Sentence examples for human uses from inspiring English sources

This may have been one of the earliest known human uses of beeswax.

As a general rule, average pore size decreases from certain agricultural practices and other human uses of soil.

Mr. Karanth insists that their presence inevitably produces "incompatible human uses" that leave tigers no chance to live: logging, gathering of forest produce and especially hunting.

The treaty produced by the conference was sometimes called "a constitution for the oceans," and it covers all peaceful human uses of them.

Downes likes jam-ups of culture and nature, where practical human uses overlap with indifferent geology and shaggy flora — he is the bard of weeds.

Similarly, the physical disturbance associated with other human uses of high mountains, such as skiing and other forms of recreation, can be permanently damaging.

Flows in these watercourses are seasonally intermittent, fed by monsoon summer rains or spring snowmelt, although now most of that water is captured and re-routed for myriad human uses.

Thoreau established the tradition of nature writing later developed by the Americans John Burroughs and John Muir, and his pioneer study of the human uses of nature profoundly influenced such conservationists and regional planners as Benton MacKaye and Lewis Mumford.

Other opponents of smart growth maintain that the focus on medium- to high-density developments actually reduces biodiversity in developed areas because all the land is given over to concentrated human uses.

The researchers focused on parks that were under significant pressure from human uses of adjacent lands.

Many protected areas across the world are in locations marginal for human uses.