Sentences with phrase «on narrow portions»

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This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

(Copyright Ted Stryk) MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.

The third judge, while agreeing that the statute as written is unconstitutional, argued that the court should adopt a narrowing interpretation to avoid unconstitutional applications and preserve those portions that might be constitutional on their own.

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

They run on the last remaining operating portion of the historic narrow - gauge Ghan railway line.

What is special about the Maunder Minimum is the fact that during that period sunspots barely appeared on the Sun's northern hemisphere and, when they appeared in the Southern portion, the dark spots were very narrowly crowded within a narrow band 20 degrees off the solar equator.

«In our study, we predicted that about half of the species on the Barva Transect have such narrow ranges that, with the 3 °C of warming predicted by the IPPC over the current century, their predicted range will no longer include any portion of their current range.»

Narrow - plank beaded board is used on the lower portion of these walls.