These include not just mining, but also inviting Chinese agriculturalists to farm great swathes of steppe.
Plaid Cymru economy spokesman Alun Ffred Jones said "huge swathes" of Wales had been left out.
This myth that there are huge swathes of people excluded from bank is just wrong.
We have seen the humble digital download carve vast swathes into the audio CD industry.
Ever-increasing swathes of virgin forest are being felled to provide cultivation space for biofuel crops.
Huge swathes of industry were protected from foreign competition by high import tariffs, leaving them moribund.
In New York he re-zoned huge swathes of land from commercial to residential use.
Left to itself the market will cherry-pick, leaving swathes of bad risks for taxpayers to finance.
Nick Faldo, though officially resident at Weybridge in England, spends swathes of time in America.
It houses 60-plus people today but there are vast swathes of space for hundreds more.
Huge swathes of the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert have been rendered off-limits to foreigners.
Dozens of suburbs were submerged and residents are continuing to clean up swathes of mud and debris.
In the early morning hours Friday, Internet service appeared to be down across large swathes of Cairo.
To move upmarket, ignoring market share and pursuing margins, would mean abandoning vast swathes of the country.
Huge swathes of forest in Perthshire, Lochaber and Argyll were systematically destroyed to deprive wolves of their habitat.
We cannot afford to write off vast swathes of the world as somehow marginal or irrelevant or doomed.
In recent years, several sites have sought to make use of the swathes of fan footage recorded on a nightly basis.
BBC: Should music fans stop filming gigs on their smartphones?
First, Mr Barnier and his colleagues are under pressure to propose swathes of crowd-pleasing regulation, especially in financial services.
As finance minister in the late 1990s, he privatised swathes of French companies.
Scientists have known for some time that large swathes of the earth's oceans harbor extremely low densities of phytoplankton.
Several villages and swathes of forest have been destroyed, but officials say they are now on top of the situation.
In the early 1990s banks shuddered as collapsing stock and land prices left swathes of customers unable to repay loans.
Yet huge swathes of the country, populated chiefly by nomadic tribes and expat landowners, are still overlooked by mass tourism.
Although vast swathes were deleted, enough remained to reveal startling information about the senior Guatemalan officer involved in Bamaca's fate.
The currency is accepted in vast swathes of the rich world and quite a bit of the poor world too.
For this to happen, we need to address the reason that large swathes of the country are doing so badly.
Unlike Mr Cook, Mr Prescott is in charge of swathes of domestic policy close to the top of voters' priorities.
Jacques Rogge said there was confusion "between the operational budget and the infrastructure budget" which would redevelop swathes of east London.
The palace was the home of the Habsburg dynasty which, from Vienna, ruled vast swathes of Europe between 1452 and 1918.
Under measures approved by local authorities, swathes of outdoor public places including beaches, municipal parks and even Times Square have become tobacco-free.
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