Sentences with phrase «much of the north»

Xu also said the Xincheng district, which is next to the Yalu River that defines much of the North Korea - China border, has seen prices rise particularly quickly.

Despite a wet and late spring throughout much of North America, Agrium, North America's largest seller of farm products, reported the strongest earnings in its 80 - year history amid surging demand for its nutrients, crop protection chemicals and seeds.

Storage at Cushing, Oklahoma, a crossroads for much of North America's oil production, is now seventy percent full.

President Trump is set to keep much of the North American Free Trade Agreement in place.

In one case the Bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O'Donoghue, instructed Catholic schools across much of north - west England to stop «safe - sex» education and place crucifixes in all classrooms.

If something like ISIS / ISIL were to overrun much of North America, would we be willing to give up our lives for the sake of a gospel so fixated on the self and its needs?

As pumpkins, witches and faux cobwebs have taken over much of North America for Halloween, Clare Slaney - Davis is preparing an October 31 feast that some would consider much spookier, with table settings for her grandparents, a great - aunt and other relatives who have passed away.

The apple tree now grows in thousands of varieties in almost every corner of the globe — from Japan to Madagascar to South Africa, New Zealand, Russia, China, England, France and across much of North America.

In the face of the devastating floods of recent weeks that have affected areas of Mid and West Wales, North Wales and much of the North of England, the Welsh Lib Dems are calling on the UK Government to make the most of European Union flood relief money available to them.

If we do not act now, the water vole will be gone within 10 years from much of North Wales.»

This could happen if Ukip establishes itself next year as the clear second - place challenger to Labour in much of the north, as well as to the Tories along England's east and south coasts, while the Greens build up support in university seats where they have started to put down roots.

Katrina formed on August 23 during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and caused devastation along much of the north - central Gulf Coast.

Species: Lithobates sylvaticus Habitat: much of the north half of North America, from Canada to the Appalachians — where they must survive being frozen solid

This was just one of thousands of weather records smashed by the «summer in March», a 10 - day event that affected much of North America.

The new findings show that Haringtonhippus francisci was a widespread and successful species throughout much of North America, living alongside populations of Equus but not interbreeding with them.

In much of North America, red wolves are 80 per cent coyote.

Nearly 21,000 years ago, during what scientists call the Last Glacial Maximum, thick ice tracts swaddled much of North America and Europe.

Mashed, smashed and fried, Americans love potatoes, but only a few varieties are grown in much of North American agriculture.

The cloak of fog draping much of north India forced dozens of flights to be diverted or canceled, disrupted train schedules and led to a doubling in the number of medical emergencies caused by breathing difficulty, officials said.

At the time people were present at Page - Ladson, ice sheets still covered much of North America, so the only way that people could have come to the Americas would have been by boat, hopping down the Pacific coast and then presumably using rivers to move inland.

Pollen and fossil records suggest that grazing megaherbivores, in the form of mammoths and ground sloths, together with browsers such as mastodons, may have helped maintain the open parkland vegetation that covered much of North America.

Ten thousand years ago, much of North America was covered with ice.

Elephants once roamed across much of North America.

During the last ice age, much of North America was covered by a giant ice sheet that many scientists believe underwent several catastrophic collapses, causing huge icebergs to enter the North Atlantic — phenomena known as Heinrich events.

The big cats, also known as pumas or mountain lions, once ranged all the way to the East Coast, but were exterminated by hunting and habitat loss through much of their North American range.

These changes have strong effects on weather that covers much of North America, particularly the continental west coast.

Gray wolves used to roam much of North America — until they were hunted almost to extinction.

Why It Matters: As the grandest feature of atmospheric circulation over much of North America, the jet stream plays a key role in orchestrating weather systems that usher in the seasons.

Clovis people Prehistoric humans who inhabited much of North America between about 13,000 and 12,600 years ago.

[2] The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America.

Segregation by social class persisted, and black pupils were unofficially segregated in much of the North and West and officially segregated in all of the South.

In the late 1990's, Lexus was looking to join the crossover SUV frenzy that had gripped much of the North American market.

While it doesn't cover in any depth the expeditions Jefferson launched to the West, which has been my focus, American Sphinx gives a multidimensional character portrait of the man who shaped so much of the North American political geography.

Bamboo and Blood: An Inspector O Novel by James Church: In the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang.

Ideally, your portfolio should give you exposure to much of the North American economy, plus substantial international exposure, if only through North American multinationals.

For Eileen and Jon, who chronicle their adventures at vidlerrvtravels.com, it's a way to see as much of North America as they possibly can.

Oceanographers say that unusually warm waters over the last few years affected food availability in the waters near Guadalupe Island and much of the North Pacific.

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Based in Newtonmore, in the Cairngorm National Park, the Highlander Hotel is renowned for good food and true highland hospitality, and is well placed to explore much of the north of Scotland.

The most popular time to visit is January - March, when warm temperatures and sunny days offset chilly winter days in much of North America, although late October - December can be great too when the threat of hurricanes have passed and the crowds are yet to arrive.

«Winter truly is a great time to visit Belize,» said Larry France, marketing manager at Chabil Mar. «When snow is falling across much of North America, Belize is enjoying sunny, blue skies and warm temperatures, perfect weather for swimming, snorkeling, diving, or simply enjoying a walk along the beach.»

Auckland and much of the North Island will be warmer than that, around 14C.

In reality they are native to much of North America, where they are...

Native to much of North America, it can be spotted in the Shade Border, not far from the front of Wave Hill House.

And these extremely warm temps extend well into Canada and across much of the north and east US.

In much of North America, our small towns are depopulated and all of the young people leave for the cities.

Such work is timely as the Northeast braces for a new dump of snow (I imagine New York City will be better prepared this time) and meteorologists predict a particularly wintry tail end to winter in much of North America.

The frigid ice ages, which caused kilometre - thick ice sheets to build up over much of North America and Eurasia, had CO ₂ levels of around 180 ppm.

Repeated Pleistocene Epoch ice ages covered much of North America, Europe and Asia under mile - thick ice sheets that denuded continents, stunted plant growth, and dropped ocean levels 400 feet for thousands of years.

The near - record temperatures of 2009 occurred despite an unseasonably cool December in much of North America.