Sentences with phrase «serve as a sink»

They serve as a sink to sequester human emissions, but deforestation risks sending those assets up in smoke.

Do you think it could serve as a sink for powder room?

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«You could sink your business,» says Richard M. Colombik, an attorney and CPA based in Itasca, Ill., who has served as the State of Illinois Bar's liaison to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The Tema Chemu Lagoon has served as an industrial sink through which almost all the major industries including textiles, oil industries among other companies channel their waste into the sea over the years.

This includes big infrastructure projects to control floods, like levees and breakwaters; retrofitting individual homes or moving homeowners away from floodplains; and restoring wetlands to serve as natural water sinks.

The subsurface trail takes you past a Spanish treasure ship lost in a 1733 hurricane, a decommissioned Coast Guard cutter intentionally sunk as an artificial reef in 1985, and a transport ship that served in the Spanish - American War.

Trees only absorb large quantities of carbon during their growth, so once they are fully grown — in other words, when the reforestation is complete — they will not be able to serve as CO2 sinks.

Unfortunately, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea during World War I while serving as a hospital ship and sank without ever taking a commercial sailing.)

«OCO - 2 was designed to help locate and identify natural regional processes that serve as sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and how these vary with time and location,» explained Annmarie Eldering, a NASA scientist working on the mission.

Though distantly located from industrialized centers and agricultural regions, the Arctic serves as «a sink» for global pollutants.

On one nanotube a metal particle serves as an atom reservoir that can source or sink atoms to or from the nanocrystal ram.

They will sink to the bottom which is brilliant as you serve the keto blueberry cheesecake upside down.

I have the same fixture from IKEA over my sink and have been obsessing over a complimentary fixture to use over a small workbench that serves as my table.

I'd hang it across from the sink / toilet area and it would serve double duty as art AND storage!

This super sleek sink stands out against the white marble countertop and serves as the kitchen's statement piece.

Mark Addy has better luck as Donald's brother - in - law, but he serves little purpose in the overall plot, unless a scene featuring him urinating in the kitchen sink is meant to be symbolic.

Thankfully, the love story is not the driving force of the movie (more of a plot device) unlike so many other movies (e.g., «Titanic» where telling the story of the sinking ship served as the backdrop for the love story between the two main characters).

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

In addition, 2 GB of RAM has been included to back up the CPU and 16 GB of internal memory serves as a storage sink.

In this case the right atrium and ventricle serves as a low pressure «sink» for severely dilated left atrium.

As sun gives way to moon, sink into the comfort of a daybed or armchair with an aperitif or an Alila signature cocktail, served with locally inspired snacks as beach music sets the mood for revelling and relaxatioAs sun gives way to moon, sink into the comfort of a daybed or armchair with an aperitif or an Alila signature cocktail, served with locally inspired snacks as beach music sets the mood for revelling and relaxatioas beach music sets the mood for revelling and relaxation.

KAMBOJA BEDROOM: - King - sized canopied bed set on marble flooring under a soaring roof with double Balinese doors - Air - conditioned and ceiling fan - Ensuite bathroom with air - conditioned indoor section and dressing area and garden shower and luxurious sunken circular tub - Satellite TV JEMPIRING BEDROOM: - Twin beds (convertible to queen) set on marble flooring under a soaring roof - Air - conditioned and ceiling fan - Two sofas that can be made up as single beds, suitable for kids - Open - air ensuite bathroom with air - conditioned indoor section, Palimanan stone walls ALAMANDA & MELATI ROOM: - Two adjoining rooms that can be closed or open to make them into one large suite - Melati can be used as a children's bedroom or as a sitting room - Air - conditioned and ceiling fan - Adjoining open - air bathroom serves both bedrooms featuring twin washbasins and rain shower CEMPAKA BEDROOM: - King - sized bedroom located upstairs with marble floor and soaring roof - Adjoining wooden deck with daybed and stunning vistas - Satellite TV - Air - conditioned and ceiling fan - Ensuite bathroom with slatted walls, rain shower and large mirrors

After going for their barbecue dinner options with selections such as juicy pork ribs, mixed seafood grills with tuna, shrimp and squid served with spicy Balinese «sambal» sauce, you can simply stay on with an aperitif and sink into a beanbag under the stars, complemented by gentle sea breezes and twinkling lights from the Bali mainland on the horizon.

The navy, later on, sank these ships to serve as artificial reefs.

The Glenn Nusa faithfully served as a tugboat in Lombok for many years, before finally retired and got bought by GIDA and Trawangan dive centers to sink.

Pick up fresh seafood from a local market, and as the sun sinks toward the neighboring island of Lanai, prepare it on the barbecue and serve it at the pergola - covered al - fresco dining area.

Ten days of diving and over 500 nautical miles later, we can look back to diving sandy slopes hunting for critters and creatures, an old ship wreck which sank in 1958, steep walls covered in fish, an active volcano and home of hundreds of sea snakes,swim - throughs and overhangs with beautiful soft corals, pinnacles which serve as manta cleaning stations and sea mounts full of schooling fish!

Located off of 7 Mile Beach, the ex-USS Kittiwake was sunk on January 5th, 2011 to serve as a dive site for the Cayman Islands.

Serves here include a luscious pool located close to the beach with a sunk in bar supplying cocktails and tropical specialties as well as beers and other beverages and refreshments.

The room we got was a two - queen bed suite, which had a divider / bar in the middle of the room that served as a little kitchenette, complete with a microwave, water heater for coffee and sink.

In the meantime the greedheads serving the industrialized nations with raw materials are cutting down the tropical (terrestrial) carbon sinks as fast as they can keep the chainsaws gassed up.

The process has dire consequences for climate, because forests like the Amazon serve as essential carbon sinks as long as they are left intact.

I always thought the ocean served as a heat sink as long as the ocean's bulk temperature was colder than the surface's and the surface temperature was increasing.

Meteorology Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, who served as a lead author with the third IPCC report, said that the UN climate body had «truly sunk to a level of hilarious incoherence» in its 2013 assessment.

Their role in the carbon cycle is quite different from that of trees and other land plants, which actually absorb CO2 and serve as a storehouse, or «sink», of carbon.

If we stopped letting cattle graze on federal land and allowed the vegetation there to naturally regrow, we'd save on emissions from lowered beef production and increase the capacity of the land to serve as a carbon sink.

Paying timber owners not to cut down forests that serve as carbon sinks (the idea behind the REDD proposal to the UNFCCC), or paying farmers not to cultivate land in order reduce erosion damage (as is being done in China and the US), are examples.

The situation is rather like that of the home computer builder who puts a massive slab of copper on the CPU to serve as the heat sink, with no fins or fan.

Greenpeace, which warns of an imminent «climate bomb» due to the destruction of rich forests and peat bogs that currently serve as a massive carbon sink, reports groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and Flora and Fauna International have joined them in calling for an end to the conversion of forests to croplands for the production of biofuels

«Here we show that seep - associated carbonates harbour active microbial communities, serving as dynamic methane sinks,» the researchers wrote in their study.

In terms of your question of what we store in hOMe here is a breakdown in case it helps get a sense of how much space things take up for us: all of our pots, pans and small appliances fit inside a large lazy susan corner unit; our eating utensils, spices, roots / onions, and misc cooking utensils fit inside an 18 ″ wide lower cabinet unit with 4 drawers; underneath our sink is our trash can and reverse osmosis filter since we have arsenic in our well; we have 30 days of emergency food stored inside a 24 ″ lower cabinet as well as mixing and serving bowls; in a lower 36 ″ cabinet we have all of our food storage containers and water bottles (amazing how much space that all takes up but for us it's necessary bc of how much food we store... for someone else, this entire cabinet would not be necessary).

The sharp spike in Alaska's wildfires, where more than 5 million acres burned last year, are destroying a main buffer against climate change: the carbon - rich boreal forests, tundra and permafrost that have served as an enormous carbon sink.

Forests are critical carbon sinks, serving as both repositories for gases like CO2 and converters of CO2 to breathable oxygen.

Even indoor agriculture can serve as a carbon sink.

On a global scale, forests that serve as invaluable carbon «sinks» — lands that absorb more carbon than they emit — are under siege.

Müller believes polycarbonates could serve as effective carbon sinks for the millions of tons of emissions spewed by coal - fired plants; assuming the price tag for any such technology is within limits - and that the capacity for economies of scale exists - it could, as he states, be a «significant contribution» towards global efforts to slash carbon emissions.

«Ice serves as a humidity sink because the vapor pressure of ice is lower than the vapor pressure of water.

Scientists are also looking to biological processes (many of which also serve as carbon dioxide sinks) as complementary or alternative regulating mechanisms of greenhouse gases on the young Earth.

All of the components responsible for the heavy lifting in the Mac Pro are arranged around a unique thermal core, a single piece of extruded aluminum serving as a heat sink for the entire machine.