Sentence examples for desolate territory from inspiring English sources

A Gifted Proselytizer In the early 1850s, Jeremy Johnson's great-great-grandfather, a sawmill operator named Joel Hills Johnson, helped settle the desolate territory of southern Utah, a landscape of dramatic red sandstone canyons and mesas.

The melodrama was offset by her deadpan narrative of crazed events, and by the way Malick made the flat and desolate territory seem like Eden after a bomb attack.

The force reconnaissance platoon of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit has begun widening its patrols across an arc of desolate territory that is essentially no man's land, focusing particularly on an area between here and Kandahar, the Taliban's last bastion.

Some Qataris also attribute their country's more outward looking perspective as well as its willingness to accommodate political exiles and opposition forces to a tradition of being an oasis of refuge dating back to the 19th century when the desolate territory offered sanctuary to pirates, fugitives and people fleeing persecution elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula.

Streets in the central business district are desolate.

You start watching it late at night for a laugh and find yourself faced with something desolate and disorientating, one of the strangest imaginative territories in British cinema.

The western region of Xinjiang is a vast area, much of it desolate, that makes up one-sixth of China's territory.

(Though sadly the West Indies, once Britain's most valuable colonial territories, rate little more space in this book than those desolate isles).

When I return to the Inn, a message from Mark Berry invites me to sign on as a volunteer with the Park Service, and accompany him into a desolate canyon to pick up Nathan Niemi, a geologist who's been camping there while mapping uncharted territory.

In the noirish western "Colorado Territory" (1949) Walsh lets landscape entirely drive the mood, as a jailbird (now played by Joel McCrea) haunts desolate desertscapes and Spanish ruins.

Abetted by a rising Chinese nationalism that demands more forceful dominion over disputed shards of territory, Beijing is embroiled in a number of overlapping claims across the Asia-Pacific region, from a desolate chunk of the Himalayas to various half-submerged chunks of rock in the South China Sea.