Sentences with phrase «whole swathes of»

Whole swathes of people and events have been erased.

There are whole swathes of people, for example, that I've erased from my brain.

Arguing against these is to reject whole swathes of science — but it seems many people will — quite often on the basis of noodles - for - brains plots — and for reasons I am convinced have more to do with the AGW version of a spaceship cult.

A few hundred yards further down the road, whole swathes of Richmond Park yesterday still had trees with no leaves.

«By shrewdly adopting the stance of an individual facing whole swathes of society that are, in many respects, dehumanised, Prévieux develops a strategy of counterproductivity.»

This isn't helped by infrequent checkpoints that will see you replaying whole swathes of levels.

«Either whole swathes of the curriculum will remain uncovered or teachers will skim the surface, leaving pupils with little remembered useful knowledge of Britain and very little affection for the subject of history.»

It's not just Brain - gym adoption that has let this country, the States and many other parts of the west down; whole swathes of the world have been force - fed linear learning and achievement levels up through which children should be marched and by which schools» efficacy can be judged by government inspectors.

He said the government would phase out the «unfair» school funding system which has «systematically underfunding schools in whole swathes of the country».

«It's proving to be a versatile and extremely cost effective online resource, enabling us to easily set - up our personalised accounts and allocate whole swathes of self - assessment reporting and improvement planning to individuals in school.»

Whole swathes of diagnostic tests may eventually be replaced with a single assay - sequencing - as we reach the «sequencing singularity».

Chancellor George Osborne sets out the framework for the «painful» spending cuts ahead, and a review of benefits, as Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander tells Channel 4 News it would be «wrong to exclude whole swathes of spending».

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

They are about how we do our politics — particularly the way that we willingly turn our backs of whole swathes of the nation in a quest for short - term advantage in a few marginal seats.

I should remind you of the rather mildly named deregulation bill that Labour tried to pass that would have allowed not just Ministers but people appointed by Ministers to delete whole swathes of legislation.

Ministers who returned from their holiday to attend the emergency Cobra meeting are understood to have been livid about the police's failure to secure the streets on Monday night, when whole swathes of London fell into the control of rioting mobs.

The prime minister said he wanted to see «whole swathes of legislation... scrapped» in an article for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

As he points out, we can automatically eliminate whole swaths of the periodic table for various reasons.

You have no idea what it was like for whole peoples to be systematically starved, for whole peoples to be displaced and become refugees, for whole swaths of countryside to be bombed to bits (perhaps the English know; I'm not quite sure how it compares.

As we mentioned, Wilshere's ability to cover the whole swath of the midfield, his age and still enormous potential makes this an intriguing, albeit unlikely, move.

We're close and loving with whole swaths of my son's family of origin.

The whole swath of Taraba, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau and Kaduna are a near - eternal belt of conflicts, with the Fulani taking on the Junkun, the Junkun taking on the Tiv, the Tiv taking on the Fulani, and the Christians and Muslims, of southern Kaduna, sizing up one another for combat.

``... If ACA goes away, there's an opportunity for New York State to step up and be a model for the rest of the country, and say: We're going to cover a whole swath of folks, perhaps up to age 29.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

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.

The results brought fresh peril for the beleaguered prime minister as Labour was pushed into fourth and sometimes fifth place across whole swaths of the country.

And even if you couldconvince people to eat nutria — the South American swamp rat introduced in the 1960s to clear Louisiana's Mississippi Delta waterways of another invasive species, water hyacinth — there's no way they'd be able to catch up with the population, which has already wiped out whole swaths of native greenery.

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.

There are, one assumes, whole swaths of the book that develop Jack as an emotional character while he's not doing much of anything, but that doesn't — can't — work in a film.

Even in the best, most just societies in human history, whole swaths of human beings have been treated horribly in order to create a better society.

But we shouldn't rush to assume that any films featuring landscapes, horses, and vigilante justice are «really» Westerns as such — that's too ready a way of Americanizing whole swaths of world cinema.

Beginning in medias res with whole swaths of family history alluded to without specifics, Lawrence's Joy (based mostly on Joy Mangano, though her full name goes without mention) becomes an entrepreneur almost by accident after a life unfulfilled to the confidence of her grandmother matriarch's (Diane Ladd, given shockingly little to do considering) assertion of her become a strong, successful woman.

We've already published a number of articles about the upcoming experiment, but news site The Guardian has recently covered a whole swath of...

A whole swathe of replayability options come about thanks to the fact that once a level is completed in Arcade mode, further Survival and Boss options open up.

Paramount Pictures has premiered the final trailer for their new comedy «Book Club» starring a whole swath of great veteran actors and actresses including Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Andy Garcia and Don Johnson.

The story, as told by a few introductory pictures at the start of the game, is that there has been an alien invasion, or something to that effect, and a whole swath of Little Kingdom's triangular citizens have been abducted in the midst.

Paramount Pictures has premiered the final trailer for their new comedy «Book Club» starring a whole swath of great veteran actors and actresses including Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Andy Garcia and Don...

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It's too damn simple for its own good, too, and often too easy as well, at least when it doesn't try to annoy you with its terminology, missing tooltips or desire to simply not tell you about a whole swathe of stuff.

It has long and rightfully been canonized as the urtext not just of textual interactive fiction but of a whole swathe of modern mainstream videogames.

Let's shine some light into the corners which, for one reason or another, whole swaths of the videogame consumer public simply haven't seen before.

Capcom has released a whole swathe of new Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 5 screenshots [via Andriasang], showing off the newly - announced courtroom sequel in its new home on the 3DS.

Putting aside what might arguably be called the novelty artists — a whole swath of modernist fashionistas labeled pop, op, conceptual, installations, etc., and with these I'd also include the abstract expressionists and action painters of yesteryear, funded by post-World War II corporate America — Herman Rose is up there with the major painters of the realist tradition, figures like Ryder, Bellows, Hopper, Soyer and Alice Neel.

Stipulating such future warming, they proceed to address their question, their area of research, such as the flowers, or in many cases here, agricultural questions, and also in many cases, economic and policy questions — a whole swath of papers I haven't even listed yet.

So not only did they include classes of papers that can't be viewed as having a position on the scientific consensus on AGW, it appears they omitted a whole swath of papers that they thought might have had a negative light on AGW.

«We all know the ball has been dropped in this [rare earths] space and not only by the US but by a whole swath of Western economies,»... The GAO report estimated it could take 15 years for the West to catch up with China and develop alternative supplies... a senior metallurgist at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has been studying rare - earth materials since the 1960s.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

Mitch, HP's demise does nothing to support the notion that whole swaths of law practice should be sold to corporate interests who, by law, must act in the best interests of their shareholders, not their clients.

This is the eighth version of the OS (Android 8.0), and even though we've seen some of the additions in the developer preview that launched in March, there's a whole swath of new goodies that Google highlighted at the show.