Cannabis production grew by 300 metric tons over this period, to 15,800 metric tons.

But this metric is very deceptive.

Carbon dioxide emission, metric ton per capita.

Detroit, by this metric, is particularly fertile ground.

And I would propose it's not a fair metric.

Two hundred million pounds correspond to approximately 90,718 metric tons.

In this case, the two metric spaces are essentially identical.

It's an eternal metric. There's an eternal metric about us sort of saying, do we understand the world? Am I making predictions? And so on.

According to the US government s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), opium, heroin, and marijuana seizures have decreased since Calderón began his drug war, and drug production in Mexico is on the rise. In 2008, according to the US State Department, potential heroin production reached 18 metric tons, up from 13 metric tons in 2006, as production of opium gum rose to 149 metric tons, from 110 metric tons.

But corruption goes beyond conditioning and the desire to influence the actions of public authorities it becomes a reflex and a metric if not the metric against which most things are measured.

The ranking metric we used belongs to Yandex, which describes its methodology as follows

The company just opened a 100,000 metric ton plant in Brazil that uses sugarcane.

Refueling At the time of the incident, Canada was converting to the metric system.

During the last two decades, this number was only 145 million metric tons per year.

Often, in supermarkets they are sold in pints but labelled with their metric equivalent (568ml).

Second, both countries must find the right metric to balance short term and long term interests.

Quantities larger than a pint are generally sold in metric units or multiples of a pint.

In time, models could demonstrate how to relate this new global metric to emissions regional climate impact.

To change the units from metric to imperial and vice versa, the 'menu' button must be clicked.

If formula_38 is a complete subset of the metric space formula_2, then formula_38 is closed in formula_2.

Every year, about 2,000 metric tons of wool are processed in the factory where about 1,100 people are employed.

Shanghai s 15 year old students were recently ranked first globally in math and reading as per the standardized PISA metric.

A behavioral metric of what intelligence is, and this has stuck in our minds for a long period of time.

By any reasonable metric, multilateral institutions and great power governments did what was necessary to preserve the global economy s openness.

Tom, stubborn as he was, refused to change to the sensible metric system, preferring to measure volume in hogsheads instead.

ROME Every year, we waste or lose 1.3 billion metric tons of food one third of the world s annual food production.

In 2013 the world consumed 55 million metric tons of palm oil, nearly four times what it used 20 years earlier.

Globally, some 57 million metric tons of hydrogen, equal to about 170 million tons of oil equivalent, were produced in 2004.

The country is believed to have around 1,000 metric tons of chemicals and weapons including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin.

A single hectare of peatland rainforest can release 6,000 metric tons of planet warming carbon dioxide when it s converted into a plantation.

The total amount of heat contained in oceans responds to changes in emissions, and is therefore a better metric for measuring such responses.

If online commentary by journalists and ordinary citizens is any metric, the Serbian government's response to the summer's floods has room for improvement.

Adapting the governance metric in a country of China s size to an economy that is green, inclusive, and equitable presents a novel challenge in human history.

Likewise, our GDP metric does not reflect the cost of the increased insecurity individuals may feel with the increased risk of a loss of a job.

It would be useful to have a metric on the percentage of this community's contribution to growing the languages of this country and its cultural heritage.

About 1.4 billion people around the world eat potatoes as a basic food, and the total production of this crop exceeds the 300 million of metric tons.

In exchange, two light water nuclear reactors would be built to generate electric energy, and 500,000 metric tons of oil would be supplied annually until the first reactor began operating.

Ships release about 1.25 million metric tons (1.4 million tons) of oil each year, and cruise ships alone release as much as 30,000 gallons (100,000 liters) of sewage every day.

The definition of education literacy does not have a one to one mapping with one s ability to utilize a given technology, and should therefore be reconsidered as a metric for technology literacy.

But the reason it has occurred is not that our greenhouse gas emissions are no longer changing the earth s climate it is that surface temperature is a poor metric for human induced warming.

Moreover, krill fishing has recently been fueled by new technological advances such as vacuum pumps, which allow a single fishing vessel to catch and process huge amounts up to 120,000 metric tons per season.

Before the end of the Ottoman Empire and during the early years of Palestine, the size of a dunam was , but in 1928, the metric dunam of was adopted, and this is still used.

Rice output has risen by two and a half times since 2004, according to the Ministry of Trade, to 180,000 metric tons, while consumption of imported rice fell by half from 2004 to 2005 alone.

Once rice output began to expand, Bukenya and other Ugandan politicians played another smart card they lobbied successfully for a 75 duty on foreign rice, which stimulated rice production further. Rice output has risen by two and a half times since 2004, according to the Ministry of Trade, to 180,000 metric tons, while consumption of imported rice fell by half from 2004 to 2005 alone.