Sentences with phrase «over a wide area»

These seat belts help reduce the severity of a crash for rear passengers by distributing the force of the crash impact over a wider area of the airbag versus a traditional belt.

As the term implies, the twin - disc clutch system employs a pair of discs, which spreads out the engine's torque load over a wider area.

By spreading your skills over a wider area, it takes away the possibility to be really good at a single thing.

In it some gains were made and, actually, Christian communities became scattered over a wider area than they had been in A.D. 500.

They live at the end of a telephone, are well provided with cheap transport, and draw their friends from over a wide area.

The goal of the surgery is to lower the volume of the dog's bark and the ability of the bark to carry over a wide area.

If you have cloudy conditions, or at night, all solar output will drop over wide areas.

This transition will reduce the hurricane's peak winds, but strong winds will spread out over a wider area of ocean.

The eczema herpeticum infection can be very serious, especially when it spreads over wide areas of skin.

The paper goes on to argue that the PDSI, which has been relied upon for drought characterization since the 1960s, is too simple a measure and may (the authors» word) have led to overestimation of global drought trends in previous climate - change assessments — including the IPCC's previous (2007) assessment, which found that «More intense and longer droughts have been observed over wider areas since the 1970s, particularly in the tropics and subtropics.»

Wide dispersion drivers and tweeters project sound over a wide area so every listener in a room hears open, «box-less,» three dimensional sound.

Wheras with the State Police you can provide services over a wide area (without regard to county or town lines) on a more efficient basis.

To ensure that it has enough food for the long, dark winter, the bird caches over a wide area some 100,000 mouthfuls of berries, insects, and spiders, says Tom Waite, a biologist at

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

In their model, the resulting fine debris and a downward - propagating gaseous jet then dispersed over wide areas in the atmosphere.

Korfmann took many readings over a wide area at Troy and translated the data into a computerised plot showing the most distinct features.

Observed marked increases in drought in the past three decades arise from more intense and longer droughts over wider areas, as a critical threshold for delineating drought is exceeded over increasingly widespread areas.

In «Diffuse» mode, for example, the THERMOTRONIC system operates with a low air speed and distributes the air over a wide area so that there are fewer draughts.

The year with weak wave energy (top) clearly shows greater ozone loss, which extends over a wider area, reaching farther past the edge of Antarctica and closer to the tip of South America.

More intense and longer droughts have been observed over wider areas since the 1970s, particularly in the tropics and subtropics.

They are supported by excellent IT and other facilities which enable them to practice effectively over a wide area throughout the UK in addition to across Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Kent & other regions in the South East.

Fisheries remain closed over a wide area, and tourism is down.

There were no survivors when the huge plane dropped from the sky moments after taking off from Savannah, Georgia, narrowly missing motorists and buildings as fiery wreckage exploded over a wide area.

Gnosticism flourished over a wide area of the Middle East about the time of the rise of Christianity.

On the one hand, new hope and vigor are in evidence over wide areas of the earth.

[12][13][14] The Soviet Union attempted to suppress religion over wide areas of its influence, including places such as central Asia.

If you are using concealer over a wide area (to cover rosacea, for example), use an especially thin layer and blend the edges very well.

Not all those peshmerga are involved in this conflict, but ISIS are also divided between many fronts, with other opponents such as the many Islamist splinter groups in Syria, the Syrian army, the FSA, international air forces, etc etc - plus all the difficulties in keeping the cities they have captured in a state of martial law and maintaining supply routes over a wide area.

Cluster bombs pose particular risks to civilians because they release many small bomblets over a wide area

It is both epizootic (an epidemic in non-humans) and panzootic (a disease affecting animals of many species especially over a wide area).

This effect requires that enough wolves be present to suppress coyotes over a wide area.

One option is to make more housing available to inmates over a wider area, rather than in pockets where housing is cheap and former prisoners are already concentrated, Kirk says.

The new study not only suggests that underground water ice lies under a thin covering over wide areas, it also identifies eight sites where ice is directly accessible, at latitudes with less hostile conditions than at Mars» polar ice caps.

They, like other mosses, can tolerate a lot and they spread over wide areas very effectively, often at the expense of other species.

This is called seed dispersal, and it is just one strategy that plants use to spread seeds over a wide area and make more plants.

Although ringed seals move over wide areas during the open water season, especially adults are quite sedentary in the breeding season in the winter.

«A stiff shell distributes impact over a wider area,» says Withnall.

A military network, for instance, might not worry about malevolent viruses and noise because access is restricted, while a wireless sensor network deployed over a wide area might need to tolerate continual losses of random nodes.

The Chaparrastique volcano, which is about 140 km (87 miles) east of San Salvador, the capital, spewed ash over a wide area known for its coffee plantations on Sunday.

Steven Leavitt, who heads a tree - ring lab at the University of Arizona, says that the advantage to Yakir's research lies in the «newspaper samples probably representing many trees perhaps over a wide area, thereby smoothing out variability associated with differences among individual trees.»

Their merits include being able to evaluate an environment over a wide area at a low cost; detect environmental changes over an extended period; and assess these changes» effects on the ecosystem.