Sentences with phrase «vast plains of»

But a growing number of mining companies and renewable energy developers are beginning to use these vast plains of disturbed dirt as the ideal spots for large - scale solar and wind power projects.

Where the previous environments were simplistic and lacking in a number of textures, this game has environmental tricks that range from sleek, sexy spaceship interiors, to vast plains of alien desert where our protagonists make the most of the Clone Army at their disposal.

Gradually, in the distance, the Flinders Ranges rise out of the vast plains of the desert, as you return to Wilpena Pound.

Gradually, in the distance, the Flinders Ranges rise out of the vast plains of the desert.

Africa is home to a myriad of different landscapes, from the vast plains of the Serengeti to the deltas of Botswana.

Madikwe consists of vast plains of open woodlands and grasslands and bordered in the south by the Dwarsberg Mountains.

This is perfect viewing territory for the big 5, the symbols of Africa, and on the Lowveld area of the province, there are vast plains of grassland, populated with curious looking baobab trees, which seem to have been planted upside down.

Used to herding sheep on the vast plains of England but usually not accustomed to the presence of human beings, they take flight easily.

Three years after the original «Madagascar,» the animals - on - the - run from the Central Park Zoo and their pals depart for New York on in a rickety plane operated by a canny, if pesky penguin crew and crash - land on the vast plains of Africa.

Beneath vast plains of Arctic tundra and swampy taiga forests lies permanently frozen ground, or permafrost.

The best explanation for these observations, says Butler, is that the radar - absorbing regions are vast plains of volcanic ash or pumice.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

They passed through a highland meadow carpeted with wildflowers, acres of golden groundsel and zinnia and deep purple gentian and wild vines of blue morninglory and a vast plain of varied small blooms reaching onward like a gingham print to the farthest serried rimlands blue with haze and the adamantine ranges rising of out nothing like the backs of seabeasts in a Devonian dawn.

We're just fine fighting square monsters on a vast plain of squares with our trusty square, thanks.

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Rather than panic, Wojcicki reverted to her Wall Street analyst self, gathering vast amounts of information, certain a solution was hiding in plain sight.

As David Caploe, our Chief Political Economist at EconomyWatch.com recently pointed out, a vast amount of negative economic news came out at the end of the year and was «buried» in plain sight by being reported in the festive season.

They are surrounded by one of the most diverse and interesting landscapes in the world, ranging from rainforests to vast plains.

The Third World is a vast shantytown and in front of it is a grassy plain.

The main problem I've seen with people accepting evolution (aside from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these things happened.

A fascinating recent book by historian Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt To Sunbelt, shows how a vast migration of «plain - folk» religious migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas flocked to Southern California during World War II, winning the region for Christ and the modern Republican right.

Similarly the Russians, with their political capital at Moscow, moved eastward across the vast northern plains of Eurasia and before the end of the seventeenth century had reached the Pacific, but their new territories had few inhabitants.

These natural benefits are one factor in the success of Roy and his company, Rowland Seeds, which operates a vast farm in this golden corner of the Canadian plains.

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».

Its a continent, filled with vast plains that WRs can run straight thru without harm or fear of deflected 50 / 50s or breakups of any kind..

It must also be underlined that the vast majority of women in developing countries breastfeed, and at the same time give their baby additional traditional foods, or just plain water.

While this may all sound very upsetting, the vast majority of plain x-rays, like the kind you'd have for a broken bone or at the dentist's office, have few lose doses of radiation.

More than anything, it is just plain boring to me and, I suspect, to the vast majority of my readers.

One Tory insider said: «The vast majority of voters will think this idea is plain common sense.

In addition to polar bears, which were mostly hunted in winter, the Zhokhovians pursued reindeer hundreds of kilometers across vast plains.

The evidence comes in the form of trace elements located in and around the Red Planet's vast northern plains, a low - lying region that might once have held a body of water large enough to blanket nearly one - third of the planet.

This barren place, a site called Gonur, was once the heart of a vast archipelago of settlements that stretched across 1,000 square miles of Central Asian plains.

The vast majority of what is out there is more dynamic and complicated and just plain weirder than the tiny fraction we knew.

This vast volcanic plain appears to contain some of the youngest lava flows on the moon, as well as rocks ejected by impacts that could be parts of the buried lunar crust.

Lithium is found in many places on the planet, but among all of them no deposit is richer than the vast salt flats of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, covering more than 10,000 square kilometers of the remote high plains.

Thus, the vast numbers of farmers in the Indo - Gangetic Plain and in China's Yellow River Basin will most likely face severe disruptions in water availability.

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

Like Earth, Mars must have received a lot of water at birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of water cascading out of the southern highlands.

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

Its plain wording about reducing «the vast part» of emissions means, on any straightforward reading, that the total emissions are now vastly smaller than they were before.

Also, the effect of elevation on Scandinavia submerged a vast continental plain that had existed under much of what is now the North Sea, connecting the British Isles to Continental Europe.

A new close - up image of Pluto from New Horizons reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population is physically falling apart due to being sedentary, overweight, and all around just plain horrible to ourselves.

Reminiscent of the vast open plains of Hyde Park on a crisp November afternoon, full - bodied dresses covered in laser - cut leaves, pay homage to the fallen foliage as autumn's last leaf cascades down.

Texas About Blog Deep in the Heart of Texas you can find a vast array of hidden artists from the valley to the plains, to the deep woods in east Texas... to the Gulf and back to the heart of our state in central Texas.

The vast sky and plains of South Dakota are beautifully captured by cinematographer Joshua James Richards.

In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris.

Dunbar, electing to take a post in the middle of nowhere rather than continue to do battle with his fellow countrymen, finds himself surrounded by both the Sioux and Pawnee communities, neither of which is interested in accommodating white strangers — except, that is, for prescient Sioux holy man Kicking Bird (Graham Greene), who correctly surmises that a man stranded alone in the vast plains isn't looking for a fight.

Armies swoop towards one another across a vast plain, each group displaying their own intricate maneuvers and battle strategies, wielding their own specific weaponry, making one think it could be a deleted scene from John Woo's «Red Cliff,» or that a fussy Middle Earth equivalent of John Keegan had been a consultant on the film, providing information on how the dwarf infantry worked, and how the elves moved in formation.

Set in the vast, desolate plains of Montana, the film is an ode to the traditional revenge Western.