Sentences with phrase «rather than on land»

They also say that the baker «has committed to using palm oil grown on rehabilitated or previously cleared land rather than on land that is deforested specifically for palm - oil production» with no word on how they can tell.

Trouble is, things like humanist perspectives and living in boxes rather than on the land has taken away much of our familiarity with the natural world.

They include higher sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean, which can lead to greater rainfall over the sea rather than on land.

Not exact matches

Rather than default to the path of least resistance and build on greenfield land we need a change of mindset.

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

It is important to send incoming visitors to a unique page (called a landing page) on your website, rather than your homepage.

For one, a patch of land can provide a full and balanced diet for more people if the people eat the food that grows on it rather than feed the food to an animal and then eat the animal.

The giant hook, rather than sail gently through the air to land on the other side of the lawn, had lodged itself in my right ear.

And the useless of land was decided on business principles rather than religion.

The next chapter opens: «When we reached land,» a phrase that with simple perfection conveys the foundation given to us when we rely on God's power, rather than on our own.

It would presumably be better to spend time actually «cultivating and keeping» a plot of land rather than deliberating with your neighbor (even in complete good will) on a case - by - case basis where his «cultivation and keeping» leaves off and yours begins.

(Onlyin California have country clubs gotten a break on real estate taxes: a yearago voters approved an amendment to assess club land at the rate specified forrecreational purposes rather than at building value.)

If you think k it takes for Arsenal to beat big teams to lift the EPL then you need to land back on planet earth and start counting up points Arsenal lost to teams below them rather than above them and see where they would have been in the table.

It's claimed by the Sun though that if Chelsea want to land Immobile's signature, they'll have to splash out # 53m to «convince Lazio president Claudio Lotito to sell», although they could put an offer on the table that involves players in exchange rather than parting with the full # 53m.

On Friday, his drive on 18 traveled just 296 yards and landed in heavy rough to the right of the fairway, forcing him to lay up rather than having a chance to go for the green in twOn Friday, his drive on 18 traveled just 296 yards and landed in heavy rough to the right of the fairway, forcing him to lay up rather than having a chance to go for the green in twon 18 traveled just 296 yards and landed in heavy rough to the right of the fairway, forcing him to lay up rather than having a chance to go for the green in two.

Spot on mate we are defiantly a very amateur club when it comes to incoming transfers as unlike our rivals who get deals done quickly ours drag on and on, it seems we are yet again shopping in pound land rather than waitrose.

If you're a betting man (some sites even let you place bets right from your mobile phone these days), betting on Goretzka landing anywhere other than Bayern at this stage would seem rather foolish.

However, you don't need them if your car's shoulder belt actually lands on your child's shoulder (rather than her neck or upper arm) and crosses the middle of her chest without the guides.

Always read bolt end information on fabric since some are licensed prints so that redistribution, rather than for personal use, is restricted and selling items from a licensed print can land you in hot water.

A pocket on a bib may not seem like a great idea but I found that those pockets caught things rather than those things landing on the clothing.

We also slept with our heads around baby's legs, so if we were to roll over in the night (which we never did), our heads would land on his legs rather than his lungs.

This surely is the gloss we need to put on «the commune of the land,» a powerful phrase which Carpenter extols as a constitutional notion rather than the material reality it ought to become.

Mr. Donovan, rather than expending the severely limited resources of the State on partisan, politically motivated litigation against the law of the land which, however flawed, did address some notorious abuses by the insurance industry, why don't you tell us what your priority is with respect to corruption and misuse of public funbds and resources by politicians right here in New York State?

He called for investigations into the accuracy of the science used to count fish stocks, and more sophistication in the in - land counting process so fish caught accidentally could be brought on shore, rather than dumped overboard.

He continued in this «tough and tender» (his words again) vein when discussing the deficit reduction plan, landing the Lib Dems headlong into the government's strategy, rather than shying away and blaming all the unpopular cuts — as some Lib Dem politicians tend to do — on the Tories, resurrected as the «Nasty Party» by Vince Cable earlier today.

«The town and the city of Plattsburgh — separate entities with a shared name and history — envision a future of intermunicipal cooperation rather than hard - fought battles on land and sea or in the boardroom,» said Plattsburgh Rotary Club President Peter Ensel.

Our 2014 report Building Homes Where We Need Them gives an idea of just how much land near to existing infrastructure is available on the capital's green belt, using a slightly different geography (2 km rather than 1 km, and including some stations that are further away than 45 minutes from Zone 1):

It was how the workers» movement and its small farmer allies were able to build movements to win the universal franchise, to organize labor unions and cooperatives, and to effectively compete in elections against the older top - down parties of the landed and business elites that were based on their legislative caucuses and wealthy sponsors rather than a formal membership with democratic rights in their party.

Rather than fight heavyweight Queens Boss Joe Crowley and Brooklyn's Vito Lopez for the top Finance and Land Use chairmanships, he glommed leadership roles on several heavy - duty committees and beefed up Joel Rivera's majority leadership post while getting him co-chairmanship of the Rules Committee.

Because it was chiefly meant to demonstrate landing technology rather than perform science on the surface, the lander runs solely on chemical batteries that only contain a few days» worth of power.

And researchers are not yet certain polar bears — which on ice lie in wait for, rather than chase after, prey — can do so on land.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

Euan Nisbet, a geologist at the University of London, points out that the Arctic, where the warming is expected to be strongest, is vulnerable — both on land and in shallow seas there are hydrates that are stabilized mostly by low temperatures rather than by high pressures.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

New fossil evidence suggests the first spark of life may have occurred in a hot spring on land rather than a hydrothermal vent in the deep sea.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

An analysis of species distributions in North America, unveiled here on 18 June at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, suggests that randomly picking imperiled species — rather than focusing on particular ones — protects as many life - forms in less land.

A large German consortium has been studying how land - use intensification affects functional diversity, and more work needs to be done on the role of spatial data and interactions at the landscape level, rather than in microcosms or individual study sites.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

After the lift's motor was hit and halted by lightning, the man jumped rather than wait for rescuers; on landing, he broke his leg.

Tracking experiments show female polar bears are increasingly giving birth on land rather than on pack ice, which brings them into «hybrid range» with grizzlies.

Rather than transitioning to a forefoot running pattern, which takes time to adjust to, it has been suggested that landing with a less dorsiflexed foot and a more vertical tibia (or, shinbone, as it is commonly called) is a way to lower impact on the leg and foot.

That is because it is one of the few active rifts on land rather than in the depths of the old oceans.

This Tuesday, for example, SpaceX will run a test launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and will attempt to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, rather than allowing it to splash down into the water as it has on previous tests.

It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft «land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,» rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean.

I'd rather focus on the human influence on land - use change as the primary cause rather than rely entirely on the early release of GHG's.

Evidence from Southwestern deserts suggests that oxygen - breathing organisms arose on land rather than in the seas.

Land cover maps, which aggregate data on habitats rather than providing information on individual farm locations, are the only kind of maps available in the United States where privacy laws protect precise locations of livestock farms in order to protect the anonymity of farmers.

When running with typical running shoes, the design of the shoe forces an unnatural landing on the heel, rather than on the lateral edge of the foot.

I assume this would top them off and allow for more explosive power in your land training rather than just relying on fat.