Because of this Dr. Bonnor holds that the universe is becoming more thinly populated by stars and whatever else is there.

The country through which it passes is thinly populated, and is dominated by tundra, with a rich variety of plant life.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Some areas, like the thinly populated Island of Lewis and Harris suffered some of the highest proportional losses of any part of Britain.

Pakistan was left with territory that, although basically Muslim in character, was thinly populated, relatively inaccessible, and economically underdeveloped.

Anti-Lebanon is more arid, especially in its northern parts, than Mount Lebanon and is consequently less productive and more thinly populated.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

Areas around the southern part of Lake Maracaibo are swampy, and, despite the rich agricultural land and significant petroleum deposits, the area was still thinly populated in 1990.

Rural, thinly populated, and sharing a border with an often hostile Scotland, the region became a wild place where reivers raided across the border and outlaws took refuge from justice.

Part of the problem was that the islands were so thinly populated, it was almost impossible to constitute the organs of government.

Settlers in thinly populated areas gathered at the camp meeting for fellowship as well as worship.

The forest itself was thinly populated, but Akan-speaking peoples began to move into it toward the end of the 15th century, with the arrival of crops from Southeast Asia and the New World that could be adapted to forest conditions.

It is located on the Chukchi Peninsula in the very thinly populated Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia.

Much of this coast is thinly populated but overgrazing, particularly south of Mogadishu, has resulted in the destruction of the protective vegetation cover and the gradual movement of the once-stationary dunes inland.

Paris's growing population reached 400, 000 during the period, causing the city to spill out past the Bastille and the old city into the arable farmland beyond, forming more thinly populated " faubourgs ", or suburbs.

The oblast is very thinly populated, with a population density of 3. 5 people per square kilometer, compared to a national average of 8. 7.

Located in southeast California, the thinly populated deserts and mountains of this vast county stretch from where the bulk of the county population resides, the roughly 480 square miles south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River.

The inland rural areas are thinly populated.

For much of the 17th Century, North Stonington was thinly populated by the Pequots and European settlers.

Some musical genres – particularly country, oldies, nostalgia and ethnic / world music – survive on AM, especially in areas where FM frequencies are in short supply or in thinly populated or mountainous areas where FM coverage is poor.

The incorporation included an area of thinly populated land separate from the remainder of the village.

It is the county seat of the thinly populated county – in 2000, only 3, 404 people lived in the entire county, and McCamey was the only larger town.

Maricopa County also extends south into the area of the Gadsden Purchase, but this area is also thinly populated.

Heuvelland is a thinly populated rural municipality, located between the small urban centres of Ieper en Poperinge and the metropolitan area of Kortrijk-Lille along the E17.

It describes the potential for a thinly distributed population in the area, though no birds have been located away from the primary site.

The area around the bridge, where Kleppestø and Strussham are located, and the east coast, especially the very urban settlement of Florvaag which for many decades had excellent direct communication with downtown Bergen via ferries, are densely populated, while the northern and western parts of the island are thinly populated.

The valley, however, is thinly forested and is spread out to the north and west.

In the mid 18th century, many within the British Empire viewed the Ohio River Valley, a region west of the Appalachian Mountains thinly populated by American Indians, as a source of potential wealth.

All main characters in the film are based on real people from the Danish film industry, with the thinly veiled portrayals including Jens Albinus as director Nils Malmros, Dejan Čukić as screenwriter Mogens Rukov and Søren Pilmark in an especially unflattering portrayal as sex-obsessed school principal Henning Camre.

At this velocity, even a rifle-bullet sized projectile will penetrate the front armor of a main battle tank, let alone a thinly protected missile guidance system.

In 1986, Gordon starred in the movie Round Midnight as ' Dale Turner ', an expatriate jazz musician much like himself ; the role might even be a thinly veiled biography of him, though Lester Young and Bud Powell were its main inspirations.

There are many varieties of smoked pork, including ham and a soft sausage with a large-grained filling ; these are served as a main course or thinly sliced in sandwiches.

He therefore committed his main strength to besieging the city, leaving the front line only thinly held.

Thomas's father was a vice-principal at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, and the main character attended a " thinly disguised version " of the school.

At the end of the game, he must get to Citadark Isle and battle the main villain: Master Greevil, who, in the beginning of the game, was thinly disguised as an old rich man named Mr. Verich.

In Italy, this is called pancetta and is usually cooked in small cubes or served uncooked and thinly sliced as part of an antipasto.

Though Florence was part of one of the original townships laid out by the Lords Proprieters in 1719, it was slowly and thinly settled until the coming of the railroads.

The evidence they provide for the incomplete integration of the two populations is supported by research into placename history, the history of religious houses, and local archaeology, which indicates that the western part of Wessex was thinly settled by the Germanic newcomers at the time the laws were issued.

Seventh-day Adventists interpret the " two horned beast " that " came out of the wilderness " and " spoke meekly " to mean the United States because it passed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was established in a thinly settled part of the world compared to Roman and Byzantine Europe, and because it declared support for democracy, rule of law, and at least the rights of all white men, rich or poor.

For the most part thinly scattered in an inhospitable territory, split by the southern expansion of the Chokwe, and lacking the conditions for even partial political centralization, let alone unification, the groups constituting the category went different ways when nationalist activity gave rise to political movements based in part on regional and ethnic considerations.

The northern part of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France, is antipodal to some thinly populated desert in Mauritania, a part of the former French West Africa.

St. Paul Island and Amsterdam Island are antipodal to thinly populated parts of the eastern part of the US state of Colorado.

These vignettes were sponsored by the fictional group, " Evangelists Against Television, Movies and Entertainment ", the anagram for which reads " EATME "-a thinly veiled joke on the WWF's part.

Perhaps in part due to this, the film was criticised as thinly veiled pornography by some sections of the media.

Orchids and Ermine was released in 1927, filmed in part in New York, a thinly veiled Cinderella story.

As the author himself has admitted, a large part of the novel is a thinly disguised account of le Carré's own early life.