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Even as the Moutai distillery turns large swaths of the ancient town to rubble, it is rare to hear a disparaging word about the company.

So, he might have added, are swaths of the American political classes.

Is it a "trivialization of genetics" or an attempt to make science relevant and interesting to broad swaths of people? Is it both?

It was over this jagged, rusty territory that the moon now loomed, and the swaths of crumpled metal swelled as if carried on a high tide.

At the moment, the biggest threat to India-China relations may be their competing claims for big swaths of territory along their border.

The Bank of England essentially printed money when it bought swaths of government bonds.

Such polls indicate that the Wall Street protestors reflect the frustrations of large swaths of American society.

Both are designed to survey wide swaths of the sky and could spot far more of the small space rocks.

Telephone networks, both mobile and land-line, are still out of commission in large swaths of the quake-affected region.

The swaths of red and blue that you see in these sexuality charts represent people who message only one gender.

Through whole swaths of the region, they left only smoke curling into the sky.

Across the countryside, huge swaths of forest have been cut down, leaving no protective cover.

Jobs for low-skilled workers in manufacturing, and new investments in large swaths of industry, have been lost to international competition.

While coastal China and its major metropolises evince tremendous wealth, large swaths of Western China remain mired in poverty.

Huge swaths of the capital remained in darkness as a result of widespread power failures.

Scientists have known for years of vast swaths of frozen ice on Mars.

Featured at various heights and sizes, these swaths of color add a splash of interest and life to the stone and stucco surfaces they cover.

They advance in a great wave, leaving behind huge swaths of grass cropped down to the roots.

No wonder life expectancy in huge swaths of Africa is so much lower than in the west.

Much of the destruction has come from the mighty Indus River, which in better times irrigates vast swaths of farmland.

Even in the YouTube era, TV advertising is still the best way to reach wide swaths of voters directly, experts say.

An asteroid could slam into Earth, killing large swaths of the population and rendering the planet uninhabitable.

However, there are swaths of the Italian public that have become increasingly angry with the premier during the past year.

Swaths of India are in the grip of armed Maoist insurgency; Kashmir has long been under a bloody security lockdown.

It is also examining whether to restrict domestic use, in a move to panic large swaths of Washington's BlackBerry-addicted officialdom.

Enormous swaths of this so-called shadow banking system remain paralyzed.

She also objected to the project 'cutting large swaths through huge parcels of productive farmland. '

The information revolution has also eliminated vast swaths of jobs previously deemed secure.

Other sentences run into the hundreds of words and occupy huge swaths of the page.

But in practice, Google has left out wide swaths of African cities -- the Kibera slums of Nairobi, most notably.

Huge swaths of the financial system remain on government life-support.

It rejects immigration yet it wants to prevent large swaths of the country from becoming completely deserted.

We need only look to the past to trace out the huge swaths of destruction that unyielding conviction has caused.

Rebel strongholds, which include large swaths of the south, are virtually untouched by the government.

No, because even after a decade that has bankrupted whole swaths of America, we still put our faith in the markets.

Swaths of Tuscaloosa, Ala. , home to the University of Alabama, were reduced to rubble by a tornado, the Associated Press reported.

That's not an option for just about all of the humanities and vast swaths of the social sciences.

Huge swaths of forests are being bulldozed to make more room for animals and the crops that feed them.

The few major cities there are separated by swaths of land where a handful of families intermittently battle for political power.

Sediment-choked water nevertheless lingers on large swaths of land.

Summer is coming earlier and hotter across swaths of the North.

But in the past decade, he has seen swaths of US manufacturing wither in the face of Chinese competition.

Large swaths of areas in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia face a crisis.

Hydropower production has been slashed and vast swaths of paddy fields are parched.

He memorized swaths of the Bible and Shakespeare.

That is partly because western companies are venturing more into countries where governments control swaths of the economy.

By midafternoon, the smell of tear gas was wafting over swaths of Athens.

The larger point, of course, is that vast swaths of the reality we take for granted are mere accidents of anatomy.

The country has 3 percent of the world's known oil reserves, but vast swaths of unexplored territory.

The three-meter tsunami left huge swaths of land underwater, and reduced homes to rubble.

And it could transform swaths of desert land into fields of emerald green.

This occurs between 50 and 60 degrees north and covers swaths of Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Europe, a total of 15m square kilometres.

Each revolt has drawn in swaths of its own society, but it is the young Arab who is the driving force; the unassuming leader.

In fact, there are huge swaths of economic activity and employment simply missing from the Chinese marketplace.

The first is that jack pines occur in patchier stands than the continuous swaths of lodgepole on the west coast.

The wine bar and the pub are the after work venues of choice which, for example, excludes whole swaths of Muslim employees.

It is the second time in 15 months that a tech glitch threw air travel into disarray across large swaths of the country.