Sentence examples for desert nations from inspiring English sources

Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations.

Millions of the insects have deluged the desert nations at the height of their crucial planting seasons, devouring seedlings and existing crops of millet and sorghum, staples of their meager diets.

In the desert nations around the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the blazing sun beating down on the relatively shallow waters produces not only sky-high temperatures, but muggy air as well.

Israel is called "the plucky desert nation".

The sands may finally be shifting for the desert nation.

But tribal loyalties are strong in the desert nation of six million.

Slavery has a long history in this north African desert nation.

His image is ubiquitous in the desert nation, with huge portraits adorning billboards and buildings across the country.

The huge, mostly desert nation, considered one of the least likely candidates for a coup attempt in all of West Africa, was threatened with immediate foreign aid cutoffs.

If the base is approved, the most likely location for it would be in Niger, a largely desert nation on the eastern border of Mali.

Now the coast was dotted with desalinization plants and it was sometimes hard to tell that Oman was a desert nation.