"It was an election in which over 6, 000 voting stations were set up, crossing deserts and mountains, donkeys carrying ballots to the last polling stations of Afghanistan, and a very well-organized campaign, " he said.
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The conservative Mexican president, who eked out a narrow victory in July, was polite but critical in his assessment of current U.S. immigration policy, which has resulted in millions of Mexicans paying thousands of dollars each to make the risky trip through deserts and mountains to find jobs in America.
Its 24m people are scattered over deserts and craggy mountains in 150, 000 settlements.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains.
They have stood watch in blinding deserts and on snowy mountains.
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Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
The biggest incidence of the virus is among the poor slum-dwellers, migrant labourers, illiterate people, especially in remote mountains and deserts.
The mountains and their flanking deserts are sparsely populated.
She says the fencing has simply forced immigrants to take more dangerous routes through the mountains and scorching-hot deserts.
All Americans should know that one act of kindness extended to a family of a soldier, a sailor, or a Marine, a Coast Guardsman, reverberates across water, over the mountains, and through the deserts, into the heart of the warrior who is standing there alone, thinking as much about his family as his family is thinking about him or her.
It may seem like missing the original point, but is it any different from a Range Rover, with its roots in a vehicle designed to cross deserts or mountains, sporting a leather interior, air-conditioning and chrome wheels?
It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.
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