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Greater flamingos fill the sky over Provence's Camargue Regional Nature Park, one of the first bird sanctuaries in Europe.

The temple plan is laid out on an east-west axis, clearly marked by a pair of small niches or sanctuaries, each about the size of a closet.

Mr Karzai seems to have stopped lambasting Pakistan for tolerating sanctuaries within its borders for Taliban insurgents.

Maj. Gen. CARTER: We have sufficient force levels now to be able to get after many of the areas that have been sanctuaries for them.

Whether to attack the sanctuaries was a close call, on which honest and serious individuals might well differ.

The modified Symbol of the Light seems to mark sanctuaries and holy places.

Today Christians worship in a wide variety of places - from beautiful sanctuaries to small huts to open-air meeting grounds.

Ending chimpanzee research and retiring the animals to sanctuaries would save taxpayers about $30 million a year.

It is possible to restrict deliberate dumping in marine sanctuaries , but difficult to keep out whatever comes from adjacent land and sea.

I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

Each of these opulent individual sanctuaries is sea facing and surrounded by tropical gardens.

The researchers constructed oyster reefs in nine protected sanctuaries on the Great Wicomico River, which flows into Chesapeake Bay.

In numerous areas off the California coast, the plan for sanctuaries will either limit the take, or make fishing completely off-limits.

The designation of special marine reserves and marine sanctuaries shall be subject to approval by the State Council.

They signed a declaration at the United Nations to develop shark sanctuaries that would end the commercial fishing of sharks.

Coalition commanders and Afghan officials blame militant sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the border for the rise in insurgent attacks.

Pew has worked with the governments of Palau and the Maldives to help establish the world's only shark sanctuaries in their waters.

For all the talk of bars as sanctuaries, they exist to push booze, which can be a devastating force.

One of the few sanctuaries now left to them are the ceremonial steps, or ghats, at riverside temples .

And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

Not all cults have their sanctuaries battered down by a tank from the FDA as in the U.

Dr Chandler says that marine conservation now requires either the reform of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act or entirely new legislation.

The catholic church protected the criminals in their sanctuaries as long as they became converted christians.

She also founded sanctuaries for chimps who could be freed from captivity, including many orphaned by the bush-meat trade.

Taliban sanctuaries in South Waziristan and North Waziristan directly threaten Paktika, Khost and Paktia provinces of Afghanistan.

BOWMAN: Taking away their hiding places, their sanctuaries means the Taliban have nowhere to go, except maybe back home.

for tombs, temples, sanctuaries, and catacombs were generally designed in horizontal divisions and vertical axes.

Sam Mun Island in Shenzhen's Daya Bay and Mirs Bay interchange forward military sanctuaries was then transferred to local governments.

Our homes should be among the most hallowed of all earthly sanctuaries .

The brawls damaged the main Buddhist sanctuaries and left dozens of monks injured, some seriously.

We had already quadrupled funding for national marine sanctuaries.

Naos Shrine in which divine statues were kept, especially in temple sanctuaries.

The bill would phase out invasive research on great apes and retire the 500 federally owned chimpanzees from laboratories to sanctuaries.

Mithraic sanctuaries and mausoleums were built in the city of Hatra in upper Mesopotamia.

By sidestepping the marine-sanctuaries law, Mr Bush has highlighted its problems.

Five-star hotels in poor countries market themselves as sanctuaries, but increasingly they are targets.

He says Taliban militants have also used sanctuaries in Pakistan to launch attacks.

He adds it is easier to mount an offensive against militants in the Khyber Agency than in more remote tribal sanctuaries.

Hunters are barred from wildlife sanctuaries.

I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

That is why wildlife sanctuaries disappear without a whisper.

For sea birds and marine life they will be sanctuaries to grow and thrive.

By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries.

In America alone there are also more than 1, 800 chimpanzees in unaccredited zoos, sanctuaries, laboratories and private homes.

National Marine Sanctuaries State of the Sanctuary Report

Sanctuaries for wildlife have dwindled alarmingly in the last decade

Survey on the grasshopper species in three nature sanctuaries in Hanzhong area

Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuaries;

2005 State of the Sanctuaries Report

As our sanctuaries were locked to hypocritical lies