* Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union, various " Great Famines "

Droughts, combined with policy failures, have periodically led to major Indian famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876 – 78, and the Bengal famine of 1943.

Droughts of the early and mid-1990s dried out the marshy northern margin of the lake.

Droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

Droughts, peasant unrest and mass protests over taxes and food shortages became common occurrences.

*" Droughts are common during summers in Country X, so water is hard to find there in August.

Droughts can last for many months and waterholes may dry up.

Droughts can be especially useful to cropmark hunters as the differential growth can become apparent in normally hardy species such as grass.

Droughts and storms are expected to increase in frequency and severity, undermining the efforts of farmers, foresters and fishers.

Droughts and uncertainty surrounding the region's annual peanut crop led some farmers to diversify and grow grapes.

Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union tended to occur on a fairly regular basis, with famine occurring every 10 – 13 years and droughts every 5 – 7 years.

Droughts frequently occur during the winter months, and infrequently during summers when very little rain falls and drought conditions prevail.

Droughts occur for a variety of reasons, from chronic mismanagement to bad luck.

dust choked their throats and lay like acid in their lungs.

Not gray like the dust that collects in an unused room, but white.

Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust, for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the dead ". 26: 19

NASA has approved a fourth two-year extended mission, through August 2012, to allow for the observation of year-to-year differences in phenomena like polar ice, clouds, and dust storms, as well as a much more sensitive mapping of Martian minerals.

Its relative rarity on Earth, like that of helium, is due to its relative lightness, high vapor pressure at very low temperatures, and chemical inertness, all properties which tend to keep it from being trapped in the condensing gas and dust clouds which resulted in the formation of smaller and warmer solid planets like Earth.

This manifests itself almost like an " atmosphere of dust ", visible as a thin haze and blurring of distant features, and visible as a dim glow after the sun has set.

Pumps also differ in details like manufacturing tolerances, sealing material, pressure, flow, admission or no admission of oil vapor, service intervals, reliability, tolerance to dust, tolerance to chemicals, tolerance to liquids and vibration.

A spiral galaxy like the Milky Way contains stars, stellar remnants and a diffuse interstellar medium ( ISM ) of gas and dust.

* Fractals derived from standard geometry by using iterative transformations on an initial common figure like a straight line ( the Cantor dust or the von Koch curve ), a triangle ( the Sierpinski triangle ), or a cube ( the Menger sponge ).

His machine did, in fact, have a rotating brush like a traditional carpet sweeper, and also possessed an elaborate bellows mechanism on top of the body to generate suction of dust and dirt.

Windy conditions will destabilize the spinning effect ( like a Tornado ) of a dust devil.

Attempting to reconcile the conflicting results, the Cahill team suggested that the high concentrations found by McCrone were due to a combination of contamination from modern dust, and poor sample selection ( i. e. choosing contaminant particles like those in the split ); however, they also chose not to publish or publicise Möller's loose particle study.

Rolling in like a massive desert dust storm across the horizon, the chemical cloud hugged the ground and blotted out the sun for several minutes before dissipating.

The gravitational pull of the planets determines where the dust trail would pass by Earth orbit, much like a gardener directing a hose to water a distant plant.

When the meteoroids pass by Earth, some are accelerated ( making wider orbits around the Sun ), others are decelerated ( making shorter orbits ), resulting in gaps in the dust trail in the next return ( like opening a curtain, with grains piling up at the beginning and end of the gap ).

Road dust may be suppressed by mechanical methods like sweeping vehicles, with vegetable oils, or with water sprayers.

In areas with a lot of small particles in the air, from human pollution or natural sources like dust, the water droplets are likely to be able to freeze at a temperature around, but in very clean areas, where there are no particles ( ice nuclei ) to help the droplets freeze, they can remain liquid to, at which point even very tiny, pure water droplets will freeze.

By naked eye, Diamond dust looks more like the photo below:

Tough, omnivorous ' bacteria ' could out-compete real bacteria: they could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days.

There the tiny animals () can find their food like booklice and house dust mites.

Although the bipedal Tasmanian Devil's appearance does not resemble its marsupial inspiration, it contains multilayered references to other " devils ": he has horn-shaped fur on his head ( similar to the Devil's appearance ) and whirls about like a dust devil ( similar in appearance to a tornado ) which sounds like several motors whirring in unison.

My God, keep my tongue and my lips from speaking deceit, and to them that curse me let my soul be silent, and like dust to all.

Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.

Other games came along and used the term " bowl ", whether the stadium was shaped like a bowl or not.

The shells ( phao ) are made of cast iron, as large as a bowl and shaped like a ball.

It is named such because program flow tends to look like a bowl of spaghetti, i. e. twisted and tangled.

" In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D ' Urbervilles, Tess remarks that " we have several proofs that we are d ' Urbervilles ... we have a very old silver spoon, round in the bowl like a little ladle, and marked with the same castle.

He doesn't live on the North Pole, but perhaps in a forest nearby, or in Denmark he lives on Greenland, and in Finland he lives in Lapland ; he doesn ’ t come down the chimney at night, but through the front door, delivering the presents directly to the children, just like the Yule Goat did ; he is not overweight ; and even if he nowadays sometimes rides in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, instead of just walking around with his sack, his reindeer don ’ t fly-and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway some still put out a bowl of porridge for him on Christmas Eve.

The president was often irritated by Rusk's reticence in advisory sessions and felt that the State Department was " like a bowl of jelly " and that it " never comes up with any new ideas.

In Mexican usage, tostada usually refers to a flat or bowl-shaped ( like a bread bowl ) tortilla that is toasted or deep fried.

They include all idiophones which are made to vibrate by being hit, either directly with a stick or hand ( like the wood block, singing bowl, triangle or marimba ), or indirectly, by way of a scraping or shaking motion ( like maracas or flexatone ).

The shape was like a circular bowl with a protruding beak.

* The tamper is a blunt instrument, either a simple dowel or shaped like the top of a nail, with a flat end for tamping down the tobacco when the bowl is being packed, and for crushing the ash together to aid relighting.

The nest shapes like a bowl and is weaved with twigs and weeds.

When he loped in to bowl he wore malevolence like Mandrake wore a cloak ... But for him, Redpath, Walters, Ian Chappell and probably even Paul Sheahan must have bloomed as most of them did against the West Indians in 1968-69.

Dana Shires remembered that " it sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner.

* kagamibutanetsuke ( 鏡蓋根付 ) or " mirror-lid netsuke "-shaped like a manju, but with a metal disc serving as a lid to a shallow bowl, usually of ivory.

Weetabix Bitesize is essentially a smaller " bite-sized " version of Weetabix that can be easily poured into a bowl, more like a traditional breakfast cereal.

The cups that are used are shaped like a shallow bell, a shallow bowl with a small knob handle on the top.

* " Giant in your toilet bowl ," a reference to Liquid-Plumr commercials saying that it cleared so well it was like " having a giant in your toilet bowl " with an animation of a large arm using a plunger on your toilet.

The first stage of the renovations were finished in time for the start of the 2012 season, with the addition of 7, 000 extra seats and 27 new corporate suites ( arranged to give the stadium a more " bowl "- like feel ), the SaskTel MaxTron video screen and scoreboard upgraded to a 60-foot LED screen ( with a second display directly alongside it in the shape of the province ), a new 55-inch video screen attached to the west grandstand, and ribbon screens along the bottom of the grandstands.

The body and neck of the instrument are carved out of one piece of wood, the body forming a bowl or gourd like a lute.

In restaurants or households that commonly use bare hands to eat, like in seafood foodstalls, traditional Sundanese and Minangkabau restaurants, or East Javanese pecel lele ( fried catfish with sambal ) and ayam goreng ( fried chicken ) food stalls, they usually serve kobokan, a bowl of tap water with a slice of lime in it to give a fresh scent.