Sentence examples for desert zone from inspiring English sources

The vegetation of the desert zone clusters around the oases; it includes the date palm and cultivated corn (maize).

There are some 10,000 villages, of which approximately half have only a few hundred inhabitants; there are practically no villages in the desert zone.

Rainfall increases as one proceeds southward so that the country divides naturally into three distinct zones a desert zone in the north; an intermediate zone, where nomadic pastoralists raise cattle, in the centre; and a cultivated zone in the south.

Although precipitation is extremely low in the true desert zone and the vegetation cover is scant, some plants from the semiarid region penetrate the occasional wadi valley, and date palms are grown in the southern oases.

On or about Dec. 6 or 7, 2001, Mr. Lindh was taken by airplane to Camp Rhino, a U.S. Marine outpost in the high desert zone about 70 miles south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

But recent suicide-attacks at a military base in Agadez and a French uranium mine in Arlit, both in the central desert zone, followed by a jailbreak that resulted in some of the country's most dangerous inmates going free, have flagged up the advent of Islamist extremism in possibly the poorest country in the world.

The country can be divided into three climatic zones the Sudanic, the Sahelian, and the desert zones.

In the past, kidnapped foreigners have been taken into northern Mali's desert zones and later exchanged for multi-million dollar ransom payments.

Elsewhere the desert zones of the Sahara and the Kalahari were alternately subjected first to humid and then to dry and arid phases that expanded the desert surface at the expense of adjacent forested zones.

A further northward movement of the humid and desert zones occurred at the time of drawdown.

If people can live and raise cattle in desert zones in the other parts of the world, they can do so in the Horn.