Never mind whether the Kikiyus and the Bantus enjoyed Wilsonian self-determination: the point is that in the struggle for the world that vast land mass was under the domination and influence of the West.

By mid-June, millions of Americans will take to the road on vacation trips up and down and back and forth across this vast and lovely land.

As a consequence of his vision and audacity, there was now a land free from kings, a vast continent for new beginnings.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.

Conquistadors deposed the Aztec, Inca and Maya governments with extensive help from local factions and laid claim to vast stretches of land in North and South America.

Through land subsidies granted to the railroads, they soon came to control vast tracts of the best land along the Caribbean coast.

However, this vast land had a population of only 14 million.

The vast majority of IKEA stores are located outside of city centres, primarily because of land cost and traffic access.

The Taliban denied UN food supplies to 160, 000 starving civilians, and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.

Aside from the richest and most powerful of the dukes and the king himself, Lombard noblemen tended to live in cities ( unlike their Frankish counterparts ) and hold little more than twice as much in land as the merchant class ( a far cry from the provincial Frankish aristocrat who held a vast swathe of land hundreds of times larger than the nearest man beneath him ).

" Under the law of association, transmission of wealth does not apply to the instruments of labour, so cannot become a cause of inequality .... We are socialists ... under universal association, ownership of the land and of the instruments of labour is social ownership ... We want the mines, canals, railways handed over to democratically organised workers ' associations ... We want these associations to be models for agriculture, industry and trade, the pioneering core of that vast federation of companies and societies, joined together in the common bond of the democratic and social Republic.

While a continent like Australia consists of a large body of land surrounded by a fringe of continental shelf, Zealandia consists almost entirely of continental shelf, with the vast majority, some 93 %, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Following rain, Wadis can fill with rainwater water and vast tracts of land can be flooded.

However, the rapid development ( 8 % of increase of passengers served at Polish airports in 2008 compared to 2007 ) of the unsaturated market and the existence of vast areas of land, not covered by airports within 100 kilometers of journey, allow to assume that many new airports could be necessary to properly serve this land pupulated by appox.

Desperate for cash because of heavy debts incurred in London in the early postwar period, the Colorados lacked a source of funds except through the sale of the state's vast holdings, which comprised more than 95 percent of Paraguay's total land.

This led to very feudalised areas, such as León and Portugal, whereas Castile, an arid land with vast plains and harsh climate only attracted peasants with no hope in Biscay.

The vast majority of Shanghai's land area is flat, apart from a few hills in the southwest corner, with an average elevation of.

The Burnaby campus is composed of a vast complex of interconnected buildings spanning across 1. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of land across Burnaby Mountain, from the eastern end of the campus to the western side, where the UniverCity urban village is located.

The Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160, 000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.

The province is on the border of what may be called the arid zone ; it is the debatable land between the north-eastern and south-western monsoons, and beyond the influence of either.

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

As in the rest of Bahrain, the land is generally flat ( or gently rolling ) and arid.

It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent ; with a total land area of, it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two mainland territories.

The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa.

Although the intent was to grant land for agriculture, in the arid areas east of the Rocky Mountains, was generally too little land for a viable farm ( at least prior to major federal public investments in irrigation projects ).

The Native Americans ended up with a total of over of land ranging from arid deserts to prime agricultural land.

In such areas, roads usually are built halfway up the arid elevations in order to maximize the intensive agricultural use of the irrigated land.

Having traversed more than their share of dry and arid land, the discovery of water, wherever it was, merited rejoicing.

Facilitated on the national level by the Carey act of 1894, arid land in Harney County was donated to the state for irrigation and settlement, but all water development efforts failed.

The forested land of the county vary from sparse stands of Western Juniper in more arid, open, or rocky ground, to Sub-Alpine and High-Alpine fir stands in the highest terrain.

The nuns have essentially no money and subsist by living off the land, on what vegetables the arid climate provides, and some milk and eggs.

The Park is ranked as one of the most significant arid land ecosystems in the world.

The arid, barren land around Kerman seemed to be a good venture, so that happened to be the allotment for Fresno County.

Chartered in 1875 and named for Michael Montraville Weaver who gave the land for the town, Weaverville sits along the Dry Ridge ( named by the Indians for its arid conditions ).

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter-brush.

As one goes further east, the Altiplano is an area of very dry arid land.

Irrigation in the vast area downstream of the Vanderkloof Dam, which has turned thousands of hectares of arid veld into highly productive agricultural land, was made possible by the construction of the Gariep Dam and the Vanderkloof Dam.

He suggested that agricultural development of land causes arid lands to generate higher amounts of rain (" rain follows the plow ").