Sentences with phrase «where swathes»

This preceded a high profile bilateral visit by Prime Minister Harper to China where a swath of bilateral initiatives were announced including a reciprocal currency swap deal aimed at boosting exports between both countries.

In some of the larger watercolors, where swaths of spray paint join cartoonish outlines of hands and faces, even graffiti art is presaged.

Among the most vulnerable areas in the UK is Lincolnshire, where swaths of agricultural land are likely to be lost to the sea.

Handily the official Twitter and Facebook apps come pre-installed, but if you require more you just need to head over to Google Play where a swath of over 800,000 applications will greet you.

Not exact matches

Even though there are certain high - profile states where finding a home could be more difficult, «the best takeaway is that housing remains affordable in large swaths of the country.»

The incidents reflect mounting competition for areas of Syria where Islamic State (IS) insurgents are in retreat, leaving swathes of territory up for grabs and posing the question of what comes next for U.S. policy that is shaped first and foremost by the priority of vanquishing the jihadists.

Essentially, the two states are an island of marijuana legalization in the middle of a large swath where marijuana is not legal for any purpose, medical or recreational.

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

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

But he said he was discouraged by the swath of communities with restrictions along Interstate 495, where he could afford real estate.

Thankfully the government now seems to be taking a hard line to it, especially in Ontario where SFH prices have cratered over 20 % since April due to a swathe of government interventions.

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

I was playing my own «god of the gaps» game where I found myself rejecting large swathes of religious belief, but still excusing those pleasures of comfort that come from being spiritual or «Christian - like.»

«We live in a world where it feels as though the darkness is falling ever more severely on whole swathes and regions and in which the light of the news often seems to go out», he said.

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.

In this vast swathe of Yemen where only 3 percent of the population had ever accessed the internet, I was sorry to disappoint (no chance of sneaking a peek at Wikipedia here).

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

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.

It's not too difficult to see Democrats gaining 10, or even 20, seats in November, but gaining the 30 required for a majority is more difficult and will require Democrats winning a large swath of seats where Republicans are currently heavy favorites.

His new career path — real estate — has brought him to the Bronx, where his firm is attempting to rezone a swath of land in West Farms / Crotona Park to build a massive affordable housing complex.

We now represent a swathe of seats in university towns where middle class Labour voters were won over by our policy on tuition fees and our uncompromising internationalism on Iraq.

Nicholson replied: «I have seen parts of the NHS where that has been the case, but I have seen great swathes of the NHS where that is simply not the case.»

Fair enough if you include other seats in the West Midlands - but then of course the same can be said about Lancashire where there's a whole swathe of marginal seats.

«But once you get started, the community energizes itself and I wear out about three teams a day,» he told a gaggle of reporters who trailed him into the Corsi House Senior Center on 116th Street in East Harlem, a predominantly Spanish - speaking swath of the district where he required a translator.

«Dispersal through slavery took large swaths of the Yoruba to Cuba, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Columbia, Venezuela, The Caribbean and other disparate lands, near and far, where the indigenous people refer to themselves as ethnic Yoruba and view Ile - Ife as their ancestral home.

There are great swathes of England (especially in the shire counties) where there are few or no Labour councillors.

Standing in front of a pristine lake in the Adirondacks — where he announced the state's purchase of a swath of private lands — the governor cautioned that the public should not pass judgment until the facts are known.

«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.

But one afternoon, the whales all converged on one place where there was a really high density of prey — a 40 - meter - thick swath of water with 107 grams of krill per cubic meter, as opposed to the average density of 66 grams per cubic meter, Cade reported at the meeting.

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

It orbits its star in the so - called Goldilocks zone, a swath of space not too hot and not too cold, where an Earth - like planet would receive a similar measure of energy from it.

About 4,800 people live in Needles, on the western banks of the Colorado River where it cuts a swath in the mud between California and Arizona.

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.

High - risk areas include more than half of Latin America — where the virus is now circulating — as well as parts of South and Southeast Asia, Northern Australia, and a broad swath of Africa around the equator.

On swaths of coastline where fishing is restricted, corals such as the tall and branching Acropora millepora rule, says study co-author Mark Hay, a marine ecologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

The first foreign planet orbiting a star was confirmed a mere 11 years ago, and promising swaths of space like the Goldilocks zone, where the conditions are just right for liquid water, have yet to reveal habitable planets.

And because the rat vector lives across a broad swath of the continent, the disease might also be endemic, but unrecognized, outside of West Africa, where it could be responsible for undiagnosed fevers.

The university went on to contact a swathe of journals where Bielawski and Wiggins had published studies about the outcome.

In large swathes of the U.S., where more electricity comes from coal and natural gas than nuclear or renewables, that is a harder claim.

He highlights ways to save these four fish, such as making cod fishermen more like «herders» managing particular swaths of water where they have an incentive not to drive the population too low.

No doubt, too, the competition model is ill suited to certain fields of research — for instance, whole swaths of basic science, where results are open to interpretation or even dispute.

«The wide swath of ocean that is cooled by hurricanes is much larger in area than the narrow swath where damage occurs on reefs,» Manzello notes.

And with the internet now a critical global resource, some governments, particularly in developing countries such as China, India and Brazil, want a forum where vast swathes of internet policy — from cybercrime to spam to privacy protection — can be both discussed and acted on.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

In the red swath of land northwest of the plant where weather deposited a lot of fallout, potential exposures exceed 2000 millirems / year.

The crescent and linear dunes are both parts of a dark - sand swath known as Bagnold Dunes, which lines the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp, where the Curiosity rover is currently climbing.

Record warmth for the year was particularly notable in large parts of the northeastern and equatorial Pacific, a large swath of the western North Atlantic, most of the Indian Ocean where a positive Indian Ocean dipole prevailed, and parts of the Arctic Ocean.

Large swaths of the globe were painted red by warmth to the point where it's easier to talk about where the heat wasn't (that would be Antarctica, Scandinavia, East Africa and a few parts of Russia for the record).

For astrobiologists, the Warm Zone is the most significant, as it represents the swath of space in a stellar system where life is likely to emerge.

The style itself is flattering also; a side parting creates a big swathe of hair to sweep across the face where it is pinned back high on the head by a stunning hair slide.