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More than half of the country is still covered by rainforest, but those forests are being cut down at an accelerating rate to satisfy voracious international demand for timber and related products.
By one reckoning, close to a quarter of American imports were covered by some form of trade restrictions at the peak of Reagan protectionism (including so called voluntary export restraints).
The vehicles’ number plates were covered with white cardboard, and red flags had been affixed to the doors next to the side-view mirrors – for which none of our South Korean hosts was able to offer an explanation.
If California were to rely on solar power for its electricity consumption, the entire state would have to be covered with photovoltaic cells.
An agreement on the issue could be the most important outcome of the summit, although other types of cyber attacks are unlikely to be covered by it.
Our triumphs and virtues are exaggerated; our villains externalized; our failings covered up.
Tying a person to a board and bringing him to the point of drowning, over and over, or forcing a prisoner – stripped naked and covered in his own excrement – to stand with his hands shackled to the ceiling for days, until his legs swell to twice their normal size, may not have constituted torture in memos prepared by government lawyers, but such practices are surely cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
Last September, Arctic sea ice covered the smallest area ever recorded.
But it ruled that such violations did not have an effect on Guatemala’s competitive advantage and exports, and therefore were not covered by the trade agreement!
It has bought securities backed by cash flows from private-sector mortgages, so-called covered bonds, and it has floated the idea of buying corporate bonds and multilateral securities issued by the European Investment Bank.
In the first Gulf war, this resulted in "rolling" sand dunes, sometimes ten meters high and several kilometers long, that covered roads and buildings.
On the eastern and western walls hang two large mirrors, covered by historically explosive expressions from both nations, each translated as well into the opposite, rival language.
Your feet step on a strange surface covered with small, hard bubbles.
And yet, if the efforts covered by this last goal – education – are any guide, it will take more than promises to ensure that the SDGs are achieved.
And, lest there be any doubt, the West has hardly covered itself in glory.
For example, standardizing regulations relating to covered bonds, green bonds, and cross-border investment through real-estate trusts could encourage more long-term investment.
A declining proportion of paid benefits are covered by workers’ contributions, and few countries are saving enough to bridge the deficits.
Is it because they are cold-blooded and covered in scales?
About half of all people covered by Medicaid are children.
The value of trade covered by the measures and countermeasures resulting from Trump’s trade policies has already reached $100 billion, and Shawn Donnan of the Financial Times reckons that this figure could soon reach more than $1 trillion, or 6% of global trade.
If excess energy could be stored efficiently, the lean periods might be covered; but improvements in battery technology are limited by the laws of chemistry.
China Central Television relies mainly on its advertising income, with only a symbolic fraction of its massive budget covered by the government.
Western media outlets have covered this story with great interest, yet apparently without realizing that these peer-to-peer technologies have the potential to de-censor the news for more people in countries like China, where any online content that runs counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s current line risks falling victim to the “Great Firewall” of censorship.
In the US, where the free market determines drug prices, the result is higher prices, covered insurance, taxes, and copayments.
By comparison, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol covered less than 15% of global emissions.
And there have been many indications of financial-market inefficiency in recent years, including continuing anomalies such as the violation of covered interest parity conditions in foreign-exchange markets, bouts of reduced liquidity (partly owing to new regulations), and recurrent flash crashes.
Much ground must be covered to get anywhere close.
The new terminology inspired by the information technology revolution was especially prevalent after the SARS outbreak last spring, when the government covered up the epidemic until after it had spread throughout China and beyond.
Because Chinese internet users are now more likely to find out about a breaking story in real time and question why the official press hasn't covered it, China's conventional media now feel pressure from the public to cover events that they might otherwise dodge.
What did the sheets of cloth covered by regularly interspersed colored dots – the products of Hirst’s large and mechanized workshops – have to do with artistic innovation or originality?
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