Sentences with phrase «far as the deserts»

They only get as far as a deserted motel in Nebraska, next to a dried - up reservoir before things start looking bad.

The road to recovery from an automobile accident stretches as far as the deserts in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona State.

Not exact matches

Through the program, China is committing $ 1 trillion over the next decade — and as much as $ 3 trillion over the long term — to huge infrastructure investments, in locations that stretch from China's coast through the deserts of Xinjiang province and the steppes of Central Asia as far west as Spain and Scandinavia.

Children of Israel, Hearken to the voice of David above, and go and find his long awaited and anticipated Descendant in that DESERT (that is FAR AWAY from Israel now) if you want to protect yourself from that raging Wind and Storm that is coming upon Israel and all that Region, as David thus clearly pointed out above.

As far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencAs far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencas Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocence.

The veiled hostility of Parthia, the irruption of Scythian tribes into central Asia, the great length and the uncertainty of the land routes, and the enormous expenses incurred in bringing wares through desert routes of Arabia — all these conditions influenced the Romans towards using as far as possible the route through the Red Sea.

There are too many people, as in the southward - moving Sahara Desert, who are now starving, and many others are so undernourished as to be not far from the edge of starvation.

And as far as Mohammed, it's the ramblings of a desert roaming ped - o - phile who likes 9 year old girls, and was suffering from hallucinations caused by heat exhaustion and fasting while in that desert.

The book is about the same thickness as the bible, and it is written by someone with a far better knowledge of the world than bronze age goat herders living in the desert.

As far as I could see, Safawi was surrounded by a bleak, rock - strewn desert known as the Eastern Badia of JordaAs far as I could see, Safawi was surrounded by a bleak, rock - strewn desert known as the Eastern Badia of Jordaas I could see, Safawi was surrounded by a bleak, rock - strewn desert known as the Eastern Badia of Jordaas the Eastern Badia of Jordan.

Over the past 500 years, the original desert - dweller has expanded its territory as far north as Alaska, south into the tropics and deep into many cities.

This first excavation to take place in the northern part of the Judean Desert as part of «Operation Scroll» will open the door to further understanding the function of the caves with respect to the scrolls, with the potential of finding new scroll material.

Now, researchers have linked airborne dust and other particles from as far away as the Sahara and Asian deserts with the precipitation that falls over California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

Hurricane - force winds resonate across the rusty deserts of Mars, although they generate only about as much noise as a modest breeze blowing through Earth's far denser atmosphere.

The USGA recognized as far back as the 1970s, during the severe drought that then gripped the desert Southwest and California, that golf grasses needed to do better with less water, Kenna added.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

When we reach the nearby village of Birlistik, which used to overlook a bay on the sea, we see that its mud - walled huts now face an insecticide - laced desert, filled with tumbleweeds and toxic shrubs, that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Further missions studied the Earth from above, such as one that used of a type of radar to probe below the surface — discovering ancient riverbeds beneath the Sahara Desert, for example.

For the first time, these devices, known as ADS - B transponders, will enable air traffic controllers to locate aircraft that are far out over oceans, remote deserts or the poles where there is no radar coverage.

«If they move another two to three degrees poleward in this century, very dry areas such as the Sahara Desert could nudge farther toward the pole, perhaps by a few hundred miles.»

To prove his point, Hillenius did an experiment on five types of mammal — rats, squirrels, ferrets, rabbits, and opossums — that are native to the area around Oregon State University, where he was earning his Ph.D. (Western Oregon, he notes, is about as far from desert conditions as a mammal can get.)

The samples revealed long - held secrets of how desert - friendly species replaced tropical plants and animals as monsoon rains retreated farther south into the continent.

Farther inland, he trekked through arid forests where giant jumping rats surfaced among baobabs — odd, upside - down trees with wide bases and pointed tops — as well as through a sandless desert landscape speckled with thorny armored bushes with thick, fleshy leaves that harbored hissing cockroaches.

Desert societies, with their far - flung members tending goats and camels, are classic spawning grounds for warrior classes and the accessories of militarism: military trophies as stepping stones to societal status, death in battle as a guarantee of a glorious afterlife, slavery.

Furthermore, by conducting the Mars 160 mission in the form of twin studies, dubbed Mars Desert 80 (MD80) and Mars Arctic 80 (MA80) with the same crew operating in the Arctic and the desert, the program will provide important information as to how well Mars analog missions held in the desert can serve in place of far more expensive Mars surface simulations carried out in the Arctic, and to what extent conclusions drawn from desert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field condiDesert 80 (MD80) and Mars Arctic 80 (MA80) with the same crew operating in the Arctic and the desert, the program will provide important information as to how well Mars analog missions held in the desert can serve in place of far more expensive Mars surface simulations carried out in the Arctic, and to what extent conclusions drawn from desert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field condidesert, the program will provide important information as to how well Mars analog missions held in the desert can serve in place of far more expensive Mars surface simulations carried out in the Arctic, and to what extent conclusions drawn from desert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field condidesert can serve in place of far more expensive Mars surface simulations carried out in the Arctic, and to what extent conclusions drawn from desert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field condidesert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field conditions.

Using a network such as the Desert Fireball to find meteorites and pinpoint their origins would produce the same information, except far more cheaply and right on Earth, Bland said.

When I was a college student in California, I prized my weekend trips to the desert city as an opportunity to, well, do it up «Vegas - style,» taking the city up on the debauchery waiting at every corner: swilling far too many cocktails, eating gourmet fried Twinkies and tater tot nachos, and pulling the blackout blinds in my hotel room to keep up my vampiric hours.

Wandering the desert with a volume of Thoreau in hand, kayaking his way down the Colorado River without rowing skills (or a permit), finally voyaging into the mountains of Alaska, as far from humanity as he can get, he takes a journey of recklessness that maybe only a privileged kid could have imagined.

It is a buoyantly excessive feat of far - fetched camp that isn't as good as its highly - stylized cinematic cousins of the early 1990s such as Strictly Ballroom, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Hogan's own Muriel's Wedding, yet which nonetheless has enough of a unique voice to work as a very Australian piece of crowd - pleasuring fluff.

Far from deserted, the location is controlled by the evil Mathias Vogel (a suitably terrifying Walton Goggins), who is using shipwrecked fishermen as slaves to dig out the same tomb searched by Laura's father.

Since the horror film takes place in the California desert, as Bell previously mentioned, the actress and filmmaker then further discussed the process of shooting the movie on location.

The purpose - built, desert racing inspired truck joins the Ford Performance family as the new Ranger Raptor and will be coming to South Africa, with further information to be revealed in the future.»

Further new - ness includes an almost lickable Pagani-esque carbonfibre windscreen frame, a subtle re-working of the bodywork aft of your head — the coupe's glazed rear deck makes way for some deftly integrated rollover protection — 8 kg of additional reinforcement in the carbonfibre tub, a greater choice of wheel styles, a transmission oil cooler to prevent cooked cogs on desert trackdays, air - con as standard, a slightly plusher cockpit with more leather and an uprated Alpine stereo, heavier but less ugly headlights and, crucially, tweaks to the chassis aimed at sweetening its steering and improving directional stability.

The desert is vast, as are the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains, and here, far from the cities and cultural centers, one can find places removed from the camera - wielding crowds.

But for those of us who have never been able to find as many of the kinds of books as we want to read until NOW, the NEW ecosystem is far more diverse and rich and wonderful than the old desert of choices.

And, of course, doing far more with books than just stuffing as many of them as possible into a suitcase and bringing them to a deserted island.

By far the most impressive member of the trio is the Arc 10HD, which packs a quad - core Nvidia Tegra 4 CPU (hey, what do you know, the platform is not so deserted as some thought), plus a sensational 10 - inch 2,560 x 1,600 pix res display.

Again, there's not much food on the desert floor, and they are known to run as far as 5 miles per night, foraging for provisions.

Suddenly you feel as if you've been transported into the deserts of Egypt or Peru or some other far - off country!

The best snorkeling is available at the far end near some deserted white condominiums with red roofs, known as Palm Bay.

Cayo Largo del Sur, known simply as Cayo Largo, is a natural paradise where you can feel a little like Robinson Crusoe on a deserted remote island far away from everything!

This bird summers in the American desert southwest, but winters on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and as far south as Belize.

Leaving Gili Asahan and back on the mainland there are small home - stays and private accommodations spaced out along the road to Bangko - Bangko — known as Desert Point and the surfing Mecca for those in the know — located on the far southwest tip of Lombok.

The wide white sand bay is lined with fisherman's huts and draws hundreds of surfers every year from as far away as Hawaii and Brazil to challenge the huge waves of Desert Point, just offshore.

Have your camera ready to capture bird's - eye views of the desert that stretches out as far as the eye can see.

The white sand beaches stretch as far as the eye can see incorporating dozens of deserted mini fishing harbors that consist of breakwaters with tiny day sleeper huts for relaxing and soaking up the tropical views of the northern mountains, the island of Nusa Lembongan and the grand towering volcanic backdrop.

The world of Black Desert Online is heading west, as far as the in - game map is concerned, doubling in size with the introduction of Port Ratt and the Margoria sea.

As I stated previously, Far Eden is a sprawling desert, complete with bone - white sand, crystal - blue skies and the occasional ruin of a failed colony sprinkled here and there.

On top of that, the weather shifts, even so far as to shroud the land in fog or turn the desert into a windy dustbowl.

The writers slowly produce answers all of these questions — and many more — in the hours that follow, as Aloy moves beyond the protected confines of her tribe's dominion and into the larger world, where we discover the towering skeletons of ancient buildings, splinter tribes in the far reaches that have developed their own beliefs and rituals, and a stunning contemporary city in the heart of a desert, among many other wonders.