Sentences with phrase «of bare land»
Although rainy seasons like this past spring can lead to bumper crops of cheatgrass, during a drought hardly anything grows at all, leaving ranchers with acres of bare land.
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Most of them are just going through the motions and doing the bare minimum they can get away with in order to meet the expectations of the consumers who land on their website.
«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»
«May there be no lack of solidarity with all those forced to leave their native lands and lacking the bare essentials for living,» said Francis, who has often championed the cause of migrants and refugees.
From year to year I have observed the loss of cropland in places like Niger and Kenya where the demands of relentless commercial cash - cropping with no regard for environmental conservation have left the land bare and, for the foreseeable future, useless for agricultural production.
Most Pulayas were agricultural labourers and were held in bondage (adirna) or in a client relationship with their high caste landlords Part of the «privilege» of being such a client relationship was a right to claim bare maintenance from the landlord, and to a small share in the produce of the land It was a highly exploitative and oppressive system
Roberto Mancini rubbished reports just last month that the club had set ambitious targets of landing the Premier League crown at the end of the season, but City have hardly displayed the form of a team baring top - four credentials, drawing three of their last four league fixtures, and with those directly behind beginning to get ahead of steam, theirs genuine concern for an exposed City team who can't seem to string a run of results together in the Premier League right now.
The paper is one of six appearing in the journal that reports results from the analysis of data and observations obtained during Curiosity's exploration at Yellowknife Bay — an expanse of bare bedrock in Gale Crater about 500 meters from the rover's landing site.
Initially the changes were local, and there is little comfort in reading of concern even 2400 years ago, when Plato wrote «what now remains (of forested lands in Attica) is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having been wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left».
Located in the equatorial side of the globe, facing the Pacific Ocean, the Philippines is one of the island that bares wonderful and magnificent bast of breath taking land marks.
Nonetheless, Confessions of a Call Girl lands in this critic's «It's so bad it's good» file because the characters are so laughably cartoonish and because Tamala Jones never gets tired of baring her curvaceous booty and cannonball implants for the camera.
With girl - on - girl flirtations, Yen slo - mo swaggering in a tight tank top and snug leather jacket, and an offscreen orgy that ends in a bevvy of women lounging in panties (with no bare breasts), there's something modestly arousing, no matter where you land on the Kinsey scale.
So Coventry, world headquarters of all that is Jaguar, as well as part of the giant conglomeration that is Jag - you - are Land Rover, sent over an F - Pace, which was stripped down to its bare essentials and built back up in the image of a Range Rover.
The Jaguar's Children succeeds, not just in its portrayal of the Mexican countryside, but it lays bare the complexities of life in a country where jobs are few and far to come by, where NAFTA has upended the country's economics (Mexico, the land of corn, now imports it from the United States, Vaillant reminds us), and where a miracle or immigration are the only ways to some kind of normalcy.
I discovered that most of St. Oswald's was screened from public view; the main building by a long avenue of linden trees — now bare — which bordered the drive, and the land surrounded on all sides by walls and hedges.
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight - she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill.
So too, do success stories like that of Day, who originally self - published her erotic novel Bared to You, or the author Hugh Howey, who sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his dystopian novel Wool himself on Amazon before landing a publisher.
The Asset Test is met if 50 % or more of the corporation's average assets consist of assets that produce passive or could produce passive income, or are assets (such as cash and bare land) that produce no income.
Live - aboard boats come in a range of price points, too; however, all but the most bare - bones boats still add up to more than a land - based vacation.
The sun was shining, a group of wild horses galloped through the bare land and we took a promenade through the endless romance of it all.
Price: $ 275.000 euro (not including costs of transfer)(This price means 32 milj idr per are, compare prices nowadays on Gili Gede for bare land beachside between 40 and 80 milj idr per are, 1 euro = 14.500 indonesian rupiah, indication that in near future price will rise up to 100 and 150)
Unfortunately, I ended up feeling that Mordecai and Rigby in 8 - bit Land was as bare as a chicken leg that has been reduced to the bone: players just run around as either Mordecai or Rigby (you can switch between them freely with the press of a button), collecting cash and stomping on uninspired enemies that you can sometimes jump on and sometimes not (the game wasn't clear on the whole «jumping on this guy will actually hurt you, but this guy is totally cool to leap frog onto»).
A bare plot of land becomes a thriving park, absolutely pulsing with light, crowds of well - animated visitors, and the sights and sounds of rides and coasters.
One of his most iconic action performances, I Like America and America Likes Me, found Beuys spending three days in a bare room at Rene Block Gallery with an allegedly wild coyote — after landing in America and being whisked strait back overseas via ambulance, he never touched American soil.
«It's pretty much the area of US land that's been so far stripped bare by open - cast coal mining.»
And they found that the highest post-thaw emissions of nitrous oxide came from the bare peat soils: these emissions were fivefold those from still - frozen soils and matched the kind of outgassing observed in tropical soils, which are the world's largest natural land - based nitrous oxide source.
«The idea that you can prevent climate change by planting trees, while simultaneously stripping the land bare of its carbon stocks and pulling out all the stops to burn more coal, is frankly ludicrous,» Senator Rice said.
I can now see land ahead, fingers of bare red - orange rock with waves crashing over them, the forerunners of Greenland.
The measurements shown here represent the temperature of the «skin» (or top 1 millimeter) of the land surface during the daytime — including bare land, snow or ice cover, urban areas, and cropland or forest canopy.
And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet in which virtually every plot of arable land will be converted to low - intensity farming.
And the rest of the engineering department was just a bare concrete building, which a month prior to that hadn't even had the land mines cleared out of it.
(c) the strata plan must show the dimensions of the boundaries of the strata lots and limited common property and, if it is a bare land strata plan, must show the bearings of the boundaries of the strata lots and limited common property;
The unit entitlement for each bare land strata lot is one of the following [check appropriate box], as set out in the following table:
As Rob suggests, the political climate in the land of the free (software) is such that promised privacy may be just that — a bare promise that gets broken under governmental pressure.
It was only a matter of time until developers recognized the bare land opportunities and started to crank out the press releases detailing a cornucopia of honourable intentions.
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In additiion, some single family home developments may be part of a bare - land strata development.
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While typically the allocation of parking and storage lockers tends to be associated with apartment / high rise strata corporations, the legislation also relates to townhouse and bare - land strata corporations.