Sentences with phrase «on wide swaths»

If the greater and Gunnison sage grouse are listing under the ESA could stymie drilling and mining activity on wide swaths of land throughout the western U.S., harming the economic livelihoods of people living in those areas.

Skander Halim's script is a real mouthful; at times delightfully bitchy, it touches on a wide swath of hot - button issues and topics, and like, say, Donnie Darko, hearteningly shows the cruel underbelly of adolescent life in a way that mainstream studio films do not, and also the way that teens craftily exploit one another's obliviousness.

Not exact matches

The combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

Sanofi, a diabetes specialist which is now facing increased competition from rivals, has been on a mission to boost its treatment pipeline with new products for diseases that affect a wide swath of patients.

The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

Touch - enabled screens, just like on iPhones, will allow for a wide swath of new features and functions to be built into just about any business device.

Here, I would like to focus on one critical aspect of the discussion: that monetary policy can affect financial stability only through its effects on household debt, even though it affects a wide swath of the real economy.

Early in the year, investors bought on the hope of potential infrastructure spending, tax cuts and a reduction of regulations across a wide swath of industries.

Such a determination could subject a wide swath of industry members to legal penalties - far beyond the promoters of recent initial coin offerings (ICOs) who were already on alert the last few months.

Jesus and I stepped from the tunnel onto a path with wide swaths of land on each side of it.

He's made many missteps this year, and as I've mentioned many, many times throughout the year — I cover this team on a daily basis, multiple posts per day sometimes, which necessarily produces a wide swath of emotions and reactions.

Also, while it is true that Africa is the most genetically diverse, that does not preclude positive or purifying selection acting on very specific alleles, including those related to childbirth, across the continent, or across wide swathes of the continent (the latter being more likely).

«The candidates come to rely on this money to fund a wide swath of purposes — not only what's necessary to a campaign, but cars and clothing and fancy dinners,» he added.

De Blasio's commission is expected to focus on campaign finance reforms, while the council is looking to examine «a wide swath of issues — including a more transparent budgeting process, more robust community engagement in land use, and a more independent Law Department,» according to Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

The tornado that plowed a wide swath of death and destruction through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday unleashed winds of up to 198 miles per hour, federal forecasters said yesterday.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

Swift is able to spot the flare of a new burst anywhere in a wide swath of the sky; then, the satellite rapidly trains two telescopes on the explosion before it fades away.

Swarms of locusts — giant flying species ofgrasshoppers — are a traveling variation on this phenomenon and dominatea wide swath of this planet almost every year.

«The wide swath of ocean that is cooled by hurricanes is much larger in area than the narrow swath where damage occurs on reefs,» Manzello notes.

The leading spider expert on the Spintharus genus in earlier decades, Herbert W. Levi (1921 - 2014), had concluded that differences he observed in these spiders across a wide swath of geography represented variation within one species.

SHORTLY after a powerful tornado struck Mayflower, Arkansas, on 27 April, storm - chaser Brian Emfinger flew a drone over the ravaged town, capturing dramatic aerial images of a wide swathe of wreckage, even as emergency services were flocking to the scene.

Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey - size dead zone that forms each summer in the Mississippi River Delta, or the thousand - mile - wide swath of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to see that this «dilution» policy has helped place a once flourishing ocean ecosystem on the brink of collapse.

Earlier this year, Ian Joughin from the University of Washington and colleagues analysed satellite observations and GPS data on ice motion from across a wide swathe of Greenland.

In its finely drawn portrayal of economic pressures and class divisions within the relatively privileged belt of Sacramento suburbia, the film cuts a wide swath, speaking generously to the «just getting by» belt of America that rarely sees itself on screen.

Over the course of the meeting on this fall day, the 18 - member professional - development committee for the Lexington school system will cover a wide swath of topics about the ongoing training — everything from practical concerns about teacher enrollment in a district - sponsored course to philosophical ones about how to improve teachers» ability...

Seats front and back were universally praised for comfort and spaciousness (but some sniffed that a vehicle in the $ 35,000 range ought to come with power passenger - seat controls), and so was the use of good materials on all cabin surfaces that you actually touched among the wide swaths of hard plastic.

Now the 1LE is back, and it's accessible to a wider swath of Camaro buyers, with availability on both the Camaro LT and SS.

The current model highlights the pluses that keeps the Prius tops for a wide swath of buyers; it sips fuel, it's been proven reliable, it's roomy inside and, when you spend enough on one, you can own a car that maxes out the current safety ratings.

Similar changes out back include lower bumper trim and a chrome bull horns - like swath beneath the rear window said to make it look wider, but it had the opposite effect on me.

While Nook Tablet calls itself a tablet, it still lacks many tablet features and access to the wide swath of apps on Android Market.

It is good to see a «Google Experience Device» getting the update finally and depending on how well this rollout goes, Moto could be looking to push this out to a wider swath of XOOM users fairly soon.

Investors who want to cover a spectacularly wide swath of the emerging world without compromising on cost could consider the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF — the largest emerging - markets ETF at $ 85.4 billion in assets.

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, cutting a mile - wide swath of destruction that ultimately left 150 dead and destroyed many more homes and livelihoods.

The points devaluation cuts a wide swathe through the program, affecting redemptions on gift voucher, merchandise and frequent flyer programs.

I swear I'm not doing this on purpose, but I guess this week it's all Funk Zone all the time... Anyhow, this podcast focuses on a much wider swath of the Santa Barbara art scene than just its namesake.

Guests can opt to relax or play, with a wide range of non-motorized water sports at their disposal, all free to guests, on Mamora Bay's beautiful swathe of white sand fringed by palm trees that cast cooling, deep blue shade.

In fact right now there is nobody else on this battlefield at all, which means Sony can claim credit for making virtual reality available to a wide swathe of people that might otherwise run the risk of a Samsung phone exploding in their face.

When one looks at Yellow Jacket, 1969, one notices yellow used in a variety of ways: On the right, narrow vertical lines of yellow are tightly interspersed with orange lines; on the left, blue and pink stripes are sandwiched between relatively wide bands of lemon; and in roughly the center, medium - size gold stripes emerge from within a broad swath of lime greeOn the right, narrow vertical lines of yellow are tightly interspersed with orange lines; on the left, blue and pink stripes are sandwiched between relatively wide bands of lemon; and in roughly the center, medium - size gold stripes emerge from within a broad swath of lime greeon the left, blue and pink stripes are sandwiched between relatively wide bands of lemon; and in roughly the center, medium - size gold stripes emerge from within a broad swath of lime green.

With a focus on linear mark - making, the show covers a wide swath of contemporary practices, processes and precedents.

Burroughs went on to deeply influence a wide swath of culture and thought with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken - word performances and multi-media collaborations.

The museum also released an advance exhibition program covering a wide swath of art history and drawing on distinguished collections around the world.

First here's Bill Chameides, the blogging dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, who recently toured a wide swath of Pennsylvania gas country by helicopter with other Duke researchers focused on America's gas rush (slide show here):

First here's Bill Chameides, the blogging dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, who recently toured a wide swath of Pennsylvania gas country by helicopter with other Duke researchers focused on America's gas rush (slide show here): Read more...

(04/22/2013) While the month of March saw colder - than - average temperatures across a wide - swath of the northern hemisphere — including the U.S., southern Canada, Europe, and northern Asia — globally, it was the tenth warmest March on record in the last 134 years, putting it in the top 7 percent.

On the left, a wide swath of climate advocates still cling to the idea that a price on carbon / cap - and - trade / command - and - control approach is the correct method for driving the adoption of affordable clean technologies and reducing emissionOn the left, a wide swath of climate advocates still cling to the idea that a price on carbon / cap - and - trade / command - and - control approach is the correct method for driving the adoption of affordable clean technologies and reducing emissionon carbon / cap - and - trade / command - and - control approach is the correct method for driving the adoption of affordable clean technologies and reducing emissions.

On the right, a wide swath of advocates still cling to the idea that government has little role in supporting groundbreaking industries like clean technology and doing so is nothing more than «picking winners and losers.»

Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard on November 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction, including more than 5,000 deaths.

The People's Climate March, which took over a wide swath of midtown Manhattan on September 21st, was billed as the largest climate march in history before it even took place.

The Washington Post reported, «[EDF] has reached out to Ingersoll and others in the commercial space business to create a device that will be able to measure methane emissions on a 125 - mile wide swath with pixel resolution of less than five - eighths of a mile.»

But wide swaths of the public have had their confidence in the issue shaken by misinformation campaigns, opportunistic politicians and media outlets, and extreme weather events (which were not - so - coincidentally capitalized on by both), so it's currently not a viable option.