Sentence examples for poor expanse from inspiring English sources
The international community has historically taken little interest in Mauritania since its independence from France in 1960, because until recently it was seen as a poor expanse of desert with little strategic value (it has one of the lowest GDPs in Africa, making it among the poorest countries in the world).
It is Pakistan's biggest and poorest province: a vast expanse of arid plains and brittle hills, home to 5m people, half of whom are impoverished.
Despite being strong in the water, I had three neuroses about diving: agoraphobia about the vast open expanses, claustrophobia about poor visibility, and acrophobia, fear of the drops.
Nevertheless it is the same wall and does the same job: keeping out the wilderness and that great expanse of the fleeing poor and all their droughts and earthquakes and floods.
Underwater, I'm still prone to pangs of claustrophobia from poor visibility, or agoraphobia from the vast expanse, but I've rationalised my fear of sharks.
The Beijing episode follows several months of escalating violence in Xinjiang that has taken more than 100 lives, most of them in the heavily Uighur south, a thinly populated expanse of desert flecked with ancient, largely poor oasis towns.
In the mock kitchen of the rehearsal studio, Mr. Tucci's character was delivering a defense of his poor sexual performance, his mighty eyebrows raised to fill the expressive expanse above.
Chongming, relatively poor and undeveloped compared with the neighbouring city, has long looked ripe for development into yet another expanse of factories and commuter towns.
Various papers have recently demonstrated the competitive advantage conferred by the ability to cache iron, enabling certain bacterial species to dominate areas of the world's oceans that are typically iron-poor, such as in the expanses around the Antarctic [ 42].
"I like the open expanse.
