Sentence examples for patch of the world from inspiring English sources

Edna Julius, 69, can be found most days sitting outside on a white plastic chair, watching her own small patch of the world and biting her lip each time a vehicle jounces through the ruts in the avenue.

This is especially valuable when it is grounded in a desire to be genuinely helpful in our interactions with others, to add value in business, to contribute to society, and to simply leave our patch of the world in a better condition than we found it.

It was a reminder to me that amid the larger-scale shifts we need in order to have healthier, more cohesive cities, we are also often owners of some tiny patch of the world.

Scientific laws and models attach to patches of the world, but not to a seamlessly law-governed whole.

In that paper the authors argued on the basis of model-simulated increases in surface temperatures and basic human physiology that by 2100 the combination of temperature and humidity, known as the wet-bulb temperature (see detailed explanation), would make life miserable for some but downright uninhabitable for small patches of the world.

Those skills, he said, could not be learned as well in the church hall where his troop — Troop 37 — meets, and he and his troop would be upset to lose a vibrant patch of the natural world like Camp Pouch.

According to the concept of the modular organization of the visual cortex, the visual cortex is composed of many identical elementary processing units, with each module containing the neuronal circuitry for the analysis of a small patch of the visual world with respect to all possible stimulus combinations.

Whether that's simply writing about marshland, or mountains, these people are plotting out particular patches of the natural world.

TEN years ago, when the City section was new, a former engineering student from Kabul staked his claim to a patch of Times Square, crossroads of the world, mall under construction.

He wouldn't dodge a friendly if it were against Tierra del Fuego at three o'clock on a Saturday morning on a cow patch at the bottom of the world.

Crisp underfoot in summer, the stuff is like a patch of the arctic fallen into the world in the wrong place.