There were just a handful of officers, armed only with machine guns, no sand-bagged positions, no heavy weapons, no armoured vehicles.
You're talking about sand, no roads, shelters that people are living in made out of local materials.
Boehner and McConnell have redrawn even more deeply their lines in the sand over no taxes in any kind of a long-term deal.
Meaning: no more heads in the sand, at least where an objective value can be put on the bank's exposure.
Offenders know a slap on the wrist or a sternly-raised eyebrow is the worst they face, and when the economy is buzzing again, no one wants to throw sand in the gears.
In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.
But, according to various reports, it seems that the ever-deepening crisis is of little or no concern to tourists enjoying the sand and surf.
Sand was listed as the No. 1 suspected offender based on the amount he owed.
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Around midday, we arrived a few hundred yards below the glacier, on what seemed like a Martian plateau gray sand, strange rocks, no evidence of sentient life.
Fire ants, he explained, could build stable tunnels in sand or soil with almost no moisture to bind it together, so learning from them might enable designers to build and programme robots that solve these same engineering problems.
The familiar golden sand beaches were totally black and no life existed on any of the sea cliffs.
It is not so much that I have buried my head in the sand and think that there are no cyber threats.
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Whereas Pinehurst No. 2 converted to grass greens from sand greens in the early 1930s, Overhills didn't upgrade until the 1950s, by which time the syndicate had long since disbanded and the estate had passed in its entirety to the heirs of Percy Rockefeller.
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In lending to family, you must play around two big sand traps -- the rules governing no-interest loans and the IRS' desire to recast family loans as gifts.
Even if I create the most solemn melody, it is no better than a letter written by a reed on crumbling sand.
And while it used to require a certain set of characteristics to thrive as a bully, the internet makes it simple for almost anyone to graduate from cowering weakling to kicking virtual sand in the face of friends and strangers in no time.
The sand is so soft and deep, and there are no obstacles to hit, but it is a long way down.
There is no marine pollution, the ship is not damaged but stuck on the sand.
And some, he thought, were no more than sighs, like the one he once wrote on the sand of an Irish beach for the tide to take away.
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There is no comparable period in 2011, because the company didn't begin producing sand until July of that year after building a facility with an integrated railway line in Wyeville, Wis.
He himself would leave no more than a heap of bones on a beach somewhere, crumbling back into sand.
The Naughty Dog developers like a good technical and artistic challenge, and creating and rendering realistic-looking sand (in dunes, blowing in the wind, etc.) is no easy feat.
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In places like the Philippine island of Boracay, the transformation is well under way, so I head first to Bacuit Bay, to check out a diminishing rarity: a self-proclaimed tropical paradise that contains no go-kart tracks or daiquiri stands or much of anything but wild animals, water and sand.
Given the extent to which sand, tar or murderous thugs get in the way of petroleum production, it's no surprise that Shell's engineers see salvation in natural gas.
Quad biking, sand-boarding and driving over the dunes in a 4x4 are somewhat less traditional activities, but no less memorable.
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