| How big a deal are these sandstorms, which could affect helicopters and other aircraft and tanks? |
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| The package has had to contend with sandstorms, muddy conditions and oppressive heat. |
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| During sandstorms, sand is sucked into engines, where it wreaks havoc on moving parts, adding years of wear and tear in mere months. |
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| Winter winds picked up quickly in the desert causing violent sandstorms every which way. |
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| The beginning of summer is often heralded by violent sandstorms and scorching winds. |
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| While the forces sweat and toil in the heat and sandstorms of the desert, it is good for them to know things back home are going well. |
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| Perhaps ongoing sandstorms in the desert will provide time to reinforce overstretched supply lines. |
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| In Minquin province they live with violent sandstorms, drought and a desert encroaching at five to ten meters a year. |
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| The air was always this coarse in the badlands due to continuous sandstorms and complete lack of humidity in the air. |
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| The strong hot desert winds, the khamsins, with their associated sandstorms, added to the discomfort. |
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| My mouth became a dust bowl, complete with tumbleweed and mini sandstorms, and I actually started to hallucinate about a bottle of Evian. |
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| The strips of forest consisting of millions of trees protect valuable farmland against wind erosion, but cannot actually prevent the sandstorms. |
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| The storms around Cartland were particularly vicious, creating huge sandstorms in the desert around them and tearing down unprotected and poorly built houses. |
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| The sandstorms are so intense they can topple the festival tents, forcing locals to run and hide in cement toilet blocks. |
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| The country's greedy operators blame sandstorms and security restrictions but few Iraqis believe them. |
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| The sandstorms that have been observed in recent years can be characterized by a rapid rise in frequency and their increased intensity. |
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| This is due to sandstorms originating in the northerly parts of the country. |
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| As a child I dreamt about fire eaters and well divers, about sandstorms and desert lakes. |
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| Traders were settled in the valley formed by this hill and the northeastern slope of the fort, sheltered equally from the summer sandstorms and icy winter winds. |
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| Contrary to earlier reports, Celine Dion is not cancelling her Beijing concert because of sandstorms. |
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| Delays or sudden cancellations can occur due to violent winds or sandstorms. |
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| For protection against rain and sandstorms, he had laid animal hides over the top and lashed them down. |
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| Fast, wind-blown sand produced in sandstorms can be extremely painful on bare skin, which is one reason why airmen must be fully clothed at all times. |
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| The species is sometimes unrecognisable, with sandstorms rendering its cap shredded and often brown. |
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| The shamal, a northwesterly wind common during June and July, causes dramatic sandstorms. |
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| The hot and dry Khamsin wind blows in early summer and causes sizeable sandstorms. |
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| Living in the desert was difficult with khamsins, violent sandstorms caused by hot desert wind. |
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| The government is shipping lots of surgical masks and milk cartons to the southwest as sandstorms continue to batter the region. |
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| In 2009, IRSN conducted a study on sandstorms and duststorms, and their effects on nuclear power plant safety, at the request of the United Arab Emirates. |
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| While sandstorms, or haboobs, are not uncommon in Arizona and other desert areas, the size of this one and the sheer amount of dust it raised were highly unusual. |
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| The capital, he declared, might have to move if measures to curb its sandstorms failed. Since then officials have claimed some success in reducing the frequency of these lung-clogging calamities. |
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| These include a nature conservation project for North-East Asia and two projects scheduled as follow-up to a project on dust and sandstorms which has already been completed. |
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| Weather effects such as the dusty sandstorms of North Africa and whiteout blizzard conditions of Russia, for example, will keep soldiers glued to their bunkers. |
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| In recent years, however, the precipitation dropped heavily and desertification grows owing to the abnormal weather conditions caused by global warming in the areas where sandstorms developed. |
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| Instead of desert sandstorms we have torrential rains. |
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| Finally, one major regional impact of climate change that has emerged in recent years as a huge challenge to many countries, including in my region, is dust storms and sandstorms. |
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| And instead of wuthering winds, sandstorms sweep over the stage. |
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| The animal can close its muscular nostrils to protect against sandstorms and ants. |
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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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| Here are narrow nostrils that can be closed to keep sandstorms out, humps that store extra calories, and cloven hooves for crossing sinking sands. |
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| Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was. |
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