Sentences with phrase «only scattered»

The first is how the federal courts dealt with national disasters in 2017 (introductory comments in some of the Wechat versions mention that China has only scattered legislative provisions related to emergency measures for the courts).

Ninety - seven percent of respondents in the survey believe the legal tech industry has no firm grasp of go - to - market strategy or, at best, only a scattered one.

The archive shows only scattered uses of «global warming» (and little more for «climate change») into the 1970s, with a significant rise for «global warming» after 1975.

With TNT blowing up the Black Hills behind him, he reached for a bottle of spring water at the lectern and, garnering only scattered audience cheers, poured the contents over his head in a final flourish.

But until recently, the seascapes he produced in his late teens and early 20s had received only scattered attention.

«Open House» transforms Doris C. Freedman Plaza into an open air ballroom where only scattered furniture and arches remain eight blocks south from the original mansion, with a twist — these objects feature sculpted additions and are cast in concrete, a populist material more commonl

Driving these roads and byways at speed reduces the visual experience from detail to generality and we never can reproduce the whole picture of the trip, only scattered elements as if they had been caught by a strobe light.

Initially, there were only scattered acts of sabotage easily contained by the Germans; but overtime members of the Communist and Socialist Parties (who were being hunted by the Gestapo) joined with escaped French soldiers in the forests of Vichy France where they formed into independent units.

Only scattered houses, dirt road intersections, and the adjacent railroad tracks interrupt the view of mountains to the north.

To my surprise, it reminded me of games such as Ico and Shadow of the Colossus — a huge world left mostly empty, with only scattered ruins as any proof that civilization once existed.

Summary: Because there has been only scattered progress in treatment since the «War on Cancer» was declared in December 1971, researchers from the University of Chicago recommend, in a New England Journal Special Article, shifting much of the research emphasis away from treatment and toward prevention and early detection.

May 29, 1997 News from the cancer front: glass remains half empty Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Where the roads end and only scattered villages interrupt the jungle, the area of yaws begins.

Only scattered sites have been found higher up in areas that don't flood regularly, known as terra firme.

«Think of early human ancestors, where we have only scattered fossil fragments, and the problem of relying on morphology is obvious.»

And if we see only scattered life, Lin says, that could suggest either that panspermia doesn't happen or that it proceeds so slowly as to be rare.

The states will almost certainly all finish their recounts on time and only a scattered few electors will be faithless.

Christ does not have all his people in one body; they are not only scattered about through all lands, but are among all church organizations.

So, rather than the all - consuming feverish horde that usually descends onto downtown on Opening Day, there was only a scattering of confused people trying to stay out of the rain and wondering how to celebrate the day when there was nothing to celebrate.

In three seasons, he didn't find a single ancient wreck from any period, and only a scattering of artefacts.

Before 1988, Thailand had only a scattering of HIV - positive people.

It is probably the most undeveloped part of the Costa del Sol and has only a scattering of small towns, which are very quiet at that time of year.

This road and the surrounding area feels more local with only a scattering of businesses geared towards tourists.

(if there is scattering and absorption, then the intensity at some location will be a weighted average of the Planck function over some volume that may to some extent surround the location; if there is only scattering, then the intensity will be a weighted average of the Planck function at the emitting surfaces (surface, space) depending on how much is scattered from where.)

First, while meteorologists measured the atmosphere daily in thousands of places, oceanographers had only a scattering of occasional data for the oceans.

A profile featuring 10 - 15 skills that are heavily endorsed by professional connections will look a lot better than someone claiming to have hundreds of skills, but with only a scattering of endorsements — set an absolute maximum of 50.

Not exact matches

But the process is cumbersome, relying on a scattered series of records, many of which might be transcribed only on paper.

Not only is GoDaddy's «Good Morning» ad fun to watch, but it's also a scavenger hunt with memorable memes scattered throughout.

There were scattered reports of voting machine glitches in Pennsylvania, where some voters said they tried to vote the Republican ticket only to see the Democratic boxes checked on their touchscreen.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Why scatter your support process when you could have solved the meandering situation above with built - in Notes that only your staff can see?

The company's 36 employees are scattered around the world and only come together for companywide gatherings a few times a year.

Not only is it one of the top retirement havens for Australians, but with more than 250 courses scattered throughout Thailand, it has fast become a golfer's dream.

We can only hope that the Catholic Church is brought down, the vatican destroyed and its remnants scattered to the wind.

It affords not only a shared place of imagined story, as in MUDs, but an ongoing real - time conversation with a large number of globally scattered participants (IRC — Interactive Relay Chat).

Much of what you've said so far here has come only in snippets and scattered comments, without the whole narrative laid out in order, so I'm having trouble piecing together the timeline of events.

Only at the novel's end» with his children scattered, his God fallen again silent, and the curse upon his son Cham's child to ponder» does Noe engage in something like introspection.

All that we can say with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge of humankind takes us back only to the point where humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal existence, each with its own language and culture.

For most of the interval between 30 A.D., when Jesus» career ended, and the date of the beginning, so far as we can know, of Gospel writing, the tradition about Jesus existed only as individual stories and sayings, circulating separately and orally among the scattered churches.

the number of the elect is indeed small, only 2 of the original slaves in Egypt made it into the promised land, Joshua and Caleb, the rest were scattered (their bodies) in the desert.

Am Yemeni meaning I Support Peace & Prosperity for Yemen... Leaders and Regimes Come and Go only Yemen Unity is to Remain we have paid our dues for it to come our lives were wasted our families scattered until it was achieved for which we do not want to lose and all our past suffering goes waste...!

No, a larger explosion or longer time would only further scatter the parts to create the whole; never would it bring them together intelligently.

The Jewish people were one ethnic unit living not only within the ancient boundaries of Palestine - Judea but scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

You realize 10 tribes of Israel are scattered through all the earth which makes every one of us Israeli just cause we live in America in 2018 does nt mean it's not true Lucifer would like us to believe we are different nation's never Israeli he wins when you don't look at things as a whole cause then your only getting part of the picture.

The rich vein of evangelical religion has run well - nigh out; and, though there are masses of apostolic origin lying everywhere, they are but fragments, and are evidently only the talus which has fallen from the cliffs above and scattered itself over the lowered surface.»

As Whitehead observed, only in Buddhism and the Christian gospels are there scattered repudiations of this image of divinity (MT 68).

All but three of the regulars at Grace (Ecklund was one of only two whites) were Korean, whereas Manna had Chinese and Korean leaders and numerous white, black and Latino members scattered among its Asian majority.

In this long period they have not only retained their identity as a people, scattered though they have been, but they have done this in spite of the many persecutions to which they have been subjected.

As for «jihad» itself, not only is the word «jihad» mentioned in several places within the their koran, such as the infamous Sura 9 («Verse of the Sword»), there are over 150 calls to «holy war» AKA «jihad: scattered throughout the entire text of this hateful book..