Sentences with phrase «taking swathes»

Her tableaux are styled to within an inch of their lives, taking swathes of draped fabric and homeware objects like lampshades and taking them out of the quotidian and firmly into the odd.

Why not, in the very least, take a swathe of territory across the northern part of what is today Bangladesh for better access to the Indian northeast?

But if the Tory lead ends up at the upper end of current polling and they hoover up the grey vote, they could take a swathe of seats on this list while struggling in some of the tighter metropolitan marginals.

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.

Throughout history, the nations of the world have built and sent massive fleets to do battle with one another to take control of swathes of the oceans.

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.

Instead of dying giant swaths to resemble vivid, My Little Pony tails or even going with an all - over dusty hue, this latest take does for rainbow hair what Catbird did for jewelry — making it minimal, clean, and barely there.

It took very little time for this so - called controversy to spread to every corner of social media, proving once again the immense power that occurs when you combine large swaths of people with unprecedented communication tools.

A wide swath of industries is already taking advantage.

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

Instead, Handa began researching and came to the conclusion that he should focus initially on the Boston area and a swath of New England that takes in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

At the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon, a massive swath of the 102 companies that took the stage on Sunday presented hacks with disaster relief in mind.

Berating bosses; employees who take credit for others» work, assign blame, or spread rumors; and coworkers who exclude teammates from networks — all of these can cut a swath of destruction that's often visible only to the immediate victims.

Thankfully the government now seems to be taking a hard line to it, especially in Ontario where SFH prices have cratered over 20 % since April due to a swathe of government interventions.

Several news outlets are reporting that ISIS — the Islamic militant force taking over vast swathes of Iraq — is now forcing Christian residents to pay a special «jizya» tax or face severe consequences.

It fascinates and saddens me that there vast swaths of citizens in this country who would take exception to that utterly reasonable statement.

Pat, however, SEEMS to be saying that the Almighty is a poor marksman and has no problem with taking out large swaths of good Christians to send the sinners to hell now.

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

ISIS was able to take over large swaths of land due to the lack of centralized authority in both Iraq and war - torn Syria.

Other than that, he just seems to take out huge swaths of innocents along with the alleged «guilty» of something or other.

While I agree with some of your writings and have enjoyed your blogs, I would disagree here, only to say that you can not take such a wide swath judgement in matters so complicated as this.

Every other morning, I seem to pick up my camera and take a few pictures of the sun on the our gauged laminate floor or maybe the sun shining across our bed in great swaths of light.

Martin Luther's protest initially took the form of a public challenge to an academic debate on a swathe of theological niceties.

Saddam Hussein might well have maintained contact with, and provided safe passage to, al - Qaeda leaders, but it took the American invasion and the botched occupation to give al - Qaeda control of large swaths of Iraqi territory.

A few years ago it might have indicted a large swath of the crowd, but it doesn't take long for fair - weather fans to turn obsessive.

Well, most of you reading this don't need to learn, but large swathes of the wider fanbase certainly do; when will fans accept that young players usually take time to settle, as do players coming to England from overseas, so when a new signing ticks both boxes maybe they deserve a little leeway?

Monday morning dawns with the nagging reminder that when mama takes two days «off,» a hurricane swath of chaos awaits.

In 2014, ISIS took control of large swaths of territory, including Fallujah, Hawija and Mosul.

Take the greenbelt: a phenomenally good idea to protect great swathes of our countryside from urban sprawl.

The whole swath of Taraba, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau and Kaduna are a near - eternal belt of conflicts, with the Fulani taking on the Junkun, the Junkun taking on the Tiv, the Tiv taking on the Fulani, and the Christians and Muslims, of southern Kaduna, sizing up one another for combat.

As such, what usually occurs when POTUS takes office is a swath of bureaucrats gets dismissed and replaced on the spot, and everyone gets to work in short order so as to get as much done early as possible.

Surely it's better to allow as much time as is necessary for events to take their course, without cutting a swathe through the constitution as you go?

Brown's thesis is a strong rebuttal to a commonly held point of view, arguing that a «strong» leader — defined as someone who «concentrates a lot of power in [their] hands, dominates both a wide swath of public policy and the political party to which [they] belong, and takes the big decisions» (p. 1)-- is ultimately an undesirable leader.

It will take an army of workers to reconstruct a vast swath of southeast Texas, including the sprawling metropolis of Houston, that was devastated by Harvey.

Capitalize Albany Corp. is looking to take charge of redeveloping the 51 - parcel Liberty Park swath, named after one of the city's oldest known public spaces.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal that large swathes of the country, including places supposed to benefit from classic compatible HS2 trains such as Liverpool, Lancaster and Glasgow, could lose economic activity if HS2 goes ahead.

«Dispersal through slavery took large swaths of the Yoruba to Cuba, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Columbia, Venezuela, The Caribbean and other disparate lands, near and far, where the indigenous people refer to themselves as ethnic Yoruba and view Ile - Ife as their ancestral home.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

The fact that vast swathes of constituencies are foregone conclusions means that parties can afford to take them for granted.

He didn't walk taller in the top job and voters in their swathes took against him.

LiDAR is a method of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse of laser light across a swath of terrain; precise measurements of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic data.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

The areas are either entirely «no take» — that is, fishing is banned throughout — or are managed for select fishing activities and incorporate large swaths of «no take» areas.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

During more than 30 years of research, the pair have cut a wide swathe: from watching grizzly bears in Alaska to recording birdsong in the North American forests to taking a census of jackals in Africa, and much in between.

The same technology that's in your digital camera has led to people like me being able to take pictures of wide swaths of the sky at a time.

Such methods may in fact exacerbate bad breath by drying out the mouth and can allow species that cause gum disease and other infection to take over by destroying large swathes of native bacteria that are not responsible for producing bad odors.

Take American Electric Power (AEP), which serves a broad swath of the nation's midsection.

The eruption spread ash across a wide swath of eastern New Britain island, as seen in these before - and - after satellite photos taken April 27 and Sept. 2.