Sentences with phrase «vast growth of»

The sand flats continue out to the lip of the reef wall which is a vast growth of boulder and domed corals reaching back up to within 6m of the surface.

It shaped the thinking of many of the psychologically - oriented movements of the fifties and sixties, it provided ideals and ideas to the Hippies and the Beatles, it heightened interest in Buddhism in the universities and helped to encourage the vast growth of courses in world religions, and it led to the organization of Zen centers throughout the country, but especially in California.

Not exact matches

Its chief financial officer told investors that «the vast majority of the growth comes from deep learning by far.»

That's a 19 percent hike from a year ago, and the vast majority of growth comes from businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to Kravitz Inc., a consulting firm.

This was a close contender, but we felt it didn't have the explosive growth potential of some of the MAVINS have, nor the vast commodity advantage of a nation such as Australia.

The risks lie in the vast differences in macro-economic fundamentals in countries such as Germany and Greece, which could not be further apart in terms of rates of growth, debt or unemployment.

One of the arguments that I've made is that we had the mother of all housing bubbles, we had a vast erosion of credit standards, we had really easy money, we had the Bush tax cuts plus the Iraq war, and all that got us in the precrisis period was adequate growth.

But throughout the industrial world the vast majority of the revisions in growth forecasts have been downwards for many years now.

While the growth of the entertainment business may have stood out recently, Wang's Wanda Group is a vast diversified empire with 634 billion yuan in assets and 290.2 billion yuan in revenue, with the biggest business being real estate.

Vegetation across much of the drought - stricken west eagerly soaked up the surfeit of water from the wet winter, leading to a rapid, vast growth spurt in trees, grasses, and shrubs in the spring.

Some analysts had seen Wal - Mart being best positioned to compete in the next phase of growth in online shopping because it was going to be able to use its vast footprint of stores to help distribute products ordered online.

The vast majority of spending growth over the next decade is the result of rising costs for health care, Social Security, and interest on the debt.

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

A vast majority of this growth is from the CNBC feature articles...

The vast stimulus programme launched at the end of 2008 to counter the world financial crisis restored growth but led to wholesale misallocation of capital into wasteful projects that earn scant returns, the vast debt problem affecting companies as well as local governments, and also created soaring excess capacity in sectors such as steel production.

Alipay said it aims to provide «security» and «growth» to the 100 million businesses that it serves and to support the vast community of small businesses to keep up the pace in the Internet + era.

In our China special, we highlight the opportunities for dealmakers in the region; look at the new breed of LP; identify the growth investment opportunities in China's vast business landscape, and discuss how increased affluence is spurring demand for high - end products.

We are firmly of the view that the vast majority of Canadians support this approach, recognizing the importance of Canada's energy sector to job creation and economic growth.»

Despite the growth of e-commerce, the vast majority of shopping is still done in stores.

Considering that Canadian MSMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Canada, employing more than 7.5 million Canadians — about 70 per cent of Canada's private sector labour force — it becomes clear how critically important they are to the growth of the Canadian economy.

For decades, Wall Street financial houses accelerated growth by directing vast American capital to new and innovative products, and improving the efficiency of established enterprises.

For the vast majority of the companies I own I do not see any difference in their fundamentals or growth prospects so I see no reason to sell.

In fact, the vast majority of STORE's rental revenue is derived from service - oriented businesses, which are largely immune from the disruptive growth of e-commerce.

One night Grey listened to village politicians in a Chicago suburb as they claimed that gambling would generate vast amounts of wealth and economic growth in their community.

Among these changes, crucial developments included the penetration of market forces into the countryside, where the vast majority of the population still lived; the appearance of a popular press and the growth of literacy; and a set of ideas conducive to popular dissent, such as anticlericalism and a more rationalized orientation toward material and spiritual life.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.

If teachers, administrators, school boards, and parents catch a vision of schools as lifelong growth centers, the humanizing impact of this vast network of schools can be immense.

Although I have become increasingly aware of the limitations of these methods for facilitating growth and of the gaps and inaccuracies in Freud's vast conceptual system, I retain a profound appreciation for the way his pioneering discoveries illuminate the depths and darkness of the human psyche.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

The growth of modern scientific civilization has brought both opportunities and perils for democracy: opportunities in the vast new resources made available to mankind, and perils in the increased power men can use against and over one another.

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

In the vast area known from 1914 as the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Catholic missionaries were very active and the church's growth there was spectacular.

The vast and turbulent centuries of European history, since the days when Arminius defeated the legions of Augustus in the Teutobürgerwald, were filled with the story of the shaping and growth of the German Volk; their training and discipline, through victory and disaster, to be the ultimate Herrenvolk.

In addition, as the vast majority of both the older and newer Pentecostal churches see themselves as part of a broader community of evangélicos which includes their historic brethren, the latter have been able to bask in some of the reflected glory of Pentecostal growth.

These are years of growth in which the individual progresses from a personally centered idea of the self into a notion of selfhood that is constituted by a vaster and profounder world than he or she knew as a child.

But for American wineries or Chinese wine importers that have betted heavily on American wine's growth in China in recent years, the ramifications of the retaliatory tax are going to be vast, he added.

Certified organic pet food is an emerging sector of the growing Australian organic industry and will in future likely reflect the growth of the vast overseas market.

From this vast base, the industry enjoys an average of 1.8 % further growth every year.

Does the empirical research about the growth and development of children and adolescents reach the vast majority of parents?

(a) It is in the national interest to promote clean and safe development of our Nation's vast energy resources, while at the same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation.

Might tax offices be transformed into management consultancy - type agencies that advise companies on how to capture growth in related sectors, mitigate risk from peers» bankruptcies or improve profits — all based on analysis of the vast amount of data it has collected?

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a state spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

With the continued growth of Twitter, more individuals and organizations have begun leveraging this ubiquitous «microblogging» platform to draw attention to unfolding events as they happen.I can state from personal experience the same thing that Twitter says based on studying vast amounts of data: «Live tweeting» consistently increases retweets, mentions, and new followers.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a State spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

It is a vast and dense body of research, but the quick summary is that it posits a causal relationship between democratization and economic growth.

The Secretary General of the OECD said last month that «productivity growth... has been decelerating in a vast majority of countries».

Gains in New York City and its suburbs account for the vast majority of the state's job growth in the past few years, according to an August report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

And just as intriguingly, the vast majority of these children are now perfectly healthy, suggesting that once the placenta and its abnormal imprints are removed, the baby can catch up on growth.