On those, it is almost impossible to create vast areas of bare ground, no matter what you do.

Vast areas of that country have been rendered uninhabitable.

All sources of renewable energy require large land areas within which to gather relatively large collectors in order to produce meaningful amounts of energy.

And so it takes a very large footprint on the land, a very large footprint in terms of materials, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Vast areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are contaminated with the radioactive remnants of the explosion.

The Israeli settlement policy would deprive Palestinians of vast areas of rich agricultural lands.

These areas are generally very broad, comprising large expanses of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans or the Indian Ocean.

And these are by far the greatest areas of the Earth.

There are immense stretches of land like this

A group of dedicated young men and women walk very slowly out across vast areas of Africa,

It had a beautiful facility, giant atrium, valet parking, a piano that played itself, a concierge that took you around from here to there.

By contrast, vast tracts of disputed land are at stake in the resource rich Himalayan region.

Infrastructure has been damaged and disrupted over vast, and now inaccessible, territories.

Brazil has cleared huge areas of its jungle in order to produce the bio ethanol that impressed the Secretary General.

Instead, they are carpeted over vast stretches of land, the apparent objective being to strike terror among civilians and to empty territory.

Those forces have abused our soil and are leaving behind considerable acreage with large numbers of unexploded devices.

And so it takes a very large footprint on the land, a very large footprint in terms of materials, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

It also left vast areas of farmland untended, making them available for pasture and putting more meat on the market.

The wall impeded freedom of movement in the Palestinian territory, swallowed up large areas of the territory and separated East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

Thousands of deaths and injuries had been caused by those landmines and other explosive remnants of war, which had also prevented the reclamation and cultivation of extensive areas of Libyan land.

It had a beautiful facility, giant atrium, valet parking, a piano that played itself, a concierge that took you around from here to there.

Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen were most seriously affected extended areas of infestation were treated in those countries.

The clean up operation was seen by the then Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine as an investment that would add a large area of useful land to the crowded capital.

Weather patterns are changing the rains, in certain areas, have been failing and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.

The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders.

Rural hydraulic projects, which ensure access to water for these populations over large stretches of land, can prove to be efficient conflict prevention tools.

While coastal China and its major metropolises evince tremendous wealth, large swaths of Western China remain mired in poverty.

Where there are extensive areas of public forest, the focus has been on setting concession rents and royalty rates to reflect market prices.

Farms are generally the only places where large enough areas are available to construct large wind generators and large solar power voltaic cells and cultivate large areas of suitable biomass for energy.

Year after year, the Kyrgyz Republic wages a struggle to prevent the exploitation of vast expanses of wild cannabis and other narcotic containing crops.

There are immense stretches of land like this land where hundreds of millions of people could live.

This would put vast, often densely populated, coastal areas in all parts of the world in danger of permanent flooding.

In parts of the Amazon where vast swaths of rainforest have been logged or cleared for agriculture, weather stations are already observing decreased rainfall, and forest fires have become more frequent.

If there is intelligent life, some parts of land could be covered in cities.

Drug barons and local warlords control increasingly large swaths of territory from Guinea on the Atlantic coast through Senegal to Mali, Niger, and beyond.

Many people seem to think that the US experience is not generalizable, because the US has so much land relative to its population.

A number of our nations are composed of many small islands spread over vast areas of ocean. Some, such as the Federated States of Micronesia, span an area almost as large as the continental United States.

Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains.

For example, vast areas of land of the occupied land were declared apos natural reserves apos or apos protected areas apos immediately after the signing of the Declaration of Principles.

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So, it's so like Earth, but at the same time, this is a barren landscape.

These components parts are themselves often separated by vast stretches of sea, making administration and control extremely difficult.

Being in virtual control of large swathes of Central American territory and being able to act with relative impunity are ultimately very good for business.

A group of dedicated young men and women walk very slowly out across vast areas of Africa, looking for small fragments of bone, fossil bone, that may be on the surface.

While there is only so much land in any one of the existing superstar cities, in every case, there are vast amounts of land where a new city could be started.