Sentences with phrase «sizable portions of»

Even without carbon pricing, tropical forest countries could keep sizable portions of their forest standing by enacting stricter policies.

The ideology of the avant - garde wields a pervasive and often cynical authority over sizable portions of the very public it affects to despise.

Second, though states have shouldered some responsibility for financing public education, usually by decreeing a minimum or «foundation» level of per - pupil spending, sizable portions of education revenue are locally generated through property taxes, bond levies, and such.

But, rather refreshingly, the film finds new angles of approach, or at least ones that aren't too well worn, reshaping huge chunks of Alien and sizable portions of Gravity to form something bracing and scary and interesting, a B - movie with brains.

Corbijn eschews score for sizable portions of the film, letting Clooney set the mood, but the actor's only able to do this when he's allowed to interact with the world around him, whether that manifests itself as building a gun or allowing himself to get drawn into regular conversations with a local priest, Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli).

The 95,000 - square - mile slab, which lies under sizable portions of West Virginia, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, could contain up to 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — enough to meet the nation's natural gas needs for at least two years.

In an interview with CNBC earlier this year, CEO Jamie Dimon said he's proud to report that a sizable portion of his direct reports are women.

The rate at which the condos are being sold is running at about twice the pace of natural household formation, which indicates investors are scooping up a sizable portion of them.

This online security hole could affect a sizable portion of the «secure» web.

His $ 1.4 - million business brokered $ 67 million in loans in 1999, and gay men and lesbians constitute a sizable portion of the business's clientele.

In general, these Income - Driven Repayment plans are best for borrowers whose monthly payment on their federal loans is more than or a sizable portion of their discretionary income.

We believe a sizable portion of today's move is due to long liquidation ahead of tomorrow's data and short - covering in the Dollar Index.

But after that due diligence process is completed, investors should feel comfortable enough to dedicate a sizable portion of assets to that stock.

How he made his billions: After his father, John Walton — son of Walmart founder Sam Walton — died in 2005, Lukas Walton inherited a sizable portion of the estate.

It's deflating to watch a sizable portion of each payment go toward paying your lender rather than lowering your debt.

Technology companies now make up a sizable portion of emerging - market stock markets, and these companies have the opportunity to drastically improve economic productivity through things like mobile banking that are hard to replicate in developed economies.

So from that viewpoint I don't think teaching prophecy and end times, which make up a sizable portion of scripture, is a waste of time.

This included a Burrata and Heirloom Tomato salad, with theirs boasting fresh and meaty produce, including crunchy chopped lemon cucumber, which was blanketed with a sizable portion of the dutifully creamy and delicate cheese.

Currently, Inspire Brands Inc. will wield a sizable portion of the sales pie.

If you're playing the squares game at home, 7 - 3 now takes home a sizable portion of the pot.

Super Bowl XLVIII kicks off at 6:25 p.m. ET, and while two fan bases have an interest in the outcome, a sizable portion of America will have a financial stake in the result.

Carragher also suggested that, despite a sizable portion of club's transfer budget having gone toward defence in recent windows, the Etihad outfit should consider further recruitment.

Because many students bring lunches or eat off campus, I would guess that a sizable portion of actual school lunches sold go to free and reduced - price lunch students, limiting the amount of money the schools make from these lunches.

India and Pakistan received ample support from great powers attempting to balance influence in their region, whereas a sizable portion of North Korean development was purely pursued independently, with aid coming from clandestine sources.

If it was reprehensible to a sizable portion of the population, these franchises wouldn't fare as well as they do.

Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's swing voters willing to vote for either party, a fact further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.

A sizable portion of their membership wanted to give their endorsement to Teachout.

As it turns out, Peralta's advocacy for the stadium has enraged a sizable portion of latino civic leaders, once thought to support him, but are now defecting en masse.

A sizable portion of Amazon's RFP addresses financial incentives.

Marshall got the idea for the study after noticing that a sizable portion of the bipolar disorder patients who had volunteered for the study at U-M discussed problematic childhoods in the questionnaires that all participants fill out.

«A sizable portion of the acquisition money for 2009» is yet to be spent, hence it was «fiscally prudent» not to ask for more, Amy Kudwa, a DHS spoksesperson told ScienceInsider.

Head notes that an overheated equator could threaten a sizable portion of the earth's biodiversity and its people.

Studies of identical twins raised apart since birth have proved «beyond a shadow of a doubt that heredity is responsible for a sizable portion of the variations in people's personalities,» Harris writes.

Today, the Columbia economist Richard Nelson points out, a sizable portion of this public knowledge is private property.

Humans do have some regenerative capacities — for example, regrowing fingertips if a sizable portion of the fingernail remains.

But in the case of CO2, which is a rather sizable portion of the greenhouse effect, the temperatures would be cold enough to trigger the scenario raypierre discussed (in the work of Aiko Voigt; he also discusses this in his 2007 general circulation paper, and more recently was discussed in the Lacis et al 2010 paper in Science).

In some cases, they've tried to «slow cut» over the course of 5 to 6 months (erasing a sizable portion of the potential muscle gain for the year), and in others, they've spent many of their weekdays in a deficit to undo the sins of the weekends.

Additionally, the organism accumulates sizable portion of free radicals and products of metabolism.

Fortunately, although one - quarter cup of almonds contains about 11 grams of fat, a sizable portion of it (7 grams) is heart - healthy monounsaturated fat.

A sizable portion of the user base actively interacts in the virtual space, which sees over 10 million unique views a month.

Given that Apatow's audiences tend to run on the immature side, it's a safe bet to assume that many of the references will be lost on a sizable portion of the potential ticket buyers, who will probably think the filmmakers are just geniuses at being weird, such as a silly acid trip where Dewey meets The Beatles, including an animated sequence a la Yellow Submarine, that is dead on arrival.

Not only does it not really draw us into the action, despite its first - person perspective, but a sizable portion of the film is actually not shown to have been shot by any of the characters we see on the screen.

After Dahl's death, a sizable portion of his work has been adapted and re-adapted, but my hands - down favorite is 2009 ′ s «Fantastic Mr. Fox.»

Such features aren't often found or noted in a mainstream American comedy and surely, they'll be missed or unappreciated by a sizable portion of the viewership.

There are no standout performances, and a sizable portion of the supporting cast either hams it up or phones it in.

In fact, a sizable portion of the much - vaunted outperformance of voucher school students could be chalked up to nothing more than easy grading.

In addition, AANAPISIs confer a sizable portion of education degrees to students of color.

We wouldn't be surprised if a sizable portion of the 100 - car production run is ultimately sold through this very showroom.

There are at least 219 240 - volt chargers available in Michigan, and most are scattered throughout a sizable portion of the Lower Peninsula.

A sizable portion of VW's reputation has been built on the exceptional materials and superb fit that helped justify the brand's premium pricing.