Sentence examples for Asian lands from inspiring English sources

All invited the ingredients and seasonings of other (especially Asian) lands into their kitchens.

Those Asian lands, in turn, got Marmite and fish paste sandwiches.

SCOTT VEALE An article about the Central Asian lands whose names end in "stan" referred incorrectly to Kafiristan.

It was evident that the propaganda of the Ṣafavīds, if allowed to continue without hindrance, might well undermine Ottoman rule within the Asian lands.

The most valued were the sweet, exotic aromas of dried spices, which traveled thousands of miles from inscrutable Asian lands and commanded often staggering prices — in Roman times, a pound of cinnamon oil cost a centurion's salary six times over.

For, if the Central Asian lands constituted a great reservoir of people, whence a new menace constantly emerged, the very proliferation of enemies meant that one might be used against another through skillful combination of bribery, treaty, and perfidy.

This question has been preoccupying me since my return from a trip through that quintessentially remote Central Asian land.

Possibly, that is par for the course for such a "primitive" Asian land — a pejorative he uses more than once.

So a third, related trend is that the East Asian miracle centred on China is fast reshaping the continental Asian land mass.

The results suggested that the feedback from the Asian land surface within the climate system would amplify and modify external forcing, leading to marked climate changes in China.

Up and down littoral Myanmar all of Asia's big economies are opening up new trade routes to reach neglected parts of the Asian land mass.