Sentences with phrase «vast tracts»

Early signs of this are the record - high grain prices of the last few years, the restriction on grain exports by exporting countries, and the acquisition of vast tracts of land abroad by grain - importing countries.

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

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.

The dishes can point and turn in unison, picking up radio waves from vast tracts of sky and relaying the ATA to computing facilities with the processing power of 1 billion PCs.

«With lifetimes of hands - on experience drawn from across vast tracts of Amazon rainforest, Indigenous groups are well - placed to provide leadership in efforts to measure and monitor their forests - forests which they, themselves, have sustainably managed for centuries,» said WHRC Assistant Scientist Wayne Walker.

The Trump administration's move to start rewriting a plan for vast tracts of Southern California desert lands could have long - term repercussions for renewable energy production and wildlife conservation.

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexico.

The game's structure allows players to shift smoothly from covering vast tracts of land in a hurry to tense, hide - and - seek scenarios in which every move counts and getting the drop on an enemy patrol can mean the difference between success or failure.

The Dutch multi-utility company Delta, which constructed and operates the 150 million euro plant, is calling it a carbon - neutral effort as it will preclude the emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane from chicken waste, which is usually laid out as fertilizer over vast tracts of farmland.

China, India and Saudi Arabia have lately leased vast tracts of land in sub-Saharan Africa at knockdown prices.

In clearing vast tracts of land, those prolific loggers released so much sand and dirt that open - water bays turned into swamps.

The company said it would stop accepting ads from Russian - owned broadcaster RT and its associated news agency Sputnik, whereupon RT published details of Twitter's pitch to sell vast tracts of election - related ad space on its network.

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

Modern physics, geology and astronomy have disclosed vast tracts of empty and lifeless space.

That's what the government has called vast tracts of land outside our towns and cities that it has wanted to protect from development - as if they were full of birds, bugs and gentle hedgerows.

A graphic representation maps the local superclusters of galaxies in our universe, but also something else: vast tracts where few galaxies exist, called voids.

An array of collecting balloons could be a new way to capture solar energy without using vast tracts of land.

They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

Yet something unusual had clearly happened to this body to erase vast tracts of its cratering record so completely.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

During the 1800s vast tracts of farmland and factories beat back forests and sucked up resources that were mined and drilled out of the ground.

Single - cell phytoplankton in the ocean are responsible for roughly half of global oxygen production, despite vast tracts of the open ocean that are devoid of life - sustaining nutrients.

Moreover, utility - scale power farms will require vast tracts of land.

The ultimate goal of Woolly Mammoth revival is to bring back this extinct species so that healthy herds may one - day re-populate vast tracts of tundra and boreal forest in Eurasia and North America.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

Historic routes with grand names, like Empire Builder, California Zephyr, Southwest Chief and Coast Starlight provide opportunities to see vast tracts of America in a comfortable environment.

Gillis looks at the warning signs from the world's forests and the signals aren't good: wildfires, drought and insect infestations are putting vast tracts of forests under extreme stress, leading to feedback loops that result in more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Now very often forming blocking fronts helping vast tracts of ocean to warm unhindered and when that causes sufficient evaporation to form hurricanes but this time with no roof so the vertical volume of super saturated air is greater thus causing stronger hurricanes or deeper rain depressions etc..

When the aforementioned families protected land for public benefit, they were able to safeguard vast tracts of pristine wilderness.

«[S] ince vast tracts of land worldwide have experienced similar booms of agricultural productivity in recent decades, it is possible that other areas of the world have experienced similar climatic effects due to agricultural intensification, especially in light of recent observational connections between extreme temperatures and agricultural intensification in other intensely cropped regions (Mueller et al., 2017).»

But when plantations and processing plants move in, they clear cut vast tracts of tropical rainforest, destroying critical habitat for endangered species and violating the rights of forest - dependent communities.

In Asia, shrimp farming has destroyed vast tracts of mangrove swamps.

That was the era of the so - called «banana republic,» when big fruit companies such as Chiquita, Cuyamel, Standard Fruit Co. (Dole), and La Tela purchased vast tracts of prime agricultural land by manipulating land ownership laws.

In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.

Because these crocodiles are poor swimmers, it is unlikely that they swim across vast tracts of ocean.

For vast tracts of Saturday's game, Leeds were as good, if not better, than their opponents.

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.

Sometimes she paints over vast tracts of the canvas; other times there's a pentimento or perhaps an image intended to be visible beneath the surface.

With the World Bank documenting that in vast tracts of India on any given day, one public - school classroom in five has no teacher present, parents craving an education for their kids must look to other providers.

At the bottom are lots of states with vast tracts of rural land: North and South Dakota, Idaho, and Arkansas, all clocking in around 20 - 22 lawyers per 10,000 people.

It's only an exercise — these marines are invading a portion of the vast tracts of Camp Pendleton, just north of San Diego.

The Northern Territory government has lifted the 18 - month blanket moratorium on fracking, opening up vast tracts of underground gas resources to potential development under strict new laws and regulations.

There were vast tracts of boredom and frustration, with here and there some rare bright joy.