Many deserts are formed by rain shadows, as mountains block the path of moisture and precipitation to the desert.

Many Egyptian Christians went to the desert during the 3rd century, and remained there to pray and work and dedicate their lives to seclusion and worship of God.

Many other names have been ascribed to the gray whale, including desert whale, devil fish, gray back, mussel digger and rip sack.

Many of Mali ’ s major thoroughfares in the north are little more than desert tracks with long isolated stretches.

Many of these trips used motor vehicles ( Ford Model-Ts ) which employed special techniques for driving in desert conditions.

Many desert areas have limestone hills or mountains within them or close to them that can be exploited as groundwater resources.

Many desert and semidesert species are particularly pale, some almost silvery or whitish ( e. g. Arabian oryx ); the Beisa and southern oryxes have gray and black pelages with vivid black-and-white faces.

Many of the thousands of people crossing the Sonoran desert to work in U. S. agriculture or to smuggle controlled substances seek emergency assistance from the Tohono O ' odham Police Department when they become dehydrated or get stranded.

Many of these films are low-budget affairs, shot in locations ( for example, the Spanish desert region of Almería ) chosen for their inexpensive crew and production costs as well as their similarity to landscapes of the Southwestern United States.

Many desert animals do not drink even if water becomes available, but rely on eating succulent plants.

Many plant species are adapted to desert or summer drought typical of Mediterranean climate and therefore have a high tolerance to saline soil.

Many of the soldiers, disgusted with the conduct of Antony, offered the command to him ; but he preferred to desert the party altogether, and defected to Augustus shortly before the battle of Actium in 31 BC.

Many of the cities in Asia Minor revolt and some of his most trusted friends desert him.

Many religious traditions ( e. g. Buddhism, Jainism, the Christian desert fathers ) include practices that involve restraint with respect to actions of body, speech, and mind.

Many people think that Arizona is a vast, open desert without vegetation.

Many streams descend from the ravines only to wither away on the desert basin floors before uniting in a trunk river along the axis of a depression.

Many of the camels were sold to private owners, others escaped into the desert.

Many Arabians also have a slight forehead bulge between their eyes, called the jibbah by the Bedouin, that adds additional sinus capacity, believed to have helped the Arabian horse in its native dry desert climate.

Many of the Marsh Arabs ' codes of behaviour were similar to those of the desert tribes.

Many ecologists now consider Shreve's Vizcaíno and Magdalena regions, which lie on the western side of the Baja California Peninsula, to be a separate ecoregion, the Baja California desert.

Many have evolved to have specialized adaptations to the desert climate.

Many famous Southern California desert resort cities such as Palm Springs and Palm Desert are located here.

Many are adapted to the arid climates of the desert.

Many cars cope very well until they have to go through the desert and then almost all suffer a great deal due to high temperatures and dust.

Many food plants are, or are grown as, annuals, including virtually all domesticated grains.

Many monocarpic annuals and biennials, including some ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana

Many of said cover stars are also credited with contributing content to the annuals, which also provide a showcase for Rowan Atkinson's talents as a ' rubber-faced ' comic, as well as the comic stylings of Newman and Husband from Private Eye, Viz's Chris Donald, Geoff Dunbar, Ted Dewan and The Daily Telegraph's Matt.

Many annuals flower over a period of time and can have flowers and seeds on the same plant at the same time, thus they are not hapaxanthic, because flowering does not lead to death.

Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.

Many selections are themselves convincing contributions to this appraisal.

Many of our very best friends are reformers.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

Many of these experiences are so important that they will be cherished forever by me.

Many hours are given free by the Jaycees to make this and all local pageants outstanding events.

Many adults showing at Westminster today are products of this Class.

Many cells, bacteria, and other microorganisms are transparent to visible light and must be stained for microscopic investigation.

Many of the cells and microorganisms which are transparent to visible light, absorb or reflect the much shorter wavelengths of the ultraviolet spectrum.

Many industry trade associations are developing campaigns to protect or enhance the share of the consumer's dollar being spent on their particular products.

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis.

Many other ( probably nearly all ) snakes at maturity are already more than half their final length.

Many of the new appointees are art collectors.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Many legislators are already weary and frustrated over the so-far losing battle to block token integration.

Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, or very close to that.

Many others are attracting the traffic needed to push revenues up to the break-even point.

Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep.

Many English Catholics are proud of their Catholicism and know that they are in a new ascendancy.

Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

Many caecilians and some other amphibians lay their eggs on land, and the newly hatched larvae wriggle or are transported to water bodies.