Four centuries after the European discovery of the Amazon river, the total cultivated area in its basin was probably less than , excluding the limited and crudely cultivated areas among the mountains at its extreme headwaters.

Thus, governments interested in closing the health gap such as the British Labour government in 1997 2010 usually end up pursuing such relatively painless downstream interventions.

Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake prone upstream region.

There's this absolute concentration of being, the absolute concentration of consciousness, awareness, an absolute locus of compassion and love that defines the primary attributes of divinity.

At the source, capital requirements for currency mismatches in portfolios, together with margin requirements on foreign exchange derivatives, make sense.

Flow rates on the Columbia are affected by many large upstream reservoirs, many diversions for irrigation, and, on the lower stretches, reverse flow from the tides of the Pacific Ocean.

Smaller shock angles are associated with higher upstream Mach numbers, and the special case where the shock wave is at 90 to the oncoming flow (Normal shock), is associated with a Mach number of one.

While the war in Iraq has been based on wishful thinking, the war in Afghanistan was necessary and unavoidable because it was there that the terrorist threat of September 11, 2001, originated.

Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 km of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments.

So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility. And in my business as an architect, it's unfortunate the word humility and the word architect have not appeared in the same paragraph since The Fountainhead.

According to the strategy, OMV intends to increasingly divert its investments from the refining and filling station business to the upstream business (Exploration Production), where two thirds of future investments will be made.

Flash floods in recent years in two Indian frontier states Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh served as an ugly reminder of China s lack of information sharing on its upstream projects.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday that the bullying of Egypt over the construction of dams along the Nile River must end as upstream nations attempt to implement a number of water projects despite Cairo s opposition.

In the early 2000s, OMV expanded into Eastern Europe, by acquiring around 10 of Hungarian oil company, MOL and in 2003 it acquired the upstream division of Germany s Preussag Energie, expanding its filling station networks.

So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.

Government support for realizing the vision inspired the British film maker Stanley Kubrick to present the steps in his classic movie 2001 A Space Odyssey , released in 1968. Clarke helped to write the screenplay.

Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co riparian state.

Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall be for an haven of ships and his border shall be unto Zidon.

When you win the referendum When they give the Nobel to Santos.

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

But he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud

As a dream when one awaketh so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

Jesus, looking at them, said, With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.

And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God for with God all things are possible.

The mouse's shadow at dusk is longer than the cat's shadow at noon.

God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness Selah

As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?

Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

The problem starts at the top of Muslim societies, not with the disaffected at the bottom.

This value controls in the same manner as the Main control, but has more effect at the edges of the image than at the center.