Sentence examples for gezira from inspiring English sources

The British-built Gezira cotton scheme has all but ground to a halt.

Since then, the Qatar-based Gezira satellite television channel has raised eyebrows throughout the region with its politically daring fare.

It owes its recent growth to the irrigated lands of the Jazīrah (Gezira) irrigation scheme and is now the commercial centre of the Al-Jazīrah cotton-growing area.

The soil of the Gezira (Al-Jazīrah) plain south of Khartoum is deep-cracking uniform clay that has been deposited during the annual inundations of the Blue Nile.

The Al-Ruṣayriṣ and Sannār dams in Sudan irrigate 1,000,000 acres (400,000 hectares) in the plain of Al-Jazīrah (Gezira) between the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers; the Sannār Dam also produces hydroelectric power.

The Malaysian program has much in common with the cooperative settlements of Israel and the Gezira Scheme in Sudan.

Dar El Amar (Blue Nile Boat, 9A Saray El-Gezira Street; 20-273-53-112), a popularestaurant restaurant on the Blue Nile boat, offers river views and a large assortment of mezze for reasonable prices.

The biggest were al-Hajira, a construction company, and Wadi al-Aqiq, which farmed hundreds of thousands of acres of sorghum, gum arabic, sesame and sunflowers in the central Gezira province.

("Well, the British did one thing for us; they gave us the Gezira Club!" one polo wife told me, sitting with a cup of tea in a wicker armchair in the shade of a full-bloom jacaranda).

("Oh, the water at this time of day is divine! I am sure we can find you a spare costume in the pool house!") The Gezira Club beat the police 6-3; everyone agreed it was a good match, although pretty tough.

One of the Gezira Club players dove into the pool to recover.