Sentence examples for large diversion of from inspiring English sources

In recent years the very large diversion of water above the falls for hydroelectric-power purposes has lessened the rate of erosion.

The effect of even a large diversion of the Social Security surplus to other government programs does not threaten the current benefits received by more than 30 million retired workers and their dependents.

The report concludes: "The legacy of job loss [after the miners' strike] continued to be substantial unemployment and in particular a very large diversion of working-age men out of the labour market into 'economic inactivity', often on incapacity benefits".

In all these cases there is a large diversion of the metabolic flux towards recombinant protein synthesis and thus according to the 'metabolic burden' hypothesis the cellular stress response should be similar.

While prokaryotes have the advantage that their simpler cell membranes and internal structure are more amenable for physical electron extraction, the more complex metabolism of eukaryotes may be more efficient and be able to support a larger diversion of redox carrier flux without undue harmful effects on the organism.

The inefficiency of the communes and the large-scale diversion of farm labour into small-scale industry disrupted China's agriculture seriously, and three consecutive years of natural calamities added to what quickly turned into a national disaster; in all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.

40 41 Measures of unemployment might also be challenged as not fully comparable either, due to the large-scale diversion of working-age adults into economic inactivity (eg, disability benefits) during the 1990s across many European countries.

This is because of the fact that the equivalent inductance of air-gapped core is smaller, resulting in fault current having a larger diversion in the excitation branch.

An effect of eliminating the tax is the potential for diversion of large amounts of estate funds from charitable foundations.

"The main reason that the fish kill started to decline before the slug of water got to the lower river is because the majority of the fish had been dead by then," said Glen Spain of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, one of the groups opposed to the diversion of large amounts of water to irrigation.

But if your estate is large enough that the diversion of income won't leave your spouse or charity high and dry, you may want to revise your estate plan to grant your executor the power to pay expenses out of income.