Sentences with phrase «over the life span of»

In one case, a power company paid $ 13.7 million to reforest 100,000 acres of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land in Mississippi in the expectation that every acre of trees would absorb enough carbon dioxide to offset 150 tons of greenhouse - gas emissions over the life span of the trees.

In addition, with the method used to measure total glycated hemoglobin, each 1 % represents ≈ 18 mg glucose / dL integrated over the life span of a red blood cell (20).

Permanent insurance builds up a cash value over time and continues to achieve steady growth over the life span of the policy.

Even in the best of cases, the total cost over the life span of your hamster overwhelms the initial hamster purchase price tag of $ 7.99 or so.

«Overall cost savings of more than 25 percent, spread over the life span of the winning products, are possible.

Green schools are better for budgets because they are designed to save money over the life span of the school building.

The reason is that they not only pay out on death benefits, but they also have a cash value accumulation feature which accumulates over the life span of the policy.

Permanent insurance builds up a cash value over time and continues to achieve steady growth over the life span of the policy.

Because not only does a permanent policy provide your loved ones with death benefits but these types of policies also come with a cash value accumulation feature which build up over the life span of the policy.

Not exact matches

Over its relatively short life - span, the publishing platform known as Medium has been described as the digital version of a lot of things — a magazine, a stable of magazines, a PR news - wire, a social network based around writing, and so on.

No single investment must last for the entire span of the investor's life, because the investor ideally has a diversified portfolio of several dividend - paying companies, but the better the investments perform over the long - term, the lower the turn - over rate of the portfolio needs to be.

Through a series of attending numerous churches over the span of several years, Shannon came to recognize that change in churches comes slow, but often the change we want to see in our church may actually be the change God wants to accomplish in our own life instead.

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

With the controversy over the site and substance of his proposed Islamic center now spanning the globe, the imam is relying on an informal cabinet of faith - based advisors, many of them Christian and Jewish, for crisis management advice and moral support during the most difficult public crisis of his life.

And as the dying process of an organism can stretch over some time, so the demise of a social organism which has enjoyed a life span of some 1,500 years may be a lengthy process.

The matter in which there might be spiritual progress in time on a time span extending over many generations of life on earth is... the opportunity open to souls by way of the learning that comes through suffering, for getting into closer communication with God during their brief passage through this world.

First of all, that human life in our span of years and so far as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm of heavenly existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span of our years.

Since the Bible was written over a span of thirty generations living in three cultures, there is no single world view but several.

A second implication of the uses - and - gratifications research for understanding why people watch religious programs on television is the insight that uses made of the media and gratifications derived from these uses change over an individual's life span.

Through artificial insemination, this process is repeated over the span of the cow's life until it can no longer produce milk.

Activities over the three - year life - span of the network included conducting research into Young Carers in the Niagara Region, with the results of the study published by Dr. Heather Chalmers, PhD from the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University, St. Catharines.

Meanwhile, the Port Authority's eponymous bus terminal, the nation's busiest, is over capacity and nearing the end of its life span.

Having shown that IGF -1-deficient mice also live longer, Bartke's study suggested not only that these pathways are important in mammals, but that they might have been crucial in controlling life span in a range of creatures evolving over hundreds of millions of years from a common ancestor of worms and mammals, says Miller.

With a now - classic graph, they demonstrated that the amplitude of daily growth hormone pulses shrinks over the animals» life - span.

The hazard is expressed in terms of the probability of exceeding a certain level of shaking in 50 years — not only because the hazard in places like California is not expected to change much over that time period, but also because 50 years — the typical life span of a building — is a useful period of time for engineers.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

The researchers point out that the popularity of TNR in the U.S. has been in part due to a goal of maximizing feral cats» quality of life (e.g. extended life span, vaccinations, assessment for infectious disease) and reducing undesirable behaviors such as aggression and vocalization while still eliminating colonies over time.

City life comes with a host of factors that can, for better or worse, affect a bird over the course of its life span.

Marijuana use is on the rise, with an estimated 12.5 percent of adults living in the United States reportedly using the drug at least once in 2013, according to a new study that looked at drug usage over the span of a decade.

The success of the personal filtration system led Vestergaard Frandsen to introduce earlier this month its LifeStraw Family device, an instant microbiological purifier that provides about 2.6 gallons (10 liters) of safe drinking water in an hour and about 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) over its life span for a family of six.

Dubbed the «Age of Obesity and Inactivity» by the Journal of the American Medical Association, this runaway weight gain threatens to decrease average U.S. life span, reversing gains made over the past century by lowering risk factors from smoking, hypertension, and cholesterol.

In a paper published in Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) the authors review the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people — humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over most of the inhabited globe.

Researchers have long puzzled over the shorter life span of larger male ungulates, or hoofed mammals.

Over the average 5 - year life span of a farm, a farmer will typically harvest about 1659 kilograms of shrimp.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

Durbin, Patricia W. et al. «Development of spontaneous mammary tumors over the life - span of the female Charles River (Sprague - Dawley) Rat.»

Because we ingest thousands of pounds of food and drink over our life spans, it would be unreasonable to think that our relationship to food and eating doesn't impact our health.

One study of Japanese elders measured five traits — neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness — in communal living for people over 65 and found that extroversion, openness, and conscientiousness were linked to a longer life span.

Her nursing career spans over 25 years with experience in Neonatal Intensive Care, Neuroscience, Palliative and End - of - Life nursing.

love, appreciation, long - views back over the span of our lives to see how we have been blessed by so many.

Francois Girard's epic follows the history of a violin as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries.

Over the film's 20 - year span, Leigh renders the painter's life as a collage of moments, as we watch him chase his life to the finish line.

Arquette brings this tough but sweet woman to life with zero vanity and zero melodrama over the course of the 12 years the film spans — just a lot of humor, humility and heart.

Critics agree: With the season's best games released over the span of five weeks, the Summer of Arcade brought new players to the Xbox LIVE Arcade service in record pace.

At just a little less than 2 hours, Wolf Children spans nearly over a decade through the lives of these characters.

Lincoln is not some mushy life - spanning biopic of our sixteenth president; it is instead heir to a class of film never truly reputable enough to have been actively missed; think of the forties Hollywood films Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet or Edison, the Man, which sprinkle biographical detail over narratives deeply invested in tracking their famous protagonists» often obsessive quest to achieve a single goal, say, the invention of vaccinations, the creation of light bulbs, or the cessation of slavery.

The Coen's give us an exceptionally busy 27 hours in the life of Mannix, the span of time between two Catholic confessions, where the devoutly converted catholic obsesses over the minutiae of his marriage and personal life, while compartmentalizing, and fully omitting, the myriad of sins of his profession.

Renowned and critically acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., over the span of his life, published 14 novels and 3...

Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built follows the life and murder spree of the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) over a span of 12 years as he develops as a serial killer.