Sentences with phrase «opened vast regions»

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Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

He is giving the tribes the next few weeks to settle disputes so that he could remove three vast regions from six upstate sectors that Cuomo would open for commercial projects that would be protected from competition for five years.

The relocation of the rail lines opens up vast new possibilities for business opportunities in the City of Lackawanna and the Western New York region.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

In Rare's promising return to form, you will venture out onto a vast, open ocean, uncovering new regions scattered with unspoiled islands and the sunken ships of less agile sailors.

Although vast regions in the Arctic may soon be open water in summer and sometime late this century perhaps a blue ocean will exist at that end of the Earth, the sighting in 2000 was unremarkable.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].