Sentences with phrase «than land based»

The new mean temperature base is unchanged other than land based mean temperatures for December, January and February (the northern hemisphere winter), with each of these months having their historical mean raise 0.1 K.

A single acre filters millions of gallons of ocean water every day, creates homes for hundreds of wild marine and bird species and absorbs the overabundance of nitrogen and carbon (with kelp sequestering 5x more carbon than land based - plants) that are killing billions of organisms.

This is a great opportunity to sample liveaboard diving for just a few hundred pounds more than a land based week.

Now this is why online sports betting is better than land based betting shops because I can bet from home and can get instant updates on the games at any time, especially for the games in the middle of the night from the Copa America matches and warm ups.

Not exact matches

Drone strikes give the United States a smaller overseas military profile than do land - based conventional forces.

Approaching each prospect individually will work much better than creating an industry - based pitch and trying to land the sale immediately.

Regarding the first trend, according to a recent survey reported by the CLIA, these younger cohorts now rate cruise travel as better than land - based vacations, all - inclusive resorts, tours, vacation house rentals, or camping.

The Trans Mountain expansion of Kinder Morgan Canada, majority owned by Houston - based Kinder Morgan (kmi), touches the lands of more than 100 aboriginal communities, some of which have launched legal challenges.

So Pyongyang's renouncement of land - based nuclear tests, for now, appears to be motivated by more than mere diplomatic concerns.

For Canada's north, «I would really be looking to migrate to a maritime infrastructure rather than land - based,» he says.

Although the divestiture process for land - based drilling rigs has gone on longer than the company had hoped, Weatherford said it has started two other sets of divestitures to raise capital.

Like you, many people dream of winning big, either in the lottery or at a casino, and one of the advantages of playing online is that the payout ratio is even higher than that of a land based venue.

In fact, the HKMA has raised its base rate on more than one occasion in the past, which could theoretically affect individual banks» landing rates.

It would presumably be better to spend time actually «cultivating and keeping» a plot of land rather than deliberating with your neighbor (even in complete good will) on a case - by - case basis where his «cultivation and keeping» leaves off and yours begins.

After landing a part in the four - season ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect when he was 21, Levi knew finding a home base was an urgent matter.

As a founding family of Prosecco Superiore, the Carpenè family produces more than wine — they have preserved wine history while also building a future based on care of the land and improvement of technology.»

«In our industry, food and beverage ranks higher in the guest's priorities from their vacation experience, more so than you would see in a land - based operation,» Cort explains.

It represents more than 50,000 acres of land base, which allows it to provide customers with a dependable, growerdirect supply of potatoes and onions from every major growing region.

The fastest contribution to total European Union growth in recent years has come from Italy and the United Kingdom, as these countries have a much greater land base than most of the northern European Union countries.

According to the company, making the plant - based burger uses 99 percent less land, 85 percent less water, and emits 89 percent less greenhouse gas than traditional beef production.

For more than 20 years we have been blending these ingredients using our unique, proprietary process based on a formula that was created thousands of years ago in the land of the Pharaohs.

The approval is entirely based on a vote which could end a prolonged saga of more than three and a half years during which the 42 - year - old has struggled to find a site where he could build up the new stadium whilst also securing land to house the team.

The workshop, «Helping Everyone Enjoy the Land: Access for People of All Abilities,» represents a priority issue not only for Mass Audubon but for other participating organizations, especially the Land Trust Coalition, which represents more than 130 community - based, regional, and statewide land truLand: Access for People of All Abilities,» represents a priority issue not only for Mass Audubon but for other participating organizations, especially the Land Trust Coalition, which represents more than 130 community - based, regional, and statewide land truLand Trust Coalition, which represents more than 130 community - based, regional, and statewide land truland trusts.

Today the MLTC represents more than 130 community - based, regional, and statewide land trusts.

Plural voting is the practice of allocating more than one vote to a person based on some criteria (such as land ownership, university education, etc...).

There is more than 142,600 acres of farm land and the market value of products sold exceeds $ 133,146,000 (based on the 2012 Farm Census).

Less than two weeks after being named among the worst cities to live in by 24/7 WallSt, Syracuse and Rochester have landed among the best based on quality of life in a study by U.S. News & World Report.

OTOH if you want the capability for unimaginably massive retaliation, as the USA and USSR did during the Cold War, it's cheaper to implement using a mix of submarines, land - based missiles and aircraft than submarines alone.

Like when building a national highway, etc. # 2: I think the opposite - the fact that another country now gets a «forward base» for military or refueling purposes, plus the fishing and oil / mineral exploration rights surrounding the new territory means the territorial / sovereignty rights are a lot more valuable than the land usage value itself.

Cost: A missile in a land - based silo is much less expensive than the equivalent on a submarine.

Option one, the submarine is told to fire while the UK still has a someone in charge, this is no better than having to launch a land based missile, as taking out all commanders and coms systems is not much harder than taking out all ground based missiles.

It was how the workers» movement and its small farmer allies were able to build movements to win the universal franchise, to organize labor unions and cooperatives, and to effectively compete in elections against the older top - down parties of the landed and business elites that were based on their legislative caucuses and wealthy sponsors rather than a formal membership with democratic rights in their party.

The formal agreement to acquire the former Republic Steel property on South Park Avenue comes a little more than three months after New York State agreed to the basic terms of the land acquisition and clears a key hurdle in the Buffalo Billion initiative to jump - start the long - sagging Buffalo Niagara economy with fast - growing, technology - based businesses.

First, less than 10 per cent of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground - based travel from the nearest city.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

This led them to conclude that much of the trash in Monterey Canyon comes from land - based sources, rather than from boats and ships.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

Less famous than the Silk Road — its land - based parallel — the maritime web of commerce and cultural exchange operated on seasonal monsoon winds.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

«The base of the structure — which was once on dry land — is lower than any water level that we know of in the ancient Sea of Galilee.

The authors also found that surface temperatures in the Arctic are more sensitive to the amount of sea ice than to the amount of land - based ice.

The new estimates, which are based on an integrated modeling framework that combines information about population, economics, and land use and land productivity, show that Europe could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use by more than 60 % by 2050.

JAMSTEC researchers have conducted studies that show that the DONET network could detect a coming tsunami as much as 10 to 15 minutes earlier than land - based detection stations along the coast.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

The goal of this project is to create an affordable, land - based, renewable oil source with properties that make it easier to create great - tasting food products than current alternatives.

Using JAMSTEC's supercomputer, the Earth Simulator, the research team recreated cold wave forecasts for two cases: 1) when there is more frequent observation and more data available than usual (as in 2015) and 2) a «normal» year with less data collection from land - based stations and no additional research resources available.

Crunching the numbers, they concluded that a global network of land - based turbines could make 40 times more electricity than the world currently consumes — even if they only operated at 20 percent of their capacity.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

Land - based impacts were, on average, an order of magnitude more dangerous than asteroids that landed in oceans.

Domestic dog breeds are more varied in body size and shape — not to mention coat color and fur length — than any other land - based mammal.