Sentence examples for desert settlement from inspiring English sources
Life goes on in the dry desert settlement.
The most recent project, created with the assistance of Hadassah volunteers, has been a recreational forest near the Negev desert settlement of Ofakim.
San Luis Rio Colorado — once a Colorado River town, but now a dusty desert settlement — became a river town for two months, to the delight of locals, many of whom had never seen the river.
The frontline is the same as it was last October, a small desert settlement named al-Estada, no more than a collection of sand coloured huts, a mosque and a shop, 30 miles north of Bani Walid.
On March 6, he was sent farther east, arriving in Kok-Terek, a desert settlement, in time to hear the announcement of Stalin's death broadcast over loudspeakers in the village square.
Most recently, for Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," an obsessive epic about a California oil prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis), he conjured from scratch a turn-of-the-century desert settlement studded with derricks and drills, a starkly poetic vision of the Old West suffering its first industrial scars.
This studio will focus on the Yucca Valley, CA, and its adjacent desert settlements.
The reason earlier desert settlements failed to attract residents is largely due to a lack of infrastructure and employment.
Claims of rampant child abuse at Mutitjulu – never proven – triggered the government's "intervention" into the Northern Territory in 2007, designed to stamp out violence and raise health and living standards in the indigenous desert settlements.
In a nation held to ransom by well-armed thugs, and lacking almost all infrastructure, these remarkable people – often motivated as much by a desire to keep their country alive as to make money – supply tiny desert settlements all over the nation with scarcely any losses.
The rapid shift from compact vernacular desert settlements to motorized cities characterized by urban sprawl led to a strong separation of historic city cores and new urban expansions.
