Sentences with phrase «on a smaller scale against»

It has also been waged successfully on a smaller scale against invasive cats, and dogs, and foxes, and goats, and plants, elsewhere.

Not exact matches

On a small scale, lighting a joint in Washington Square Park would still be against the law, not because of the marijuana but because smoking is illegal in New York parks.

Since the late 1950s, there has a been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights.»

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

Some of the arguments against the bill says it faces an unfair burden of regulation on small - scale website operators.

Government has adopted a strong stance against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, and has taken a decision to place a ban all of forms on small scale mining in the country.

Following the revelation, government waged a massive war against such activities and placed a six - month ban on small scale mining.

However, within the last 24 - hours since Mr Hague's comments, the White House has said that Syrian forces under President Assad have used chemical weapons «on a small scale» against the opposition rebels.

But the group has since the government's renewed fight against illegal mining in the country, expressed its dissatisfaction, particularly on the basis that even those operating with requisite licence have been boxed together with the illegal ones It has been demanding that government draws the line between illegal small scale miners and legitimate small scale miners with licence.

He revealed that the former Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, tried different methods to get him to ease up on the fight against illegal miners within the small - scale mining sector.

Police had to fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of small - scale miners in Kumasi who were protesting against the government's temporary ban on all forms of small - scale mining in the country.

In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution, the authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a hybrid zone in southern California.

«Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution.

«This is the first example of a small molecule — which can be easily prepared and made on a large scale — that shows substantive post-exposure protection against Ebola virus in nonhuman primates,» Bavari commented.

The Conjuring 2 pulled in $ 320 million against a $ 40 million budget, meaning it's more profitable than Civil War, just on a smaller scale.

The works on view here are all small - scale recent collages, and while I wouldn't call them groundbreaking, they've got enough enigmatic energy to engage — especially against those bright orange walls.

The small scale of her paintings on aluminum can assert a feminist stance against male appropriation of abstraction.

«In reality climate models have been tested on multicentennial time scales against paleoclimate data (see the most recent PMIP intercomparisons) and do reasonably well at simulating small Holocene climate variations, and even glacial - interglacial transitions.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

On smaller geographic scales, when compared against the current climate, the simulated climate varies substantially from model to model.

We've worked with organizations to put innovation into practice through smaller projects focused on redesigning individual client relationships or practice team offerings, up to broader innovation programs designed to capture and reward ideas, rapidly evaluate them against key criteria, and to test them via real - world client and market feedback at scale.

The rule on conflict that protects the interests of the private client in a matrimonial matter, or a small business dealing with its landlord, can act against the interests of sophisticated corporate clients, wishing to instruct a particular firm because of the scale, expertise, quality and global reach of its specialist services.

Whereas most game in the series focus on the adventures of a hero rising up against the forces of darkness, DQM is the much smaller - scale story of a little boy and girl, Terry and Milly, characters from Dragon Quest VI, when they were just small children.

Think about unusual combinations such as tiles set into wooden floors, large - scale floor tiles set against small mosaics on the wall, and aged stone mixed with timber.