Sentence examples for substantial tracts from inspiring English sources

And the Netherlands — which has reclaimed substantial tracts of territory from the sea — has gained a reputation for environmental innovation.

Also nearby was the Shoemaker family, which owned substantial tracts of land in both the District and in Maryland.

In a gift that may have been made in anticipation of his wedding, his father in November 1712 gave him a substantial tract of land in the Byfield section of Newbury.

It is also important to note that the introgression of DDT-R into our experimental Canton-S flies involved a relatively small number of backcross generations, so that a substantial tract (with variable length) of genetic material will be derived from the Hikone-R stock and this could account for some of the variability in behaviour in the experiments.

Typical examples of injection sites are illustrated in Fig. 11, which shows a single rhodamine injection site in the right NB (Fig. 11B) and two fluorescein injection sites in the left NB (Fig. 11C .The glass pipette was advanced dorsoventrally in order to minimize the risk of encroaching on the substantial fibre tracts that surrounded the NB both laterally and medially.

In his first substantial political work, Two Tracts on Government (composed in 1660 but not published until 1967), Locke defended a very conservative position: in the interest of political stability, a government is justified in legislating on any matter of religion that is not directly relevant to the essential beliefs of Christianity.

In addition, we found substantial impairments in other tracts, such as the stria terminalis.

Particles of >6-μm diameter are trapped increasingly in the upper respiratory tract (12 ); no substantial deposition in the lower respiratory tract occurs at >20 μm (11, 12 ).

However, the respiratory tract provides substantial barriers that need to be overcome for successful pulmonary application.

Since October 2013, a generic substitute for Esomeprazole is now available which could generate substantial savings in alimentary tract prescribing.

Fourth, during acute stresses, release of quiescent endotoxin into the bloodstream by endogenous Gram-negative flora of the gastrointestinal tract is substantial in humans [38 41].