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Indeed, both Hollande and Sarkozy represented those adapted to globalization and viewed the rest as a
reservoir
of voters to be seduced, not as a new underclass.
In order to find out whether PKDL patients can act as a
reservoir
for VL – and therefore boost our capacity to eradicate the disease – my team and I have set up an insectarium to breed sterile sandflies.
China has already built six mega-dams on the Mekong – the lifeblood for continental Southeast Asia – with its latest addition being the 254-meter-high Nuozhadu Dam, whose gargantuan
reservoir
is designed to hold nearly 22 billion cubic meters of water.
The weight of the water impounded in the dam’s massive
reservoir
was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir-triggered seismicity.
Lake Chad, once an immense
reservoir
of fresh water, has lost around 90% of its surface area since 1963 and is at risk of drying out permanently.
What makes that even more puzzling is that we in Europe, both east and west, possess a vast
reservoir
of creative talent, which we should be using to intelligently exploit the fantastic opportunities this Information Revolution offers us.
But this requires a rich
reservoir
of ideas, not a single, unified approach.
A single
reservoir
located in Ethiopia’s scarcely inhabited Blue Nile gorge, for example, could produce large amounts of sorely-needed power for Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt, mitigate droughts, and lead to improved irrigation.
With that
reservoir
of historical information and sophisticated algorithms, the company offers fee-based advice to farmers through an intuitive online portal.
Physical capital is in a better state than expected, and modern Iraq benefits from a deep
reservoir
of human capital.
As long as much of Chinese society views the current political system as unjust, unresponsive, and corrupt, there will always be a large
reservoir
of ill will toward the ruling elites.
This area, which contains perhaps the largest
reservoir
of biodiversity left on earth, is exploited by many countries, but managed by no one.
But it ignores the fact that there still is a huge
reservoir
of urban labor in the informal sector that, upon shifting to the formal sector, would provide an additional boost to productivity.
Second, the costs of the insurance premium – the outsize, largely dollar-denominated
reservoir
of China’s foreign-exchange reserves – have been magnified by political risk.
The Hoover Dam, for example, which created Lake Mead, the largest
reservoir
in the US, was built in 1936 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal.
Subterranean aquifers should be the
reservoir
of last resort.
Midwestern and southwestern states have been in a prolonged drought that might well be the result of long-term warming, and the farm states rely heavily on water from a huge underground
reservoir
that is being depleted by over-pumping.
It has a huge
reservoir
of surplus labor in the countryside.
Lacking in saving and wanting to grow, the US relied increasingly on China’s vast
reservoir
of surplus saving to make ends meet.
These findings, combined with the immature anatomy of the infant dura, suggest that dural bleeding in young babies may be a natural protective device – a
reservoir
to prevent backflow into the brain’s blood vessels during the pressure fluctuations of normal labor and delivery.
The area has lost 70% of its original forest cover, and sediment from eroding hillsides has clogged the city’s reservoir, jeopardizing the water supply of Brazil’s largest city.
Today’s Russia is a gigantic
reservoir
of raw materials, and its economy relies heavily on commodities – mining and drilling.
Unlike the other Arab Spring countries – where populist nationalism cloaked in anti-American sentiment is flourishing, and attacks on US-funded institutions and non-governmental organizations are not uncommon – Libya retains a deep
reservoir
of goodwill toward the US, among both its people and their new government.
With a large
reservoir
of surplus savings and a budget deficit of less than 2% of GDP, it has the wherewithal to fund such efforts.
To build the largest existing hydroelectric project – the Three Gorges
reservoir
on the Yangtze River, which stretches for 600 kilometers (373 miles) – 1.3 million people were relocated, as 13 cities, 140 towns, and 1,350 villages were inundated.
He saw it as a source of disposable masses, a human
reservoir
for totalitarian movements.
They involved a minimum of five species, in perilous alignment: the bacterium itself, the
reservoir
host such as marmots or gerbils, the flea vector, the rodent species in close quarters with humans, and the human victims.
The good news is that China’s massive
reservoir
of foreign-exchange reserves provides it with an important buffer against a classic currency and liquidity crisis.
In fact, it was that realization, coupled with a steadfast fixation on stability, that prompted China to focus urgently on amassing the largest
reservoir
of foreign-exchange reserves in modern history.
What he discovered, however, was that Western material goods and values were flooding the East and polluting that
reservoir.
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