Sentences with phrase «over vast swaths»

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

Several news outlets are reporting that ISIS — the Islamic militant force taking over vast swathes of Iraq — is now forcing Christian residents to pay a special «jizya» tax or face severe consequences.

...... the cold broke in March and, in mid-April, unusual warmth blossomed over a vast swath at the heart of Eurasia.

Land clearing laws have seen savannah — maintained by indigenous peoples over millennia --- give way to woody weeds, feral species and declining biodiversity over vast swathes of the Australian landscape.

Not exact matches

In China, over the last several months, regulators shut down vast swathes of the cryptocurrency world, banning token offerings (ICOs) and demanding that trading on cryptocurrency exchanges cease.

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

The Katmai wilderness encompasses hundreds of miles of coastline, vast swaths of forest and tundra, thousands of lakes, rivers, small streams, and over a dozen active volcanoes.

In the previous games it was possible to use a special set of powers called «kyokaningen» (human plus) and «juryokata» (over weight), when used, vast swathes of the parts list became irrelevant.

``... Bushwick Open Studios takes over the eponymous neighborhood and a vast swath of its environs every June... We spoke with several organizers to get an idea of how BOS 2013 is shaping up.»

Enter through the new Howard Street entrance; spiral through Richard Serra's torqued, 213 - ton Corten steel sculpture Sequence, across the swath of free public space given over to hanging out under the vast Alexander Calder mobile, and up the maplewood stairway to the second - floor atrium.

Go and do something useful and reconcile the quality satellite data, which is real data with perfect coverage and small errors — not sparsely sampled, improperly collected & improperly averaged readings taken in a typical Siberian winter through goggles or reproduced from buckets thrown over the side of ships or just not collected at all for vast swathes of the world.

Ocean overturning is a diurnal event, and since the average wind speed over the oceans is little more than BF4, there must be vast swathes of the oceans where the conditions for long periods are BF2 or less when there would be very little ocean / top surface mixing by wind waves or swell.