Sentences with phrase «vast region»

Such stands of relatively untouched trees are meant as shelters for the rich array of plant and animal species, such as the tiger, that once spread throughout vast regions of tropical jungle.

But when outbreaks bring dozens of tornadoes over days, they can leave a path of death and destruction across vast regions.

The problem is they varied enormously over vast regions.

The search brings Lara to a Siberian region from where the journey really begins taking her across vast regions and harsh weather conditions.

The downside of the deal, opponents say, is that electric rates will go up for many ratepayers in vast regions of New York.

Explore vast regions of Norse Purgatory to find runes to unleash the jotun, giant Norse elementals.

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

Mountains, hills, and plateaus make up 70 % of the country meaning vast regions are difficult to access by road.

Kiiwetinoong — Ojibwa for North — is one of two new ridings aimed at giving residents of the often - ignored vast region a stronger voice at the legislature in Toronto Continue reading →

When I toured Petrozavodsk (capital of Karehia) in the company of Father Nikolai Ozohin a few years ago, he told me that in that whole vast region only four of the formerly 400 churches, mostly wooden, had survived for worship by the beginning of the Gorbachev period.

Quagga mussels (purple), which thrive in deeper waters, now cover vast regions of lake bed as well.

On the three scientific voyages he led between 1768 and his violent death in 1779, English Navy Captain James Cook explored and mapped vast regions of the previously uncharted world, filling in with astounding accuracy fully a third of the globe.

«We've found that many travelers don't realize how vast a region is the Caribbean — its islands are spread out over one million square miles,» said Carolyn Spencer Brown, chief content strategist for Cruise Critic.

Embark on a journey to become an alchemist, crafting items and exploring vast regions along the way.

These cloud - piercing structures serve three important roles: first, they give you unlock points for your skill tree every time you «purify» one (ie, claim it for you own); second, they serve as helpful travel points across the impressively vast regions of the game; and third, they unlock hidden missions and collectibles.

My sense is that it will not satisfy many people — either as a drama or a potential weapon (for either side) in the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the drilling method that has opened vast regions of the country underlain with gas - rich shale to exploitation.

Although vast regions in the Arctic may soon be open water in summer and sometime late this century perhaps a blue ocean will exist at that end of the Earth, the sighting in 2000 was unremarkable.

University of Colorado at Boulder, «NASA, CU - Boulder Study Shows Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past,» press release (Boulder: 15 May 2007).

The compressional warming that occurs as the air descends creates vast regions of subtropical high pressure.

But famine, like a plague, spreads, and, «In reality it's a very large food security crisis involving a number of countries and millions at risk,» said Golden, referring to the crisis situation in vast regions of east Africa.

u «But this uniformity [in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation] is difficult to reconcile with the obvious clumping of matter into galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even larger features extending across vast regions of the universe, such as «walls» and «bubbles».»

Measure one, and the other is instantly transformed by that measurement as well; it's as if the twins mystically communicate, instantly, over vast regions of space.

Explore vast regions of Norse Purgatory to find runes to unleash the Jotun, GO →

The downside of the deal, say opponents, is that electric rates will go up for many rate - payers in vast regions of New York.

As much as 56 % of the country was experiencing drought conditions as of mid-February, especially in the so - called Corn Belt area, a vast region that includes Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

She seeks to control a vast region of online pornography by writing and directing and starring in films that fuse the storytelling and prop - filled premises of the»70s long form with the contortionist extremes and necessary visual tropes of the contemporary short form.

In fact sales of detacheds — the gold standard in the spring of 2017 — crashed almost 40 % across this vast region of six million souls.

1 in 6 Canadians live in this vast region around Toronto and it is our country's most important and our flagship in so many areas - and Burlington is an important part of that success.

The spiritual and cultural traditions of vast regions of the West are increasingly being called into question; indeed, we can go even further and say they are being liquidated, quickly and relatively painlessly.

This vast region — practically the entire southern hemisphere — gained its political independence and set out in pursuit of «development»: the industrialization, technology and affluence of the First and Second worlds.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

In the vast region of Northern Asia the Russian Orthodox Church gained footholds from the Urals to the Pacific and, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, was represented across the Bering Straits in Alaska.

Known for its vibrant cultures, storied history and vast regions that are as diverse as their own landscapes, Mexico has developed a unique culinary style that truly represents the country's legendary heritage.

Everything he knows about Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or the rest of that vast region's cuisine he picked up from cookbooks and the Internet.

The greatest drought in the nation's history continued last week to blight the lives of people throughout a vast region in the central and southwestern part of the U.S., bringing withered crops, emaciated cattle, dead or dying trees, waterless streams and the decimation of wildlife.

He is giving the tribes the next few weeks to settle disputes so that he could remove three vast regions from six upstate sectors that Cuomo would open for commercial projects that would be protected from competition for five years.

But in the vast regions of upstate, prisons are often several hours apart, and Rowe says many who choose to stay will be uprooted.

Scientists think that objects in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of dwarf planets and icy rocks populating the fringes of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, dance mostly to the tune of the giant planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, influenced by their gravity either directly or indirectly.

A new study finds protecting the vast region would be equivalent to cutting the country's CO2 output by 5 percent

The ice is disappearing, melting permafrost threatens to belch methane, and now comes a warning that vast regions of tundra could singe.

«They range across a vast region that crosses international boundaries, the environment is inhospitable to humans, and it's expensive and difficult to get out there.

«The breadth of history in the Indian Ocean is astonishing,» Lawler said, «and the links between Africa and Asia are critical to understanding the emergence of the first seafaring trade and how ideas, technology, and people spread around this vast region.»

Robots like Nereus will make it much easier for scientists to explore vast regions of the deep ocean that were once off - limits.

Their instruments are zeroed in on the Amundsen Sea Embayment, a vast region rich in volcanoes, ice shelves and glaciers, some as big as Washington state.

Like other comets of its type, PANSTARRS is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud, a vast region containing millions of comets located more than two light years from the Sun.