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Such a large quantity of water is not even necessary for rice farming; most of it is used to drown weeds.
Weeds and grey desolation are all that thrive in this once-bustling community, which housed the workers of Chernobyl’s doomed nuclear power plant, whose devastating meltdown 26 years ago still inflicts physical and socioeconomic harm on many in Ukraine and nearby countries.
The only water that leaves a PPU does so in fruits and vegetables; there is no evaporation into the air, no runoff into the ground, and no pesticides or weeds.
But hopes that “green shoots” of recovery may be springing up have been dashed by plenty of yellow weeds.
But those tentative green shoots that we hear so much about these days may well be overrun by yellow weeds even in the medium term, heralding a weak global recovery over the next two years.
So, green shoots of stabilization may be replaced by yellow weeds of stagnation if several medium-term factors constrain the global economy’s ability to return to sustained growth.
Users let Google filter the deluge of emails they receive daily, but they are incensed when Google weeds out an important message.
Such disasters not only cause death by drowning or starvation, but also damage crops and make them vulnerable to infection and infestations by pests and choking weeds, thereby contributing to food shortages and malnutrition.
The gardener doesn't destroy his plants indiscriminately, but he does regularly pull up weeds.
The process is still subject to political supervision, but many politicians are easily bamboozled when the conversation really gets into the weeds.
Regulations should, for instance, be sensitive to the difference between releasing a GM crop that is resistant to the herbicide glyphosate (making it easier for farmers to control weeds) and releasing GM crops that can resist drought and are suitable for drought-prone regions of low-income countries.
No one should expect that a single crisis can burn away all of a country’s economic weeds, nor that the New Economy is a magic bullet for risk-free growth.
None of the weeds carpeting the seafloor, none of the branches bristling from the shrubbery, crept, or leaned, or stretched on a horizontal plane.
Certain authors have even held that the many weeds strewn over this sea were torn loose from the prairies of that ancient continent.
When the ships of that bold investigator arrived in the Sargasso Sea, they had great difficulty navigating in the midst of these weeds, which, much to their crews' dismay, slowed them down to a halt; and they wasted three long weeks crossing this sector.
Above us, huddled among the brown weeds, there floated objects originating from all over: tree trunks ripped from the Rocky Mountains or the Andes and sent floating down the Amazon or the Mississippi, numerous pieces of wreckage, remnants of keels or undersides, bulwarks staved in and so weighed down with seashells and barnacles, they couldn't rise to the surface of the ocean.
In the midst of this hopelessly tangled fabric of weeds and fucus plants, I noted some delightful pink-colored, star-shaped alcyon coral, sea anemone trailing the long tresses of their tentacles, some green, red, and blue jellyfish, and especially those big rhizostome jellyfish that Cuvier described, whose bluish parasols are trimmed with violet festoons.
In essence, manatees, like seals, are designed to graze the underwater prairies, destroying the clusters of weeds that obstruct the mouths of tropical rivers.
Rotting weeds have poisoned the air, and this poisoned air causes the yellow fever that devastates these wonderful countries.
These rocks were hung with huge weeds, immense sea tangle, gigantic fucus-- a genuine trellis of water plants fit for a world of giants.
It stood out in the light from the oval of her bonnet, with pale ribbons on it like the leaves of weeds.
This did not spoil the garden much, all choked now with long weeds.
There might be snags about, or weeds, I thought.
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden.
Grass and weeds grew rank over the whole cemetery.
There in the middle of the moonlit valley below them stood the "ha'nted" house, utterly isolated, its fences gone long ago, rank weeds smothering the very doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window-sashes vacant, a corner of the roof caved in.
He curled down in the weeds and soon began to snore.
There's an old rusty pick over amongst the weeds in the corner the other side of the fireplace--I saw it a minute ago."
Stop thief!' some artists had, it seems, put a trick upon a shopkeeper, and being pursued, some of them fled one way, and some another; and one of them was, they said, dressed up in widow's weeds, upon which the mob gathered about me, and some said I was the person, others said no.Immediately came the mercer's journeyman, and he swore aloud I was the person, and so seized on me.
But I can tell these walking blocks that we will live in spite of them, and in great houses too, though we die of hunger and cover our flesh, be it delicate or not, with widow's weeds, as one covers or hides a dunghill on a procession day.
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