Sentences with phrase «where huge swaths»

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

In those words, and the words of many others, I think we can see the outline of an ethic that avoids self - indulgence yet does not deny the physical facts of a planet with 6 billion people who may soon nearly double their numbers — a planet that grows hotter, stormier and less stable by the day, a planet where huge swaths of God's creation are being wiped out by the one species told to tend this particular garden.

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But the new standard highlights the huge swaths of the country where individual ISPs function as broadband monopolies...

There are huge swaths of areas where people do not believe in supernatural beings in China and much of Asia, Russia, much of Europe.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

«In south Somalia to this day you can't figure out where a town is, and there are huge swathes of the Congo that are terra incognita,» Gayton says.

«Africa is a place where, for a huge swath of the population, solar energy is now the cheapest option.

But if you want to get serious about Indonesia you need to talk about corruption and about the fact that Jakarta basically doesn't govern much of the country — including huge swaths where deforestation and other perverse land use practices are rampant.