oases

However, in reality many of these experiences tend to be rather cushy programs, such as many of those in Western Europe, where universities house their students in American oases, where they have scarcely more contact with the "natives" than a tourist would.

Fixing higher ed: Catholic University's Brennan 2011

In what might be called the oases of the deep, life takes on a very different appearance.

Where Wonders Await Us Flannery, Tim 2007

The meeting of more than two lines at the oases is a phenomenon possibly of the same nature and also requiring explanation.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

Taking a natural view of the country, it is barren, sandy, and mountainous, interspersed with a few green spots, called oases, or made fertile by the inundation of some river in the rainy season.

Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa Selim Aga 1846

Makouran, whose merchandise they were escorting on its way to Timbuctoo, begged me to write a letter to the Sheikh of Ain-Salah, one of the oases, which is in direct commercial relations with Ghadames.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

+ [PII] + [geneaology] + 'oases': a multiplix definition of 'oasis'.

Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

+ [PII] + [geneaology] + 'oases': a multiplix definition of 'oasis'.

united states of america constitutional signaturee gate admin 2009

Diversity "focal points/hot spots" [12] and "oases" [13] enrich landscapes by possessing a larger number of species, including those of more southerly distribution.

Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009

She landscaped a photographer's studio in Venice with contrasting rectangles of arid crushed granite, representing desert, and "oases" sprouting California pepper trees and native lavender.

Green Dreams 2008

They cannot build cities on the sand of the desert, and the small patches of pasture and palm groves, kept fresh and green by solitary springs and called "oases," are too far apart, too distant from permanently peopled regions to admit of comfortable settlement.

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879