Soil

The Niger has three climate zones a desert and semi arid zone, which covers some 67 per cent of its land area and which is attributable to the country's landlocked status and latitudinal location.

Morocco claimed a right to Western Sahara yet Western Sahara was not Moroccan, it was Saharan.

Sakhir () is a desert area located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, near Zallaq.

(Signed) Rabbani Mohamed Abdelkader Personalité Sahraouie Ex Ministre du Polisario

Togo is a tropical, sub Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with a climate that provides good growing seasons.

During the rainy season from June to September, the area is fertile, but in the dry season, it is virtually desert.

Rabbani Mohamed Abdelkader, Personalité Sahraouie, ex Ministre du POLISARIO (A C.4 60 5 Add.39)

Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged.

The soil is rich in silt, making the plain one of the most intensely farmed areas of the world.

There are four main desert areas on the peninsula the San Felipe Desert, the Central Coast Desert, the Vizcaíno Desert and the Magdalena Plain Desert.

Reforms, after all, are not hothouse plants that can be transplanted at will in any soil.

The star also represents the island itself a land of often red soil bordered by white beaches in a blue sea.

The boom that Dubai has been experiencing since the 1990s is still going on, transforming the city from a desert village to a world class economic hub.

Many concepts essential to understanding soil come from individuals not identifiable strictly as soil scientists.

The history of Europe was full of examples of xenophobia and intolerance being propagated to create fertile ground for subsequent violence.

But the land was of clay soil and inaccessible in the rain there was no good road.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and safely return a sample of lunar soil back to Earth.

Chad is divided into multiple regions a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south.

More than 90 per cent of the land in the region is hyper arid or desert, while the remaining area is classified as dry .

And you can actually get optimal nutritional yield by running a kind of high quality liquid soil over plants' root systems.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth

If you can drop this recipe on the map on a sandy soil, on a clay soil, on a steep slope, on flat soil, you put those different recipes if you combine them, out of that comes a business plan, comes a work plan, and you can optimize it for the amount of labor you have available or for the amount of fertilizer you have, and you can do it.

Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings.

For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp as America discovered in Vietnam.

West of the hills, the land is inhospitable desert, making the region between the hills and the coast the only easily traversed approach to northern Tunisia.

During the Pleistocene Epoch, continental ice sheets depressed the land surface (see Hudson Bay), scooped out thousands of lake basins, and carried away much of the region's soil.

Letter dated 24 September 2005 from Rabbani Mohamed Abdelkader, Personalité Sahraouie, ex Ministre du Polisario, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

As many of Lebanon s poorest are Shia, this provides fertile ground for Hezbollah recruiters.

Immediately north of the ancient port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv lies on land that used to be sand dunes and as such has relatively poor soil fertility.

If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away, and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

Canopy soil can occur up to a meter deep, hundreds of feet above the ground, and there are organisms in this soil that have, as yet, no names.

PARIS Mali is a landlocked West African country of 15 million people, covering 1,240,000 square kilometers (478,800 square miles), three quarters of it desert.

Thousands of people have been forcibly moved to sites in desert areas tens of kilometres outside Khartoum where there are no, or wholly insufficient, life sustaining services.

The American occupiers of Iraq, through their policy of de Baathification, left Iraq without an army or a government, which proved to be fertile ground for Sunni insurgents, al Qaeda, and violent Shia groups.

Approximately 500,000 were killed in the last seven months of 1915, with the majority of the survivors deported to desert areas in Syria, where they died from either starvation or disease.

A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.

In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.

It's not a particularly great metaphor in these times, especially if you live around the Gulf of Mexico, but I would, perhaps, adapt this metaphor slightly, and I would say that data is the new soil.

They said We did not break our promise to you of our own will , but we were made to carry the loads of ornaments belonging to the people , which we threw ( into the fire ) , and so did Sameri .

They said , We did not renege on our promise to you on our own will , but we were made to carry the burdens of ornaments of the people , so we cast them and similarly did Samri cast .

' We have not failed in our tryst with thee , ' they said , ' of our volition but we were loaded with fardels , even the ornaments of the people , and we cast them , as the Samaritan also threw them , into the fire . '