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So ultimately, 20 million square feet of asphalt was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools system employees as well.
Also, people like myself, we're fighting two battles on different grounds.
Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.
Well birds are pretty hard-wired, as it happens, so most of that is already in their DNA, but to supplement it, part of Ben's idea is to use homing pigeons to help train the young passenger pigeons how to flock and how to find their way to their old nesting grounds and feeding grounds.
Fishing is truly profitable in only half of the high seas fishing grounds.
That sinister expression means that if hospital resources are limited, for example if only one donor heart becomes available for transplant, or if a surgeon has time to operate on only a certain number of patients, American hospitals have an explicit policy of giving preference to younger patients over older patients on the grounds that younger patients are considered more valuable to society because they have more years of life ahead of them, even though the younger patients have fewer years of valuable life experience behind them.
But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates.
So using the app, as you make your way towards the grounds surrounding the Washington Monument, you hear the sounds of instruments warming up, which then gives way to the sound of a mellotron spelling out a very simple melody.
These very grounds are where I was born and spent the first seven years of my life.
At Calvert’s invitation, Schliemann visited the grounds in 1868, and decided to excavate.
Just to give you grounds for comparison, rice: 35,000 genes.
The fear is that those incentives mean that the decision is not made on purely scientific grounds, and even if it was, that there would be unintended consequences.
But not so long ago, many burial grounds were lively places, with blooming gardens and crowds of people strolling among the headstones.
These burial grounds created permanent places to commemorate the dead.
On the contrary, every time they appear, every time they risk becoming visible, merely gives grounds for further persecution, expulsion and suppression.
So you see new datum planes, new grounds planes for social activity.
And there are dams everywhere, and these are precisely the things that stop wild salmon from reaching their spawning grounds.
In the ancient Jewish Talmud, it's even considered legal grounds for divorce.
If they find sufficient grounds to proceed, the House holds a separate vote on each of the specific charges, known as Articles of Impeachment.
And without ice, their hunting and harvesting grounds are severely diminished, threatening their way of life and survival.
But yes, sometimes I get run off the grounds by security.
For nationalists, our modern societies are built on national grounds: we share a land, a history, a culture, and we defend each other.
He turned to her and said, "You must never allow the enemy to determine the grounds for battle."
To do otherwise continues to let the enemy determine the grounds for battle, creates a binary, where we who have suffered become the affected, pitted against them, the perpetrators.
Whales return to the same feeding and breeding grounds annually, and each discrete population has a different song.
Some whales will avoid key feeding or breeding grounds if human noise is too loud.
Thick data grounds our business questions in human questions, and that's why integrating big and thick data forms a more complete picture.
... hinting towards a future which should be energy friendly and linking up the local grounds as Van Gogh literally walked and lived there in 1883.
Once a popular grain on much of the continent, fonio was grown all the way to ancient Egypt, where archaeologists found grains inside pyramids' burial grounds.
The matriarch shows the younger whales where to find the most fertile fishing grounds.
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