• Beside the barren Zeya he heard of the Shilka, where peas, barley and buckwheat grew.

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  • He is adored in the Chukotka region that occupies the barren far north-east of Russia where he has been governor since 2000.

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  • In the middle of the barren desert, Dubai has built one of the most impressive balance sheets of hard assets in the world.

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  • Neither side has overcome the logistical difficulties presented by the barren 400-kilometre stretch that separates populated patches along Libya's eastern and western coastal plains.

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  • The barren landscape is dotted with overturned cars and trucks.

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  • It is a journey that ascends through mountain pastures towards the barren heights of the range, peering deep into valleys and gorges and up to raw and rocky mountains.

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  • High up at the barren, lunar peak, while the Indians and mules waited behind in the mist, Humboldt in his black boots and yellow velvet jacket stepped to the rim of Pichincha's crater.

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  • Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.

    ECONOMIST: The South Pole as location and metaphor

  • "Spring is a time for new beginnings and new life, yet the juxtaposition between a literally blooming world and the barren inner life of the clinically depressed is often too much for them to bear, " he said.

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  • Martin had entered what technology transfer officers refer to as the valley of death, the barren gulf between the basic science and a prototype good enough to pique the interest of an established company or a venture capital firm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.

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  • Torres almost broke the barren spell he has endured at Chelsea moments after the change with a fine looping header from Ramires' cross that was clawed away to safety by Van der Sar as Chelsea looked to build momentum.

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  • Miller points to the barren riverbank.

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  • Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

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  • In the opening pages of Cry, the Beloved Country, the poignant novel about a disintegrating Zulu family, Alan Paton depicted the barren land left to the tribe by the late 1940s and, with bitter brevity, described what had befallen the people struggling to survive on it.

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  • " Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top.... The Moon's steady gravitational influence keeps the Earth spinning at the right speed and angle to provide the sort of stability necessary for the long and successful development of life.

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  • Giggs' 64-cap Wales career is the one barren area on an otherwise glittering CV.

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  • It gave Rooney an opportunity to score for the first time since 30 March and the England striker made no mistake, finding the bottom of the net with a low penalty that sent Green the wrong way and brought to an end the longest barren spell of his career.

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  • The walls were now barren other than the hooks and nails protruding from the walls that once supported those memories.

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  • The valley seemed barren now, he said, but in the spring, after a dusting of rain, it would be bright with cactus blossoms and yellow creosote.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • The islands close to the mainland are covered in lush vegetation and get rockier and more barren the farther you travel out.

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  • For the untrained eye, the landscape looked barren, but then I started noticing details that had escaped the first probe.

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  • C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren desert to reveal the light, sandy soil underneath, wrote Clive Ruggles, an archaeologist from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, in an email.

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  • Proud and free, Okello ended up on hard rock in the bare and barren Ngong Hills.

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  • Saturday's 5-0 defeat at Colchester left Carlisle without a win in eight games and Wilson urged his side to help extend the Cumbrians' barren run.

    BBC: Wilson targets troubled Carlisle

  • 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.

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