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second and larger-scale
The second, larger-scale benefit of targeting inputs — in spatial, temporal and quantitative terms — concerns environmental impacts.

second and protest
On 22 November 1831 in Lyon ( the second largest city in France ) the silk workers revolted and took over the town hall in protest of recent salary reductions and working conditions.
The second dam — Pļaviņas Hydro Power Plant — aroused an unusual wave of protest in 1958.
Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya ; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi.
At the end of this protest, when Singer attempted to address their concerns, a second group of protesters rose and began chanting " Singer raus!
The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.
Controversially, he invited former British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley to speak, for a second year in succession, leading some Jewish students ( including his future successor at the Home Office Michael Howard ) to resign from CUCA in protest.
Zamyatin's superior social insight, although presented and presumably gained artistically and not by way of scientific analysis, consists first in his firm rejection of the rationality or finality of history and, second, in his recognition that anarchic protest against those in power, not the capture of power, is at the core of freedom.
For their second single, The Nice created an arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's " America " which Emerson described as the first ever instrumental protest song.
Protesters gathered outside a courthouse to protest against the arrest of Simon Oosterman ( second from left ), Auckland's 13 Feb 2005 WNBR organizer.
Other Invictus singles included " Deeper and Deeper ", " You Brought the Joy ", and the Vietnam War protest song " Bring the Boys Home " ( U. S. Billboard Hot 100 # 12, 1971 ; her second gold record.
Following the 1952 legal proceedings, in June of that year, representatives of the faction that had been the subject of the protest at Zeist conducted a second re-organisation.
When the South Korean government attempted to stop the second Nationwide Meeting of the Korean Young Farmers Association, Lee led a hunger strike in protest.
Prime Minister William Gladstone, alerted to the fact that a protest was possible, moved to set up a second Select Committee to examine whether it was possible to interfere with a Member wishing to take the oath.
The civil rights and protest movements in the second half of the 20th century marked a remarkable reduction in respect for authority in Western cultures, and greater respect for individual ethical judgment as a basis for moral decisions.
A long-standing protest group called Stop Stansted Expansion vehemently opposes unsustainable growth at the airport and is wholly against plans for a second runway.
From January to April 2002, opposition forces organized large demonstrations in protest against several controversial government proposals, including expanded use of the Russian language in schools, and plans for its designation as a second official language.
A second protest happened on October 15, 1969, this time with 100, 000 people protesting.
In September 2007, he announced funding for students taking second degrees would be re-allocated to allow more students to take first degrees: adult and continuing education institutions such as the Open University, Birkbeck, University of London, and lifelong learning departments throughout the country, have voiced angry protest at the proposals.
In the case of the word protest, as a noun it has the stress on the first syllable, but as a verb its meaning depends on stress: with the stress on the second syllable it means to raise a protest ; on the first it means to participate in a protest.
The second article, published in December 2005, noted that four of the party's eleven officers either resigned in protest or were suspended in the previous year, while a number of key positions were allowed to remain vacant.
After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).
* The second system emerged following the First World War, and had its heyday from 1935 and 1957, was characterized by regionalism and saw the emergence of several protest parties, such as the Progressives, the Social Credit Party, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

second and took
Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.
On the second occasion it took prayers as well as reason to dissuade the soldiers from their purpose.
They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.
Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.
The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.
The first time the nurse took him out of the lung, she said if he got frightened, she'd put him back for a second.
" Nice biscuit, don't you think ," said Korzybski, while he took a second one.
Karpov took an early lead, winning the second game against the Sicilian Dragon, then scoring another victory in the sixth game.
Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe took the score to 49 – 0 at the end of the second day, a lead of 27.
Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.
The Senate took three votes: on May 16, it voted on the 11th article of impeachment, which included many of the charges contained in the other articles, and on May 26 voted on the second and third articles, after which the trial adjourned.
Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.
A second attempt took place in 437 BC on the same site under the guidance of Hagnon, son of Nicias.
A second time he was excommunicated ; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII, and in August, 1147 embarked for the East in the Second Crusade.
When his second wife died in 1831 after a long illness, one of his daughters, Therese, took over the household and cared for Gauss until the end of his life.
In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.
Ismail Omar Guelleh took the oath of office as the second President of the Republic of Djibouti on May 8, 1999, with the support of an alliance between the RPP and the government-recognized section of the Afar-led FRUD.
The second law Hegel took from Aristotle, and it is equated with what scientists call phase transitions.
For his second labour, to slay the Lernaean Hydra, Heracles took with him his nephew, Iolaus, as a charioteer.
Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.
This process was a recognition of the presence of one god " in " another when the second god took on a role belonging to the first.
However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.
At the same time he compiled a Sanskrit and Latin glossary ( 1830 ) in which, more especially in the second and third editions ( 1847 and 1868 – 71 ), he also took account of the cognate languages.
This car took second place overall ( all three top finishers were Ford GT40s ) in the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona.

0.329 seconds.