Sentences with phrase «vast deserts of»

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James Franco magnificently portrays Aron Ralston, a man trapped in the vast desert of Moab for 127 hours in the most dire of circumstances - virtually no water, no food, no sleep, and the small inconvenience of having his hand stuck in between a slot canyon he was traversing, and a half - ton boulder.

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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.

Lift up your head, Jerusalem, and see the immense multitude of those who build and those who seek; see all those who toil in laboratories, in studios, in factories, in the deserts and in the vast crucible of human society.

Why do your people wander bitterly in the vast endless desert of the world?

As an uneducated Bedouin shepherd leading a nomadic lifestyle in a vast desert, who is completely ignorant of anything even remotely approaching modern enlightenment, science, logic, reason, etc., I was very disappointed when I finally got around to reading the Bible.

In a gutsy, powerful, plurality opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas cut through the «vast, perplexing desert» of fine lines and distinctions that have plagued this area of the law, and announced a simple and logical rule: the government must be neutral toward religion and religious institutions.

In the midst of the desert stood «two vast and trunkless legs of stone.»

Our goji berries are sourced from the remote desert terrains of the Qinghai - Tibet Plateau, a vast elevated plain often referred to as «the Roof of the World».

Unless long - term public good wins over short - term private gain and ignorance, vast ranges, already greatly depleted, will at no distant date be as barren as the sheep - created deserts of Spain.

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).

Proven reserves of 46.4 billion barrels are confirmed, but vast tracts of the Libyan deserts remain unexplored.

Here we see a vast alluvial cone between the Altun and Kunlun mountains on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

Sand, spanning miles of beaches, carpeting vast oceans and deserts, is a visual metaphor for limitless resources.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.

Soon after, he consolidated a kingdom that stretched from the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to the vast sand deserts of central Arabia.

A hidden riverbed has been spotted under the sand of the vast Sahara desert using radar satellite imagery.

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.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

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.

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.

Digby Race of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, in Alice Springs and The Australian National University, in Canberra and colleagues from other universities, report that there is great potential for 200,000 people who live in Australia's vast desert area which covers about 3.6 million square kilometers.

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.

All 38 of China's nuclear tests have been carried out at the remote 100 000 - square - kilometre Lop Nor site on the edge of the vast Taklimakan desert.

ALLIGATORS basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 per cent of humanity vanished.

Said Peter Zahler, WCS Asia Program Deputy Director: «Central Asia contains some of the last great temperate grasslands left in the world, vast natural desert regions, and some of the greatest mountains on the planet.

The vast desert regions of the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula contain numerous archaeological sites, indicating that Pleistocene hominins penetrated these areas, living in more favourable habitats [1], [2].

Most likely, the dust had come from the Sahara, a vast desert that covers most of that region.

Some regions are covered in vast sand dunes, reminiscent of deserts like the Sahara on Earth, only much colder.

Since their inception, the chukka boot has broadened its material from the traditional light suede desert boot and can now be purchased in a vast amount of styles.

The quiet and intimacy of what is essentially a two - character piece are well juxtaposed by Brooks against the vast desert expanses of her home country, captured in sumptuous wide - screen cinematography by the great Ian Baker.

Conan Exiles Set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, the eponymous open world survival game allows the player to take the role of an exile who must navigate a vast deserted land in search of food and shelter.

THE WASTELAND AWAITS Seamlessly traverse a vast and varied landscape, from lush jungles and treacherous swamps to sun - scorched deserts in your pursuit of The Authority.

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.

As the vast crater blooms into a lush canyon surrounded by desert, its dozen - some inhabitants enjoy cheerful lives of digging up stones and unsuccessfully hunting rabbits.

The production design for the various levels of hell is striking, ranging from a vast desert wasteland in the Hell of Filial Piety to cascading waterfalls in the Hell of Indolence.

The film is about the life of Gertrude Bell (Kidman), a British explorer, who set out into the Arab desert to discover the mystery of the vast lands, while becoming a significant person involved in drawing out the geographic map lines.

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.

Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily (Fox), the Bird Woman.

and strand myself on a single palm desert isle - a dollop of sand in a vast expanse of blue.

Meant to be a low - speed heavy - hauler rather than a high - speed desert runner, the Ram packs heavy duty springs and shocks, a special Articulink part on its front suspension for a greater range of motion, an electronically disconnecting front sway bar, locking front and rear differentials, vast amounts of skid plating, those upgraded Goodyear DuraTrac tires, and a powerful Warn winch behind the front bumper rated to pull 10,000 pounds.

Having crossed the Rubicon a few times myself, and living within a couple hours» drive of the vast and trackless Mojave desert and all the adventure it promises, I certainly hope so.

Then the family moved to Lashkargah, a small town in the middle of the desert in southwestern Afghanistan, the headquarters of a vast American - funded project to make the desert bloom.

Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B - 52s; a night's sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.

Africa is a wonderfully vast and varied continent, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense rain forests of eastern Congo, to the sun - bleached, palm - fringed coast of Kenya.

The region's major aquifer, which lies beneath a vast area of Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican Chihuahua desert, is rapidly running dry because there is not enough rain to replace what is pumped out.