Sentences with phrase «vast chunks of»

As a result, we carelessly hand over vast chunks of our public realm to the parasitic automobile; space that could be put to much better use.

Start by taking the vast chunks of continent that could not (and still can't) support intense agriculture out of the equation.

Of course, that's being generous to the Copenhagen crowd, because a straight redistribution wouldn't also destroy vast chunks of world output.

Missiles cut through the sky, taking out vast chunks of Manhattan real estate.

The latest leases, which total about 9.4 megawatts of critical power, establish Microsoft as the biggest fish in the market for super wholesale tenants: cloud builders who can lease vast chunks of server space.

Snyder didn't just take cues from The Dark Knight Returns, he lifted entire sequences and vast chunks of plot.

[Smith] paces the gore too unevenly, leaving the cast standing around and griping for vast chunks of time.

Oscar's impending move to China seemed to have opened the door even more, with the # 60m that Chelsea are about to receive looking perfect to pay for a vast chunk of a new midfielder.

«Although this paper will likely become a classic compilation of our view in 2017, the 79 ice cores analyzed are spatially restricted,» he told Earther, noting that West Antarctic cores are biased toward the highest ground, and that East Antarctic record is biased because of a cluster of cores in Dronning Maud Land, a vast chunk of ice annexed by Norway in 1939.

Returning players who beat the game will find themselves with the game's last main quest staring them in the face and, to the northeast, a vast chunk of land just begging to be explored (and if you haven't finished the game yet, you aren't locked out of this area whatsoever, although I will say that you will want to be level 30 + before taking it on).

Returning players who beat the game will find themselves with the game's last main quest staring them in the face and, to the northeast, a vast chunk of land just begging to be explored (and if you haven't finished the game yet, you aren't locked out of this area whatsoever, although I will say that you will want to be level 30 + before taking it on).

The attraction of this new one is not only that it is very large, taking up a vast chunk of the main floor in Tate Britain, but also that it attempts to be a complete narrative of Hockney's career.

Despite decades of cat - and - mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as has happened elsewhere).

Not exact matches

According to Browder's testimony, Putin amassed his vast wealth by using political clout to coerce Russians who made similar investments to simply hand over large chunks of their holdings to him.

An audit by a federal inspector general has turned up problems ranging from lack of management controls to questionable expenses in the way New York's vast homeland security apparatus handled a chunk of more than $ 750 million in grants several years ago.

For towns with vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets — including about $ 3 million for the latter.

Logging, agriculture, mining and fires recently have eliminated a larger chunk of vast expanses of forests or naturally treeless ecosystems than you might think

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

As one science teacher reports, «With the vast majority of my students, I am truly facilitating big chunks of their learning by focusing them on diverse artistic expressions of their knowledge.

Any extended prod of the accelerator sees the rear tyres squirming and the vast orange bonnet rising slightly before chunks of Italian back - road are devoured to the accompanying shriek of the supercharger.

The aggressive aero, which also includes a vast front splitter, will also form a big chunk of the performance increase, helping to produce up to 1000 kg of downforce.

He spent a chunk of that time working alongside the fund's legendary manager, Jean - Marie Eveillard and eventually oversaw «the vast majority» of First Eagle's $ 100 billion.

The historical collection clocks in at an impressive 156 - pages and is by far the most engaging chunk of the book, fleshing out Bethesda's vast world with a tonne of information.

It's impressive that the writers manage to so consistently bring the game to life through the medium of written word On the other hand Pillars of Eternity loves its vast and detailed lore a little too much, the many people you come across incredibly willing to launch into daunting chunks of exposition and history that drop into conversations like boulders.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild is still taking up the majority of my gaming and I imagine a large chunk of my time this weekend will be spent exploring the vast world of BotW.

At roughly ten feet square, each painting presents a vast arena in which the fluidity of the medium and the force of gravity collaborate with the artist's deft manipulations and brilliant color sense to create new natural phenomena — chunks of heightened reality.

Then take the vast chunks that could, but show no sign of that having happen.

The Fort Worth, Texas, electronics chain's restructuring will almost certainly involve the shutdown of at least a significant chunk of its roughly 4,000 U.S. stores, the vast majority of which it leases.»