It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism.

The center is a true oasis.

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

The Storm after the Calm

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

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

The Storm Before the Calm

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

Thank you. Ooh, I'm like, Phew, phew, calm down. Get back into my body now.

If anything, it is the calm before an approaching storm.

The Japanese typically try to keep quiet.

Calm is gradually returning.

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

Although there was calm, the village had not yet surrendered.

But the relative quiet in the ongoing ideological, political, and diplomatic conflict between the two groups of countries is only temporary. If anything, it is the calm before an approaching storm.

Keeping Calm on North Korea

To be quiet in class is to respect other people's sleep.

The Cold War saw periods of both heightened tension and relative calm.

The Doha agreement might allow a number of months, or years, of relative calm.

Finally, the Algerian got control of the boat and we began to calm down.

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

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.

They approached the casket, all of them, and with that same beautiful serenity they laid their flowers on my mother s tomb.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

And in between, they have a couple of hours of sort of meditative quiet in bed.

Since then, the Shab'a farms area has been tense but quiet.

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

We have already addressed the problem of consensus on other occasions, with a certain spirit of calm.

For its part, Taiwan needs to calm down.

I return to my world, where I discovered tranquillity and had an opportunity to read and learn.

I would not have kept silent, but a friend calmed me down.

The silence is interrupted when a 40 year old man starts pressing his palms against the wall.

His aim is to obtain and maintain calm along the border.

A show of overwhelming force might restore calm to the markets.

What does my son learn if I yell while telling him to calm down?

All of this has underpinned a much welcome calm in financial markets.

So will today s relative market calm continue? Unfortunately, no.

I say, Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here. Give me a break.

All of these choices helped return slack to energy markets.

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.

As the room fall silent, only the ticking sound of an old clock could be heard.

Lababidi says he wants to stay on Jeju, where he appreciates the relative calmness of the island.