Sentence examples for prairies from inspiring English sources

Settled in a rush of migration, peaking in the 1880s, Nebraska's prairies were parcelled out to German, Czech, Danish, Swedish and even Luxemburgish pioneers.

In the 1920s educational trains trundled through the prairies, pulling boxcars of animals and demonstration crops.

In Canada, for example, there is a fierce row in the prairies over Monsanto's new GM wheat.

That revived an old stereotype of the Conservatives as "Philistines from the west, sweeping out of the prairies towards the outposts of civilisation in Toronto and Montreal," says Roger Gibbins of the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta think-tank.

DURING the Depression of the 1930s, drought turned much of Alberta and Saskatchewan, on Canada's western prairies, into a dust bowl.

David Schindler, an ecologist at the University of Alberta, says that evidence from tree rings and ancient algae suggests that the prairies were drought-prone in the past and that the 20th century was unusually wet.

Instead of having one dominant power (the United States), and two smaller ones (Canada and Mexico), there are now four emergent rivals, more equal though the North still dominates economic- ally plus an area of uncertain conflict.That area runs from the prairies to the Rocky mountains.

This is just what it found when it commissioned a study of rape growing in the Canadian prairies.

Westward to the prairies, where a "very highly concerned" Clinton administration opened fire on July 31st, threatening a dumping investigation, or other means of curbing a surge in imports from Canada.

"It was hard to make prairies sexy when you're competing with snow-capped mountains," says one.

Zoologists looking to make a name for themselves and to help stave off future epidemics may therefore want to make the prairies the destination of their own obscure-rodent-studying field trips.