The center is a true oasis.

It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism.

I visited a community based women's centre in Anin that offered an oasis of hope.

It was built near an oasis that was then on the extreme western edge of China.

To neo conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.

Tourism Nami Island is an oasis for culture and leisure in peaceful harmony with humanity and nature.

Over millennia, Bahrain has been an oasis of peace, embracing people of all religions, creeds and races.

It is one of the smaller countries in West Africa, about one eighth the size of Nigeria, its neighbor to the east.

The world has lost hope that one day this information will be known.

Can Israel remain an oasis of stability, security, modernity, and economic growth in such a volatile environment?

As of 2010, there were five integrated schools in Israel, including that of Neve Shalom.

No one can remain safe and secure, or even content, while living in an oasis of wealth surrounded by a desert of poverty.

So now we had a system that we could actually take to some place that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the ocean that might be patrolled by large predators.

Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity.

The UNCTAD secretariat prepared a report entitled Economic Development in Africa Debt Sustainability Oasis or Mirage? , a summary version of which was presented to the Trade and Development Board at its fifty first session.

Indeed, at the onset of the financial crisis, Putin tried to bestride the world, portraying Russia as an island of stability and demanding the creation of a new global financial order, with the rouble to become one of the world s reserve currencies.

Despite its reputation for being a liberal haven in an otherwise conservative region, Lebanon has a shockingly poor record when it comes to Women's Rights.

The criminologist Manuel Eisner scoured all of the historical records across Europe for homicide rates in any village, hamlet, town, county that he could find, and he supplemented them with national data, when nations started keeping statistics.

Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity. But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

Also at the same meeting, statements were made by the representatives of the following non governmental organizations in consultative status with the Council All Pakistan Women's Association Association des mères tunisiennes, also on behalf of Fondation internationale carrefour World Information Transfer and Oasis Open City Foundation.

As political reform achieves results, Israel will no longer be able to claim that it is the only democracy in the Middle East with conditions changing on the ground, it will be increasingly difficult to ignore Palestinians demand for independence.

But Europe is no longer perceived as a global actor and rightly so. It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism.