The tiered structure also prevents erosion and provides a habitat for insects, birds and butterflies, which act as natural predators, reducing the need for pesticides.
The island's peat and blanket bogs support wildlife and act as a natural store of potentially harmful carbon.
In effect, the parasites are being subverted to act as a natural vaccine.
The new legislation is part of the Wildlife and Natural Environment Act, which will become law on 17 August as well.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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"We need to act quickly to save our natural environment, " he said.
And, I can know that the forces of natural selection will act on tradition to make everything more or less, kinda-sorta work out, sometimes.
Each small thing he does to attend to the suffering of another or stand up against injustice will make the next act feel easier, more natural.
But when we see what's happening on television, our natural instinct is to act.
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The 1992 Cable Act incorrectly assumed that cable was a natural monopoly requiring permanent, extensive, and intrusive regulation of cable rates and content prices, terms and conditions.
He said it was only natural that each nation would act in the best interests of their own currency, because it was not simply an economic issue, but a political one.
The result is so much more intuitive, so much more natural to the way we think and act in the world.
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Stella's first-act "I can hardly stand it" is the most natural, an explanation of what attracts her to her husband.
The great crested newt is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and permission for their removal must be granted by Natural England.
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Though Lukashenko was quite vocal in his opposition to this act, Belarus eventually paid off its debts to get the natural gas flowing again.
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That really would act like an artificial nervous system bypassing the patient's broken natural one.
First exercised by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to designate Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the authority of the Antiquities Act has been used by 16 presidents since 1906 to protect unique natural and historic features in America, such as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients.
For a natural disaster to represent a global threat, it has to act on a global scale.
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This notion that women's natural role as homemakers and mothers gave them a responsibility to act as nature's housekeepers led many socially conservative women to take up environmental activism, campaigning to protect the nation's bird population, which was being decimated by the feather trade, and promoting conservation education in their children's schools.
For much of the second act she seemed to float and fly, as if the air was her natural element.
Just two days before McCain announced Palin as his running mate, she signed the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, awarding a license to Calgary-based TransCanada to begin work on a natural gas pipeline from the northern part of the state to the contiguous United States.
Right now, if Congress had gotten its act together, we would have a farm bill to help farmers and ranchers respond to natural disasters like the drought we had this summer.
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In a way, this is natural: the Fund was established back in the 1940s precisely so that it could act, among other things, as the lender of last resort to countries in danger of default.
Anyone considering the use of MIW for natural gas extraction activities has the potential to incur long-term liability because just the act of moving contaminated water gives you total responsibility for it in the future.
The class act is Peabody Energy and it just broke into new high ground along with Arch and my favorite coal MLP, Natural Resource Partners.
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