Sentences with phrase «vast areas»

Only the availability of vast areas of virgin land prevented an early collapse of the industry.

It has applications in vast areas such as engineering, arts, and sciences.

Critics say the move shows how the centrally appointed commissioners who cover vast areas ignore local knowledge.

For those who just want a quick way of grinding through battles, or traverse some of more vast areas in the game can simply get on with enjoying the story.

In the increasingly vast areas of our lives that are defined by technical activities, we expect religion to play, at most, an indirect role.

This provides important weather data, however they are mostly located around the coast, so leave vast areas of the continent and the surrounding oceans uncovered.

To make true raw honey, bees travel over a large area in an unpredictable pattern, so a huge vast area has to meet every requirement.

For several years, maxi skirts earn vast areas in our closets.

One thing that has fascinated me, in my study of sea - ice, is how swiftly vast areas can freeze over.

The eruption remains the lava and the path in vast area.

It's stark, harsh, often accompanied by vast areas of black, but not unpleasant.

Far Eden is made up of vast areas with secrets and dungeons scattered throughout.

the Rutgers University Departure from Normal — November 2010 shows vast areas around the Artic Circle where November was NOT normal

It opens Perú's door to carbon sequestration agreements and is an enormous boon to conservation and monitoring efforts over vast areas for the long term.»

Note that we are looking down on vast areas so even small regions that have become colder are of significance yet even over the period of a mere four years we see that in fact large regions are apparently affected by increased cold since 2007.

Explore vast areas across a magnificent landscape while enjoying tombs or just the wonderful sights.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The significance and future value of protecting such vast areas of coral reef and associated marine habitat can not be overstated.

«NOAA's satellites underpin hurricane forecasts by providing meteorological data over vast areas where we don't have other means of information.»

According to critics the dam will destroy vast areas of pristine rainforest, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and relocate 12,000 people.

Creating a huge open world game, and by huge, I mean accurately constructed vast areas filled with subtle details and giving you numerous things to do at your leisure is something a driving fan would love.

The southern pine beetle is projected to be able to expand into vast areas of the northeastern US and southeastern Canada by 2050 posing risks to forest structure, biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.

He leads an international nonprofit collaboration called Eliminate Dengue (SN: 7/14/12, p. 22), which works in developing countries with vast areas at risk of disease but minuscule budgets.

This air tour will take you back to the Australian age of dinosaurs and then on through the days and courage of those that pioneered inland Australia, conquering the outback, establishing pastoral and mining industries and creating essential services such as The Royal Flying Doctors and Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (now Qantas) that have transformed vast areas once inhospitable into the vibrant industries and lifestyle of today.

Established during World War II as a strategic airbase in the Caribbean, the United States has since used vast areas of the eastern part of Vieques as a bombing range and site for military training exercises.

On your way to the beautiful Isle of Skye, keep an eye out for the Loch Ness monster and admire some of Scotland's most stunning scenery, including vast areas of unspoiled wilderness and gorgeous lochs (lakes).

The world map shows vast areas virtually unoccupied.

The ELN and the government have announced the beginning of formal peace talks too, but as of now this group still controls vast areas of Colombian territory where the state is barely present, if at all.

The mystery surrounding the recently rediscovered fish's current status is not surprising, Stewart said, because there are still vast areas of Amazon basin where no specimens of Arapaima have been collected for study.

When it comes to mechanics, the title is reminiscent of classic platform games, and during the gameplay we traverse vast areas, fighting or completing various main and side tasks.

(Note vast areas of the high latitude oceans were covered by ice, during the coldest period and could hence no longer absorb carbon dioxide.)

While conversion of the Amazon and neighboring ecosystems for industrial agriculture has played a key role in the country's rise as an industrial power, Brazil is increasingly worried about the impacts of climate change and forest loss, which could devastate vast areas of farmland and put its energy supplies at risk.

The work, the authors and other experts caution, does not mean that more widespread surface melting could not eventually destabilize vast areas of the world's second - largest ice storehouse.

That same year, however, the Tasmanian state government announced its plan to open up the region to mining, forestry and hydroelectric development, including a dam that would have flooded vast areas of rainforest, the world's last stands of ancient Huon Pine and ice - age archaeological sites.

Years of drought and a century of aggressive fire suppression have rendered vast areas of the West susceptible to large, severe blazes.

It is difficult to imagine how an area - averaged, day - by - day comparison of station recordings as early as 1910 or 1911 is possible, regardless of cell grid weighting, when in many vast areas there were no stations to weight.

· «We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference.»

These projects look very much like strip mines and have some of the same environmental impacts, which include diverting and polluting rivers and streams, causing heavy erosion, and disturbing vast areas of soil.

His call for the reinterpretation of the insights of the gospel into contemporary concepts, his insistence on a true dialectical relationship between man's basic questions and the deepest insights of the Biblical faith, and his ability to draw from and interrelate vast areas of modern man's creativity in art, literature, philosophy, psychiatry, and sociology caught the imagination of the American intellectual community.

However, the whole vast area of the symbolic language of Eastern religions as well of their liturgy and cults has hardly been noticed.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

Because the Jump Glider uses the sun's rays to recharge, he envisages that the robots could be deployed in a swarm, communicating wirelessly, to carry out coordinated environmental monitoring or mapping missions across vast areas like the Australian outback.

Most species of Commiphora and Acacia, which dominate vast areas of African savannas, have spines that can puncture our skin, feet, and eyes.