The Pilbara is a large, dry, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

Efforts in that regard should not be weakened by spreading resources too thinly with time consuming negotiations aimed at developing new instruments.

Only small number of women living in remote and thinly populated areas has not been able to enjoy cultural, art, radio and television programmes.

It is for the Member States to ensure that we are not imposing too many tasks on the Secretariat and spreading resources too thinly.

There was no gainsaying that in some conflict theatres, some troublesome elements could be encouraged to engage in irregular activities, particularly where personnel were spread thinly.

Given their large, battered holdings of peripheral eurozone countries sovereign debt, many of Europe s thinly capitalized banks would be insolvent if their assets were marked to market.

But more recently Erdogan and his allies have launched a thinly disguised campaign to intimidate their opponents and cement government control over the media and public institutions.

The more thinly capitalized banks are, the more severe these distortions and the larger the expected costs rising from insulating executives from potential losses to non shareholder stakeholders.

European banks are far more thinly capitalized, and account for a much larger share of credit extended, than banks in the US, where much more lending originates in capital markets.

On the same day, German Army Group G ( Heeresgruppe G ) and Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) launched a major offensive against the thinly stretched, line of the Seventh U.S. Army.

Indeed, Greenspan s political stances were so thinly disguised as professional wisdom that his tenure exposed the dubiousness of the very notion of an independent central bank and a non partisan central banker.

On the other hand, the activities of INSTRAW are and continue to be dispersed thinly among a variety of those themes, since under each the Institute is responsible for only one or two narrowly defined activities.

Traditionally you can get a Wurstsemmel (a roll filled, usually, with Extrawurst a special kind of thinly sliced sausage, often with a slice of Cheese and a Pickle or Cornichon) at a Butcher or at the delicatessen counter in a supermarket.

There is a particular irony to a self proclaimed Hindu nationalist like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label.

He expressed appreciation for all the work that had gone into producing the draft strategic long term vision statement, which highlighted UNIDO's desired profile in the multilateral development system, and welcomed its focus on three key areas so that resources were not spread too thinly over too many areas.

On the contrary, many Shia perceived Iraqiya as a thinly disguised effort to roll back Shia gains and restore Sunni rule. The Sunnis, after all, are no more secular than the Shia they simply have an interest in reducing the importance of a sectarian identity that dooms them to minority status.