At first Zeus refused and Demeter put a curse on the earth, making it barren.
Dhere equated women with "Mother Earth", saying that a donkey "mounting the mother" would mean making it barren.
Those in the camps were allowed to farm only a small area of land nearby, and constant re-use of soil made it barren.
The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile.
Pop-music snobs usually don't rank Dupri as high as they do auteurs like Dr. Dre and the Neptunes, and they fail to recognize his knack for isolating what is best about a trend and exaggerating it to wonderful effect; if Atlanta snap music is spare and weird, he'll make it positively barren and dissonant.
In a country that includes within its borders a segment of the Danakil Depression - the hottest region on earth - Eritrea's rocky mountain ranges and barren scorched-earth landscapes make it one of the most hostile regions on earth to attempt to farm.
"Break Apart," which features Los Angeles-based duo Rhye, is minimal and melancholic in its delivery, making its barren desert backdrop especially fitting.
After sharing its lead single, "Kerala," Green has offered up a music video for another of the LP's tracks, "Break Apart". "Break Apart," which features Los Angeles-based duo Rhye, is minimal and melancholic in its delivery, making its barren desert backdrop especially fitting.
The desert was the original empty, uncultivated, barren space, and he made it bloom, and then he went on to win two wars that otherwise might have meant the completion of the annihilative project.
The TV show catalog was barren, too, and the layout made it tough to find anything.
This high, barren, white desert is so remote and so inhospitable that no human beings have ever made it their natural home.
