Sentence examples for salt pit from inspiring English sources

But on Bilma's edge, away from the date palms that cast long shadows and thwart the great desert's advance, a husband and wife were toiling together in a salt pit.

The report said Najar, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, was held at the so-called CIA salt pit in Afghanistan where his interrogation included "isolation in total darkness; lowering the quality of his food; keeping him at an uncomfortable (cold) temperature, playing music 24 hours a day and keeping him shackled and hooded".

And true believers swear that if you look across the salt pit, an overpriced spa emerges from the shimmering haze.

The CIA, eager to interrogate an al Qaeda operative, quickly stepped in and rendered El-Masri to its secret prison in Afghanistan known as "the salt pit" for interrogation.

Work began on a new cut, lock and weir at Pickerings, but in 1759, the navigation was cut in half by the collapse of a salt pit at Northwich.

Her father owned five salt pits here, a stone's throw from where she stood now.

Kept by W.H. Auden, among others, commonplace books are storehouses, savings banks, salt pits, honey combs, golden gatesof great value, writes Herrick, the ultimate bookworm, who has shared his multifaceted finds on our pages before.

It was concluded that the dam reduced fish populations, but more importantly, flooded natural salt pits and spread them into rice and vegetable fields, destroying trees and crops.

Which brings us to that brisket, that exemplary specimen of Texas-style salt-and-pepper pit cooking Mr. Richter and Mr. Elrose practice.

In addition, Mr. Patteson said, the company also violated regulations by disposing of hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquids, produced directly after the drilling and containing high levels of salts, into the pit.

The influence of different kinds of inorganic salts on the PIT, electrophoretic properties and long-term stability of the o/w emulsion were studied by making measurements of conductivity, zeta potential and turbidity of the emulsion.