Having won its independence from Spain in 1821, the fledgling Republic of Mexico sought to gain control of its northern reaches, which under the Spanish had functioned as an extensive and largely empty bulwark against encroachment by competing French and British empires to the north.
It has a diverse topography with coastal plains along the Arabian sea, mountains and hills reaching 2000 meters above sea level, and the extensive desert of the empty quarter, the largest sand desert in the world.
The agency wants water-level instruments in spent fuel pools so that operators will know whether they are full; at Fukushima, the operators for a time thought, wrongly, that one of the pools was empty and diverted extensive resources to trying to fill it.
In the dry season it is sometimes reduced to a succession of stagnant ponds; its floodwaters empty into the Chari in an extensive delta.
Extensive SDS-DTT treatment eventually solubilized worms completely, leaving empty cuticle husks (Figure 1D).
Chondrocyte death (empty lacunae), hypocellular to acellular areas, and extensive chondrocyte circular cloning with excess glycosaminoglycan synthesis surrounding each clone (Figs 7 and 8) are characteristic of early osteoarthritic change.
The company had extensive banana plantations in the valley of the Motagua River, which empties into the Caribbean near Puerto Barrios.
The outposts, often simply a water tower, radio antenna or empty shipping container on a windswept hilltop, have gradually extended the claims of settlers who have built extensive towns in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Example: Rather than start with an empty computer screen, Pontiac's new Grand Prix is derived from an extensive overhaul of GM's existing mid-sized platform.
After an early crush of backlogged passengers and the introduction of more extensive security checks, the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto is now more likely to be nearly empty much of the day.
