(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).
Vegetation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
(n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
(n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(6) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
(7) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(10) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(11) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(12) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(13) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(14) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
(15) This site is present in both vegetative cells and postaggregation cells.
(16) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
(17) In the third part, the practical application of this knowledge to processed foods is shown using milk and vegetable protein as examples.
(18) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(19) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(20) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.