Sentences with phrase «with arid»

With its arid desert climate, distinctive geography, and seasonal monsoons, homeowner's insurance in Arizona requires an attention to detail that is unique to the rest of the country, especially if you want to secure the best possible protection for you, your home, and the possessions within.

With the arid wasteland of summer behind us, September ushers in one of the most chaotic times in the calendar year for games: the holiday rush.

With arid landscape and traditional architecture, Folegandros offers a relaxing environment for summer holidays.

With its arid environment, nothing ever rusts, unless you foolishly park on a moisture farm.

This scene is contrasted with the arid landscape of Somalia, where young men are stood over by armed thugs and ordered to steal a boat.

Out of the gate, it's worth mentioning that grabbing yourself a primer on the events of the first part of The Fall trilogy, so that you can familiarise yourself with ARID and how you ended up being an AI controlled space - suit is recommended - though not entirely necessary, as Part 2 happily gives you a recap of events up to this point.

A lot of the improvements come with ARID herself, with extra combat and movement abilities making for much smoother gameplay.

He chose ochre as a neutral tone that might have blended well with the arid sands of the area, subtly camouflaging the creature from the eyes of a velociraptor.

Not exact matches

Chhatre wants to bring fog harvesting to rural communities in higher - altitude areas and those with more arid climates, allowing them to have clean water without having to travel great distances.

U.S. Episcopal Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning, commenting on Keshishian's speech, agreed with the analysis, and went on to declare the just war tradition dead: «If Augustine arid Aquinas were alive now, and had to contend with the smart bomb, they would be pacifists.»

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

According to the rabbinic cycle of Torah readings, this is when we come down from the great heights of Genesis and Exodus, with their breathtaking perspectives and sweeping visions, and enter the flat and seemingly arid plain of Leviticus.

Instead, Coetzee and his characters traverse a frustrating and arid ground, perhaps nowhere more starkly than with his latest novel, The Childhood of Jesus.

By then defining «nature» in terms of relationship (instead of either static concept or unlimited dynamism) he was able to offer a solution to the old conundrum about the relationship between grace and nature, in a way which avoids the excessively arid and abstract terms with which this important debate has so often been carried on.

Not content with that, be goes on to describe it as a theology that «turns its back on the richness arid beauty of creation».

One should not forget that this metaphysics is not some arid self - indulgent speculation but, as the preface for the fourth Eucharistic prayer states: «[God]... made all that is, so that you might fill your creatures with blessings and bring joy to many of them by the glory of your light.»

Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

God on his own initiative, not because of any merits of Israel, out of his own free grace, had come to Israel with the special offer that they would be his people arid he would be their God.

One could say that Luther was struggling to free himself from the arid Western conceptualism which could not adequately describe either the gesture as a human rite or the spiritual theology needed to interpret it, let alone the simple Greek text based on the Aramaic words that went with the original gestures.

The prophetic literature deals with guilt arid punishment, reality and unreality, present and future of the Israelite people as chosen by God for a special and unique service, the declaration of the great and moving contemporary events in the world as part of a process which, together with the future issue of that process, is willed by God.2

Replacing the holy wars of the Old World have been religious patterns that left few dead bodies, though competitive denominational missionaries in many a new suburb have come down with ulcers, heart disease, endocrine disturbances, alcoholism arid, as they say, «other specifically Christian diseases» in their scrambles.

But when they reach that land of orange groves, they find that they are treated with hatred arid suspicion.

Indeed, it is surrounded by low, arid hills with no view of the wonderfully blue Caribbean Sea.

Beginning with a pilot facility in the arid lands north of Port Augusta with support from the SA government, Sundrop secured a 10 - year contract with Coles supermarkets to supply 15,000 tonnes of truss tomatoes per year.

With just eight suites, each boasting its own architectural flair and unique design elements, The Willows is a welcome departure from the many low - slung, mid-century hotels and non-descript resorts that dot the arid landscape.

The region with the highest proportion of agricultural businesses keeping cattle was Semi Arid with 89 % (see map below).

For agricultural businesses the region with the highest proportion using feed supplements was Tropics (34 %) followed by Semi Arid (30 %)(see map below).

Most people associate Arizona with hot arid desert, cacti, and the Grand Canyon.

The terrain is also against him, with treacherous ravines and arid mountain villages.

Speech of the night was not from the inestimable Keith Simpson with his usual hilarious party piece as the head of a minor public school but the comedic phenomenon of Jacob Rees - Mogg, whose dry wit is actually arid and who's timing is sublime.

Last week, it found itself at odds with the Institute for Fiscal Studies on this very point, in an arid war over methodologies.

Indeed, the convention applies only to lands that are already classed as «dry», including arid and semi-arid regions, along with the dry subhumid (mainly forested) areas of Australia, China and Russia (see «Living on Dry Earth»).

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«However, it is a more significant concern in arid lands with negligible rainfall as compared with wetter regions.»

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

There is in fact a fascinating phenomenon: tropical forests that have close affinities with South America co-occurring with temperate and arid areas shared with North America.

The dot's color could be crudely diagnostic, with one hue suggesting a global ocean whereas another might portend vegetation - covered continents or arid plains of sunbaked rock.

To an arid region blessed with little rain, the newcomers brought their Eastern tastes: Kentucky bluegrass planted across sprawling yards; fountains flowing with abundance; fruits and vegetables growing in an Eden - like oasis.

(If that seems slow, compare it with growth rates of a few millimeters in a thousand years found in caves in arid regions like the Sierra Nevada.)

Today, Lipponen is charged with strengthening the capacity to manage water resources in the arid and semiarid areas of the world.

Dry and arid climates are usually desert - like with low precipitation and wide temperature swings both daily and seasonally.

Sixteen miles long and only seven miles across at its widest point, Elba in the early nineteenth century was home mainly to goats, deserted ruins, a variety of vines and scraggly shrubs on arid hillsides, and approximately twelve thousand impoverished peasants with a well - deserved reputation for being «extremely irritable» and «almost universally ignorant.»

By examining the correlation between humidity and the role of tone in more than 3700 languages, scientists found that tonal languages are remarkably rare in arid regions like Central Europe, whereas languages with complex tone pitches are prevalent in relatively humid regions such as the tropics, subtropical Asia, and Central Africa.

The 22 - year - old college student, his parents, and his five younger sisters fled on foot to an arid mountain near the Syrian border, along with about 50,000 other Yezidis, members of a religious minority.

«This could be a consequence of the limited variety of scents to be found in the arid, alpine meadow environment, but that doesn't explain why the yak, a species that also inhabits the Tibetan Plateau, has an increased number of olfactory receptor genes compared with cattle,» Dr Subramanian said.

In arid Utah, a marshy wetland, teeming with aquatic life and migratory birds is among the most cherished natural resources in the state.

Arid zone bandicoots are amongst the most vulnerable mammals in Australasia today, with multiple species having gone extinct within the last 100 years.

Every storm chase begins with an assessment of where supercells will burgeon, based on factors from the location of the so - called dry line — separating moist from arid air — to the speeds of upper - level winds.

That shift would happen in concert with the longstanding expectation for already wet areas to see more rain and for dry ones to become more arid.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.