Sentences with phrase «on vast land»

The development team has done research on the vast land in Miami, during the creation of the world in gta vice city for pc Game.

Not exact matches

«Imagine landing on a vast field of tall sharp ice spikes, and remember that at the temperature of Europa ice has the strength of granite.»

To get from his home to the factory that he owns on the other side of town, Zak Pashak, the owner and president of Detroit Bikes, takes Joy Road, a notorious Detroit artery whose name belies the mirthless array of derelict houses, boarded - up storefronts and vast, empty tracts of overgrown land that line it.

Those God has not blessed, who have no such vast herds and spacious homes, but barely subsist on the land, must relish seeing this rich man stripped of his props and reduced to their level.

Oddly enough, it was just after the first landing of men on the moon; yet that great achievement had not obliterated the mystery of the vast expanse of the heavens above us.

Perhaps one could call it a simplification of and variation on the English class - system which had a hereditary monarchy on top, followed in descending succession by clearly demarked classifications of nobility, a complex church hierarchy, a landed gentry, a rising merchant class, simple yeomen, and vast numbers of unfranchised people who fitted none of those categories.

Mr Buntine, whose vast land holdings in Australia's north once covered more than 2.8 million hectares, confirmed that a bid by the syndicate and foreshadowed in The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday, could soon be lodged with Kidman's sale advisers EY.

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

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.

The vast amount of talent we possess in the wide areas of the midfield should be a position we feel most pleased with, but the plethora of talent seems to have become a hindrance for Garry Monk, unable to land on a consistent selection.

Working on a steamboat crossing the Great Lakes and transporting pioneers from the East to their new homes in the West, Joseph Naper heard their tales of the vast, beautiful, unsettled prairie lands.

For years, a combination of levees on the Mississippi, land subsidence, the extension of a vast network...

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

As Kiryas Joel village officials and their consultant review written comments on the draft generic environmental impact statement concerning the proposed annexation of Monroe Town land into the village, they said the vast majority support the annexation.

I understood NYRA to have a long - term lease on the vast majority of the land at the Aqueduct facility, namely the clubhouse side of the building, the racetrack itself, and the land containing the barns and shops on the backstretch... so if that's true, where is all this new development going to go?

What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.

ALBUQUERQUE — Because forests can lock away carbon in their woody trunks, planting vast swaths of trees on barren land could provide a means for countries to mitigate their carbon emissions.

During the last century, the Australian government encouraged farming on difficult land, handing out water licenses to just about anyone willing to put in the backbreaking toil of making the country's vast tracts of scrub desert bloom with citrus orchards and vineyards.

For decades researchers have promoted the idea that the first Americans were clans of Siberian big - game hunters who trekked hundreds of miles on foot over a vast land bridge (where the Bering Strait is now) and came south from Alaska some 13,000 years ago.

Thousands of ingredients used in countless food products are imported from foreign lands; penetration from overseas is so vast and complex that a single product might contain ingredients from multiple countries, a fact you would never discern from labeling on the food itself.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Most of the greening has taken place on the land north of 45 degrees latitude, a vast area that includes Canada, northern Europe and Russia (see graphic).

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

«There is a vast storehouse of natural history found on BLM - managed land, and it's exciting to work with researchers like Professor Retallack in capturing 3D data on fragile paleontological resources,» she said.

Yet vast numbers of the rural population live on the brink of starvation, unable to find a patch of land of their own to cultivate.

The degradation of the historically stable Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf would upset ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level rise.

Those benefits, however, are complicated by the need for vast amounts of land to produce cellulosic biofuels on a large scale.

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

He has documented pure bison genetics in the vast majority of herds on federal lands.

Among its vast responsibilities, Interior oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which manages energy development on tribal lands.

The rover landed inside the planet's vast Gale Crater on Aug. 5 and is currently driving toward its first science destination, a location called Glenelg.

And even though scientists do not have to metamorphosise into a bull in order to cover the vast distances to go to Europa enchanted by its inviting charms, nevertheless making physical contact and landing on the distant moon presents one of the hardest engineering challenges.

The new UNCCD 2018 - 2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populatiLand Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populatiland, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations.

That would seem to leave 62 percent on the table for expanded human consumption but the vast majority of this biomass appears to be not harvestable because it includes root growth below ground and biomass production on lands in parks or wilderness areas that are either protected or inaccessible.

The new UNCCD 2018 - 2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast expanses of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populatiLand Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast expanses of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populatiland, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations.

Yonder shipwrecks players on the vast island of Gemea, a land enshrouded in an evil murk.

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

Three years after the original «Madagascar,» the animals - on - the - run from the Central Park Zoo and their pals depart for New York on in a rickety plane operated by a canny, if pesky penguin crew and crash - land on the vast plains of Africa.

Returning players who beat the game will find themselves with the game's last main quest staring them in the face and, to the northeast, a vast chunk of land just begging to be explored (and if you haven't finished the game yet, you aren't locked out of this area whatsoever, although I will say that you will want to be level 30 + before taking it on).

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

Working with a mix of technical collaborators old and new, Villeneuve has once again delivered an impeccably well - crafted film, not least in Deakins» arresting widescreen lensing, which alternates between vast aerial canvases that capture the epic sprawl of the border land, and closeups so carefully framed and lit as to show particles of dust dancing on a shaft on sunlight.

We must face the fact that China is bent on surpassing us — and everyone else — in K - 12 education, too, and that they are accomplishing precisely that goal, today in Shanghai but tomorrow in many more parts of that vast land.

With a land - speed record out of the picture, those intangible virtues become more apparent as we tootle north on Queen Kaahumanu Highway 19 through the stark, black lava fields covering the Kohala Coast's lap of luxury (boasting Four Seasons, Kona Village, Mauna Lani, and Orchid resorts), breaking due east at the Kawaihae Harbor (after lunch at Cafe Pesto) to climb swiftly into the blustery Kohala uplands through the vast Parker Ranch lands.

However, since most premium SUV buyers will spend a vast majority of their driving time on paved road surfaces, this perk is of limited value to the Land Rover Discovery Sport's target audience.

InControl is the Land Rover advanced infotainment system, which gives you access to a vast array of technologies that make it easier to stay connected while you're on the road.

Farmers plowed up the land to plant wheat, destroying the native deep rooting plants that held the topsoil in place, they removed trees that acted as wind barriers, and they shot the bison in order to raise cattle on vast ranches.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.

We would normally associate that to places such in a car, on a plane, or while on the beach, along with numerous other places though the vast majority of those would be on land.

However, it is also true that the vast majority of what lands on a slush pile is pretty much unreadable.