Sentence examples for sprawling desert from inspiring English sources

In October last year, the Guardian saw vast military bases already in place in the sprawling desert outside the town.

In 1996, the sprawling desert country launched one of Africa's most successful campaigns to end the devastating practice.

The first was Malan, a military base that would serve as the headquarters for Lop Nur, a sprawling desert test site, larger than Ireland, where at least 45 nuclear tests were conducted between 1964 and 1996.

Security disintegrated almost immediately after the last Marines went home in October 2014, turning over to Afghans the sprawling desert remains of their largest bases, Camp Leatherneck and Camp Bastion.

In towns and villages on the flat lands south towards Baghdad and in the communities that dot the sprawling desert west towards the border with Syria, militant groups are imposing their influence with brutal efficiency.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 — Tribal sheiks in flowing robes, American military commanders in pressed uniforms and senior members of the Iraqi government gathered Friday at the sprawling desert farm of a prominent Sunni Arab tribal leader who was assassinated Thursday.

In Rajasthan, the sprawling Indian desert state that shares the largest stretch of border with Pakistan, shifting sand dunes obscure the fence from time to time, or a fierce sandstorm smothers entire sections of barbed wire.

In few cities is this more apparent than in the District, where sprawling food deserts sweep through some of the poorest areas of city, home to some of the city's 142,000 residents who receive SNAP benefits.

His realm runs from sprawling salt deserts to the snowcapped peaks of the Zagros Mountains, from southern marshes along the Persian Gulf to damp northern forests known as the "cloud jungle". Mohammad Darvish, 47, is Iran's green gladiator, engaged in a quixotic, often lonesome quest to elevate his homeland's environmental IQ.

IT SEEMED so promising mirrors sprawled across desert land in the scorching south-west delivering clean electricity and helping to wean Americans off imported fossil fuels.

Its sprawling neighbourhoods stand deserted, desolate, destroyed in a haunting monument to months of brutal conflict.