It is an arid, lonesome land, cut only by the blue scalpel line of the Rio Grande.
On an arid, sun-drenched day in Las Vegas in November 2000 Dennis D.
At an arid moment in the interview, I sprang this opinion on her.
The photographs clearly show an arid region being slowly brought back to life, over a period of 30 years.
Obama is about to walk through "the valley of death, " where candidates lose their way and are tested on an arid march.
Fourth, Israel must have control of its water resources, which are of great long-term importance in an arid region where there are already shortages.
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Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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The exception to this pattern is Anbar, an arid expanse bordering Syria and watered by the Euphrates river, where many towns are mainly in insurgent hands, despite periodic American assaults.
The 86-year-old Purifoy died March 5 at his sprawling "art ranch" in the desert of Southern California near Joshua Tree an arid sculpture garden where he created art from society's castoff junk.
This small town in the middle of an arid, barren region but right in the middle of Philip's Hispanic territories soon became the critical political hub not just of the peninsula but the rapidly expanding Spanish Empire.
Susan White Mathis, a native of Atlanta, had long been in search of a place to build an African retreat, and after an extensive search, she settled on Madikwe Game Reserve, a 185, 000-acre tract of arid bushveld located an hour by light aircraft northwest of Johannesburg.
Bent on suicide, a man repeatedly drives along a winding road on the outskirts of Tehran, searching for an accomplice among laborers at arid construction sites, finally making a pact with a man who insists on speaking stirringly of the world's beauty.
In 1982 Laurent--then a 17-year-old with no English--scouted with his older sister, Nathalie, and her husband, Farid Himeur, an unlikely spot for vineyards: arid New Mexico.
"This is a crucial piece of information about an area that is now hyper arid but in the past must have been a lush river valley, " he explains.
My recollection is that plaza was a pretty exposed, arid place, distinguished by an absence of trees, not their luster.
It's a smattering of small wood and mud huts, about an hour's drive from Tete in a harsh arid environment.
He points to the success of micro-irrigation in semi-arid Gujarat, whose agriculture has grown at an average of 9.6% a year since the turn of the century, partly thanks to the creation of 500, 000 small ponds, dams and suchlike.
The new images -- taken over several years -- reveal the channels which were carved out by flooding over an estimated 500 million year period -- a time when Mars was thought to be cold and arid.
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