Sentences with phrase «as arid»

On the other hand, if you're reading a paper or an opinion because you have to, it can seem like a real chore, and I think this is in large part because the standard tone of legal writing tends to be ruthlessly expository — or less charitably, as arid as the Sahara.

As arid as it is, this landscape absorbs as much carbon from the atmosphere as an African savannah, he tells me.

Building capacity in climate, agriculture, livestock and food security experts through users» specific workshops and pilot application projects Improve understanding of the impacts of climate variability on key agricultural production areas including input / output markets and vulnerable areas in the region such as arid and semi-arid areas.

It was first cited 140 years ago when a pioneer geologist and surveyor identified a divide running from north to south between land that received ample rainfall, and soils in the so - called rain - shadow of the Rockies that could be classed as arid.

While Arid is the main character of the game, the other AI she joins throughout the game (the Butler, One, and the Companion) are just as stars of the show as Arid.

Don't let their fur fool you; a dog's skin can be affected by external factors, such as arid climates, dry heat, cool or snowy weather, chafing winds or even excess swimming.

In addition, as plants spread into unpredictable environments such as arid deserts they grew less dependent on the symbiotic fungi — or mycorrhiza — that colonize roots and help host plants obtain the essential plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.

«So we prefer to stay focused on this as an arid climate.

Not exact matches

Locally known as baori, stepwells were tiered stone structures used to collect and store rainwater in arid climates.»

Owen Fiss urges judges to avoid an «arid and artificial» focus upon the words and original meaning of constitutional provisions by instead reading «the moral as well as the legal text» of the Constitution.

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.

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

In the shadow of its snow - covered mountains are hundreds of arid rocky hills, where horses and cows perch as skillfully as mountain goats upon the steep slopes where people too make their homes.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

The first reason merely requires the judge to discern what the framers arid ratifiers meant, not to make up new rights the judge regards as «natural.»

The result is a spiritually arid isolation, which is far different from the joyful work of contemplative priests and nuns, who value the world, as God's creation, and believe that quiet, redemptive prayer is the best way to improve it.

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

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

An appalling arid horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

By inserting the encounters between Jesus» command to cross the lake arid his embarkation, Matthew makes it appear that they occurred just as Jesus was about to step into the boat.

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.»

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

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.

Our whole life happens within its wordless void, on its arid slopes that drain the life from us as we wander in circles learning the same old lessons over and over.

The particular value of this approach for a Christian theology of religions is that it recognizes truth in the convictions of these other traditions in the terms concretely stated arid believed by those within those traditions, and it recognizes their status as true alternatives to Christian faith.

The great majority of those who break the law do so deliberately, by choice arid not as a result of causes beyond their control.

Still, I have noticed that when reference to Jesus is postponed or downplayed, conversations between Christians and people of other traditions tend to become arid, but when the figure of Jesus is brought to the fore, either by the Christians or — as sometimes happens — by the others, the dialogue comes alive.

The Alliance urged its members not to perpetuate the divisions of the West on the mission field, advocating that the newly planted churches be rooted in the local culture arid that they be allowed to become independent as soon as possible and to join the Alliance as independent churches.

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.

As Robert Law puts it: «Gnosticism traces into the eternal the schism of which we are conscious in the world of experience, and posits two independent arid antagonistic principles of existence from which, severally, come all the good and all the evil that exist.»

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.

The selectiveness of individual experience is moral so far as it conforms to the balance of importance disclosed in the rational vision; arid conversely the conversion of the intellectual insight into an emotional force corrects the sensitive experience in the direction of morality.

As Holloway himself frequently said, theology is no arid discipline, but a meditation and contemplation of the fullness of the Mystery of God revealed most fully in Jesus Christ and living among us in the Church.

The schinus species of trees grow prolifically in arid, well - drained soils in almost any temperate area of the world, hence their popularity as a shade and decorative tree in many parts of Australia.

As stewards of the Arid Crop Seed Cache, New Mexico's largest collection of native and drought tolerant plants, CP is working to reintroduce these seeds into the communities.

Morocco's sunshine and arid climate, as well as the abundance of olive oil, have provided the perfect conditions for the development of harissa.

Dates are the fruit of the date palm tree and are grown primarily in dry, arid regions, such as the Middle East and parts of California.

It is call planning for the future.Let's get them now as in summer they will be way more expensive and get arid of the dead wood in summer so we just have to focus in another CB.

The only vegetation in this whole arid section of several hundred acres was a growth of 15,000 75 - year - old coniferous evergreens known as «El Cedral.»

As far as they were never given much thought by the rulers, the less economically valuable, semi-arid and arid frontier was seen as a source of insecuritAs far as they were never given much thought by the rulers, the less economically valuable, semi-arid and arid frontier was seen as a source of insecuritas they were never given much thought by the rulers, the less economically valuable, semi-arid and arid frontier was seen as a source of insecuritas a source of insecurity.

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.

Yet in cool, arid conditions, such as dry caves, excreted feces can preserve bacterial DNA for centuries.

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»).

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

A study, involving researchers from the University of Southampton, found that water - limited ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions, such as The Great Plains and South - West United States and some in Australia and Mediterranean Europe, were particularly impacted by these indirect effects.

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

«As many government authorities are establishing new guidelines, the results of this study reinforce the recommendations to treat graywater before reusing for irrigation, particularly in arid regions.»

Instead of nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by getting sustenance from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to flowering — plants.

By contrast, he says that many other mammals that live in arid areas are migratory, moving as resources are exhausted, such as the large ungulate herds roaming across the African savannahs.