Sentences with phrase «widespread areas in»

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The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

Blockbusters might seem like a quaint reminder of days past, but some locations have remained important in remote areas, where high - speed Internet isn't widespread.

Latvia's Road to Serfdom By Prof. Michael Hudson and and Prof. Jeff Sommers While most of the world's press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro - areas, the much more severe, more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies scheduled to join the Eurozone somehow has escaped widespread notice.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

Reforms in this area have been the most successful, largely because of widespread use of the ecumenical lectionary.

The Fourth area is more the field of ATTAC: all areas of financial deregulation with an aim to tax free - flowing capital or to plan taxes of this type but also to attack pension funds as they become more widespread, or tax havens which play an important role in the world economy.

Despite the criticisms, there's widespread agreement that when it comes to church planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable growth.

Centers already involving clergymen are as widespread as Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver, Colorado, where ministers serve as therapists in the Division of Alcoholism, and the Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Elkhart, Indiana, and San Mateo County Mental Health Center in the San Francisco area which employ pastoral counselors.

Archaeology has now largely outgrown this primary interest, but there is no doubt that it played an important part as an incentive to widespread digging in the Babylonian and Assyrian area.

Clear guidance is desperately needed both at a diocesan and at a national level as there is obviously widespread confusion in this area.

One specific area of concern at the moment is the widespread oppression of women in both the church and society.54

Another widespread practice is to include the cards in welcome packs, which are sometimes given to every family in the area when a baby is born (e.g. South Acton CC in London).

ROME, Dec 3 (Reuters)- Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta announced measures on Tuesday to try to combat a fresh rubbish emergency in the area around the southern city of Naples where organised crime and widespread abuse have created a chronic environmental crisis.

Vitamin A deficiency is rare in breastfed babies even in areas of the world where vitamin A deficiency is widespread.

Although infant sleeping practices have gotten safer over the last twenty years — 86 percent of babies slept with bedding in 1993 to 1995, compared with 55 percent in 2008 to 2010 — study authors found that the decline has slowed since 2000, and hazardous sleeping areas are still a widespread practice, despite doctor recommendations.

Three roads in the area have been closed, but while several people in the house that was raided have been removed, there has been no widespread clearance of the area.

This comes amid widespread concerns about the impact on people in areas where the system has already been rolled out.

The fact that police should even think to advise a woman abused to amend her behaviour — outright victim - blaming — or to suggest an individual «lighten up» or learn not to take things so seriously is outrageous, but sadly typical of a widespread lack of victim support in this area.

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in four New York counties on Sunday afternoon as those areas were dealing with widespread power outages in the aftermath of this week's massive storm.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has temporarily closed off access to several areas near the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Penn, but they're not saying exactly why, leading to widespread speculation as to the cause.

By imposing third - party reporting of expenses, a VAT system reduces tax evasion relative to a self - reported income tax system like that used in the U.S. where the IRS periodically audits business expenses, but there is widespread abuse in the area of business expenses (especially in small businesses that often treat what should be considered personal expenses as business expenses) due to a lack of third - party reporting of business expenses the way that it has third - party reporting of business income via 1099 information tax returns.

Under - represented parties In some local authorities, there is a point of view that has widespread support in the area but still fails to get adequately represented on the counciIn some local authorities, there is a point of view that has widespread support in the area but still fails to get adequately represented on the counciin the area but still fails to get adequately represented on the council.

A study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.

Ken Purchase, the former MP for Wolverhampton North East, who has died aged 77, was one of the last of what was once a widespread category of working - class Labour MPs who represented the area in which he was born, having secured election to parliament with an established experience in town - hall politics and a career working in local industry.

Nixon's visit to Hoosick Falls strikes at the legacy of an environmental disaster that brought widespread criticism on the response to the crisis by Cuomo's administration and subsequently resulted in areas of Hoosick Falls being declared as federal and state superfund sites.

Widespread support for the project is evident, not only by viewing the list of endorsements the project has received — which range from local officials to chambers of college, tourism officials, area colleges and not - for - profit organizations — but also by the proliferation of signs placed in the yards of residents throughout southern Ulster County welcoming the Nevele back to the community.

But officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say the main culprit in the widespread flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline was heavy rains that hit many areas along the lake and the St. Lawrence River last year.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

Way back in June 2009, Auerbach cited widespread use of county - owned cell phones as a problem area that needed to be addressed.

Currently, only 25 percent of home inspections include an inspection of the interior, which is dismally low considering how widespread lead paint is in our area.

Which ultimately resulted in Byrne's conviction in a widespread graft case involving a number of area public servants — including Robert Janiszewski.

Since the 1960's scientists thought that only in permanently shadowed areas in craters near the lunar poles was it cold enough to accumulate this volatile material, but recent observations by a number of spacecraft, including LRO, suggest that hydrogen on the moon is more widespread.

The potential for a widespread pellagra outbreak surged in flood - ravaged areas of Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Assuming that greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the widespread adoption of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some of the warming expected by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.

The recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s had disastrous consequences for agriculture, livestock and the environment in the area, with widespread famine as a result.

Such an earthquake will cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay).

This has become a widespread weed present in 88 per cent of 24,824 of quadrats — small areas of habitat selected at random as samples for assessing the local distribution of plants and animals — monitored by researchers.

With computers crashing and cell towers dropping offline, all of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties in California are instantly cut off from the outside world, so nobody beyond the immediate area knows how bad it is here or how widespread the damage.

Borrelli said they observed a remarkable decrease in expression levels of some 2,000 genes in this area, coupled with a widespread increase in modifications of basic DNA proteins called histones — particularly those associated with reduced gene activity.

«The confluence of climate and people in these areas increases the risk of widespread fire activity when the fire season severity is elevated,» said Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who works with Randerson and colleagues on the forecast.

In addition, the human cases are more geographically widespread and cases are also reported from rural areas, unlike in previous epidemicIn addition, the human cases are more geographically widespread and cases are also reported from rural areas, unlike in previous epidemicin previous epidemics.

Protected areas were still generally darker than unprotected areas, yet protected areas experienced widespread increases in nighttime light exposure between 1992 and 2010, the team reports online this month in Conservation Biology.

Rice researchers in Earth science, economics and environmental engineering have determined that widespread use of biochar in agriculture could reduce health care costs, especially for those who live in urban areas close to farmland.

In a report to the FCC last month, they say that overlaps between the two systems are inevitable, and that this «will result in widespread, severe GPS jamming [and] will deny GPS service over vast areas of the United States»In a report to the FCC last month, they say that overlaps between the two systems are inevitable, and that this «will result in widespread, severe GPS jamming [and] will deny GPS service over vast areas of the United States»in widespread, severe GPS jamming [and] will deny GPS service over vast areas of the United States».

«Most protected areas in the United States are experiencing increased background noise,» Kleist notes, making this «potentially a widespread issue.»

Hantavirus infection (In Brief, 10 April), also known as haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, is far more widespread than the urban areas of the US.

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

In areas where the soil was a few degrees cooler, at 68 °C, Smale's team found geothermal kanuka, an endemic shrub, and staghorn clubmoss, which is widespread in tropical climates (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, doi.org/b8fcIn areas where the soil was a few degrees cooler, at 68 °C, Smale's team found geothermal kanuka, an endemic shrub, and staghorn clubmoss, which is widespread in tropical climates (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, doi.org/b8fcin tropical climates (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, doi.org/b8fc).

The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread brain damage, but two injured areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.

The poor climate may been one of many factors contributing to societal changes of the era, including widespread crop failures and famines in Central Asia that may have triggered migrations from the area to China and Eastern Europe, thus helping spread an episode of plague (depicted in this 15th century painting) that originated there.