The Senate hasn't simply favored sparsely populated states; politicians in Washington created sparsely populated states to leverage the Senate's skewed power.
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Where we're headed: As America continues to urbanize and sparsely populated states become even more sparsely populated, the split popular vote/electoral vote decisions could become the new normal in Republican-won elections.
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This business model is unfeasible in the sparsely populated Arctic.
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They are reliably Democratic, but they are very sparsely populated.
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Many of them are burning in remote, sparsely populated areas.
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"Sparsely populated, with everything neat, orderly, and symmetrical," he observed.
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Luckily, the path is sparsely populated -- unlike the Fort McMurray area.
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Iowa has 99 counties, many of them rural and sparsely populated.
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Daily commutes averaged 16.5 minutes, and the sparsely-populated state had
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Many have family spread out over the large, sparsely populated country.
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Epworth Richmond's emergency department is sparsely populated on an October afternoon.
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The match began in twilight with the big stadium sparsely populated.
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Wind and sunlight are often concentrated in sparsely populated, remote areas.
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The sparsely populated Saharan nation won independence from France in 1960.
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While the area is prone to earthquakes, it is generally sparsely populated.
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There were no immediate reports of damage in the sparsely populated vicinity.
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Plenty of VR worlds are sparsely populated, inhabited by robots, or empty.
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That culture of shared responsibility across a sparsely populated continent still holds.
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In Egypt, it is concentrated in the sparsely populated northern Sinai desert.
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The area is sparsely populated and already operates some large-scale farms.
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Forty-four percent of respondents living in sparsely populated areas backed UBI.
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The Epic Games Store, though, is fairly sparsely populated at this point.
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Many of its fighters have fled into the sparsely populated desert regions.
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But maintaining infrastructure in sparsely populated areas is often uneconomical for networks.
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During multiple visits over the past week, The Wellery was sparsely populated.
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The Anne brothers' sparsely populated region is among the poorest in Senegal.
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Remote, sparsely populated jurisdictions got a thumb on the scales of governance.
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She focused on the sparsely populated region of Gascony, in the southwest.
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It's the female side of puberty humor, comedy real estate that's sparsely populated.
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In the nation's most sparsely populated counties, 30.9 girls per 1,143 get pregnant.
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The vast majority of those federal lands were in the sparsely populated West.
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It is sparsely populated, with less than 53m of the country's 265m people.
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By that same calculus, votes from sparsely populated, mostly rural states count more.
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In sparsely populated Daggett County, commissioners were initially willing to bargain with conservationists.
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Back then, the financial district was filled with vacancies and relatively sparsely populated.
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"Typical sources are constructions, architectural landscapes and sparsely populated metropolitan spaces," says Kobidze.
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But these communities are also among Oklahoma's poorest, most sparsely populated and isolated.
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So far, the outbreaks have largely been confined to sparsely populated jungle areas.
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Blahyi has relatives in Sinoe County, a sparsely populated region in southern Liberia.
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Yet he has gone all out in adopting that sparsely populated, barren county.
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This builds in an over-representation for people in small or sparsely populated places.
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But delivering government services to the largest, most-sparsely populated state poses unique challenges.
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In counties, particularly sparsely populated counties, they have little choice among competing insurance plans.
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Nearly 73 percent of voters in the sparsely populated northeast county chose the Republican.
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America's political system is structured to advantage sparsely populated areas over densely populated ones.
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It is, however, more sparsely populated than the wealthier eastern part of the country.
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But linking together towns in sparsely populated areas of mountains and deserts is expensive.
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Expecting packed aisles at Kohl's, the Gammells arrive to find a sparsely populated store.
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The Midwestern state is sparsely populated with less than 1 million people as residents.
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It's created boomtowns flush with cash in once sparsely populated parts of the country.
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The middle of the country is much more Republican -- and much more sparsely populated.
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And the territory Mr. Netanyahu is promising to annex is sparsely populated with Palestinians.
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It's created boomtowns flush with cash in once sparsely populated parts of the country.
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And the story of chaco doesn't end here, on this sparsely-populated high plateau.
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These are both rural, sparsely populated areas that aren't especially attractive to insurance companies.
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The 833-mile border runs mostly through uninhabited forests and sparsely populated rural areas.
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The earthquake struck in a sparsely populated area, and reports of damage were not extensive.
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The Muslim homesteaders who built the original mosque would have arrived at a sparsely populated
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The area is sparsely populated and no damage or injuries have been reported so far.
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Ketron Island is a sparsely populated island 25 miles (40 km) southwest of the airport.
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Delivering city services to those sparsely populated areas poses a major challenge for city government.
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Other highlighted areas that police are seeking information about include tracts of sparsely-populated farmland.
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Yamato was gone, lost in a sparsely populated woods known for its very hungry bears.
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The vast majority of drilling and production in Texas occurs in sparsely populated rural areas.
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But the challenge of governing enormous spaces, especially those sparsely populated by diverse peoples, remains.
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The Financial District was filled with vacancies and remained relatively sparsely populated in those years.
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Republicans run best in the more sparsely populated and rural eastern part of the state.
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Many people live in remote, sparsely populated areas where specialized care is hard to get.
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Sparsely populated a generation ago, Twecu Crescent now has little or no space between homes.
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Those units are spread farther into sparsely populated areas across Afghanistan than are army soldiers.
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Officials in Kabul said they were assessing damage in areas around the sparsely populated epicentre.
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"We have a large contiguous piece of land that is very sparsely populated," he said.
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The tornado Wednesday evening kept to sparsely populated areas north of Laramie, and nobody was hurt.
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But with a population of just 56,000, it is the most sparsely populated nation on earth.
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According to the Associated Press, the northern coast of Honduras near the epicenter is sparsely populated.
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In China's sparsely populated west, one group pitched in to help the elderly and entertain children.
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Other suppliers of fuel to the vast but sparsely populated region are Japan and South Korea.
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But rarely do they cause problems when they strike offshore from the sparsely populated Mendocino coast.
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He said he's heard reports of some water rescues, but luckily the area is sparsely populated.
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The family arrives on the picturesque, sparsely populated Kenai Peninsula, where they immediately meet the neighbors.
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Because Republicans are stronger in the most sparsely populated areas, they possess a growing structural advantage.
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Baluchistan — a sparsely populated province rich in gold, copper and natural gas — borders Afghanistan and Iran.
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Projected on the wall behind him was a sparsely populated crossword puzzle, slowly being pieced together.
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After the Second World War, Filipinos flocked to sparsely populated areas of Mindanao, seeking economic opportunity.
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Its domain was registered in Panama and links to a Facebook and sparsely populated Instagram page.
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This could lower premiums and encourage insurers to operate in sparsely populated parts of the country.
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The Walker River Paiute Tribe is located in Mineral County, a rural and sparsely populated area.
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I've always lived in cities — New York, Philadelphia, London, Boston — yet my world is sparsely populated.
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Dense jungle and vast rivers separate its sparsely populated communities from the rest of the country.
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Sumba is a largely rural, sparsely populated island, one of thousands in the archipelagic nation of Indonesia.
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Near a sparsely populated Times Square, a couple walked, gloved fingers interlaced, shoulders squared against the wind.
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Aguililla is an extensive but sparsely populated mountain township where drug gangs and vigilantes have been active.
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A DECADE ago elections in Mali brought a carnival atmosphere to this vast and sparsely populated country.
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There's probably others but this just shows how sparsely populated the United States is with Crystal Baschets.
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The government builds public housing where there is demand, so sparsely populated places like Ulva don't qualify.
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But rural, sparsely populated areas of the country have struggled to attract many insurers to their marketplaces.
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The US Geological Survey said the earthquake struck about 27km from Muisne in a sparsely populated area.
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Nevertheless, he said Australia Post does see a benefit to flying drones in more sparsely populated areas.
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Plans for an economic zone in Kuwait's sparsely-populated north have been knocking around since the 1970s.
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The sparsely populated area had the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the state last year.
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But in the sparsely populated countryside, says Ranveer Chandra, a Microsoft researcher, there is unlicensed space galore.
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They don't tell us whether a place is rural and densely populated, or wealthy and sparsely populated.
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The devastation, death and displacement have left some neighborhoods of the besieged east sparsely populated, residents said.
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Kimberly Poulin, a clerk for the County Council, said the school served a sparsely populated agricultural area.
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The sparsely populated stretch of desert has offshore fishing as well as phosphate and possibly oil reserves.
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Some of these gaps mirror other deserts for healthcare access that arise in sparsely populated rural areas.
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While that advance was straightforward through mostly sparsely populated areas, taking Tripoli is a far bigger challenge.
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More sparsely populated northern Arizona has increasingly leaned Republican in recent years, except for the Navajo reservation.
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The food court of a shopping mall in Lucena City in the Philippines was also sparsely populated.
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Many sparsely populated counties don't have the budget or the workload to sustain a trained forensic pathologist.
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The number of "certain" voters rose by 5 points in sparsely populated, Republican-dominated "non-metro" areas.
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A huge and comparatively sparsely populated region in China's west, Xinjiang has many diverse Muslim-majority ethnicities.
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These sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people.
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Zanoni shares, in the project's description, that he spent six weeks in the developed yet sparsely populated district.
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It also triggered mandatory evacuations of some small, sparsely populated Gulf Coast barrier islands in one Florida county.
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The steering wheel of our rental car froze while I was driving down a sparsely populated desert highway.
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The shallow quake's epicenter was located just a few miles off the northern tip of sparsely populated Ambrym.
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"I knew they were sparsely populated and also had many people who just wanted threesomes," Anne told Mashable.
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CDT Saturday at The Party Venue, an event space located on a sparsely populated stretch of Highway 380.
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It's also a burgeoning superpower with which Russia shares a 2,600-mile border, much of it sparsely populated.
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Morocco has controlled most of Western Sahara, a sparsely populated stretch of desert, since 1975 as its own.
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There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, due to the sparsely populated nature of the area.
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With the exception of Reno and a short list of towns, the region is isolated and sparsely populated.
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Sparsely populated Scotland is aging rapidly so labor shortages affect its economy more than the rest of Britain.
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Beijing officials said the two infected people came from Inner Mongolia, a sparsely populated region of northern China.
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Local businesses have long seen refugees as high-quality employees in a sparsely populated corner of the country.
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They use the sparsely populated region as a trans-shipment point for drugs headed for the United States.
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Much of this fencing exists in sparsely populated areas where it would be dangerous for people to travel.
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The plane eventually crashed on sparsely populated Ketron Island, starting a fire in the woods and killing Russell.
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Sparsely populated Scotland is ageing rapidly so labour shortages affect its economy more than the rest of Britain.
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How do you have so many matches when you live in a relatively sparsely populated bit of Wales?
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Speaking to a sparsely-populated room of reporters Sunday, Cuomo stressed the need for people to stay home.
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In 2016, Mr. Menon's agency began to seek a mobile carrier to build towers in sparsely populated areas.
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The same floods have taken more lives in the more sparsely populated areas of neighboring India and Nepal.
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I assumed it was so sparsely populated and tiny that day-trippers had no way of getting there.
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Occupancy data can be fed to the heating systems, allowing energy savings when the building is sparsely populated.
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Some debris fell in sparsely populated western Australia, causing no problems except for a $400 fine for littering.
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There are various reasons for that, including the high costs of extending power lines into sparsely populated areas.
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Some debris fell in sparsely populated Western Australia, incurring no damage except for a $400 fine for littering.
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Video showed fiery flames amid trees on the island, which is sparsely populated and only accessible by ferry.
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The group can effectively hide in that sparsely populated desert region and emerge to conduct insurgency-style attacks.
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These regions are joined by scattered sparsely populated, low-income rural counties, often associated with Native American reservations.
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Islamist militants form part of a regional insurgency in the poor, sparsely populated deserts of West Africa's Sahel.
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But Koryakin's flight took place near the city of Strejevoï, in Siberia, which is notoriously frigid and sparsely populated.
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Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, touted as the world's first emissions-free city, remains behind schedule and sparsely populated.
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It fears that its densely populated neighbour may one day decide to grab sparsely populated lands in Russia's east.
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To collect data, the plane flew low over South Korean cities... ... from residential areas to sparsely populated mountain ranges.
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Himalayan mountains frame their 4,000-km division, all of it sparsely populated and very little of it formally demarcated.
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The USDA's program is one of several geared toward revitalizing rural communities and boosting residency in sparsely populated areas.
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Pictures of Sheikh Mohammed wandering the sparsely populated offices of the Land Department were widely published in local newspapers.
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But the Ocado model, which works well in urban Britain, is as yet untested in more sparsely populated places.
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The area is sparsely populated (roughly 40,000 people), relatively poor (per capita income hovers around $20,000), and geographically bifurcated.
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It is helped by the fact is that Sinai is huge -- almost the size of Texas -- and sparsely populated.
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Finally, Mongolia, a sparsely populated country with nomadic traditions, will be pioneering a novel mail-delivery system next month.
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Luckily, Patricia — officially the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere — made landfall over a sparsely populated region.
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Today, four billion people are offline, and 1.6 billion of them live in sparsely populated areas around the world.
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Rather, they reflect an incremental increase that shifted as the fighting moved from sparsely-populated areas to urban centers.
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First, the contemporary battlefield is more likely to be urban and congested, rather than wide open and sparsely populated.
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And interest groups that have been allowed to dominate sparsely populated elections won't want to give up their power.
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This is a small fraction of Obamacare enrollees — about 383 percent — who mostly live in rural, sparsely populated areas.
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The district, which covers the sparsely populated and heavily forested majority of Maine's landmass, was a target for Democrats.
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Many of the theoretical objections — such as the greater weight given to votes from sparsely populated states — have merit.
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The borders are sparsely populated, two years of drought lowered mosquito populations, and those countries do some routine vaccination.
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Small and sparsely populated, Iowa and New Hampshire are famously won by pressing the flesh, which is his speciality.
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The sparsely populated Scandinavian country came into the spotlight last month via several viral posts on Chinese social media.
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In just half an hour, sparsely populated streets became just as tightly-packed as the streets in front of me.
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Although sparsely populated and vastly endowed with mineral wealth, Mongolia has yet to set its economy on a stable footing.
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LIGHT ON DETAIL Plans for an economic zone in Kuwait's sparsely-populated north have been knocking around since the 1970s.
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Elementary and high school students in the sparsely populated state benefit from small class sizes and generous per-pupil funding.
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Sparsely populated Western Australia was also facing several severe fire warnings with hot temperatures expected in most of the state.
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One can see why a sparsely populated petrostate would pay its citizens to occupy land that its neighbours might covet.
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CV Portfolios offer an easier alternative to personal websites that are often sparsely populated, out-of-date or otherwise neglected.
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Iraqi, Kurdish, and US forces are no longer battling ISIS in remote and sparsely populated parts of the two countries.
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They speak variations of two distinct Romanian subdialects and primarily reside in isolated villages in the sparsely populated eastern Serbia.
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Sparsely populated Farah, on the border with Iran, has seen months of heavy fighting, with hundreds police and soldiers killed.
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This mostly included sparsely populated areas along the Canadian border where existing populations were supplemented by wolves from the north.
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The 90-second trailer is soft and ambient, following the title character through pastel-colored caves and sparsely populated deserts.
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Plague in China: Two people from a sparsely populated region were diagnosed with a form of the highly infectious disease.
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A sparsely populated stretch of desert bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Western Sahara has rich fishing grounds as well as phosphate.
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The sparsely populated islands stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the rest of the Kuril archipelago, in Russia.
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The leak occurred in a sparsely populated area of Marshall County, near Amherst in the northeastern part of the state.
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This house is on a sparsely populated peninsula with the bay on one side and the lake on the other.
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Murkowski says she wants to make sure her huge, isolated and sparsely populated state fares well under the new bill.
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That year there were at least twelve of them, whereas this year the corral was sparsely populated with just seven.
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Iceland, as I'm sure you're aware of, is a sparsely populated country with only about 338,349 in the entire nation.
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If you've spent any time in sparsely populated, hauntingly sublime far West Texas, you know that this is D.I.Y. country.
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Much of the effort has also focused on protecting scattered homes and small communities in the sparsely populated fire zone.
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He is believed to be in hiding somewhere in the sparsely populated desert spanning the border along Iraq and Syria.
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The countryside of Senegal is peaceful, parts of it do not have electricity, and many rural areas are sparsely populated.
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In Luigi Ghirri's Colazione sull'Erba, previously unpublished images from the photographer's archive present a sparsely populated world of placid tranquility.
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"The idea that capitals are going to project governance into the sparsely populated areas is just ahistorical," Ms. Friend said.
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Since 2016, Moscow has been offering free land in Magadan and other sparsely populated regions of the Russian Far East.
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"We knocked on 1,20143 doors a day not to persuade but to listen," Watkins said about this sparsely populated district.
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This country's political system — the rules for electing both Congress and the president — is biased toward large, sparsely populated areas.
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More than three million people live in northern Luzon, which is sparsely populated compared to other parts of the island.
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However, these Taliban controlled areas are sparsely populated, and the majority of Afghans will still have access to the polls.
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A significant number of Mr. Trump's most ardent supporters live in sparsely populated areas where school choice is logistically unlikely.
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The new storm is called Cyclone Kenneth, and it hit the sparsely populated northern region of the country on Thursday.
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Redding Chico Sacramento NEVADA San Francisco Modesto Fresno Monterey Sparsely populated vegetated areas CALIFORNIA Pacific Ocean Barstow Santa Barbara Palm Springs Los Angeles San Diego 150 Miles Redding Chico Sacramento San Francisco Modesto NEVADA Fresno Monterey Sparsely populated vegetated areas Pacific Ocean CALIFORNIA Barstow Santa Barbara Palm Springs Los Angeles San Diego 150 Miles Redding Chico Sacramento San Francisco Fresno Monterey Sparsely populated vegetated areas Pacific Ocean Barstow Santa Barbara Palm Springs Los Angeles San Diego 150 Miles Source: SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Russia's pivot to Asia, so Mr Putin has repeatedly promised, would transform the fortunes of the sparsely populated Russian far east.
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A growing number of the inhabitants of this forested, sparsely populated land subscribe to the nature-loving precepts of neo-paganism.
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Lava and volcanic ash spewing from Kilauea have torn apart parts of the sparsely populated southeastern side if the Big Island.
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Police are investigating how the fire ignited and looking for anyone camping in the sparsely populated ranching area on July 4.
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The Government of National Accord (GNA) holds power in the capital, but militias loyal to Haftar control the sparsely populated east.
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The move to faster mobile wireless could also be a boon for rural communities and other sparsely populated parts of America.
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I had been elected district attorney of the sprawling, sparsely populated 46th judicial district in north-central Texas in November 2006.
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The station method also comes up short where station coverage is lacking, which is often a problem in sparsely populated areas.
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Central China is slowing after hitting dizzying heights, while the sparsely populated north and west draw only the bravest of speculators.
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Sedgwick County is a sprawling but sparsely populated farming and ranching area in the northeastern corner of the state bordering Nebraska.
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These sparsely populated and sometimes deeply isolated towns and counties are already gripping the threads of an unravelling social safety net.
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Australia and China are vying for influence in sparsely-populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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Broadband is a policy that can benefit those living in remote or sparsely populated areas and in densely concentrated urban communities.
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The Northern Territory is a vast, sparsely populated area of more than 548,000 square miles, known for its outback desert landscape.
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In November 2017, the pipeline spilled more than 200,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota, in a similarly sparsely populated area.
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However, Francona thinks the government, with or without US help, will never eradicate the drug trade in the sparsely populated region.
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Even in the remote, sparsely populated Arizona desert, the Border Patrol makes use of radar, thermal imaging and high-definition cameras.
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If shrubbery and peatlands catch on fire on a sparsely populated island that's synonymous with snow and ice, will anyone notice?
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Alberto&aposs approach to the region triggered mandatory evacuations of some small, sparsely populated Gulf Coast barrier islands in one Florida county.
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That investment simply isn't economical for telecom and cable companies in sparsely populated areas with few potential customers to justify the spending.
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Brazil's military has long considered that the rich resources of the vast, sparsely-populated Amazon should be protected from any foreign interest.
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The insurgency is expected to continue in the sparsely populated desert region along the Syrian border even if Mosul is fully captured.
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As 18th-century Americans recognized, citizen militias were all about organizing to keep a sparsely populated wilderness nation's far-flung communities secure.
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These sparsely populated areas lacked those two dueling American ideologies, Puritanicalism and Enlightenment, that deemed prizefighting gauche in cities and urban areas.
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Every state has two senators and at least one representative, so even sparsely populated states, such as Montana, are guaranteed three votes.
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The Tanf base lies in the Syrian Badia, a vast sparsely populated desert territory that stretches to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders.
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By one estimate North America, the more sparsely populated continent, had 18m people when Columbus sailed, more than England and France combined.
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Despite overall declines in most parts of China, phosphorous levels had risen from low levels in the sparsely populated northeast, it said.
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Australia and China have been vying for influence in sparsely populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich oceans.
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And like Harrison's songwriting credits as a member of the Fab Four, the world of ball-specific sex toys is sparsely populated.
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Australia and China have been vying for influence in sparsely populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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But from 2011 to 2016, the already sparsely populated district lost 6.5 percent of its population and steady work became more scarce.
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Australia and China have been vying for influence in sparsely populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich oceans.
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The county is settled for the most part along the coast and the county's rivers, making it an elongated, sparsely populated area.
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The Melbourne artist's intimate and sparsely-populated compositions hint at former figurative artists who came before like Edward Hopper and Alex Katz.
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Parts of Greenbrier County, a sparsely populated area bordering Virginia, got 8 to 10 inches of rain, the National Weather Service reported.
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The formerly crowded bar has been converted into a sparsely populated start-up space of a dozen engineers, their bikes and whiteboards.
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So out she heads into the darkened Manhattan streets — cluttered with uncollected trash, sparsely populated by strapped civilians — searching for her quarry.
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Haftar's LNA seized the sparsely populated but oil-rich south of the country earlier this year before turning on Tripoli last month.
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Its Far Eastern regions are two-thirds the size of the entire United States and sparsely populated with only 6.1 million people.
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The areas adjacent to Canada, sparsely populated and with comparatively few border agents, have become a haven for smugglers and criminal organizations.
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The quake would have strongly shaken the epicenter, a sparsely populated area some 26 miles west of the small town of Mentone.
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It is meant to bring the abundant wind power of the sparsely populated Oklahoma Panhandle to dense population centers to the east.
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Hyperallergic took works by some of our favorite artists and reimagined what they would look like during these, um, sparsely populated times.
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The Land of Hope fits those parameters, as it is sparsely populated and located hundreds of miles away from active extraction sites.
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First of all, the areas were sparsely populated, which makes sense because they were highly prone to storms that caused substantial damage.
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No homes or commercial buildings in the sparsely populated area were in danger from the fire, county sheriff's detective Oleg Polissky said.
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From those crime scenes, police say, McLeod and Schmegelsky apparently traveled nearly 2,000 miles across sparsely populated northern portions of four provinces.
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One sparsely populated stretch of northeastern Utah had a worse ozone problem than Los Angeles during the peak of the energy boom.
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The quake's epicenter was located close to the eastern coast of Kamchatka, a fairly sparsely populated region that gets high seismic activity.
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By mandating that the Senate be made up of two representatives from each state, they gave outsize influence to sparsely populated states.
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The earthquake hit a relatively sparsely populated area on the border between three regions - Umbria, Lazio and Marche, causing damage in all three.
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Climate change is increasing the severity of wildfires across the western US. But in the sparsely populated Mountain States, natural fires still dominate.
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For these reasons, I am sure cars must be easier to come by in rural Florida than in sparsely populated Montana, for example.
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His sparsely populated county backed Obama with 52 percent of the vote in 2012, but Trump won it with 53 percent in 2016.
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In practice this means their votes count for less than those of Malays in sparsely populated rural constituencies, who tend to favour UMNO.
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It's located on the coast in a sparsely populated area, meaning any rocket failures can fall harmlessly into the ocean or empty land.
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But on Monday, the RCMP acknowledged "growing community concerns" about the two investigations some 290 miles apart in the sparsely populated region. Cpl.
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The dearth of options in rural, sparsely populated areas is a far cry from what Democrats promised when selling the Affordable Care Act.
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It is a rural state that is sparsely populated by people who are overwhelmingly white, of German and Scandinavian stock, and conservatively Christian.
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Nowhere is this more evident than in the South Pacific, an expansive, sparsely populated region that Australia has long considered its own backyard.
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Elsewhere in Northern California, the County Fire has charred 88,2953 acres (35,764 hectares) in sparsely populated wooded areas of Napa and Yolo Counties.
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Though the highest-risk region is fairly sparsely populated, there are a few larger cities facing severe weather, including Omaha and Kansas City.
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Many communications companies were understandably reluctant to build and maintain a network in these conditions over such a vast, but sparsely populated, area.
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The sparsely populated province of Papua is the Indonesian half of an island shared by Papua New Guinea, and home to indigenous communities.
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They belong to unidentified North Koreans who have washed up dead on the shores of this sparsely-populated Japanese peninsula in recent months.
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For transit agencies, ride-hailing services can be an attractive alternative to serving sparsely populated, low density areas with fixed routes and schedules.
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Costa Rica may be small and sparsely populated, but the Central American nation is a big player when it comes to environmental stewardship.
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Even if you buy the retail argument, wouldn't it be better to vary which smallish, sparsely populated state got the No. 1 spot?
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In a sparsely populated nation covered with snow, a pair of skis has been indispensable, and countless children start to learn as toddlers.
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It did worst in the places where Trump did best — the sparsely populated and economically ailing interior where people identify culturally with Republicans.
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Though most of the volcanoes are in sparsely populated areas, their ash plumes and toxic gas emissions can spread for hundreds of miles.
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California, the most populous state, has 53 representatives; a bunch of sparsely populated states, including Wyoming and South Dakota, have just one apiece.
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Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright), a retired naturalist and wolf expert, is summoned to the sparsely populated Keelut, Alaska, by Medora Sloane (Riley Keough).
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A 2013 report found that more than 31,000 people visited the fisheries each year, contributing $44 million to the sparsely populated communities nearby.
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In fact, every country and territory within a 1,500-mile radius of North Korea, except for sparsely populated Mongolia, has confirmed a case.
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His family, members of the Tajik ethnic group, the country's second largest, lived in a sparsely populated village on the outskirts of Kunduz.
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It lies oceans away from other countries, and any network would have to connect far-flung cities separated by its sparsely populated interior.
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But wiring up a rich microstate like Singapore or San Marino is a doddle compared with doing the same in sparsely populated Scotland.
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The two countries have also been vying for influence in sparsely populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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Read: Canadian Nursing Home Deal Spurs Questions About Chinese Money Canadians know all about vast areas that are sparsely populated and rarely visited.
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Here's why: The complex funding formula used to divvy up the big pot of money would tilt more funding toward sparsely populated states.
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While a northern railway line has been studied several times, parliament has turned it down as being too costly for the sparsely populated region.
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Now it makes "an odd, wholly unexpected sight in a relatively sparsely populated area a few hours north of Tokyo", as Chapman put it.
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Exemptions will be made for investors willing to lay cables in sparsely populated rural areas to boost the spread of internet access, he said.
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The sparsely populated Karoo is known for its expansive landscapes and is home to rare wildlife such as the mountain zebra and riverine rabbit.
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It could hang on for years in sparsely populated states where it still holds governorships, such as Campeche, Coahuila, Sonora and San Luis Potosi.
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Islamic State (IS), which retook the ancient city of Palmyra on December 11th, still rules wide tracts of (sparsely populated) land in the east.
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His roots are in the Eastern Shore, a sandy, sparsely populated spit of farms and timberland flanked by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.
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It hopes to cut delivery time to as little as a day, a difficult challenge in a country famous for its sparsely populated outback.
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Greenland has wanted to upgrade its airports for some time (there are no roads between major cities in the sparsely populated but huge country).
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The sparsely populated stretch of desert bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Western Sahara has rich offshore fishing as well as phosphate and possibly oil reserves.
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In sparsely populated areas, cameras and remote sensors are sufficient for picking up suspicious movements; in cities people can slip across borders more easily.
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Almería, a sparsely populated, impoverished province that was at one time extremely isolated, became the epicenter for the filming of American-made western films.
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In 1976, the Moroccan "Green March" sent 350,000 Moroccans into the Western Sahara to settle, massively altering the demographics in the sparsely populated region.
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Chris Manseau had said it was unusual for investigators in sparsely populated northern British Columbia to have two "complex and dynamic" cases at once.
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Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in a "sparsely populated" area of the universe, NASA announced yesterday.
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Like dozens of factories that have taken root in this sparsely populated land of penguins and glaciers, BGH owes its survival to government tinkering.
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Australia, in particular, has been vying for influence with China in sparsely populated Pacific island countries that control vast swathes of resource-rich oceans.
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The fire moved south and east for much of Tuesday, shifting away from the area's largest oil production facilities and into sparsely populated areas.
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The land was sparsely populated and resource-rich, and became a site of competition between Russian and American settlers in the early 1800's.
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Videos apparently from the event on the sparsely populated InstaCharge Facebook page show that music, dancers, and food were also part of the ceremony.
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The island, somewhat larger than the state of Maryland, is home to 13 million people, though most of it is rural and sparsely populated.
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The region has four state forests, and because it is so sparsely populated, it has a reputation as a backwater region in New Jersey.
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On the other, the government relies on its deep defense ties with Washington, including close intelligence cooperation, to keep the sparsely populated country safe.
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He went out on the land with the Canadian Rangers (a reserve force that patrols the sparsely populated North), and dined on Arctic char.
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Pro-gun groups point out that rates of gun ownership tend to be highest in rural, sparsely populated states, where crime rates are low.
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Electricity was cut off in the worst-hit area, Sembalun, a sparsely populated area of rice paddies on the northern side of the island.
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There has been significantly less bloodshed in the sparsely-populated Mountain Province, where police report one person has been killed in anti-drug operations.
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The European Union considers an area "sparsely populated", and therefore at risk of depopulation, when it has fewer than eight residents per square kilometer.
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The quake's epicenter was in a sparsely populated area 224 km (140 miles) east-southeast of Ambato, Ecuador, at a depth of 7003 km.
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Lisa Murkowski, the Trump administration has argued that logging will help the economy in sparsely populated Southeastern Alaska, where most industries are losing jobs.
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Tens of thousands of Mosul residents have fled since the Iraqi military began the recapturing operation in October, beginning with sparsely populated outer districts.
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And this sparsely populated stretch of riverside resorts and cattle ranches on the Argentine Pampas has some of the best cumulonimbus in the world.
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Australia and China are also competing for influence in the South Pacific, a sparsely populated region that control vast swathes of resource rich oceans.
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But they still have a presence in sparsely populated territory west of the Euphrates River in an area otherwise held by the Syrian government.
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Outside, alone and confused in the sparsely populated woods near Gordon, about 70 miles from her home, Jayme raced toward a woman walking a dog.
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Western Australia is the source of much natural gas and iron ore, but is sparsely populated and three time zones removed from Sydney and Canberra.
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Worth noting: Papua New Guinea is the most ethnically diverse country in the world with more than 800 languages spoken across 600 sparsely populated islands.
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The quake was very shallow, at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km), which would have amplified the shaking in the poor, sparsely populated area.
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Like the rest of the region, Assam is blessed with copious natural resources and sparsely populated areas, relative to the dusty plains of India's heartland.
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SPAIN'S recession ended in 2013, but in Extremadura, a scenic, sparsely populated region in the country's south-west, you would be forgiven for not noticing.
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While the Beast was never safe, riding it allowed migrants to bypass potential danger in places like Chahuites and the sparsely populated areas between towns.
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Martinez and another agent who survived, Stephen Garland, were in sparsely populated Culberson County, about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of El Paso, on Nov.
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Greg Abbott (R), who launched a major field campaign even in more sparsely populated rural parts of the state, votes that benefitted Cruz as well.
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Two pods of pilot whales were discovered just over a mile apart on Mason Bay, Stewart Island, a sparsely populated island in the country's south.
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However, he warned the ADB needed to pay attention to the "economic feasibility" of some OBOR-linked projects, particularly in sparsely-populated Central Asian nations.
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The wild card choice Another option previously suggested by both sides was Ulaanbaatar, the sparsely-populated capital of Mongolia to the northwest of North Korea.
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Ford pulled off at an exit in sparsely populated Clinton County and decided to refuel at a BP station before heading west to I-22.
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Scotland, the sparsely populated northernmost part of the UK, says it needs immigrants to shore up its economy and boost skills in remote rural areas.
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SEVEN YEARS ago separatists from the Tuareg ethnic group and jihadists allied to al-Qaeda took over most of the sparsely populated north of Mali.
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A sparsely populated region far from major American cities, the Plains also provided the shortest route to Moscow: some 5,000 miles over the North Pole.
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A mix of Puerto Ricans live in the "Cordillera Central," or central range of Puerto Rico, which is far more sparsely populated than coastal regions.
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In China's sparsely populated Xinjiang region in the far west, local and regional agencies halted or ordered immediate reviews of the viability of many projects.
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A mix of Puerto Ricans live in the "Cordillera Central," or central range of Puerto Rico, which is far more sparsely populated than coastal regions.
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The major for-profit Internet Service Providers (ISPs), like AT&T and Comcast, don't have a financial incentive to invest infrastructure in sparsely populated areas.
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Mr. Villig grew up on a sparsely populated island called Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea and moved to the capital, Tallinn, when he was 7.
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With a landmass as big as the continental United States and one-tenth the population, Australia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries.
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Those who have second homes are heading to them and others with the means are seeking short-term rentals in the more sparsely populated suburbs.
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Moderate to heavy showers fell across parts of the US territory -- its sparsely populated island of Culebra generally received the most, with around 5 inches.
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If the latter is the case, she added, that might have implications for restoration programs that relocate glass eels from heavily to sparsely populated areas.
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Brokers charge between $2205 and $2128 to dump a ton of waste in a sparsely populated part of the country, says Lee, Kim's former boss.
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Those groups have since regained a foothold in the north and center, using the sparsely-populated Sahel as a launchpad for attacks across the region.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers this week opened Louisiana's Bonnet Carre Spillway to divert rising water away from New Orleans to sparsely populated areas.
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The film's elegant compositions themselves are painterly, with the actors carefully posed; and the atmosphere is theatrical, with crisp line readings and sparsely populated frames.
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Elsewhere in Northern California, the County Fire has charred more than 90,200 acres (36,500 hectares) in sparsely populated wooded areas of Napa and Yolo Counties.
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Yes, most of the country is also sparsely populated farmland, but it's not only Wyoming ranchers getting screwed out of access to the modern web.
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Wildland-urban interface WEST HILLS Sparsely populated vegetated areas NEWBURY PARK Thousand Oaks WOODLAND HILLS Westlake Village CALIFORNIA Wildland-urban intermix Woolsey fire extent on Wednesday Pacific Ocean Malibu 5 Miles Wildland-urban interface Sparsely populated vegetated areas NEWBURY PARK Thousand Oaks Westlake Village CALIFORNIA Wildland-urban intermix Woolsey fire extent on Wednesday Pacific Ocean Malibu 5 Miles Sparsely populated vegetated areas Wildland-urban interface NEWBURY PARK Wildland-urban intermix Woolsey fire extent on Wednesday Malibu Pacific Ocean 5 Miles Source: SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fire has not deterred development in these types of areas, nor redevelopment.
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The conquest of the last pocket near the Iraqi border marks a major blow, leaving the militants scattered in sparsely populated desert areas in eastern Syria.
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The LNA force seized earlier this year the south and its two oilfields, although tribesmen with flexible loyalties remain strong in the sparsely populated desert region.
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Indeed, Trump overwhelmingly won Arizona's March primary -- with nearly 20023% of the vote and winning all counties except for one sparsely populated region in Eastern Arizona.
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It manages giant swathes of often sparsely populated territory, where it must maintain lines that run through hundreds of miles of hilly and sometimes mountainous forest.
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The pit latrines that serve well enough for yurt dwellers in sparsely populated rural areas are ill-suited to the densely packed settlements on Ulaanbaatar's edges.
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In recent decades, the GOP has grown increasingly dominant in the most sparsely populated parts of the nation, as Democrats have gained in crowded urban areas.
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Electricity costs less, thanks to local hydropower and the province's position on the route of big transmission lines that bring power from China's sparsely populated west.
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The final function on Sunday in the capital Port Moresby followed a whirlwind of diplomacy for the leaders of the sparsely populated but strategically important Pacific.
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The race course meandered through the city center, which was close to equal parts historic buildings, old restaurants and shops, and gleaming, sparsely populated luxury stores.
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He is shy and reserved, Hashimi said, and has recently stuck to the sparsely populated Iraq-Syria border where drones and strangers are easy to spot.
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Each new finding was passed along in discrete, retweetable chunks: her sparsely populated Facebook page, the changing Twitter photo, the seeming absence of any deeper documents.
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As Kielsen began coalition talks with left-wing parties Wednesday, Greenland's politicians must tackle more problematic questions about the future of the sparsely populated Arctic nation.
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To the lake's east, there was a swath of sparsely populated territory—home to several African kingdoms and more than a hundred and fifty ethnic groups.
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In 2018 alone, more than two dozen Native Americans -- the majority of them women -- went missing in sparsely populated Montana, according to US Senator Jon Tester.
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Strong earthquakes are not uncommon in seismically active Alaska, but they tend to occur in remote, sparsely populated regions where there is little or no damage.
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Diallo was from sparsely populated Mali, its team co-coached by a Peace Corps volunteer who estimated there were only 40 Malian children playing organized tennis.
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The killings took place in a hilly, sparsely populated area of southern Ohio, about 70 miles east of Cincinnati and a similar distance south of Columbus.
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Though Mr. Khan's personal credentials for governing are still an unknown, his party has governed the vast but sparsely populated province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa since 2013.
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The rules governing elections, especially in the House, give a greater voice to the rural, sparsely populated but large stretches of the country that vote Republican.
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Though Siberia is sparsely populated — it's home to just a quarter of Russia's population — these blazes are alarmingly close to cities and are impacting people's health.
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Baluchistan is the largest of Pakistan's four provinces, and although sparsely populated it is rich in mineral and natural resources, including copper, gold and natural gas.
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The North Vietnamese did this in a much more difficult environment: a sparsely populated region of rugged mountains, triple-canopy jungle and dense primeval rain forest.
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The killings took place in a hilly, sparsely populated area of southern Ohio, about 220 miles east of Cincinnati and a similar distance south of Columbus.
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They live in the sparsely populated hinterlands of the Northern Territory, and their participation in the art world is mediated through non-Indigenous agents and collaborators.
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On Saturday, as small clusters of supporters cheered the pope on sparsely populated streets, Francis sought to build a new church with his trademark pastoral style.
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For decades, the state's rural areas had enjoyed extraordinary political power because of a vote allocation system that gave sparsely populated counties outsized influence in primaries.
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Stretching from tourist-pocked coastline into Maine's sparsely populated interior, the district was once a Democratic stronghold, dotted with coastal shipbuilders and union-heavy mill towns.
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Enhanced security goes beyond Gwadar and across Baluchistan, an arid, sparsely populated province bordering Iran and Afghanistan which sits on substantial deposits of untapped natural gas.
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Smaller, sparsely populated nations in the Pacific Ocean are also extremely vulnerable to an outbreak, though coronavirus has not been confirmed on any of these territories.
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Meanwhile, Politico reported that a revised bill could potentially shield Alaska and as many as four other sparsely populated states from major Medicaid cuts through 2026.
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And, importantly, there's almost nobody in the bottom quartile of the ideological index on the Democratic side, and the entire bottom half is very sparsely populated.
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With roughly 40 active fighters—lightweight and welterweight have more than 100 fighters apiece—heavyweight simply resides amongst the most sparsely populated divisions in the UFC.
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Nonetheless, in a country so large and so sparsely populated, that still means long journeys for patients in areas beyond Ulaanbaatar or other towns and cities.
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Zinke is the only House member representing the large, sparsely populated state of Montana, and says he needs lots of travel time just to see his constituents.
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The fire that blazed through oil sands hub Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of about 272,3003 people last week, has moved into sparsely populated woodlands further east.
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Police said they were investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred when McClendon was driving his 2013 Chevy Tahoe on a sparsely populated, two-lane road.
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I lived off of the main thoroughfare in Warsaw, on a street called Siena, it was sparsely populated when you walked further down towards my apartment block.
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Because the communist ideal was tied to metropolitan living, apartment blocks rose even in the more sparsely populated areas, consolidating previously scattered residents into a single building.
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The government says TIM undermined the state tender process by going back on its word not to invest in broadband in the rural and sparsely populated areas.
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Residents of Montana's sparsely populated Garfield County, where the Lodgepole fire was burning, collected and transported relief supplies to people whose property has been damaged or destroyed.
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Bundy lives on 160 acres as a long-time resident of Bunkerville, Nevada, a sparsely populated area near the borders with Utah and Arizona, court papers said.
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The election was the first in the sparsely populated Saharan nation's history, since independence from France in 1960, to choose a successor to a democratically elected president.
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While the founding leader of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar, rarely traveled outside Quetta, Mullah Mansour frequently traversed the sparsely populated roads connecting Quetta to other locations.
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Sturgeon also argued for more immigration to the sparsely populated northern tip of Britain and greater powers to control it as a central feature of economic growth.
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Rebels say the campaign has now shifted significantly toward cities and urban centers and away from mainly rural and sparsely populated towns and villages near the frontline.
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Demand for property in small towns and sparsely populated rural areas around the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) is surging on expectations of an influx of people and investment.
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Demand for property in small towns and sparsely populated rural areas around the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is surging on expectations of an influx of people and investment.
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The newspaper, citing three officials familiar with the president's war strategy, said the move away from sparsely populated areas will help concentrate resources on cities like Kabul.
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The basic elements are rough, ground-level realism; a sparsely-populated mountainous landscape; and a small group of Western soldiers dealing with a wary, sometimes hostile, population.
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But environmentalists say the focus is largely on India's plains - where populations and farm outputs are higher - neglecting those living in the far-off, sparsely populated Himalayas.
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That stretch of sparsely populated desert, lined by lightly controlled borders, could become a new haven for the thousands of fighters with the Islamic State in Libya.
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It should be eliminated—as should the filibuster, which, thanks to the Senate's warped geography, gives sparsely populated states an undeserved veto over the nation's legislative agenda.
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She added that United Nations officials were also concerned that fighting had moved from the sparsely populated countryside into urban areas, posing a greater risk to civilians.
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Huawei is essential for many wireless carriers that serve sprawling, sparsely populated regions because its gear for transmitting cell signals often costs far less than other options.
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Scott Walker, who is under pressure as he campaigns for a third term, signed a bill in March increasing aid to nearly 22014 sparsely populated school districts.
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It had leaned Republican since it came into the Union, in 1889, and it would be difficult to harvest many delegates from these sparsely populated rural counties.
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But the Trump administration wants to foster warmer diplomatic and commercial relations with the sparsely populated Danish territory, which is hungry to diversify its economy beyond fishing.
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"He has committed suicide," Nabam Tuki, a senior lawmaker of the opposition Congress party said in the capital of the vast but sparsely populated region bordering China.
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Semi-urban blocks that were once packed with homes, particularly on the city's west side, now look more sparsely populated, with multiple lots in between remaining homes.
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Britain in 1965 detached the Chagos Islands from its colony of Mauritius, which became independent three years later while the sparsely populated Chagos remained overseas British territory.
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Flames posed an immediate threat to roughly 150 homes and other buildings in the sparsely populated region, with about 300 people under mandatory evacuation orders, Vaccaro said.
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After the financial crisis America spent twice as much per person on transport projects in sparsely populated areas as it did in cities, where the needs are greatest.
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Outside, alone and confused in the sparsely populated woods near Gordon, Jayme raced toward Jeanne Nutter, a dog walker who later took the teen to the Kasinskas home.
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U.S. tornado records only date back to 1950, and much of Tornado Ally was so sparsely populated before then that tornadoes may have occurred without anyone seeing them.
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It will try to revert to what it was -- an insurgency living among Sunni populations throughout northern Iraq, hiding out in areas like the sparsely-populated Hamrin mountains.
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Fire officials say a blaze in Northern California that drove more than 1,000 people to flee their homes grew overnight and was heading toward a sparsely populated area.
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Morneau spoke after a two-day meeting with counterparts from the provinces as well as Canada's three sparsely populated northern territories, which also agreed to the revenue split.
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Several rebel groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner operate in the sparsely populated Badia, where they captured swathes of territory from Islamic State this year.
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Environmentalists criticized plans to work in the sparsely populated region, known for its rugged scenery and home to rare species such as the mountain zebra and riverine rabbit.
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They had left toward the Syrian Badia, a sparsely populated expanse of territory east of the capital that extends to the border with Jordan and Iraq, it said.
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Even at the best of times this arid, sparsely populated belt of land that runs along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is poor and badly governed.
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Yet Democrats managed only 20163 upsets in rural congressional districts, compared with 28 in the suburbs, because the party's candidates start so far behind in sparsely populated places.
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But in some parts of Canada's sparsely populated North, losing just one satellite means giving up basic services like access to ATMs or a flight out of town.
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In the sparsely populated states in the West, corporations had a greater income than the states they operated in, and they employed more people than the state governments.
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Then, in April, Mr Minniti brokered an agreement between warring tribal leaders from Libya's sparsely populated south, through which African migrants heading to the coast travel from Niger.
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Sparsely populated rural areas with few health care providers — always a challenge in this vast country — often did not have enough potential enrollees to attract competing insurance carriers.
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A New Light Heavyweight to Care About In a division as sparsely populated and uninspiring as light heavyweight, a single good victory can get you on the map.
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Nevada's fourth district stretches over hundreds of square miles, from the glitzy lights of off-Strip resorts to the sparsely populated rural outposts of Ely, Hawthorne and Mesquite.
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They originally settled into the company's flagship location — a 200-year-old woolen mill situated on the Ottauquechee River in the sparsely populated village of Quechee — in 1981.
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A pedestrian walking his dog discovered the black-painted hate symbol on Briargate Trail in a sparsely populated area that leads through a field, according to the article.
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So can digital connections to sparsely populated communities the 21st century economy has left behind "Forty percent of rural Americans don't have access to broadband internet," Kearney says.
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During Brazil's military dictatorship, the generals in power sought to transform the underdeveloped, sparsely-populated region into a modern commercial powerhouse stitched together with highways, factories, and homes.
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But with about 1.5 million people in prison today, it is easier for lawmakers to pad sparsely populated districts to ensure that they pass muster under federal law.
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Officials chose the sparsely populated desert area where the borders of Syria, Jordan and Iraq meet in order to discourage refugees from entering the kingdom, relief workers say.
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The seats at the Oakland Coliseum are no longer sparsely populated—at their last home game, a 6-5 win against the neighboring Giants, 44,374 packed the stands.
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The lack of pipeline and road infrastructure, as well as worker housing and facilities, makes it difficult to tap shale resources located in sparsely populated and underdeveloped areas.
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For places like Worsted Lodge — a sparsely populated area where farm animals easily outnumber residents — drones could fill an underserved niche of people with limited access to stores.
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The desert has a great natural supply of solar and wind energy, it's sparsely populated, and the landscape isn't widely used for other things humans need, like agriculture.
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The recapture of Mosul would be a serious blow to ISIS's presence in Iraq, and limit them to rural areas outside the major city that are sparsely populated.
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Last November, the country's Center for Disease Control alerted the public to an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the sparsely populated Inner Mongolia, after only two cases emerged.
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This month, schools are beginning to reopen in parts of China, mostly in the country's more sparsely populated west, where the outbreak is deemed to be under control.
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This month, schools are beginning to reopen in parts of China, mostly in the country's more sparsely populated west, where the outbreak is deemed to be under control.
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The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the opportunity Friday to promote tourism to the sparsely populated island, which is becoming more green due to the climate crisis.
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The court did not describe the underlying arguments against the election of the deputies, all of whom are from the rural and sparsely populated southwestern state of Amazonas.
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The protests, which have included clashes with law enforcement and an influx of outsiders to a sparsely populated state, have tested the patience of some in North Dakota.
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The mines employ about 4,000 people in this sparsely populated region, according to the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota, and thousands of others work for mining industry vendors.
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In 2018, Congress authorized the USDA's ReConnect Program to provide rural communities with the funds necessary for deploying high-speed broadband (25 Mbps down) in sparsely populated areas.
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The prospect of higher premiums for older Americans living in rural areas will also loom larger in a chamber where Republicans from sparsely populated states hold outsize power.
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It traverses a sparsely populated desert, patches of soft earth that are easy to tunnel through, and the mammoth Rio Grande, which floods its banks, making fencing difficult.
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Managing Editor Joseph Kahn, one of a handful of senior editors in the sparsely populated newsroom, noted that the paper's editors and reporters have near total remote access.
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Bristol Bay, a sparsely populated area the size of West Virginia, and which is fed by tens of thousands of streams, provides half of the world's wild salmon.
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Big cities in the South and West are quickly increasing in size, while more sparsely populated areas and Northern counties are growing more slowly or shrinking in population.
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A self-described "God-fearing, gun-toting gay," Buckley hoped to represent Ellis County, a sparsely populated area that may have more feral pigs than Hillary Clinton supporters.
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Botswana, a sparsely-populated, arid and land-locked nation, has around a third of Africa's elephants - so it punches above its weight when it comes to big-animal diplomacy.
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Outside, alone and confused in the sparsely populated woods near Gordon, Jayme raced toward Jeanne Nutter, the dog walker who had later taken the teen to the Kasinskas home.
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The SDF are currently the closest to Raqqa -- less than 20 kilometers in some places, according to US military officials -- after advancing fairly quickly across barren, sparsely-populated plains.
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No homes have burned but the blaze is surging through sparsely populated areas of Yolo and Napa counties about 1803 miles (80 kilometers) from the state capitol of Sacramento.
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The rural, sparsely-populated state that's home to former Vice President Dick Cheney is solidly Republican, so Democrats don't spend time trying to win it in the general election.
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A post on the group's sparsely populated Facebook page featured a pledge to protect German Muslims from religious persecution, which led police to issue a stern warning against vigilantism.
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At the time of writing, the feed was so sparsely populated that hiking photos come up even though I picked Books, Style and Fashion, Food, Technology, and Women's Fashion.
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Without the satellite imagery they're providing, the agency would have a tough time measuring the fires or even seeing them at all in some of the sparsely populated areas.
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has issued its first-ever prototype storm surge warning for a relatively sparsely populated area to the north of Tampa and south of Tallahassee.
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Helmand, a large, sparsely-populated province bordering Pakistan, is a Taliban stronghold and produces the bulk of the country's opium crop, a key source of funding for the insurgency.
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This year, hundreds of counties across the country—from crowded Loudoun County in Virginia, to sparsely populated Wadena in Minnesota—are leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) for voting purposes.
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She lost North Dakota, a sparsely populated state in the Midwest where Mr Sanders received 64% of the vote, and Montana, where Mr Sanders got 51% of the vote.
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Turnout varies by community, with up to 1,000 people typically gathering in cities like Des Moines, while a few dozen or less may gather in more sparsely populated areas.
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Rogelio Martinez, 36, died on Sunday from injuries suffered while on patrol in sparsely populated Culberson County, and his partner was seriously injured, authorities said without naming his partner.
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The incident occurred a little over a month after an airline worker stole an empty passenger airplane from Seattle's airport and crashed it into a nearby sparsely populated island.
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The Pike County sheriff, Charles Reader, told reporters the investigation was "probably the largest" that had ever taken place in the county, a sparsely populated area east of Cincinnati.
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Two people from the sparsely populated region of Inner Mongolia were found to have pneumonic plague, a highly infectious disease related to bubonic plague, at a hospital in Beijing.
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On sparsely populated Tybee Island, Ga., the ocean rose 12.5 feet, which broke the previous record set in 1979 during Hurricane David, the Chatham County Emergency Management Agency said.
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And now we were wondering what it was going to be like to spend the night in the car, in a vast, sparsely populated patch of far West Texas.
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At the time, Greenland was extremely sparsely populated, and the Danish colonial authorities were concerned that Norwegian military forces stationed in exile in Canada would mount an invasion (really).
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Bruce Smith, the mayor of Westland, a remote and sparsely populated area on the South Island that is increasingly popular with tourists, said such education initiatives were sorely needed.
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It helps that votes in sparsely populated rural areas carry more clout than votes in cities, where popular disgust over corruption and the cost of living favor the opposition.
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As Mr. Trump brings candidates for national security adviser to meet with him in Florida this weekend, he presides over a government where the upper echelons remain sparsely populated.
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Drone operations are viewed as critical to helping monitor the vast ungoverned and sparsely populated expanses of the Sahel that allow terror groups to cross borders with relative impunity.
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Martinez and another agent, who survived, were in sparsely populated Culberson County, about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of El Paso, when they suffered head injuries and broken bones.
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Various reports have suggested to US intelligence that this is where Baghdadi would most likely be, although it is a vast and sparsely populated area, making his capture complex.
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The oil-rich country's sporadic civil war resumed in earnest in April when Haftar — whose forces control sparsely populated Eastern Libya — launched a surprise offensive against the weak government.
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Many of the people along the sparsely populated boardwalk on Tuesday afternoon — the busy season won't start until next month — said they had no objections to the mayor's decision.
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Moreover, each state has two senators regardless of its population, giving a bigger voice to some sparsely populated conservative regions like North Dakota over populous, liberal-leaning areas like California.
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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Tuesday that the blaze surging through sparsely populated areas northwest of Sacramento has grown to 109 square miles (280 square kilometers).
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Northern Territory is a vast, sparsely-populated 1.4 million square kilometer (540,000 square mile) part of central and northern Australia, and home to two potentially rich basins of natural gas.
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Etihad is willing to pump in cash to hold onto a strategic investment which feeds traffic from a market of 1.3 billion people into its own sparsely populated Gulf base.
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As many experts have noted, the entire issue is that there's not enough market demand in sparsely-populated rural and Northern communities for even Canada's largest companies to invest there.
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Her district in New Mexico is sprawling and includes sparsely populated rural areas; a lot of her campaign money, she says, is going toward the cost of just driving around.
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These sparsely populated towns up in the hills, where the brush is thick and the trees curve over the roads, may well be the last places where power is restored.
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London remains one of Europe's most sparsely populated major cities, with less than half the density of Madrid, Barcelona and Paris, and below the level of Milan, Berlin and Rome.
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The spartan system allows Matongo to collect enough water to get through the dry season – an ever more difficult task in this arid, sparsely populated area of Zimbabwe's Manicaland province.
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If Mr. Trump has an opportunity to win delegates in sparsely populated parts of Wisconsin, he appears most vulnerable in the more crowded suburbs around Milwaukee, the state's Republican bulwark.
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The quake measured 6.5 in magnitude in a sparsely populated area 200 km (120 miles) west-northwest of the city of Guangyuan at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
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The land seems as vast and sparsely populated as North Dakota, and the movie, which Mr. Wenders originally wanted to title "As Time Goes By," is a sort of western.
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Morocco abandoned its seat in 1984 when the AU recognized Western Sahara, a sparsely populated stretch of desert that was formerly a Spanish protectorate, and admitted it as a member.
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Acting Defence Minister Masoom Stanekzai said it made little sense to spread forces across sparsely populated districts like Musa Qala and Naw Zad, where government troops pulled out in February.
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Another proposal embraced by Heritage and the RSC budget plans is the elimination of the essential air service program, a program that subsidizes rural airports serving sparsely populated communities. Sen.
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If Mr. Trump has an opportunity to win delegates in sparsely populated parts of Wisconsin, he appears most vulnerable in the more crowded suburbs around Milwaukee, the state's Republican bulwark.
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"Why should a densely populated settlement get so little of water and why should the sparsely-populated central district of New Delhi receive so much of extra supply?" asked Shukla.
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Four of the markets that currently have one carrier — Alabama, Alaska, South Carolina and Wyoming — are all largely rural and, in the case of the latter two, sparsely populated states.
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By the evening, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Amadi said its fighters had seized Anar Dara - a district in the sparsely populated province bordering Iran where the insurgents have wide control.
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By some measures, those areas, though sparsely populated, make up one-quarter of China's territory, and they have been the site of protests and riots against Chinese rule for decades.
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The sparsely populated Golan Heights, seized from Syria and annexed by Israel in 1981 in defiance of international criticism, were being used by Syria to bombard Israel's Galilee region below.
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The sparsely populated U.S. heartland has remained loyal to the Republican president even as farmers from Iowa to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania bear the brunt of his tariff war with China.
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Airplanes routinely dump fuel to reach a safe landing weight in the case of an emergency but this is usually done at higher altitudes and in more sparsely populated areas.
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The storm made landfall late on Monday in a sparsely populated area of Quintana Roo state south of the beach resorts of the Riviera Maya, according to Mexico's interior ministry.
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It measured 6.5 in magnitude in hit a sparsely populated area 200 km (120 miles) west-northwest of the city of Guangyuan at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
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Italy's antitrust authority said on Tuesday it had launched an inquiry into possible abuse by Telecom Italia (TIM) in the rollout of ultrafast broadband in rural and sparsely populated areas.
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Alcoa arrived in 93 after Iceland built a giant power plant on the other side of the island, near a sparsely populated region where the fishing industry was in decline.
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Electricity was cut off in the worst-hit area, Sembalun, a sparsely populated area of rice paddies and the slopes of Mount Rinjani on the northern side of the island.
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Many of these counties are sparsely populated and have few people participating on their state exchange, making the offering of a profitable plan under a community rating system more difficult.
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The telescope is made up of 0003 satellite dishes that are connected across five miles in a semi-arid and sparsely populated area of South Africa, where signal interference is minimal.
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Browning said the area is sparsely populated and authorities only came across the vehicle after earlier successfully rescuing the driver of an 18-wheeler whose truck was pushed off the roadway.
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And because Clinton's support clustered in wealthier, more educated, and more urban areas, Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral college, which amplifies the vote in sparsely populated states.
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There could also be legal objections to related government legislation concerning the division of Jammu and Kashmir into two entities, including a separate Buddhist-majority but sparsely-populated mountainous territory, Ladakh.
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Farah province, a remote and sparsely populated area, has seen months of heavy fighting, with hundreds of police and soldiers killed and severe losses inflicted even on elite special forces units.
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For example, stimulus spending on transport was twice as generous, on a per-person basis, to sparsely populated areas than to densely populated ones, according to Edward Glaeser of Harvard University.
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Abelson said GM believes personally owned self-driving vehicles "will be a big business in the future," especially in sparsely populated rural areas where ride sharing may not reach for years.
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Large wildfires are not unusual in Siberia's boreal forests, but in the past few years, this sparsely-populated region has seen some of the most intense summertime conflagrations in its history.
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No Man's Sky is more sparsely populated, but like EverQuest, I found its secrets unusually compelling, especially when they involved getting to know alien species that initially regarded me with skepticism.
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The first is that the U.S. is a very big country, and large swaths of it are sparsely populated, making it inefficient to connect small, rural communities to high-speed networks.
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The Presidential Horse Race is a uniquely American spectacle, but unless you live in one of the (sparsely populated) early caucus states, you probably haven't gotten to experience it first hand.
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Iraqi officials and counter-terrorism analysts say ISIS cells have infiltrated the sparsely-populated Hamrin mountains south of Mosul, which was the last major city in Iraq occupied by the group.
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Or, is that the way our economy is supposed to work — there will always be a clear division between winners and losers, even in a sparsely populated state like North Dakota?
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Mr. Rosencrans, joined by equally audacious engineers, investors and programmers, perceived that cable's potential was in exclusive programming, not merely serving viewers in sparsely populated areas beyond the reach of broadcasters.
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The article concludes: For places like Worsted Lodge — a sparsely populated area where farm animals easily outnumber residents — drones could fill an underserved niche of people with limited access to stores.
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Morocco has controlled most of Western Sahara since 1975 and claims sovereignty over the sparsely populated stretch of desert to its south, which has offshore fishing, phosphate reserves and oilfield potential.
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African security forces backed by Western troops are stepping up efforts to counter jihadist groups forming part of a growing regional insurgency in the poor, sparsely populated deserts of the Sahel.
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Supporters of the dam known as Site C, which include businesses and government, say it will generate clean energy and economic growth and flood sparsely populated land in the vast hinterland.
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The first is that, as the virus is spreading through such large populations, it is revealing aspects of Zika that went unnoticed in earlier outbreaks in remote and sparsely populated areas.
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The sparsely populated areas are ill-equipped to deal with the rapid spreads, and mayors and county officials are pointing to a major lack of testing and medical supplies for patients.
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Jim Blaine, one of Mr. Bishop's top aides, said that 75 to 80 percent of their paid advertising was directed toward the eastern, and more sparsely-populated, part of the district.
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With beautiful colors, a soft consistent light and lively clouds, Chapell's stage-set-like scenes alternate largely between rows of houses and views down long streets and are mostly sparsely populated.
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Moscow has long feared Beijing might try to grab territory in its sparsely populated center, while Beijing has had its own worries about how Russia might use its military against it.
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One of the largest was the so-called Lodgepole Complex fire in Montana that has burned through about 125,000 acres (50,585 hectares) in a sparsely populated central region of the state.
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Now 20755, he's a retired meteorologist who spent 18893 years living and working in the Yukon in western Canada, a wild and sparsely populated territory famous for gold rushes and grizzlies.
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It's a practice that has been controversial and in decline across Australia for years, but here in a sparsely populated state that has a reputation for tough policing, the tactic remains.
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He flew for about one hour, often erratically with attempts at aerial stunts, before crashing onto sparsely populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound, some 25 miles (40 km) to the southwest.
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Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.
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But these small, sparsely populated islands and reefs are at a center of a heated international dispute over land and water rights involving China, the United States and much of Southeast Asia.
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Most of the other homes in the hamlet of Sant'Angelo, where more than 100 people pass the hot summer months but which is sparsely populated in winter, have been reduced to rubble.
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His own archaeological research is focused in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, a vast expanse of sparsely-populated forest and tundra with only a handful of excavation projects taking place during field season.
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The LNA forces of Khalifa Haftar - a former general in ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi's army - seized the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier this year before heading toward Tripoli this month.
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A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Russia's sparsely populated far east on Thursday, but officials said the threat of a tsunami had passed and no damage was reported.
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Security officials, analysts, and locals say the group is collecting recruits, stockpiling weapons, and seeking to build goodwill among the farmers and shepherds who eke out lives in the sparsely populated terrain.
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He was a square-jawed, down-to-earth politician whose interests in animals and agriculture grew out of long associations with farmers, ranchers and small-town people in sparsely populated eastern Montana.
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The Solomon Islands are a sparsely populated archipelago of more than 900 islands that lie east of Papua New Guinea, and as low-lying islands are particularly vulnerable to sea-level rises.
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Sparsely-populated Botswana is the world's top diamond producer by value, but the government of the southern African country is trying to diversify the economy to reduce its dependence on the gemstone.
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The electoral system magnifies the voices of the poor, sparsely populated and conservative countryside at the expense of voters in densely populated cities who tend to be richer, racially diverse, and liberal.
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That's why voters in sparsely populated states such as Maine or Alaska have more impact on the Senate, vote for vote, than people from large states such as New York or California.
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The reversal of fortune for this sparsely-populated country underscores the impact the slowdown in China is having on economies that have for years depended on supplying raw materials to Chinese factories.
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The other highlighted locations are near Tibbetts&apos boyfriend's home, where she was staying at the time of her disappearance, and two sparsely-populated tracts of farmland only accessible by dirt roads.
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Sparsely populated originally, the area was developed, and the abandoned canal — an aborted 19th-century project conceived by an entrepreneur named James Love to bypass Niagara Falls — became a neighborhood swimming hole.
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According to the AMS, "several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth's atmosphere each day," but most of them happen over water or in sparsely populated parts of the world.
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On the flip side, it could encourage countries with emerging solar power to cut emissions or refocus solar panel efforts to more sparsely populated or remote areas, where pollution is less severe.
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Already, Senate Republicans are balking at some spending cuts backed by the RSC, such as eliminating subsidies for rural airports serving sparsely populated communities and the Department of Agriculture's catfish inspection program.
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Sparsely populated and largely free of light pollution, the valley lays claim to more than a dozen spiritual centers, a U.F.O. watchtower and a roadside attraction called the Colorado Gators Reptile Park.
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Still, Tasmanians point out that, unlike Bigfoot, the thylacine was a real animal, and it had lived, not so very long ago, on their large and rugged and still sparsely populated island.
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Russia's biggest retailers have for some years been looking to expand in the vast but sparsely populated Siberian market, which is mostly served by local chains, pop-up shops and open markets.
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Steele said the area has also been susceptible to fire for many decades because dense brush and trees in the sparsely populated area, but the severity of the latest blazes is unexpected.
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It all came together at the band's practice space in a converted sheet metal building in an out-of-the-way, sparsely-populated swath of Northwest Indiana known simply as The Region.
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Even in the best of circumstances with a government that makes protecting the Amazon a priority, it's difficult and expensive to police vast, remote, sparsely populated areas across difficult, densely forested terrain.
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Relatively sparsely populated areas struggle with the closings of rural hospitals, leaving large geographic areas underserved, while urban areas have a high concentration of large hospitals, many of which struggle with overcrowding.
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Cox said the monster fire is now burning in sparsely populated areas; as of Monday temperatures had fallen about 10 degrees from last week's peak and there was little or no wind.
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A country of just 2 million people, Gambia is sparsely populated, and the daytime din of Banjul and its immediate surrounds quickly gave way to wide tracts of empty, bright green land.
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Van Dokkum said the galaxy, called NGC10523-DF2 and located about 65 million light years away from Earth, also appears to be devoid of gas and is relatively sparsely populated by stars.
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Because the soil in Lowndes County, Alabama, where Ms Rush lives, sits atop a relatively impermeable base of limestone, a proper public sanitation system for the sparsely populated place would be expensive.
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McCain held town halls Friday in Mohave County in the sparsely populated northwestern corner of the state with a local electric coop and one with the chamber of commerce in Bullhead City.
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The overall push to free Mosul, once Iraq's second-largest city, began in October, with local troops pushing from the east into the city's geographically larger but more sparsely populated eastern half.
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The decisive results soothed concerns of oil and gas interests in the sparsely populated but strategic province home to one of the largest non-conventional oil and gas formations in the world.
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Residents of this sparsely populated region of northern Taos County encountered members of the black Muslim family in familiar places: the gas station, the Family Dollar, the hardware store, the body shop.
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Greenland is sparsely populated, with just under 60,85033 residents, but is rich in rare earth minerals that are essential to producing high-demand tech products such as smartphones, satellites and electric cars.
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The quake - the biggest to hit Peru since 2007 - was felt across the country and in neighboring Ecuador and Colombia after striking the sparsely-populated region of Loreto in Peru's northern Amazon.
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The LNA forces swept out of their stronghold in eastern Libya to take the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier this year before heading towards Tripoli, where Serraj's U.N.-backed government sits.
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The earthquake is the strongest to hit the South American country since 25.6, was centered on Ecuador's sparsely populated fishing ports and tourist beaches, 26.5 miles (27.0 kilometers) northwest of Quito, the capital.
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Instead of spending the vast majority of their time in swing states, with swing voters, candidates would spend their time in the most populous cities, perhaps ignoring those in more sparsely populated areas.
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As places like San Francisco municipalize, the wealthiest ratepayers with the cheapest electricity will peel off, leaving (often poorer) residents of more sparsely populated areas facing ever-rising costs, further accelerated by wildfires.
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While the advance has looked fast, so far Haftar's force has mainly crossed sparsely populated areas after taking Gharyan, the last town in the mountains before the road descends to a coastal plain.
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Among young professionals, the sparsely populated European country has suddenly become some sort of exotic pilgrimage: Facebook and Instagram feeds are filled with oversaturated images of fjords, colorful villages, and ice melt waterfalls.
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Especially in sparsely populated areas, there's an argument that such an arrangement would be more efficient, Longman said — but without actual competition in the private market, the VA just ends up paying more.
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The 120 megawatt(MW) project in Bygland municipality aimed to boost business in the sparsely-populated region, but it would be within a designated reindeer-rich national reserve, according to the energy ministry.
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Chris McKee, assistant director at PNG's Geophysical Observatory Office in Port Moresby, said there were no initial reports of damage or casualties from near the epicenter of the quake, which is sparsely populated.
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Russia has struggled, however, to lure enough people to sparsely populated regions bordering China's northeast, and there are concerns among Russians of creeping colonization if too much land is leased to the Chinese.
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"Some sparsely populated areas might have no nongroup insurance offered because the reductions in subsidies would lead fewer people to decide to purchase insurance," the CBO estimates of the Senate health care plan.
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Singapore-based military analyst Collin Koh said the modern, purpose-built facility on a sparsely populated island in the Yangtze may provide better security than the congested shipyards of Dalian in northern China.
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Gizzard Lizard had made his way there after plundering the sparsely populated barns and domiciles of Anarchy Acres, then by avoiding the Wailing Woods and keeping the storm just off to his left.
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He described how development was rapidly spreading inland from the state's sparkling shores toward its flat, wet, sparsely populated interior, where ranks of expensive homes were rising on terrain that was transmogrified swamp.
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The sparsely populated Bolivar Peninsula was flattened, but Houston came out O.K. Still, Ike killed nearly 2200 people in Texas alone, left thousands homeless, and was the third costliest hurricane in American history.
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" Across the country, it's not as bad as last year But she added that because the area is so sparsely populated, the Hess Creek Fire "doesn't rise to the level of complete suppression.
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Located high on the Tibetan plateau just west of the disputed border with China and with an average elevation exceeding 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) lay the sparsely populated eastern parts of Ladakh, India.
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The quake hit a sparsely populated area 27.0 km (238 miles) northwest of the city of Guangyuan late on Tuesday at a depth of 2000 km (2100 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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During a hearing last year before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, law enforcement officials raised concerns about terrorists' making their way to the United States through the sparsely populated areas along the border.
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Most of the land they controlled was in remote regions such as the Central Highlands, the Plain of Reeds and other sparsely populated areas like those near the border with Cambodia and Laos.
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The LNA forces swept out of their stronghold in eastern Libya to take the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier this year, before heading toward Tripoli, where Serraj's U.N.-backed government sits.
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The companies, particularly the large for-profit insurers, have always been reluctant to offer coverage in sparsely populated areas because there are simply not enough potential customers to make it worth their while.
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Yet the election also showed that unlike in other countries, anti-immigrant populism has limited appeal as a national platform in Canada, a vast and sparsely populated country that has relied on immigration.
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A. It was, but for only three years, before it was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 21898, less than three decades after it had been chartered as a sparsely populated village.
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From the start, it was clear that Russia would face a persistent shortage in the number of farmers, laborers and other settlers who were necessary for its vast and sparsely populated Asian territory.
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Geingob, Namibia's third leader since the sparsely populated and mostly arid country freed itself from the shackles of apartheid South Africa in 483, was seeking a second and final term in the Nov.
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In towns and villages across sparsely populated Bundelkhand, home to 248 million people, parents of would-be brides are dismissing the overtures of hopeful suitors, fearing a betrothal could land them in financial ruin.
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"We were somewhat fortunate in 2015: strong tropical cyclones frequently only hit sparsely populated areas or did not make landfall at all," said Peter Hoeppe, the head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research Unit.
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Outside, alone and confused in the sparsely populated woods near Gordon, Jayme raced toward Jeanne Nutter, a dog walker who later took the teen to the home of Kristin and Peter Kasinskas for refuge.
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His suggestions, including servicing sparsely populated areas through cooperation and reducing delivery requirements from five to two- to three times per week, would allow PostNL to lower operating costs, KBC analyst Ruben Devos said.
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Morocco has controlled most of Western Sahara since 1975 and claims sovereignty over the sparsely populated stretch of desert to its south, which has offshore fishing as well as phosphate and possibly oil reserves.
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Some sparsely populated areas might have no nongroup insurance offered because the reductions in subsidies would lead fewer people to decide to purchase insurance — and markets with few purchasers are less profitable for insurers.
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Meanwhile, as China seeks to find productive uses for its surplus labor and accelerate its "March West" campaign, it discerns a compelling opportunity to resettle millions of Chinese in Russia's sparsely populated Far East.
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But most of the night was a kind of love letter to the town and county, as speaker after speaker talked about what, in this sparsely populated county, was worth fighting for and preserving.
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In many cases, the areas are too sparsely populated to be worth the expense of running cable internet for the large telecoms that cover most of the country, like AT&T, Comcast, and Charter.
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Remote and sparsely populated Farah, on the border with Iran has seen heavy fighting for months with Taliban forces inflicting heavy casualties on the police and army and even on elite special forces units.
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Flying about 60,000 feet above sparsely populated or mountainous areas, where traditional telecoms don't bother building networks of cell towers, a single balloon can cover 2,000 square miles with the joy of getting online.
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Attacks were largely against security forces in the sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula in the past, but the militant group has spread its violence to the mainland and increasingly targeted Christian civilians in recent months.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A volcano erupted on Satsumaio island in southeastern Japan late Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage on the sparsely populated island in Kagoshima prefecture.
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Unlike the states of North Africa, the Middle East, and eastern Europe, the sparsely populated and craggy Caucasian nation turned out in this particular instance to be of little geopolitical interest to anyone else.
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After the U.S.-Mexico War of 22001 to 1848, the United States acquired not the populous central and southern zones but only the relatively sparsely populated northern territories of Mexico, partly because of racism.
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In 1981, the artist David Hammons and the photographer Dawoud Bey found themselves at Richard Serra's T.W.U., a hulking Corten steel monolith installed just the year before in a pregentrified and sparsely populated TriBeCa.
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Some are convinced that Beijing is secretly plotting to reclaim the lake and the huge, sparsely populated areas beyond, ceded to the Russian Empire in an 1858 treaty that China has long considered unfair.
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He and Ms. Judge, who are unaligned in the caucuses, founded the group Focus on Rural America, which encourages Democrats to listen to voters in sparsely populated counties and develop policies aimed at them.
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The area is one of the country's sparsely populated death chamber locales, places of peculiar notoriety whose very names can be statewide shorthand for capital punishment and hard prison time: Angola, La.; Parchman, Miss.
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They have been advancing so far in sparsely populated areas, but the fighting is expected to get tougher as they enter the city itself and the risk to roughly 750,000 civilians there will rise.
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But researchers say assessments of overall country risk are not a good fit for Russia, where the population is distributed highly unevenly, with both sparsely populated areas and large concentrations of people in cities.
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The quake hit a sparsely populated area 6.83 km (120 miles) west-northwest of the city of Guangyuan on Tuesday evening at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Big business, along with Silicon Valley–tied venture capital cash, is beginning to pour into the sparsely populated rural region, long renowned for off-the-grid personalities—and of course off-the-charts weed.
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Thought it may seem strange that a new species of spider has been lurking undetected in Indiana, Milne says it's a misconception that all new spiders are going to be found in sparsely populated areas.
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The Canadian army is worried that foreign militaries or "privately-armed forces" will use hobby drones to spy on soldiers patrolling the Arctic to maintain Canada's claim of ownership over the vast, sparsely populated region.
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Reuters reports the Russian Post announced plans for a drone delivery system in 2016 to connect remote parts of the country, like the sparsely-populated city of Ulan-Ude in Siberia where the drone crashed.
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Gun politics helping Trump Not surprisingly, Trump has a wide lead in the sparsely populated rural counties where even conservative Democrats are concerned that Clinton has moved too far to the left on gun rights.
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Pakistan and China are developing multi-billion-dollar energy and infrastructure projects in the sparsely populated region as part of a plan to create a corridor stretching from the Arabian Sea to China's Xinjiang region.
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The Travel Yukon government tourism organization asked on Twitter for pictures of toes in the "Toenation Contest," which will grant the winner a free trip to the remote, sparsely populated territory, a neighbor of Alaska.
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The Faroe Islands, a mountainous archipelago two hundred miles north of Scotland, has a landmass of only five hundred and forty square miles, and is sparsely populated with fifty thousand people and seventy thousand sheep.
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How a semester abroad in Moscow turned into a year in KamchatkaThe peninsula where Phillips set her book has a population of roughly 314,000, making it one of the most sparsely populated regions in Russia.
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The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North's sparsely populated northeast were centered on three tunnels at the underground site and a number of buildings in the surrounding area.
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"Put simply, getting internet access to a remote region requires significant up-front effort and cost that underdeveloped and sparsely populated areas are unable to bear," Casado wrote in a blog post about the investment.
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Tropical Cyclone Yvette will be slow moving before tracking south-eastward toward the sparsely populated coastal Pilbara iron ore belt in Western Australia state over the Christmas weekend, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
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Knowing that they will no longer receive cost-sharing payments and that Obamacare policies will tend to attract older and sicker people, insurers will probably jack up premiums or withdraw altogether in sparsely populated counties.
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The attack occurred near Markounda, a small town in the northwest, near the border with Chad — a remote part of a sparsely populated country that is sometimes described as the least developed in the world.
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But Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which opened last fall and has Russ and Daughters but is still sparsely populated, appears to function mostly as a place where yard employees can grab lunch.
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Puerto Rico's energy system currently routes electricity over long distances, which creates choke points for power, and the responsibility for these power lines that traverse the sparsely populated parts of the island fall to PREPA.
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Amazon said it planned to offer its rapid-shipping subscription service, Prime, in mid-2018, in a sign it is unperturbed by the geographic challenge posed by one of the world's most sparsely populated countries.
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"If we had the ability to serve sparsely populated areas with a decent return on investment, we would have all been hooked up already," Dave Duncan, CEO of the Iowa Communications Alliance, tells The Verge.
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Despite the efforts of many urban planners to stop them, they move from cramped inner cities to sparsely populated fringes (Mr Angel's team counts suburbs as parts of cities, regardless of where political boundaries lie).
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The Northern Territory is so immense and sparsely populated that it seems reasonable for a modest pub in Alice Springs to run advertisements on television in Darwin, a 16-and-a-half-hour drive away.
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With it clear that war was imminent, Mr. Yaakov said, he initiated, drafted and promoted a plan aimed at detonating a nuclear device in the sparsely populated Eastern Sinai Desert in a display of force.
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The problem is worse in poorer and rural areas: At least 30 percent of people in Mississippi and Arkansas do not have access to broadband, and sparsely populated states like Montana have similar access rates.
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It's a sprawling state, full of prairie and foothills and oil fields, but so sparsely populated that it can have a small-town feel: Bismarck residents might pass the attorney general in the grocery store.
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Watch more from Motherboard: The Art of Canada's Doomed Pre-Internet Web Explanations have ranged from greedy telecom companies who don't see the economic value in investing in sparsely-populated areas, to ineffective government responses.
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But the national tide of women running for elected office — a reaction to the presidency of Donald Trump — has even reached this sparsely populated area of America whose lone claim to fame is legalized prostitution.
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The sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula has previously been described as a "nesting ground for terrorism and terrorists" by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi following a suicide bombing that left 31 soldiers killed in 2014.
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Initial damage reports were much lighter from Friday's quake, which unleashed greater force than the Northridge event but was much less consequential because it was centered in a remote, sparsely populated area of the high desert.
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Two years later, 11 counties in northern Colorado, where three in four voters had chosen Mitt Romney for president, voted on whether to take their oil and gas deposits and create a sparsely populated new state.
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The sparsely populated mountainous desert region was granted Union Territory status following the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, but it will not have a legislative assembly and will fall under New Delhi's command.
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Still, such an incident so close to the capital is rare and underscores how precarious the security situation has become in Mali, where government troops struggle to maintain control of vast swathes of sparsely populated desert.
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Sparsely populated Scotland says it needs immigrants to shore up its economy and the Edinburgh government has been arguing for more say in policy, if not a made-to-measure arrangement, something the British government rejects.
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The California senator said she's committed to shoring up rural communities, a message the Democratic presidential hopeful shared with voters in some of the most sparsely populated parts of the early voting state of South Carolina.
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Islamist groups have for more than a decade destabilized the sparsely populated desert north, but in the past three years they have exploited conflicts between Fulani cattle herders and farmers in Mali's wetter, more populated center.
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A recent train was sparsely populated, indicating that cross border travel remains slight, but for the North Korean workers in Vladivostok, it is a window onto the world and a source of money they dread closing.
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As ever, it's the type of record that you could leave on in the background, Krgovich's languid vocals, soft bass, slide guitar interludes, and occasional horn solos lapping up like waves on a sparsely populated beach.
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Authorities and relatives say the killings appeared to be the work of the Juarez and the Sinaloa cartels, which battle for control of lucrative drug routes through the sparsely populated mountainous areas into the United States.
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But Oman's National Center for Statistics and Information reports that the population of the sparsely populated Wilayat ad Duqm province, which includes the town, doubled from around 2000,211, in 2500, to just under 218.5,20303, in 160.
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Violence by Islamist militants has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State using central and northern Mali as a launchpad for attacks across the region.
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Tanf is part of a region known as the Badia, a vast, sparsely populated desert territory that stretches to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and was declared a military priority by Syria's foreign minister in May.
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And in Fannin County, Ga., a sparsely populated area bordering North Carolina and Tennessee, hundreds of people marched to a school board meeting to insist that the district stick to traditional, anatomical standards in defining sex.
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Two men in karate gi pants, stripped to the waist but still wearing black belts, fight out of long karate stances in a giant pit with sloped sides at the center of a sparsely-populated warehouse.
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And in spite of the fact that Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee, hailed from the sparsely populated eastern shore of Virginia and had a southern accent that some Democrats worried wouldn't play well in northern Virginia.
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For a few hours on Wednesday, some sports executives believed that the basketball tournaments would go on in sparsely populated arenas from Sacramento to Atlanta, which was scheduled to host the men's Final Four in April.
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Nearly 15 million Americans live in sparsely populated communities where there is no broadband internet service at all, a stark digital divide across America between those with access to uber-fast connections and those with none.
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Under that agreement, the state allowed Charter to acquire Time Warner, making it the second-largest cable operator in the country, if the company agreed to upgrade or expand its broadband services in sparsely populated areas.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is urging American-backed Afghan troops to retreat from sparsely populated areas of the country, officials said, all but ensuring the Taliban will remain in control of vast stretches of the country.
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Violence by Islamist militants has proliferated in the sparsely populated Sahel in recent years, with groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State using central and northern Mali as a launchpad for attacks across the region.
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Education Disrupted MAPLETON, N.D. — One of the tech-savviest teachers in the United States teaches third grade here at Mapleton Elementary, a public school with about 33 students in the sparsely populated plains west of Fargo.
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Nevada became just the most recent example of a state with so-called "bare counties" after Anthem, the for-profit insurer that sells Blue Cross plans, said it was leaving 14 sparsely populated counties next year.
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"Some sparsely populated areas might have no nongroup insurance offered because the reductions in subsidies would lead fewer people to decide to purchase insurance — and markets with few purchasers are less profitable for insurers," it wrote.
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Earlier on Sunday, the government flew 243 Indonesians from China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the virus, and placed them under quarantine at a military base on the sparsely populated Natuna Besar island northwest of Borneo.
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Government organizations across the country, from small towns in sparsely populated areas to major cities in swing states, have an incredibly high risk of cyber-attack in the months leading up to this year's midterm elections.
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Experts, however, are now questioning whether this standard assumption understates the actual percentage who become ill, saying the finding was made nearly a decade ago in a vastly different setting: a sparsely populated island in Micronesia.
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Settlers from those regions first came to Transylvania in the 252th century, answering a call from what was then the medieval kingdom of Hungary to guard the country's eastern borders and work the sparsely populated land.
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Just last year, the Bureau was forced to cancel three field tests for 2017 that would have allowed it to evaluate new, special methods for counting American Indian reservations and other sparsely populated and remote areas.
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Temperatures go well below freezing in the winter in China's northeast, but the area is sparsely populated and allows for setting up large farms that would not be possible in more crowded parts of the country.
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"Given the dynamics of the disease, once the zombies invade more sparsely populated areas, the whole outbreak slows down — there are fewer humans to bite, so you start creating zombies at a slower rate," Alemi said.
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Harry whisked the American actress away last year for a surprise holiday to celebrate her 36th birthday, hopping between luxury resorts in the sparsely populated southern African country renowned for its stunning wildlife and sweeping vistas.
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ORANIA, South Africa – The white Afrikaner community that famously sprang up in a sparsely populated corner of South Africa at the end of apartheid is now testing a digital currency that could reinforce its sense of independence.
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Its new interactive map shows for the first time the scale of the panic, when the authorities targeted more than 3,000 people throughout the country, from the largest cities to the most remote and sparsely populated islands.
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Issued with a ticket back to New Zealand, he got off the plane in Singapore and diverted to Australia — to the city of Darwin, on the northern coast, the gateway to the vast, sparsely populated Northern Territory.
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But Frederico Lucas, whose Portugal-wide New Settlers project supports city dwellers eager to set up shop in sparsely populated areas, says that "for a hundred people leaving the interior, we see one going the opposite way".
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The financial burden of insurance premiums is growing, especially in sparsely populated states in the South, West and Northeast, according to a new analysis by the Leonard David Institute of Health Economics and United States of Care.
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The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North&aposs sparsely populated northeast were centered on three tunnels into the underground site and a number of observation towers in the surrounding area.
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Guyana says Caracas gave up its claim to the Essequibo, a sparsely populated jungle area making up two-thirds of Guyana's territory, after an 1899 ruling by an international tribunal, but Venezuela later backtracked on that decision.
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Nestled in Canada's wild northwestern providence, this sleepy, sparsely-populated town has, nevertheless, become the birthplace of the League of Lady Wrestlers — an intrepid band of female performers reimagining a previously dude-centric sport into feminist art.
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The battle for influence in the sparsely populated Pacific matters because each of the tiny island states has a vote at international forums like the United Nations, and they also control vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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In the month since Shi'ite paramilitaries joined the battle for Mosul, they have cleared an area of around 200 square km (80 square miles) southwest of the city, cutting across Iraq's arid and sparsely populated Sunni heartland.
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Nearly four million of those deaths were in Ukraine, where the famine was accompanied by arrests and executions of the nationalist intelligentsia; more than a million were in sparsely populated Kazakhstan, whose traditionally nomadic farmers were annihilated.
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"The vote of every American citizen should count equally, yet under the current system, voters from sparsely populated states are awarded significantly more power than those from states like Connecticut," Malloy, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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Now, after a long, acrimonious campaign—among the highest-profile ever in this sparsely populated state—that ended with her being soundly defeated by Republican Kevin Cramer, she's telling a crowd of her supporters to keep fighting.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities ordered the evacuation of some sparsely populated rural areas of New South Wales on Sunday as bushfires, fanned by extreme heat and strong winds, raged across the state, threatening homes and closing roads.
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Located in sparsely populated farmland around 21 miles (22 km) west of Shanghai, with white geese dotting the lake around it on three sides, the Wujiang plant is designed to burn 22014,2235 tonnes of garbage every day.
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At the same time that voting patterns stabilized in the 1990s, instant long-distance communication allowed the coordination of message and ideology across long distances — and Republicans are more likely to be found in sparsely populated areas.
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In political circles, it's common knowledge that in four key states President Trump unexpectedly carried counties that Democratic presidential campaign strategists had failed to recognize as crucial terrain — sparsely populated areas of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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The government also says the area has "relatively complete infrastructure," as reported by Sky News, but it's not totally clear how to reconcile that with the region being "sparsely populated" and known mostly for its rain forests.
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"There is no other place on the planet with such a huge and sparsely populated territory ... China has significant water supply problems while we possess 37 percent of water resources of the Asia-Pacific region," he said.
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US Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened the door to ending the mission altogether in April, with Egyptian media reporting that the US was considering replacing the peacekeepers with an electronic monitoring system in the sparsely-populated area.
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That includes Renaud Bonard, a one-time highway surveyor who after a motorcycle injury decided to open up a small dance center he calls Lakou A in Gros Morne, the sparsely populated, rural section of the island.
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Critics say the district, a sparsely populated region far from the country's technological hubs, has local rules, procedures and judicial rulings that make it friendly to patent "trolls," or companies that make money off patents rather than products.
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While Cruz is leading in Los Angeles County and those living in the state's vast but sparsely populated interior, support for Kasich is evenly spread across the state, although he is stronger in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Australia has long enjoyed nearly unchecked influence in the Pacific but its position has been challenged by China in recent years as it increases aid to the sparsely populated region that controls vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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Farah, a remote and sparsely populated province between Iran to the west and the Taliban heartland of Helmand province in the south, has been a key battleground for the insurgents for months, with heavy fighting in Balabuluk district.
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The small wooden house Amaya shares with her mother and other family members nestles among dense jungle-like vegetation in the northernmost district of Guatemala, a sparsely populated area known for its Mayan ruins and drug cartel violence.
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Violence by Islamist militants has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State using central and Northern Mali as a launch pad for attacks across the largely desert region.
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Democrats have proposed a slew of ideas they say could help ease the burden in sparsely populated regions, mostly at taxpayers' expense — including a public option, an expansion of the ACA's premium subsidies, or new caps on payments.
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Whycocomagh Journal WHYCOCOMAGH, Nova Scotia — When a land-rich family in sparsely populated Cape Breton wanted to attract workers for its understaffed country store, it offered free land to anyone who would come and work for five years.
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This time around, the caucus approach was limited to early states (Iowa and Nevada), low-population territories (American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands), and two sparsely populated rural Plains states (North Dakota and Wyoming).
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The area has instead become a zone where Russia is keen to demonstrate its close ties to China, despite the risk that Russia's weak economy and vast expanses of sparsely populated territory make it a vulnerable junior partner.
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Mr Trump's way of thinking about the issue may have been appropriate in 1917, when the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark and sovereignty over sparsely populated islands could still be a transaction between foreign powers.
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Rural power co-ops have found themselves well positioned to build fiber networks into sparsely populated areas without losing money, which was deemed impossible by big telecom companies who refused to invest in places without high population density.
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Gabe Lauderbale, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Monday that hot temperatures and gusty winds are contributing to the fast spread of the blaze in sparsely populated areas of Yolo and Napa counties.
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At the end of last year, the Brewster County Sheriff asked state officials if his deputies in the sprawling and sparsely populated west Texas county could keep the cross decals displayed on the rear windows of their patrol vehicles.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck China's northwestern border with Tajikistan killing at least 1 person, destroying houses and severing a railway line in the sparsely populated region, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.
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Adds new statement from airline) Aug 11 (Reuters) - An airline worker stole an empty plane from Seattle airport on Friday and crashed it into a nearby sparsely populated island, sparking a security scare that saw U.S. fighter jets scrambled.
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Nuclear advocates have targeted sparsely populated South Australia, with one of the world's biggest uranium deposits, as a home for a nuclear power plant and waste dump, and the state's government began an inquiry into the possibility last year.
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Australia has long enjoyed nearly unchecked prominence in the Pacific but its position has been challenged by China in recent years as it increases its aid to the sparsely populated region that controls vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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He broke early in every set and the 18th-seeded Frenchman, who had lost only 13 games in his two previous matches, bowed out after two hours and two minutes of action on a sparsely populated Rod Laver Arena.
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So we set out to gauge the strength and energy of the operations for Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders by finding Democratic voters in these sparsely populated counties over a three-day journey along the loneliest road.
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Small drones will now be allowed to fly in sparsely populated areas without FAA approval, but must still work with air traffic control if they are planning to fly a mission over crowded airspace or above heavily populated areas.
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The turning point was a random visit that day by three disaster volunteers - Zach Smith, John Basehore and Robert Pepper - checking on residents door to door in the sparsely populated Florida Panhandle community of Fountain, northeast of Panama City.
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From a small dirt field in a sparsely populated part of San Francisco, Ready-Campbell's 10-person start-up, Built Robotics, has been stealthily operating a retrofitted skid steer, directing it via a computer program to move around dirt.
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Those victories occurred in sparsely populated areas, and it was unclear whether the militias had either the strength or the will to push into Surt, which is thought to be heavily fortified and also harbor several thousand foreign fighters.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will host diplomats from China, Britain, and dozens of other countries in its tropical north from Sunday, as part of an effort to drum up investment and broaden the economic base of the sparsely populated region.
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At the end of last year, the Brewster County sheriff asked state officials if his deputies in the sprawling and sparsely populated west Texas county could keep the cross decals displayed on the rear windows of their patrol vehicles.
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These changes could make the law function better by allowing sparsely populated states to attract more insurers by, for example, making it easier for them to set up reinsurance programs that protect companies from losses from a few customers.
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Although Georgia's southwest is sparsely populated, state officials reported at least one fatality, an 11-year-old girl whose home was hit by a flying carport, and said the storm had devastated the farmland that powers rural Georgia's economy.
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In the short summer season — primarily July and August, when temperatures hover in the balmy 70s — revelers descend on this mostly wild, windswept and sparsely populated province for all-night partying and the rambunctious weeklong electronic music festival Stockholmsveckan.
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The outbreak is beginning to resemble the early stages of the West African Ebola crisis in 2014: a lethal disease normally confined to sparsely populated rural areas has reached crowded cities and is spreading in a highly transmissible form.
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Forty percent of counties will have just one insurer selling in 2017 — although federal data suggests these are some of the more sparsely populated parts of the country, as only one in five Obamacare enrollees live in these places.
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Sprinting across the state's sparsely populated, westernmost reaches, Klobuchar is heralding her many endorsements in the state, a doubling of her staff in Iowa and the $1 million she raised in the day after the debate on Thursday night.
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Officials have said they believed it could take years to capture or kill Baghdadi as he is thought to be hiding in a vast swathe of sparsely-populated desert between Mosul and Raqqa, where attacking drones are easy to spot.
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According to Global News, Theoret, Roesholt and their baby daughter had been trapping in the Yukon, known for its untouched natural beauty while also being wild and sparsely populated, for the past few months as Roesholt was on maternity leave.
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About 30 empty iron ore wagons in a 106-wagon train came off the track on Sunday south of the sparsely populated town of Norseman, some 700 km east of Perth, between the port of Esperance and Mineral Resources' Koolyanobbing mine.
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MILAN, July 4 (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority has launched a probe into possible abuse by Telecom Italia (TIM) of its dominant market position in the rollout of ultrafast broadband in rural and sparsely populated areas, the watchdog said on Tuesday.
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The typhoon is expected to make landfall on Taiwan's mountainous but sparsely populated east coast in the early hours of Friday, where it will lose much of its strength, before crossing over the Taiwan Strait and hitting China on Saturday.
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It also should offer faster trips, and it falls into a category of ultralight aircraft that doesn't require a pilot's license under current FAA regulations – though that category requires that it be used only in areas that are sparsely populated.
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Air quality, even in rural, sparsely populated areas, is worse near oil and gas wells, the report finds, and people who live near highways are at renewed risk due to a loophole the EPA opened up in truck efficiency standards.
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But the FARC have much less popular support and will need to effectively organize in sparsely populated rural areas where they are likely to garner the most votes and among leftists in cities in order to win seats in Congress.
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Two tiny dwarf galaxies, called Pisces A and B, have left the area of the universe called the Local Void, which is a region sparsely populated by galaxies, and are joining the rest of the party, according to researchers at Hubble.
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Australia, which long enjoyed virtually unchecked influence in the Pacific, and its Western allies worry that the region has edged closer to China in recent years as Beijing increases aid to the sparsely populated region and its resource-rich oceans.
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The military campaign has curbed an insurgency that has killed at least 15,000 people since 2009 but in a new phase of the conflict, the army now finds itself facing small groups of guerrillas operating in the sparsely populated, wooded terrain.
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Australia, which long enjoyed nearly unchecked influence in the Pacific, and its Western allies worry that it has edged closer to China in recent years as Beijing increased aid to the sparsely populated region and its vast resource-rich oceans.
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It also serves Saudi Arabia, giving the rich but sparsely populated kingdom a powerful protector against its more populous foreign enemies and a useful friend in maintaining monarchical rule long after most royal families had given up or fallen from power.
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It would be hard to find the tiny restaurant, on the side of a sparsely populated two-lane highway, if not for the crowds of people and cars that always surround it when it's open — mostly for brunch, Thursday to Sunday.
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Chief Statistician Asif Bajwa told local Dawn News channel that Afghan refugees would be counted in the census, confirming a move strongly opposed by leaders of sparsely populated Baluchistan province where the ethnic Baluchs fear being turned into a minority.
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The unmanned aerial vehicle was sent to deliver a small package to a neighboring village in a ceremony meant to showcase a new way to deliver mail in the sparsely populated Buryatia region located more than 4,400 km east of Moscow.
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READ: The Arctic is on fire and you can see it from space Large wildfires are an annual occurrence in sparsely populated northern Russia, but this year strong winds and dry weather conditions have seen the fires threaten populated areas.
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And even as crime rates declined nationally, the trend toward jailing women in rural counties continued: Incarceration rates for women in sparsely populated counties rose to 140 per 100,000 in 22005 from 280 per 226,22014 in 211, the study found.
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The Faroe Islands, an austere, mountainous archipelago marooned in the North Atlantic two hundred miles north of Scotland, has a landmass of only five hundred and forty square miles, and is sparsely populated with fifty thousand people and seventy thousand sheep.
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In Upson County, Haney said, the elections board dropped a proposal to close a polling site in heavily black Salem, a sparsely populated rural area, after residents pointed out the hardship of traveling an extra 10 miles (16 km) or more.
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Sparsely populated Guerrero has led the nation in firearm killings for most of the past six years as heroin production for the U.S. market has spiked in an area that is being fought over by a growing number of drug gangs.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - On a sparsely populated island off the coast of the northwestern United States, more than a hundred environmental activists gathered last weekend to practice seaborne drills to disrupt construction on Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd's Westridge crude oil terminal.
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Each of these four teams would be making the leap from either the Division formerly known as I-AA or from Division II, and two of them hailed from the same sparsely populated state: the University of Idaho and Boise State.
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He and his Liberal-National coalition won thanks not just to their base of older, suburban economic conservatives, but also to a surge of support in Queensland, the rural, coal-producing, sparsely populated state sometimes compared to the American South.
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She added that in more than a dozen of Georgia's 159 counties, black residents are in the majority, including some sparsely populated rural counties and others, like DeKalb County outside Atlanta, that are among the most populous in the state.
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Dr. Ramakrishnan's study analyzed reports of local TB outbreaks going back to the 1930s, before antibiotics were invented, in places like the Faroe Islands that were so sparsely populated that it was possible to pinpoint exactly who infected whom and when.
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Once a sparsely populated enclave and political backwater, Prince William County — 30 miles southwest of Washington — has grown at a torrid pace in recent decades as families in search of good schools and a front yard pushed into the exurbs.
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Kumamoto, a sparsely populated prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, reaped a $1.2 billion economic windfall in the two years after its mascot, Kumamon, won the first Grand Prix, in 2011, according to a study by the Bank of Japan.
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If the plastics were coming directly from Arctic coastlines, it would mean that people in the sparsely populated Arctic were depositing many more times the plastic in the ocean than people in other parts of the world, which is unlikely.
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Slowing demand for coal and copper, Mongolia's chief exports, and a plunge in foreign investment have left the world's most sparsely populated sovereign country with soaring debts and a rapidly declining currency, forcing government to hike interest rates and slash spending.
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He has taken up the sparsely populated, intensely private moments that established his reputation in the early 1980s, again centering on the pain and confusion of youth in isolation, which is not necessarily alone, or in psychologically fraught family interactions.
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That figure is about twice what Pai proposed last year over the same period and would be aimed at helping to bring 5G networks to sparsely populated rural areas that often struggle to get access to wireless services or the internet.
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Since early this year, the rebels have pushed Islamic State militants out of a large swathe of sparsely populated territory stretching some 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Damascus, all the way to the Iraqi border along the frontier with Jordan.
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The companies are pushing lawmakers to allow for experimental testing of drone delivery in sparsely populated areas and more research and development of delivery plans, according to Michael E. Drobac, a leader of Akin Gump's unmanned aerial vehicle lobbying practice, which represents Amazon.
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Australia's A$50 billion ($37.67 billion) National Broadband Network (NBN) was supposed to be the catalyst that transformed the country's agriculture, connecting farms with the global economy and improving internet services for rural communities in one of the world's most sparsely populated nations.
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The LNA forces moved out of their stronghold in east Libya to take the sparsely-populated but oil-rich south earlier this year, before heading a week ago towards Tripoli, where the internationally-recognised government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj sits.
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The militants are believed to have fled to other areas to the west, including the towns of al Hasa and al Rahba, with many also melting into the vast sparsely populated eastern desert region, a former rebel source familiar with the area said.
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When the Japanese army eventually followed the refugees north—in 1932 it incorporated a large swathe of north-east China into a puppet state called Manchukuo—the colonial authorities encouraged more Koreans to move into sparsely populated areas of the new dominion.
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Tanf is part of a region known as the Badia, which consists of vast, sparsely populated desert territory that stretches all the way to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and was declared a military priority by Syria's foreign minister earlier in May.
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Weeks before the country's four provincial assemblies were due to select the new senators, the government of the sparsely populated province of Balochistan, which was led by Mr Sharif's party, the PML-N, collapsed owing to the abrupt defection of several lawmakers.
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Elsewhere rivers had silted up or become blocked, villages damaged and gardens and water tanks destroyed, though the biggest landslides hit sparsely populated areas, according to Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), an air transport operator that flew a three-hour survey on Tuesday.
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That may sound like a lot, but considering the population of Westeros is roughly 70 million — the sparsely populated North contains a mere third of a million people in all, less than King's Landing — it ain't much to defend the entire realm.
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Thanks to what Sheriff Emmett L. Shelton described to local journalist Ben Tinsley as his office's "extremely vigorous enforcement " of traffic violations, the sparsely populated county has a disproportionately high incarceration rate: In 2014, it was the second-highest in all of Texas.
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Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro has previously criticized Guyana's decision to allow oil exploration in the waters off the shore of the Essequibo region, a sparsely populated and dense jungle area equivalent to around two-thirds of Guyanese territory that Venezuela also claims.
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Dotting hills and sand dunes and blocking country roads along the sparsely populated Karpass panhandle, the donkeys have thrived in the more than four decades since war split Cyprus in two, forcing huge population shifts and leaving them to their fend for themselves.
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The remoteness of Stewart Island, a sparsely populated island in the country's south, and the condition of the surviving whales meant it was impossible to save the whales, even with the right equipment, Stewart Island operations manager for the DOC Ren Leppens, said.
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"They're going to continue to have to look for places where they can plan and finance and resource and launch their attacks from," said Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, noting Islamic State had often used "sparsely populated areas".
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If the government can retake all of Aleppo and maintain the capital, Damascus, it effectively wins the war, Mr. Tabler said, adding that this would banish the Islamists and more moderate opposition groups to the desolation of sparsely populated areas to the east.
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Residents say violence has been on the increase over the past year, as an arm of the Juarez cartel fights an arm of the Sinaloa cartel for control of lucrative trafficking routes through the sparsely populated mountainous areas into the United States.
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Since ousting the militant group from eastern Mosul last month, Iraqi forces have advanced in sparsely populated outlying areas but fighting will intensify as they near the teeming inner city of western Mosul and the risk to roughly 2000,000 civilians there will rise.
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The minister of communication, Thierry Moungalla, has been quoted as saying that the government had ordered "targeted" and "proportionate" strikes on the "command centers" of the former Ninja leader, Mr. Bintsamou, located in remote and sparsely populated areas of the Pool region.
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These oddly poetic three-word codes will soon act as a stand-in for the more common addressing convention of house number, street name and postal code, which never quite caught on in Mongolia, one of the world's most sparsely populated countries.
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SEVARE, Mali (Reuters) - Snipers from a new West African force lie prone on a rooftop in central Mali, scanning the horizon for Islamist militants who have infiltrated this sparsely populated region south of the Sahara and made it a launchpad for deadly attacks.
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Tai, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, explained that Hong Kong had been nothing more than a sparsely populated fishing village until its geographic position became strategically important to nineteenth-century British traders eager to access the vast Chinese market.
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In parallel fashion, van Gogh, working in sparsely populated regions of southern France, reconstitutes the French countryside into distinct, de-centered fields of color within which traces of human life are seamlessly integrated, so that even simple objects seem totems of art.
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But centralization is proving tricky in a country that is sparsely populated in some areas, and where the health care system was designed to serve even the most remote parts of a country that stretches all the way up to the Arctic Circle.
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In 2006, the Chilean energy corporation Endesa proposed to build five major dams in the Aysén region, a sparsely populated area in the south of Chile that is home to one of the world's largest ice fields outside of Antarctica and Greenland.
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That's an eye-popping amount for Hokkaido, Japan's sparsely populated northernmost main island, but the developer, Kamori Kanko, is banking on a growing crop of investors, as well as ski and golf enthusiasts, from Asia to make the $131 million project profitable.
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Still, in a sparsely populated rural area where a few votes could determine a candidate's viability in what many here expect to be one of the most competitive caucuses ever, Navin takes every chance she gets to talk to people about Warren.
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There have of course always been cases of H.I.V. in sparsely populated parts of the country, but in these places far from cities, the conditions that lead to H.I.V. transmission are now intensifying — and rural America is not ready for the coming crisis.
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In an election where neither side can claim a sweeping victory, President Donald Trump's party did as well as it did because the small towns and the more sparsely populated rural areas of the United States are still, in the main, Trump country.
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