Sentences with phrase «vast desert with»

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There are also vast stretches of desert, dotted with small towns.

And speaking of, there are also the unique nuances of Las Vegas to deal with: the vast distances between everything, the over-priced everything, the desert air that dries out your nose and lungs and virtually guarantees some sort of illness when combined with the giant plague of exhausted attendees.

He drove on, moving in his new Ford Expedition from a vast desert to mountains thick with aspen and spruce, his destination a rented town house where he would be spending the next four or five months.

I say «most everyone» because, unfortunately, millions of Americans live in what are known as «food deserts» (vast areas in low - income neighborhoods that are absolutely saturated with fast food chains and severely lack access to fresh produce and basic healthful foods).

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.

For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland.

The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial power plant with the technology to use sunshine at night — by storing daytime heat in molten salts.

During the last century, the Australian government encouraged farming on difficult land, handing out water licenses to just about anyone willing to put in the backbreaking toil of making the country's vast tracts of scrub desert bloom with citrus orchards and vineyards.

And ever since 1984, vast arrays of curved mirrors have been concentrating the sun's rays on pipelines filled with synthetic oil at the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) power plant in California's Mojave Desert.

hidden below this vast desert park — is 1,000 feet deep with 30 miles of mapped passages lined with giant stalagmites and crystalline stalactites.?

The Burgan oilfield and a vast area of desert to the southeast are black with soot.

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Play time — and rest assured, there's plenty of that — is split once again between the deserts, forests and caves that supply not only hunt targets but also a vast assortment of raw materials (of course, one generally equals the other), and a hub village where you temper the weapons, shape the armour and concoct the many, many items that (might) enable you to come off best in an encounter with a crocodile made of magma.

However, the vast majority of the game map was made up of sprawling deserts and plains that featured very little to interact with.

Whether or not you are riveted by the performances, you can't help admiring the landscape, the film screened with an odd 4:3 aspect ration (with rounded corners) to simulate a closed - in scenario in the midst of a vast desert, though it's doubtful that the Argentine Tourist Board would use any part of the movie to advertise the wares of its favorite country.

Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

Obviously, the vast majority of tropical rain forest and desert denizens are out of the question, except for many of the arachnids, which tend to be nocturnal and adjust very well to tanks with a limited and low - level heat source, such as an under - tank heater.

Imagine going on a 6 - day adventure of riding camels across the vast desert, dining with Saharan nomads and camping under the starry desert sky.

It is a world - class outdoor recreation hub, with vast expanses of desert and national park.

Bordered with an idyllic coastline, home to vast deserts blanketed by the mind - melting Milky Way and teeming with incredible wildlife, Western Australia is a marvel of its own.

Drive north this morning through the vast Sonora Desert with sweeping views of the Sierra Madre.

Cycling and four wheel driving across the vast and picturesque expanses of the Great Victoria Desert is an amazing experience, with superb bush camping!

With vast unspoilt plains of the desert, Ras - Al - Khaimah is your place to be if you want to witness the best of history, tradition, culture and modernity.

Blessed with outstanding rare natural beauty, it boasts a pristine and extensive coastline, the majestic Hajar Mountains and vast swathes of desert interspersed with wadis and lush vegetation.

As a speck in a vast ocean, life is concentrated in the Galapagos as with an oasis in the desert.

Every suite comes with a clear view of it or of the endless desert through vast windows.

The breath - taking landscapes are continuously changing between the world's most spectacular desert ecosystems in the Namib, vast plains, rugged mountains and savannahs teeming with a large variety of African game.

Blessed with outstanding rare natural beauty, Oman boasts a pristine and extensive coastline, the majestic Hajar Mountains and vast swathes of desert interspersed with wadis with lush vegetation, all under a blanket of Arabian stars.

The Namib is the world's oldest and most captivating desert; the Kalahari is vast and dotted with golden grass and red dunes; and Fish River Canyon is second only to the Grand Canyon in size.

Enjoy a four - wheel drive over the vast desert sand dunes and the Wadi Ghul with a fabulous overnight stay stargazing in a luxurious Bedouin - styled desert camp.

From sweeping plains that stretch into the horizon to vast deserts, huge canyons and tropical beaches, Africa is rich with beauty.

The road behind seen from a campervan with everything from deserted beaches to kangaroos lying ahead in the diverse and vast country.

In the Outback, visit the lively desert town of Alice Springs, Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Olgas (Kata Tjuta), the Bungle Bungles, Kings Canyon and Windjana Gorge, try bush tucker around a campfire under a vast desert sky glittering with stars and meet the Aboriginal people whose culture has survived for over 40,000 years.

«The once desolate desert lands of Las Vegas are now heaving with swanky hotels, vast casinos and millions of tourists dreaming of making it big, forgetting the key rule that the house always wins.

Featuring favourite themes from chart - topping games, including: Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Uncharted, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, LittleBigPlanet and Horizon Zero Dawn, this exhilarating live show — with a full symphony orchestra, guest presenter and spectacular light display — takes you on a musical journey from vast deserts and overgrown ruins, to ancient artefacts and futuristic landscapes, celebrating some of the most memorable gaming music from the past 20 years.

Explore the vast desert and unite with remaining survivors to rise against the crazed machines.

The majority of the game is set in a vast desert, with breathtaking lighting effects, realistic sand movement, an extremely impressive draw distance, and no heads - up display.

One scenario would see me on a vast desert plain, with the objective of forging a mining colony, whilst on a frozen tundra I would have to utilise my trade options in order to keep my citizens alive.

Set in Egypt during the time of Greek and Roman influence, the open world of Origins is staggering both in size and beauty, an amazingly detailed sandbox filled with bustling cities and towns, fertile farmlands and vast barren deserts, rocky mountain peaks and shining seas.

However, the vast majority of the game map was made up of sprawling deserts and plains that featured very little to interact with.

You'll stay strapped with machine guns, pistols, crossbows, rockets, bombs, grenades etc. within vast jungles, deserts and more.

Take to the skies again with Air Assault 2, the intense sequel to the action hit that pits you against a determined enemy over the desert, the sea, and a vast industrial complex.

Though I see tantalizing potential, so far I see a desert with two polar extremes; having your fine work disappear into a vast ocean of mediocrity, and a few sites catering to the screwy contemporary art establishment that have an exclusivity standard of internal nomination only.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

Curated by Firestone, along with Carlo McCormick and Medvin Sobio, The Boneyard Project has its home on a vast plot of desert land and is populated by vintage planes, rescued from the salvage yard and turned into works of art.

The first solo show in China by American artist Doug Aitken presents three works, created specifically for this show: two vast and incredibly materic sculptures made with materials such as resin, aluminum, concrete and plywood and a mesmerizing four minute video piece on a site - specific installation set in the Southern California desert aptly titled Mirage.

As new technology allows, or as poverty demands, rich and poor alike have pushed into soggy floodplains or drought - ridden deserts, built on impossibly steep slopes, and created vast, fragile cities along fault lines that tremble with alarming frequency.

2018 has been no exception with extreme cold and record snowfalls affecting vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere with rare snow touching down in areas as far south as Southern Morocco, and the Sahara desert.

Solar in Mongolia: Mongolia takes tentative steps with large - scale solar power plants, but the vast country of steppes and deserts is already the king of distributed solar power.

The deserts of the U.S. Southwest will feature clusters of solar thermal power plants, with vast arrays of mirrors, covering several square miles each.