Villages of mud huts dot the hillsides and oases of green amid the barren wilderness provide sanctuary for its denizens. |
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The land is mostly desert, with a mountain range in the north and oases scattered across the sands. |
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The theme parks are ordered oases of calm serving up safe family entertainment. |
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The sun beats down, melting the glaciers that feed water into the streams, irrigating settlements and creating oases of willows and poplars. |
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The three had even, with their escorts, ventured out to explore the seascape, finding areas that were truly oases of peace. |
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Every town must have oases of greenery where children can run and play and other leisure activities can take place. |
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The northern part of the country is desert, spotted with oases, where most of the population is concentrated. |
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But they grow more liberally, more lushly, in Israel's desert and its urban oases than anywhere else I've seen. |
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Much of Uzbekistan's landscape consists of deserts, dry steppes, and fertile oases near rivers. |
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But moments of effective humor are rare oases amidst a desert of painfully unfunny and sophomoric material. |
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Cool oases carpet the valley after the gentle Touzlimt Pass, and amazing whorls and swirls of strata arc across the eastern mountains. |
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Aside from oceanic islands and forest patches, oases may constitute interesting systems to study how regional processes affect local diversity. |
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The low desert also has some scattered palm oases, alkaline sinks, desert marshes, and permanent streams. |
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Go in search of feathered beasties in the deserts, mountains and oases of southern Morocco's kasbah country. |
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The creatures inhabited oases dotting a similar desert landscape 250 million years ago, feeding on fish as well as other aquatic tetrapods. |
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The two main churches, the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk, are serene oases of wood, brick and whitewash. |
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Only the local fishermen know their way through the maze of tall reeds to the oases of lotuses and water lilies concealed within. |
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The biological oases are open waters, called polynyas, where blooming plankton support the local food chain. |
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During most of its history Libya has been inhabited by Arab and Berber nomads, only the coastlands and oases being settled. |
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Throughout the deserts it was only dependably found at some waterholes and at various springs associated with oases. |
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Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity. |
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In addition, some power plants discharge warm water into inland channels, creating more temperate oases for manatees. |
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These well-being interludes are true oases of happiness in your everyday life. And they're yours to discover! |
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Last year, for example, we collected two varieties of bread wheat in Moroccan oases which could be well-suited to this environment. |
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In oases such as these, it is less a question of fraud than of negligence on the part of the producer. |
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The Western Desert contains the oases of Egypt, and particularly Bahriya Oasis and Siwa Oasis are drawing ever more numbers of tourists. |
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Tamarisk trees are often found on the borders of oases, where they help to prevent the encroachment of sand. |
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The rate of urbanization in Chad is low, with most of the people still living as cultivators and pastoralists in dispersed hamlets, cattle camps, villages, and oases. |
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But like American speakeasies during prohibition in the USA, these places are oases in a desert of official prudery. |
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It is grown extensively in the irrigated desert oases of the Peruvian coast and in savanna and rain forest climatic areas of Brazil and Colombia. |
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But inland, even in areas like the Southeast, which generally scores very low for potential massage mavens, metropolitan areas are oases of tranquility. |
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Camel raisers depended on foods produced by farmers in the region's oases. |
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In minutes, you could walk from the villagey downtown onto trails that switchbacked up the San Jacinto Mountains to palm oases and towering waterfalls hidden in canyons. |
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The collections themselves will be organised thematically, beginning with the physical environment of the Nile valley and the surrounding desert and oases. |
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If I had realized I would soon become intimately familiar with one of these little sand-whipped desert oases, I might not have dozed through that particular brief. |
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Lying along the medieval Silk Road trade route, the Turkistani oases were open to musical crosscurrents. |
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The poisonous adder and krait are among the reptiles that inhabit the scattered oases and water holes. |
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The rate of urbanization is low, with most of the people still living as cultivators and pastoralists in dispersed hamlets, cattle camps, villages, and oases. |
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This forced Kamose to invest the oases to cut the road to any attempt at encirclement by a junction between the Nubian and Hyksos forces. |
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Travel all round Morocco through cities loaded with history, get a tan on sun-kissed beaches or sample its refreshing oases? |
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He says that in the initial postwar decades, these oases of comfort and architectural swank that sprang up throughout Europe and the Middle East embodied American Utopia. |
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Hermits and monasteries are oases and sources of spiritual life from which all may draw. |
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Most importantly, they are safe places for us to bring our families and oases from our busy urban environment. |
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Aurel: We find small oases even tough the country is largely covered by deserts. |
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Let them stop promoting their lies about oases of democracy and the principles of human rights. |
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Its deserts punctuated by oases and stark mountains have been the origin of three of the world's great religions. |
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I hope some of the measurements I make will not only assist those looking for the patchy microbe oases, but will also dovetail with my Mars surface research. |
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These routes are dotted with urban oases, cool places where Parisians can find shade from the hot sun. |
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For several decades now, small oasis towns have attracted not only rural folk from the oases but also nomads who settle there. |
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They provide breathtaking backdrops and vistas of Canada's Capital and oases for visitor experiences. |
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There is evidence of rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in desert oases. |
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The fertile areas are to be found in the alluvial deposits in wadis, basins, and oases. |
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In winter you can unwind in one of the saunas or wellness oases, or you can acquaint yourself with the umpteen cafes and tea shops, that are ideal for learning, reading or just chatting. |
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At the office or in an airport lounge area: high-quality chairs and benches are oases of peace within this restless life of ours. This is where we can recharge our batteries, develop new ideas and compare notes. |
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Except for oases in narrow strips dotted along the foothills of the Kopet-Dag Range and along the Amu Darya, Morghāb, and Tejen rivers, deserts characterize its sunbaked sandy terrain. |
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With atomic power we can dig for water in the Sahara and pump it to the surface for use in man-made oases, or we can, perhaps, introduce a miniature artificial sun to the Arctic and the Antarctic. |
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Stout-hearted but inadequately armed to defend themselves, the Moroccans in the oases paid dearly for their resistance with 500 to 600 casualties and many prisoners. |
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The parks of Malmö and the canals that wend their way around the older parts of town really add to the 'Malmö experience' and are oases of peace and calm away from the many more man-made pleasure of Malmö. |
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This includes the strange upwelling of fresh water at a series of oases in the middle of shifting sand dunes. |
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Early photography took its cue from painting's tried-and-tested forms of representation and adopted its preferred motifs such as bazaars and market scenes, cafés, odalisques, desert landscapes and oases. |
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The might of Bornu was based on the control of a number of salt-producing sites and of long-distance trade, notably along the string of oases between Lake Chad and the Fezzan via Kawar. |
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Gated communities are promoted as oases of tranquillity and denounced as a social and spatial evil. These closed and highly secured enclaves are now present all over the world. |
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The road crosses barren hills, lush oases concurrently... It follows the river bed invaded by oleanders and also offers lovely views over the surrounding valley and mountains. |
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The Arabs who burst out of the Arabian desert in the century after Muhammed's death were moved by religious enthusiasm, but they were also moved by the fact that there were not enough oases in the desert to keep them alive. |
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From California to Java, young Muslims left the material world to go to the desert oases of the Arabian peninsula in search of spiritual knowledge. No longer. |
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The answer must be no. To create oases of support, of development, as has done SNEHASDAN for 40 years, is to create a chain to whose links cling hundreds of human beings and thereby rediscover a taste for life. |
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The organization of women's groups has been strengthened, and women living in oases are playing an increasingly significant role in economic activities, thereby increasing their incomes. |
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Central Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, where the population is concentrated in oases, which are vulnerable in every possible way and are subject to natural disasters of many kinds. |
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Seamounts may be oceanic oases or islands of genetic isolation. |
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Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few oases scattered about. |
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The benthic species are attracted to structural oases, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and shipwrecks. |
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The coastal deserts produce little more than cacti, apart from hilly fog oases and river valleys that contain unique plant life. |
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From the neglected back alley to the high rise towerblock, this exhibition will show how green fingers and green thinking can help transform city spaces into urban oases. |
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An advanced Mesoamerican civilization of temples, pyramids, ball courts and paved roads sprouted and grew not near a seaport or on a riverway, but deep inland at jungle oases. |
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Further east of the Fezzan with its trade route through the valley of Kaouar to Lake Chad, Libya was impassable due to its lack of oases and fierce sandstorms. |
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These stretches were relatively short and had the essential network of occasional oases that established the routing as inexorably as pins in a map. |
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Stephen Oppenheimer has proposed a second wave of humans may have later dispersed through the Persian Gulf oases, and the Zagros mountains into the Middle East. |
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Later we ride the inflatable Zodiacs the guides call pangas to the island to hike on lava fields where small lagoons create oases of green, with fish and birds. |
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