What's the difference between galilee and geographic?

Galilee


Definition:

  • (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Any offset strategy will result in a net loss of habitat for the black-throated finch.” Concerns over the impact of mining upon the black-throated finch have previously been dismissed by federal MP and businessman Clive Palmer , who has plans for a separate Galilee Basin mine and pointed out that the birds “have wings and can fly” from danger.
  • (2) The state government has thrown its support behind Adani as a “first mover” in an attempt to open up coalmining in the Galilee basin, which it says will deliver 28,000 jobs and $28bn of investment.
  • (3) In response to questions from French climate activists, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole and BNP Paribas all said they will not be involved in proposed mines for the coal-rich Galilee Basin region of central Queensland .
  • (4) Located in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, 400km inland from the reef, it will require a major rail line, which is yet to receive final approval, to transport the coal, which must then be loaded on to ships at the ports of Hay Point and Abbot Point, near Gladstone on the Queensland coast, adjacent to the southern section of the reef.
  • (5) When, the following year, the family returned to their occupied homeland, their village had been obliterated: two settlements had been erected on the land, and they settled in Deir al-Asad in Galilee.
  • (6) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (7) The coal mine Abbott referred to is the $16.5bn Carmichael mine in Queensland’s Galilee basin, proposed by Indian company Adani.
  • (8) Katter said the railway would cost $2bn and open up the Galilee for other miners like the Australian company Resolve Coal , as well as Adani.
  • (9) The biggest and most controversial coal project in Australia is the Adani-owned Carmichael mine in Queensland’s Galilee basin.
  • (10) Australia’s government and mining industry hopes that the reef will avoid an “in danger” listing, so providing confidence to lenders concerned about damaging their environmental credentials by investing in the Galilee basin mines.
  • (11) Queensland’s government has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Galilee basin mining projects; it has also approved the Carmichael mine and doled out A$2bn ($1bn) in subsidies to fund expansion of the Abbot Point coal port.
  • (12) Election 2016: Bob Katter promises to support Coalition in hung parliament Read more “I don’t want a foreign corporation to control the Galilee,” Katter said, adding his political party were “socialists” on the issue.
  • (13) He denied reading a bill concerning activity in the Galilee Basin, allegedly drafted by Palmer, who has significant interests in the area.
  • (14) Why then does he think it is OK to sabotage our economy with his irresponsible declarations?” The opening up of the Galilee basin has prompted concerns beyond climate change.
  • (15) Gautam Adani is the Indian tycoon behind the biggest proposed mine in the Galilee basin, the A$16.5bn Carmichael mine.
  • (16) I don’t think I’ve met anyone who thinks the Galilee projects are viable.
  • (17) A World Wildlife Fund campaigner, Louise Mathieson, said the risk for taxpayers was “if the Galilee mines don’t get the financing from the banks, we will have done the dredging and constructed the dumping pond for no good reason”.
  • (18) That, coupled with a new focus on renewable energy such as solar and wind, and a falling coal price due to the flood of new resource from the Galilee Basin, will cause significant problems for Australian projects, the study found.
  • (19) The successful experience in eradicating a large outbreak of scabies in an underdeveloped Arabic village community in Western Galilee of about 3,000 people is reviewed.
  • (20) The China First mine proposal by Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal , which like others in the Galilee appears to hinge on Adani paving the way with rail infrastructure, is the third largest at 1bn tonnes.

Geographic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Geographical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (2) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (3) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
  • (4) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
  • (5) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (6) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
  • (7) Data were weighted to represent the population in this geographic area.
  • (8) Partially purified VLPs were found to sediment at 183S in sucrose gradients and to cross-react with antibody in acute phase sera from geographically isolated cases of ET-NANBH.
  • (9) This hypothesis is consistent with recent findings of elastosis of the bowel wall muscles, the distribution of diverticula along the colon, as well as with epidemiological data on the emergence of diverticulosis coli as a medical problem and its geographic prevalence.
  • (10) There were no significant sex, diagnostic subgroup, or geographic difference in any of the drug parameters measured.
  • (11) Regarding prostatic cancer, geographical variations are minor and no particular region with an increased or decreased mortality could be identified.
  • (12) We compared the results with those obtained in other countries in our geographical area.
  • (13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (14) A computer system for probabilistic diagnosis of jaundice was tested on a patient sample from a geographical area different from that for which it was first constructed.
  • (15) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
  • (16) Epidemiologic studies and careful analysis of nutritional data played an important role in precising the risk represented by alcohol consumption and dietary habits, and characterized the geographical distribution of the disease.
  • (17) Addresses were not available for 31 pc of patients so that geographical variations could not be determined accurately.
  • (18) The clinical presentation of the cutaneous lesions and the geographic origin of the infection were consistent with infection by L. b. guyanensis.
  • (19) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
  • (20) The detection of health inequalities in the urban environment and their magnitude depends to a great extent on the internal social coherence of the geographical division used.

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