| Clematis and trumpet vines drape the walls in a lush curtain, and elephant's ears, hostas, and hardy bananas lend swaths of varied greens. |
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| On a thin-crust pizza, the Italian ham lies on top of basil tomato sauce and beneath salty Gaeta olives and swaths of mild asiago. |
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| Sea-level rise could cause the disappearance of vast swaths of this region, and along with them species such as the famed Bengal tiger. |
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| With horizontal swaths of greens and umber on their lower portions and lightening shades of blue at the top, the paintings suggest landscapes. |
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| Its white breast was bordered by broad dark swaths and had a dark blot right in the center. |
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| That country's government recently started leasing vast swaths of unfarmed land to foreigners for as little as 50 cents an acre. |
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| In Asia, shrimp ponds destroyed vast swaths of mangrove forests, the key nursery habitat for many undersea creatures in tropical waters. |
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| Family farms, campos, and swaths of countryside are being seized and decimated. |
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| In contrast, only modest efforts are now underway in the industry as a whole to integrate broad swaths of the enterprise. |
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| It reserved special scorn for the General Mining Law of 1872, which has handed over huge swaths of public land to miners since it was instituted. |
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| In the fall of 2003, U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq. |
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| As we made our way to Minj, emerald green tea plantations and broad swaths of coffee trees revealed evidence of foreign development. |
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| Beginning in August, Florida was flattened by four successive hurricanes that ripped up broad swaths of the state. |
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| Because of the willful collective historical and moral ignorance of vast swaths of the public and the opinion leaders who influence them. |
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| Morganton's struggles are playing out not just across many other parts of North Carolina but also through swaths of the American heartland. |
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| A few areas cut across disciplines and require particularly broad, horizontal swaths of expertise. |
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| One of these was an American coast guard vessel, a huge white sailing ship with modern metal hull, coast guard swaths of red on her sides. |
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| But what Chinese red is perfect for is trim and accent, those dashing color swaths that bring a room back to life. |
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| The artist used a push broom to create two broad, semi-circular swaths of orange, pink, brown and green. |
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| Months in the planning, the Gin Flat fire behaved beautifully, devouring a thick carpet of needles and big swaths of brush. |
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| Less gripping are those swaths of the book that are essentially a biography of Salk, who simply wasn't a colorful character. |
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| Ferns are especially handsome as accents among swaths of lower-growing plants such as sweet woodruff or oxalis or growing beside ponds. |
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| Then, in a remarkable burst of rail building energy, engineers began cutting straight swaths across the lay of the land. |
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| The Kurds in the north, the Sunni Arabs north and west of Baghdad, and the Shiite Arabs of the south and center inhabit vast swaths of territory. |
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| Huge nests of meat ants, five to ten meters across and seething with hundreds of thousands of big red-and-black workers, dominated the more disturbed swaths of open terrain. |
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| He had on the tip of his tongue great swaths of European, U.S., and Latin American literature, world cinema, and art history. |
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| The group so extreme it got booted from al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory. |
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| But ISIS continues to hold major swaths of territory in and around Kobani, despite widespread media reports to the contrary. |
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| A woman in angular swaths of black was milking one of the yaks. |
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| Even if the refuge is protected, which looks likely, the energy bill still could still open vast swaths of other public lands to for-profit exploitation. |
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| In The Medical Student, for instance, he gives us a blue and white sky that, though light in hue, heavily descends from the top of the canvas in thick, ribbonlike swaths. |
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| For a sunny bed, I've planted wide swaths of bearded iris, Asiatic lilies, and daylilies together, which becomes the mid-summer highlight of my garden. |
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| Our toxic campaign culture, dominated by negativity, has soured vast swaths of the populace to all things political. |
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| Large swaths of insurance fraud are being corporatized, creating a potential new norm for many fraud fighters. |
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| This distortion can be minimised by photographing multiple swaths and creating a mosaic of the images. |
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| In Portsmouth Southsea and Gosport waves of 150 bombers destroyed vast swaths of the city with 40,000 incendiaries. |
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| The deforestation has created large swaths of heathland and devastating sand drifts. |
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| Since the earliest second millennium BC, Assyrians settled in swaths of western Iran, and incorporated the region into their territories. |
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| It is undeniable that Malcolm was a beacon of huge strength in his lifetime. He could connect with swaths of people when others could not. |
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| Five days after Hurricane Katrina, large swaths of New Orleans, such as Canal Street seen here, are still submerged in water. |
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| In 979, the Song dynasty reunified most of the China proper, while large swaths of the outer territories were occupied by sinicized nomadic empires. |
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| Cantonese is viewed as a vital part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swaths of southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau. |
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| Vast swaths of forest covered the land, which would eventually be laid down and become the coal beds characteristic of the Carboniferous stratigraphy evident today. |
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| Major streets include Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Vargas, both constructed, in 1906 and 1942 respectively, by destroying large swaths of the colonial city. |
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