Sentences with phrase «whole region»

Some of the local communities and whole regions simply choose to speak a different language on their territory rather than the rest of its population speaks.

This had been a primary pretext for the medieval purges of alleged witches and familiars, which actually had the net effect of purging whole regions of traditional healers, and of extirpating one of the first lines of community defense against disease - carrying rodents.

So say a ocean area say 100 times larger area than China but emitting 1/5 as much per square km and so whole region could be 20 times more than China.

On occasion canals and whole regions appear to be blotted out.

While important for individual places, these deals don't necessarily move us any closer to achieving the initial aims of creating a «Greater London» in the North, particularly given some of the deals have been struck with whole regions like the North East and the Tees Valley — far bigger geographies which in reality have very little to do with the Northern Powerhouse as initially conceived.

This kind of deterioration of whole regions means that the tax base for city and state budgets is suddenly and severely eroded.

«But if you zoom back out and look at the U.S. as a whole, or even whole regions, these analyses do suggest that the rates of climate change might be faster at a national perspective.»

Researchers say that the focus should be shifted to maintaining 50 % cover — just half the forest — but over entire landscapes rather than individual farms, in a bid to stop whole regions losing untold biodiversity by slipping below the 43 % threshold at which species loss accelerates.

And praising, or vilifying, whole regions tells us nothing about how individual schools are doing.

CURWOOD: Coming up, we'll hear how the Green Belt Movement and its founder Wangari Maathai reforested whole regions of Kenya and, in the process, drew the wrath of the Kenyan government.

[6][7] Bark beetles can damage whole regions of forest by depositing eggs under the bark of pine trees that hatch into larval grubs and consume the trees.

Unless whole regions are declared GM agriculture free, the development of distinct systems of agriculture (GM and non-GM) will be impossible.

The data also pose a challenge for scientists who are trying to reduce China's smog, which often bathes whole regions in acrid, unhealthy haze.

Everything would be produced where that production is most efficient, so that whole regions of the world can specialize in particlar products.

Their aggressive push for loan customers has quickened the development of the whole region.

That credit boom is an increasing risk not just for China but for the whole region and perhaps the world.

You can see that the whole region is in play.

Paskal argues that China is applying this strategy across the whole region.

The whole region also began to run the large trade surpluses that characterized Latin America in the 1980s.

Steve's investment experience includes both public and private equity investments in Eastern Europe with a particular focus on Baltic Countries, Romania, Georgia and banks across the whole region.

Varying Disruptions — Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building or unit housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region.

ETFs are an ideal investment vehicle, as it is possible in a single transaction to invest in a whole region or asset class.

Today's leaders... acknowledged the challenges facing the shared currency as debts in smaller countries have affected the whole region and worry markets worldwide.

While my responsibilities extend to 87 congregations, the whole region and all of its citizens are within my spiritual oversight.

It is possible, however, that things which appear externally as pluralities could appear internally to themselves as unities, or that a whole region that includes lesser pluralities is itself a unity.

And again, Paul writes to churches around the whole region and his writings presume they have at least a working knowledge of Christ's death and resurrection.

El Salvador, and by extension the whole region, had been selected as «an ideal testing ground» for modern low - intensity conflict.

The physical prehensions of the becoming occasion may indeed be correlated with the several portions of the region, but the subjective unity of the occasion is equally related to the whole region indiscriminately.

«We pray that God will guide the whole region toward a future of dignity and of peace.

As recently as 1914, Christians still made up 10 percent of the whole region from Egypt to Persia (Iran), and most large cities were homes to multiple faiths and...

You saved our whole region.

Aurora isn't that far from Columbine, and the whole region is getting rich sucking on the big government teat via hi tech defence spending - which is all about killing people in large numbers.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

We enjoy creative modern Italian fare over glasses of Brand's La Marea Albariño, which is a good foil for the whole region.

I was very surprised to see that the whole region is still completely off the beaten path and hugely undiscovered — we barely saw any tourists the whole time we were there.

It's no surprise the whole region goes crazy for pumpkin beer that time of year.

(I was surprised and indignant to discover that there were no milk banks in the whole region of Murcia.)

Left to fester, they can easily turn into mastitis — a painful inflammation that affects the whole region of the breast, can hinder milk supply, and sometimes requires antibiotics to clear if bacterial infection occurs.

I was sitting in a meeting and one of our buyers came in and said he wanted to switch out the milk we were buying for the whole region to local milk, because it would reduce our environmental impact, support local farmers and provide customers with a fresher product.

«But I don't think there's any point of hiding the fact, and incidentally I don't think James Baker [an author of the Iraq Study Group report] is of the same view, that Iran at the moment poses a major strategic threat to the cohesion of the whole region.»

And while Shah merely tweeted that Hamas were a legitimate resistance movement, Corbyn said they were «dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people, and bringing about long term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region.»

The author reasons, correctly, that the Iranian revolution had a geopolitical impact on the whole region.

If bin Salman was involved, it suggests that he is willing to risk upsetting the delicate balance of power in Lebanon and the whole region by challenging Iran and its Lebanese allies Hezbollah.

Staff and volunteers work across the whole region, in partnership with other agencies, to make sure there are the right quality services for survivors of torture - wherever they live, however complex their needs.