Sentences with phrase «swath stretching»

Best known for his large - scale paintings featuring black figures, defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been «invisible men,» Marshall's interrogation of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th - century American abstraction.

Almost 9 percent of the state — a swath stretching from Monterey on the central coast to Bakersfield in the Central Valley — is in the most - arid category, as defined by the National Drought Mitigation Center, a project of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, that works with federal agencies.

Deer were located in close proximity to «green spaces» located in a large swath stretching from Le Moyne College to the Syracuse University / SUNY ESF campus.

Not exact matches

It stretches across an array of disciplines — math, science, reading, writing, critical thinking — and across a broad swath of customers, kids aged 2 to 12.

The Chimú empire once stretched across a huge swath of South America's Pacific coast, including current - day Peru, Ecuador, and Chile.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The second article begins with «More Americans are stretching to buy homes, the latest sign that rising prices are making homeownership more difficult for a broad swath of potential buyers.»

Swathes of land stretching over some of the most remote parts of the Northern Territory have a fresh chance to rescue struggling industrial gas users along the east coast.

Swathes of land stretching over some of the most remote parts of the Northern Territory have a fresh chance to rescue struggling industrial...

They're the primary network partner of the PGA Tour, with NBC getting several swaths of the schedule as well, and the West Coast swing is one of their better stretches.

«And as long as we have useful tools who purport to be Republicans, like Dean Skelos, Bob Turner, and a swath of other who are not willing to stand up for principles, but who would rather knuckle under to the most extreme demands of far - left Democrats, Public Service Unions and well - funded special interests in exchange for job security, and who could not lead a one - car funeral on an abandoned stretch of the Thruway, idiots like me — Andrew Cuomo — will continue to roll over the legislature, the taxpayers, the bondholders, and the rest of New York's victims with nary so much as an objection.»

Drought has hit a wide swath of the southern United States, stretching from Arizona to Florida, with central states like Texas the hardest hit.

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.

This new study by Elias Parker Jr. of the University of Georgia examines a prominent swath of lower - than - normal magnetism — known as the Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly — that stretches from Alabama through Georgia and off shore to the North Carolina coast.

January aside, the National Weather Service predicts that swaths of the country stretching from the Southwest to the Southeast will be warmer than average this year.

Or maybe Rothschild's zeal was simply an extreme form of that peculiar Victorian passion for plundering the world of its then - abundant natural riches, an ardor that was abetted in part by access to a British empire that stretched across vast swaths of Africa, India, and Australia.

The High Plains aquifer — the largest in the United States — provides drinking water and irrigation for an eight - state swath that stretches from South Dakota through Nebraska and into northern Texas.

In this case, the quake was caused when a 620 - mile - long (1,000 kilometers) stretch of the Nazca plate, an oceanic plate that forms a large swath of the Pacific Ocean floor, lurched deeper beneath the South American plate, producing the only 9.5 - magnitude quake on record.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Forests of silver birch stretch across Europe, and they are a wonder to behold: stands of slender, white - barked trees sheltering vast swathes of earth.

Wide swaths of finely polished burr walnut veneer stretched across the instrument panel and the doors, accented by glistening chrome trim.

Atop its hood the XKR is swathed with running character lines, and its LED teardrop headlamps are just as eye - catching prowling the streets during the day as they are stalking the streets at night, while a stretched out oval - shaped front grille brings it all together nicely.

Worst offender is the plastic around the door pulls and the huge swathe of textured material that begins at the steering column and stretches across the front fascia.

The biggest disconnect for me isn't the size, or style, or even the choice of materials inside (they're generally good, though I could do without the swath of weird metallic plastic stretching across the dash).

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.

They liked the perfect stretch of white sand beach, the gentle waves, the ideal weather, and the broad swath of green that swept up the slopes of the rainbow - laced Kahalawai, the West Maui Mountains.

They do not nest west of the Rockies except for a swath of breeding range that stretches through northern British Columbia and just touches the southern Yukon.

The beaches, that seem to stretch for miles, are pristine white swathes alongside the calm, clear blue water of the ocean here, and can be quite crowded in the summer, although well maintained facilities mean that this is not a problem.

The main view is directed outward, toward the ocean and the wide swath of sandy beach that stretches along the seashore.

It is a nice swathe of white sand beach that stretches north for around 10 km.

With an outdoor pool, sun terrace and veranda with dining area, the unique suite lies above the others and looks out over a large swathe of sea, stretching to the islands of the archipelago.

Argue's use of letters are not meant to be read, rather, he releases them back to their abstracted, ideographical function in the way they float, stretch, skew, or dance en masse in swathes across the plane.

Cain's work often stretches beyond the two - dimensional plane; she paints on found objects and loosely hung swaths of cloth, which are closer to installation art than traditional painting.

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.

The Healy, a younger, larger, but less sturdy ice - breaking ship, just headed out on a surveying cruise charting new stretches of the Chukchi Cap, an extension of the continental slope off Alaska that could — if the Senate ever approves the Law of the Sea Treaty — add a big swath of Arctic Ocean seabed as a potential economic resource.

Swaths of dead whitebarks now stretch across the landscape, their telltale red needles bearing witness to the unprecedented impacts of climate change in this iconic ecosystem.

This is a map showing the huge swath of hurricane - force winds at 1 pm Monday, stretching from near Boston and Cape Cod to coastal Rhode Island, Connecticut and Long Island.

It was largely the product of extremely warm, moist air in the Gulf of Mexico colliding with a slow - moving storm system, which drenched a swath of Louisiana over a several - day stretch.

The slide excavated on average the top 250 meters of sediment over a swath hundreds of kilometers wide, stretching half - way from Norway to Greenland.

The fence marked a severe boundary: on the road side there was a verge of still greenish grass and weeds, decorated with the occasional white styrofoam cup and silver - glinting beer can, the wildflowers of civilization; beyond the fence a swath of small boulders gave way to a field of beige dirt and stone that seemed to stretch forever.