Sentence examples for Barren countries from inspiring English sources
These facts give barren countries advantages that compensate for the infertility of their soil.
For this reason, the inhabitants of barren countries are better able to defend themselves from such attacks as might occur, and to defend their liberty against those who would destroy it.
Second, fertile countries are both more desirable than barren countries and easier to conquer: they "are always of a level surface, where the inhabitants are unable to dispute against a stronger power; they are then obliged to submit; and when they have once submitted, the spirit of liberty cannot return; the wealth of the country is a pledge of their fidelity" (SL 18.2).
Never mind that he painted mostly bleak portraits of a barren country.
Dominated by the Thani family for almost 150 years, the mainly barren country was a British protectorate until 1971, when it declared its independence after following suit with Bahrain and refusing to join the United Arab Emirates.
Mounted operations so far from base in such barren country were extremely hazardous and difficult.
His predisposition to plumb psychological depths, blurring past and present in often-barren country, could also be seen in his "A Lie of the Mind," another family meltdown, this one climaxing with a main character wrapping himself in an American flag.
Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, rented a Pine Barrens country cottage from 1816 to 1839 and reportedly spotted the Jersey Devil while hunting.
The barren area has become one of the country's most recognisable landmarks and an unlikely tourist destination, attracting around a million visitors each year.
Lombok in particular has a large area in the extreme south of waterless, barren karst country.
