• Yes, we still do have high water bills, but they're now effectively no higher than those of any other rural, hilly, sparsely-populated region.

    BBC: South West Water customers asked how cash should be spent

  • For too long Calzaghe, the 11-year ruler of the super-middleweight division, fought mandatory nobodies in sparsely-populated halls as the big boys ran and hid.

    BBC: Calzaghe hits back at the critics

  • As well, Chinese involvement in the Kazak oil industry effectvely ties Beijing into a cooperative rather than overbearing relationship with its sparsely-populated, resource-rich neighbor.

    CNN: THE BIG OIL SHOCK

  • About 5.9m voters were registered in about 9, 000 polling stations, some in remote or sparsely-populated areas that were hard for the opposition or monitors to visit.

    ECONOMIST: Results are delayed amid rigging claims

  • The armies with the exception of the Congolese government's are small, none of them over 20, 000 strong, and they are spread out over a sparsely-populated area the size of Western Europe, much of it covered in jungle.

    ECONOMIST: In Congo, war gets serious

  • This is a sparsely populated semi-desert area roughly 80 miles east of San Diego.

    FORBES: Smacked In The Face By A Headline

  • Despite its vast geography, sparsely populated mid-section and entirely taxpayer-free communications spending, the U.S. ranks first in the world in cable modem coverage and remains competitive on every other broadband measure.

    FORBES: How the FCC sees Broadband's 95% Success as 100% Failure

  • Furthermore, the mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country - yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the US, once more, to make up the difference.

    BBC: Robert Gates on Nato's dim future

  • That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.

    ECONOMIST: India's deadly Maoists | The

  • In Wednesday's other matches, defending champions Team USA got off to a winning start after beating France 4-2 at a sparsely populated Hampden Park in Glasgow.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Roddick's fellow American veteran Venus Williams also looked in trouble when she trailed Argentine teenager Paula Ormaechea by a set but recovered to win 4-6 6-1 6-3 on a sparsely populated Court Phillip Chatrier.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The flare-up in Iraq's sparsely populated, desert northwestern region marks a troubling turn for a country that sits on the edge of sectarian conflict.

    WSJ: Clashes at Iraq Sunni Protest Kill 38

  • Both offer remote, sparsely populated areas with low levels of man-made radio interference, along with world-class teams of astronomers.

    ECONOMIST: A new radio telescope may catalyse African science

  • The Senate gives inordinate power to time-servers particularly bloody-minded time servers from sparsely populated states.

    ECONOMIST: Goodbye to a maker of modern Alaska

  • But in such a sparsely populated area the access costs for high-speed data services are still too steep for most small businesses, to say nothing of individuals.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • But in such a sparsely populated area the access costs for high-speed data services are still way too prohibitive for most small businesses, to say nothing of individuals.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • It uses the post office to send clothes by air to the farthest-flung corners of the vast, icy, sparsely populated country.

    ECONOMIST: Selling clothes online in Russia

  • It also generally runs well in the more sparsely populated upstate counties, though voters there tend to be anti-gun control and often socially conservative.

    CNN: Debate reaction from a hotly contested state

  • Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • North-eastern Kenya, bordered by Ethiopia and Somalia, is a remote and sparsely populated area where lack of security is a problem.

    BBC: British special constable shot dead by bandits in Kenya

  • The aroma alone of the fragrant cilantro-garlic paste invokes the relentless sun, colorful souks, bustling medinas and miles and miles of sparsely populated, blue and gold coastline that for me is quintessential Morocco.

    WSJ: Magic-Carpet-Ride Chermoula

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