Sentences with phrase «smaller swaths»

While Walmart pursued widespread international growth, Target concentrated on smaller swaths, looking to always solidify any group of markets before moving on.

There is a strong chance these powers could be used to imprisoned small swathes of the Muslim community - up to and including teenagers experimenting with unpleasant and extremist books.

Damaging as Zika is to fetuses, they predict that autochthonous transmission will only affect a small swath of the country that stretches from Florida along the Gulf Coast to Texas.

Second, satellite - based measurements reveal that India and southern Tibet are colliding and converging at a rate of about two meters a century, and that a relatively small swathe of the Tibetan Plateau's southern edge is absorbing most of this convergence.

To find out, astronomer Alan Dressler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and his team are training some of the world's largest telescopes on a small swath of sky in the constellation Sextans.

The OCO - 2 is limited to a small swath of the Earth, less than 5 % of the globe, as it passes over.

A hush will fall over a small swath of green just above 69th Street, at Central Park SummerStage.

- it's the real deal, a two and a half hour improvised play enacted by a five - person ensemble across a small swathe of Berlin.

This series of new skool journalism workshops found our writers, all high school students from across the city, reporting on the neighborhood of Fort Greene, a small swath of tree - lined streets wedged between Bedford - Stuyvesant and Downtown Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

Broadly speaking, the practice involves taking one large field and managing it as if it were dozens or even hundreds of smaller ones, in order to address the wild variability — in soil, topography and exposure to the elements — that exists across large swaths of land.

With the rise of cloud applications and devices that keep us constantly connected, a large swath of small businesses are coming closer to paperless status than every before.

Point solutions addressing smaller problems are being ignored while investors search for companies that can take on and transform larger swaths of the care system.

A swathe of small towns across middle America will be rolling out the red carpet for people clamoring to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 — the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1918 — only visible from a few places.

(A Fortune magazine piece last year covered how GoDaddy worked to change the tone of its racy, sometimes sexist, ads in order to better appeal to women, who represent a large swath of the country's small business owners.)

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

Politically conservative Christianity requires very selective reading of the Bible emphasizing a small number of out of context points and ignoring large swaths that are inconvenient.

There are oh - so many reasons to love the NHL penalty box, a singular swath of sports real estate smaller than most walk - in closets.

With so many niches (cable channels, media sites, blogs, social sites), many reaching relatively small numbers of people, how do you tailor a message to reach either 1) a broad swath of the population, or 2) just the people who'll respond to it?

In fundraising, Obama followed in the footsteps of Howard Dean's 2004 bid by regularly soliciting small donations from a wide swath of voters, raising record amounts online by federal filing deadlines.

Lincolnshire (the actual county, not just the area covered by Lincolnshire County Council) has three large conurbations — the City of Lincoln and the towns of Great Grimsby and Scunthorpe, several smaller towns including Cleethorpes, Brigg, Skegness and Grantham and vast swathes of countryside.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Because there is a wide swath of individual variation some athletes will do optimally well with only a small amount of animal fats and proteins while others will require considerably more.

There's little doubt, ultimately, that the character works best in extremely small doses and yet much of the narrative is focused entirely on his somewhat obnoxious (and completely unsympathetic) exploits, which ensures that large swaths of The Disaster Artist completely fail to completely capture and sustain one's interest - although it's hard to deny the effectiveness of certain making - a-picture sequences in the film's midsection (eg the shooting of the infamous «oh, hi Mark» scene).

Enter John Ford, who proposed a $ 1 million production, condensing the script to a 2 - hour film, to be shot at Fox's Malibu ranch - a utilitarian swathe of hills, fields and small mountains near the future coastal homes of famous stars.

The Panamera's tall center console also has been modernized, with its swath of small buttons replaced by a tablet computer - like touchscreen.

The smaller and edgier front grille, swathed in chrome, would be the main design highlight.

OUR TAKE: The Rogue gives Nissan a strong competitor in the small ute market, with livable looks, a sharp interior despite unbroken swaths of plastic (though seat upholstery looks great), good power...

Indeed, a broad swath of high - yield bonds that includes smaller issuances has steadily performed better than an index of the biggest, most - traded notes tracked by passive funds.

With small down payment requirements, ultra-lenient credit score standards, and flexible income guidelines, the FHA mortgage is making homeownership available to a wide swath of renters.

But small - and mid-cap stocks, which account for a wide swath of the market, have some appealing options as well.

But smaller breeds have their problems as well, like the Bashkir Curly where many breeders continue to use and promote the use of hairless (extreme / baldy *) horses in breeding based on the anecdote that they are homozygous for the curly coat gene; these are horses who are defenseless to weather extremes (head & cold) and bugs (no manes, no tail hair, many times large swaths of their body hairless as well).

The perfect landscape for breeders — small farms that weren't bought by agri - giants; vast swaths of plains between its two major cities; and a live - and - let - live ethos in flyspeck towns — it has long been the number - one state in the nation for licensed operators.

Today, Meyer's «small community project» has grown to an 80,000 - acre swath of unparalleled open space, stretching across three counties and straddling one of the most famous straits in the world.

From small coves in quaint fishing villages to long swathes of sand that wouldn't look out of place in the Caribbean, Italy has beaches to suit every mood.

Nestled next to Mexico and Guatemala, Belize is a touch smaller than the state of Massachusetts, but its rainforests, huge swaths of national parks and preserves, and sparkling, clear Caribbean waters lure visitors from around the world.

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.

Africa's smallest country, The Gambia is renowned for its heavenly beaches, but also boasts vast swathes of unspoilt natural wilderness teeming with wildlife, as well as a colourful and chaotic capital city (Banjul) and a clutch of sleepy fishing villages.

At Paris Games Week it's easy for a smaller game to get lost among the swathes of Sony fanboys and the huge AAA booths.

Of the six smaller works, more than one returns to the same swathe of Untitled, though little effort is made toward exactitude.

Accents of small cobalt blue triangles and dots intermingle with the outlines of lightly traced hurdles; it is these that ground the picture in the history of landscape painting, as they interrupt the fluid swathes of pastel brushstrokes to demarcate spatial distance and establish a foreground that would otherwise be intangible.

The second half of the show has small paintings (and photos thereof) in the dandyish mode in vogue at the moment — Tim Eastman's swaths of linen adorned with sketchy flowers, Alissa McKendrick's pale mint and peach abstractions (hung next to a wall drawing of a small cat made with faint paint) and Cliff Borress's photographs of abstract paintings in plushly appointed rooms.

Andy Warhol's turtlenecked face stretched like a bad Photoshop edit, Michelangelo's David swathed in a garish pink, and a nod to Pointillism with a «pixelated» Mussolini, appear alongside three small, «cropped» canvases, easily borrowed from Getty Image stock photography, of men's slacks and dress shoes on a red carpet, their identities virtually indistinguishable save for the respective titles, George, David, and Leo.

With its sophisticated alternating of small rooms with larger ones, collections that are swathed in unobtrusive lucidity by the splendid skylight and the refined simplicity of its architecture, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden - Baden could never be overshadowed by the many so - called «star» constructions» of a later era!

From this elevated perspective, visitors are invited to view the installation's garden: swaths of bright flowers and boldlycolored plastic bins and buckets that sweep across the small adjoining lawn in an energetic and ever - changing expanse.

Against backgrounds painted in broad swaths of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor of the central scene depicted.

In 2010, I painted small fragments on large canvases rather than covering the entire swath of fabric.

«Ampersand Wars» sports hot red accents and small teal details alongside boisterous shapes, splatters, splashes and bold swaths of black.

I wrote about the incredible swath of destruction and five deaths (four campers and a motorist) caused by a smaller derecho in the Adirondacks in 1995 — one of four such storm systems triggered along the northern edge of a heat wave that July — so this one really elicited a sense of awe.

New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan unveiled plans to pedestrianize a large swath of Broadway in Midtown Manhattan at a small briefing in City Hall this morning.