BRITISH COLUMBIA Vital stats: Canada's westernmost province is made up of nearly 370,000 square miles of rivers, lakes, mountains, beaches, plains and islands, with a climate temperate enough for a visitor to golf and ski on the same day.
Concerning the allocation of water to nectar production, it seems that because of water limitations nectar concentration is generally higher in xeric environments than in temperate environments (for a review see ref. 42).
The next major goal in the planetary hunt, astronomers say, is to find an Earth-size planet in the so-called Goldilocks zone of a star, where conditions are temperate for water and thus life.
This last production attracted, unfairly, a good deal of opprobrium: Hawthorne was seen as too temperate for Lear and the evocation of the storm by giant hailstones was much mocked but, as always with Ninagawa, there were unforgettable images such as that of a rising sun glowing red in the distance at the play's climax.
I've traded the gray North Atlantic waters for the azure-blues of the Pacific and temperate for tropical climes.
The simple fact is that most Americans have been tolerant and temperate for the same reason that the election was so close in the first place.
Each musician took a solo that suggested a hastily drawn portrait of his style: insistent and bouncy for Mr. Hoiby, methodical and temperate for Mr. Neame, feverish and shrewd for Mr. Eger.
Hong Kong's climate is sub-tropical, tending towards the temperate for nearly half the year.
Temperate phages code for a range of social traits, e.g., toxins [28], and have been demonstrated to generate higher relatedness coefficients at prophage loci than at their host chromosomes: competition experiments between prophage-carrying (lysogenic) and nonlysogenic bacteria resulted in the maintenance of host chromosomal diversity, apart from monomorphism at the prophage loci [62].
Even in sunny parts of the world's temperate regions, for instance, a collector must have a surface area of about 40 square metres (430 square feet) to gather enough energy to serve the energy needs of one person.
