Some large areas were still, after 42 years, barren and devoid of any vegetation, showing the very poor resilience (recovery potential) of these soils.
"So many encounters in those years were devoid of any logic, save that of the dreamwork," she writes.
The proposed union had been closely watched in a year largely devoid of major deal activity, to say nothing of big European transactions.
Just… wow" – comes courtesy of Italian creator-director Paolo Sorrentino, sometime darling of Cannes and Oscars, and it might just be the most astonishing piece of television to grace our screens this 2016, a year not devoid of contenders.
The first volume, which has been out of print for nearly 15 years, was not devoid of black faces; there was one on Page 163, a bow-tied lawyer in a crowd at a cocktail party.
OK, so it didn't quite work when the academy tried it 26 years ago — "surprisingly devoid of magic," The Times said in its review.
Animals analysed in the present study will be referred to as postnatal when a typical EGL is present in the cerebellum (from birth to 5 weeks of life), peripuberal when a SPL is detectable on the cerebellar surface (from 2 to 5 months), and adult (1 3 years old rabbits, devoid of cerebellar SPL).
After a first year in office devoid of substantive achievement, Washington insiders say the president must show he is ready to fight, to get down and dirty, to drop his professorial aloofness and get publicly passionate and angry about the things he believes in.
And although the New York theater continues to be a leader in the recycling business, aside from Brian Bedford's scintillating revival of "The Importance of Being Earnest" and a frisky and fresh "Cherry Orchard" from the director Andrei Belgrader, the year was mostly devoid of revelatory reimaginings of classics.
One told me that his first 3-year contract was devoid of annual bonuses.
