(n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
Example Sentences:
(1) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(2) We stayed at the Secret Garden Tulum Hotel (doubles from £63) which offers a green oasis at reasonable prices.
(3) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(4) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest WDBJ7’s station manager pays tribute to Adam Ward and Alison Parker WDBJ itself is an oasis in a down economy.
(6) The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.” Ofsted chief criticises independent schools' lack of help for state schools Read more Wilshaw’s letter was based on the results of inspections of the management and operations of seven academy chains running 220 schools across the country: AET, E-Act, Wakefield City Academies, Oasis, CfBT, The Education Fellowship and the most recent, School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA).
(7) Mark Coyle, who co-produced Definitely Maybe, said that Gallagher’s second solo LP reminds him “in some respects of the spirit” of Oasis’s 1994 debut.
(8) The OASI eligibility provisions include a retirement test (or earnings test), and in 1979 aged beneficiaries who are under age 72 give up $1 in current benefits for each $2 of annual earnings above $4,500.
(9) The image of the militants stalking the ruins of the ancient oasis, a hub of the Silk Road, has been a propaganda coup highlighting the impotence of the international community.
(10) The Trustees note that the combined assets of the OASI and DI programs will be sufficient to pay OASDI benefits on time well into the next century based on all four sets of economic and demographic assumptions.
(11) It said 12 had been killed and 10 injured in the shooting, understood to have taken place at the Bahariya oasis around 4pm on Sunday, local time.
(12) In the cities of Oasis and Riverside, Calif., tadpole shrimp significantly reduced the abundance of immature mosquitoes (Cx.
(13) The relationship between drying (moisture content) of soil and tadpole shrimp hatch was determined in studies conducted in mesocosms at the University of California Aquatic and Vector Control Research facilities at Riverside and at Oasis in the Coachella Valley of southern California.
(14) The burrows of R. opimus were the main shelters and breeding places of the sandflies, but infection was not transmitted equally in all burrows.It was known that the distribution of sandflies within the burrows was influenced by the humidity in the different parts of the burrow and a survey showed that the highest rate of infection of gerbils occurred in the burrows in those areas with the highest subsoil moisture content.Studies of the prevalence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among people in the settlements of the Murghab oasis showed that the years with the highest infection rate were also years with slightly higher rainfall and lower air temperatures in this area.
(15) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
(16) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
(17) Celebrity use Celebrities who have admitted taking ecstasy include Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who claimed that taking drugs is 'like having a cup of tea', boyband star Brian Harvey and Blur's Damon Albarn.
(18) And, Jinkyo-En which was a desolate waste has come to an oasis in life for the Hansenites.
(19) The Trustees note that the assets of the OASI and DI Trust Funds, on a combined basis, will be sufficient to permit the timely payment of OASDI benefits for many years into the future, on the basis of all four sets of assumptions shown in the report.
(20) Therefore, hatch rates at Oasis were not associated with the length of the drying period (G = 35, P greater than 0.05).
Savanna
Definition:
(n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(2) All the districts were situated in the savanna zone.
(3) In savanna the prevalence of serious ocular lesions and blindness due to onchocerciasis are much higher than in forest.
(4) sp., is described from the subcutaneous tissues of the savanna armadillo (Dasypus sabanicola) in Venezuela.
(5) species complex has been implicated in disease transmission and only the two dangerous, morphologically similar, savanna cytospecies, S. damnosum s.s. and S. sirbanum, have been identified from breeding sites close to known onchocerciasis foci.
(6) Whilst the overall antigenic patterns were similar, there were, however, clear differences between the antigen preparations which gives further evidence for antigenic diversity of O. volvulus from savanna and rain forest areas.
(7) Extant bovids inhabit a wide diversity of environments that range from forest to savanna and display locomotor patterns that are habitat specific.
(8) The rates of onchocercal ocular disease and blindness, however, were significantly lower than those found in savanna villages with similar levels of endemicity.
(9) Results indicated that, apart from malnutrition during the dry season, gastrointestinal nematode infections, especially haemonchosis, represent a major constraint on the health and productivity of N'Dama cattle under West African savanna conditions.
(10) Single-element strain gauges were placed across the mesokinetic joint of the skull of the savanna monitor lizard, Varanus exanthematicus Bosc, in order to document the extent and timing of mesokinetic movement.
(11) It allows a good prediction of the severity of onchocercal ocular disease in savanna communities using parasitological information only.
(12) In the savanna the corresponding quantities were much higher in the three more heavily infected villages compared with the three less heavily infected ones.
(13) Forest onchocerciasis is not a major cause of uveitis in southern Nigeria in the same way as savanna onchocerciasis is in northern Nigeria.
(14) A total of 1,705 sandflies was collected by sticky trap from the Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria to determine their seasonal and spatial fluctuations in abundance.
(15) One hundred and six asthma patients were studied in Zaria in the Nigerian savanna region.
(16) The examination of 250 cases of onchocerciasis from the Sudan-savanna of northern Cameroon showed a strong association between microfilarial invasion of the eye and microfilarial skin concentrations at the outer canthus.
(17) A cloned sequence, pOvs134, was isolated from a genomic library prepared from Onchocerca volvulus of savanna origin in the plasmid pUC9.
(18) The prevalence of moderate or severe skin lesions was 17.7% in forest and 13.0% in savanna villages.
(19) "It's the only park in the world with three types of great apes (mountain and lowland gorillas, chimpanzees), extensive large savanna mammals (elephants, buffaloes, hippos, large cats etc), and completely unique species like the okapi."
(20) Thus, one group was composed almost entirely of East African stocks, and another of stocks from both East and West Africa, although each group was of savanna origin.