Sentences with phrase «such vast lands»

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The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

Those God has not blessed, who have no such vast herds and spacious homes, but barely subsist on the land, must relish seeing this rich man stripped of his props and reduced to their level.

We all come from such a variety of heritages and nooks and crannies across this vast land, but the buttertart, like other iconic Canadian foods, brings us all together.

He said, «The law as presently enacted and implemented is tremendously harsh to Fulani herdsmen because herdsmen who are dominantly indigenes of Benue State will not encounter the challenges of acquiring vast open land for their herds and whereas such privileges are not open to Fulani herdsmen.»

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

In this telling, the Land of the Dead is not a fearsome place, but rather a never - ending skeleton party conducted in a glorious multi-tiered city that rises from sea - level houseboats to vast, imperious towers inhabited by celebrities such as de la Cruz — all of them connected by arched bridges and aerial trams.

We would normally associate that to places such in a car, on a plane, or while on the beach, along with numerous other places though the vast majority of those would be on land.

Acoustic indication such as whistles are used to command herding dogs mainly because these can be heard over a distance that's generally involved when gathering a large flock of sheep in a vast grazing land.

Daunted by the task of figuring out where I wanted to land in such a vast, sprawling city, and turned off by exorbitant rent prices, I had a crazy idea: what if I bought a vehicle I could sleep in, allowing me to kick around and scope things out first?

In all the fuss about this, I've seen very little criticism about the vast amount of land in the UK that will most likely end up occupied by turbines, or the fact that there remains such a desperate need for new housing.

Some are predictable, such as a widespread growth of shrubs across vast former tundra areas shedding their leaves to be windblown into the increasingly prevalent themokarst melt pools and land - slip dam lakes, where they'll rot anaerobically to release additional methane.

Like the rest of its Puffleg brethern, it has «little cotton balls above [its] legs,» said Luis Mazariegos - Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy, in an interview with the AP.The bird's tiny territory in the Cauca province is under siege, however, by the environmentally destructive drugs industry, which relies on slashing and burning vast swathes of land for growing illegal crops such as coca, otherwise known as the raw material in cocaine.

The quality of the soil and climate is such that the land is not suitable for the vast majority of food crops.

«The trick is to take advantage of the vast amount of free online resources such as Khan Academy, Code Academy, Udacity, Coursera and of course Google's certification programs,» Dhaliwall says, who landed an internship at Grahm & Associates and Webmarketing123.

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.

But in a vast brown land such as Oz, car travel can get pretty tiring.