Sentences with phrase «than the land which»

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The South China Sea, which is home to more than 200 specks of land, serves as a gateway to global sea routes where approximately $ 3.4 trillion of trade passes annually.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

The moment I land in Tallinn, my phone pings with the city's free Wi - Fi network, which rolled out more than 15 years ago.

«Customized landing pages — which send the user directly to the item or offer featured in the e-mail — can increase conversion rates by more than 25 percent,» the authors write.

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.

A recent survey by Unbounce, which analyzed data from more than 18,600 landing pages, uncovered the key components that make customers click.

Boston is among a list of 20 finalists to land Amazon's second headquarters, which would create about 50,000 new jobs and cost more than $ 5 billion.

When Sarepta Therapeutics nabbed a pioneering approval for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug last year, it won more than just bragging rights and a controversial FDA approval: the firm also landed a coveted «priority review voucher,» which can either be sold off to another company or used to slash the review period for a future Sarepta treatment.

Additionally, when visual objectskeeps visitors on your landing page — even for a few milliseconds longer than they would normally stay — it increases the chance of click - through rates to other sections of your site which can result in better engagement with your company and social media pages.

Not to mention incredible assets, which include 300 million square feet of real estate around the world, more than 100 malls, 50,000 apartments, 48 million square feet of industrial property, and nearly 8,000 acres of land in the U.S., a good chunk of which is ripe for development.

In a matter of weeks, the land's value jumped from $ 3,500 and $ 6,500 per acre (its listing prices before the syndicators bought the land in two pieces) to about $ 20,000 an acre (the price at which the syndicators resold it to their investors) to more than $ 200,000 an acre (the claimed easement deduction).

In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.

In theory, a value - added tax should apply to the value added in building a house rather than to its gross value, which also includes the land value.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

Last year it landed a massive $ 900 million investment which included a $ 740 million strategic investment from Intel that gave the chipmaker a 17 percent stake in the company at an implied valuation of more than $ 4 billion.

On a geological timescale, they write, the short moment in which they hold titles to the land is «nothing more than a wink of an eye.»

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.

Mitsui's offer, which landed last week, is 74 % above AWE's share price last November before CERCG's bid was announced, 30 % above CERG's bid and 14 % better than Mineral Resources» offer.

We then win multiple wars in which we were attacked first and are forced to give back more than half of the rightly won land, no other country has been forced to give back land it has won in over 2000 years.

Higher, he notes, than an expensive American city like Seattle, and in a nation in which only 0.2 percent of the land is urbanized.

Most remarkably, the creature, which was less than 3 feet long, had the body of a fish but the jaws, ribs, and limb - like fins seen in the earliest land mammals.»

Nowhere in the world is the Bible more alive and its traditions more present than in Israel and Palestine, the lands from which the holy book emerged.

In an age such as ours in which the old theistic idols have died or have been broken, it might be more than important that such pioneers as Schweitzer have had the insight and courage to accept the challenge to take the next steps toward the light and show us, in deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.»

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

Christian theologians might learn to theologize creatively about thc Holy Spirit by consulting a tradition like pure - land Buddhism, in which this sort of thinking seems to have been going on for more than two millennia.

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

Cobb's perspective strikes us as more naturalistic than substantively Christian, and it is not without its unacceptable moral costs; it not only relativizes all ethics to the Zeitgeist, it leads to a monism which produces great suffering and pain as can be seen in any number of poor lands around the world.

The bridge between heaven and earth is none other than Jesus Christ and the new covenant which gathers into the peace of God the faithful from all lands.

It is a land where alone one may understand the haunting sensuous beauty of the Bible, a land where poetry seems to spring from the stony hillsides, where poets lived and walked whose words are known and cherished more than those of any others, and, rendered into hosts of tongues of which they never heard, are loved and repeated the world around.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

Too often since, the vast richness of our land has been the target of unconscionable greed rather than God's gift for which we are accountable.

The «working poor» don't have access to hunting grounds «near Boston» anymore than they have access to land on which to hunt near Washington, DC.

One is inclined to say that anybody who is well adjusted to contemporary society is by definition very maladjusted indeed, because contemporary society is as mad as a coot and is something to which nobody ought to be adjusted, even in this land, not to speak of others which may be less fortunate than ours.

This sentiment (which seems in general to have been more widespread in Mohammedan than in Christian lands) tends to nullify man's usual acquisitiveness.

One begins with a restricted generalization descriptive of phenomena encountered in one field of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in areas other than the one from which the inquiry began.

The United States, from which came more Protestant missionaries than from any other land except the British Isles, as a government gave no especial aid to them abroad.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

This theory - of which I am not 100 % convinced but makes more sense than anything else I have heard - explains why God would later command that even infants be killed in the land of Caanan.

Acknowledge and observe God's Identity, Nature, Name, Day, and Claim and it can not be otherwise than that, in the land which «God gives you,» the life which he presents and the existence which is of his ordering - that is, your days - will be «long.»

On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.

The Lyman family has been farming in Connecticut since it purchased its first parcel of land in 1741, and Lyman is part of the eighth generation of family ownership of the land that is today known as Lyman Orchards, which now cover more than 1,100 acres.

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

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 lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

The deal, which could be in the order of $ 400 million, comes just as the board of Australia's largest land holder S. Kidman & Co entered into a $ 371 million deal with Chinese group Dakang to sell its entire business covering more than 10 million hectares.

Boston College also lands at No. 5 by spanking UMass, which is a better opponent than most faced in Week 1.

we have waited a long time for this club to truly step up, which is a difficult ask... to do so properly they will need to overextend themselves and get well outside the comfort zone they have become accustomed to... at the very least they owe their fans, most of whom supported this franchise for at least the first 8 years of this 10 year plan, one real shot at the «promised» land... remember phase one was build and save, phase two was the fire sale of all our top players, phase three was supposed to be our metamorphosis, when we were literally told how we could compete with any club in the world and phase four appears to be rinse and repeat, under the guise that we just can't seem to find any players that are better than our current lot (can you even imagine the state of world soccer if that were truly the case)... it's time for you Mr. Kroenke and Mr. Wenger to ask not what the fans can do for you, but what you two can do to make things right again for the fans... if you can't do this earnestly and honestly, simply move on before the only thing left in the cupboard are bitter memories and what could have beans?

No more than a half hour later, a three - team trade was reported by Wojnarowski in which Cleveland finally landed Hill and Hood.

I like how you illustrated how Rose can be creative with both her kicks and punches, which was more than just flash and served to land the final strike following an exchange between both fighters, but it also created space for Rose to work and reset.

He also gave the reasons for skipping any interviews, a decision which landed him with the sizeable fine - although surely it's little more than a drop in the ocean for someone like Max.