climb up its back to stab its eye out — not to mention the swaths of NPC combatants massing behind you, anxious to join the fray — it's fair to say that the battles in Dogma tend more towards baroque chaos than, say, Geralt's more - considered clashes with harpies and bandits.

The massive advantage, however, is for the swathes of average attainers who, within a mixed ability class, have no ceiling placed on their ambitions.

The 200 guest rooms feature eiderdown - swathed beds and massive marble - clad bathrooms with heated floors and Bulgari bath products.

A few museums own some of his works — massive canvases of ragged swaths of black and a primary color that resemble...

However, what the dealers inside the tent couldn't see was a massive crowd snaking its way toward the entrance in Regent's Park, which put to rest any thought that a huge swath of fairgoers fearing Brexit woes simply wouldn't show up.

A few museums own some of his works — massive canvases of ragged swaths of black and a primary color that resemble rawhide — but his last large exhibition was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979 - 80.

So what's the climatic effect of massive clouds of dark dust filling wide swathes of the troposphere above central North America and coating the ground beneath?

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

Vast swaths of the world's oceans are turning into «dead zones» as global warming and pollution strips them of oxygen, threatening marine life on a massive scale, a new study...

As bacteria begins to devour the oil in the plumes, they could leave behind huge swaths of water with little oxygen — massive dead zones that would suffocate any life within them.

The action came almost exactly a year after a massive explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery imperiled a huge swath of Richmond and the East Bay, sending 15,000 people to the hospital.

As the climate changes and California's vast wilderness dries and dies, ever - growing swaths of the Golden State are at risk of replicating the same sorts of massive wildfires...