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But color is often unreliable for identifying different types of sands.

Sands, in a report in Fate Magazine, noted what seemed like an unusually large number of strange accidents in that region.

It is really as surprising as if an Arab caravan were to ask: Are there sands in the Sahara desert?

Sands insisted that the money would be used to drive organic growth rather than be used for acquisitions.

Its one Arizona-based member, Rick Lougee, said he was "unable" to take the case, Sands wrote.

The shifting sands of recent global events herald the many changes that are ready to appear on your horizon.

Mr Sands said that the bank had continued to make good progress in the third quarter as its core Asian markets rebounded.

Comes up to me with his head thrown back and the rain splashing in his face turns the golden sands to mud.

You know, I used to be quite the scoundrel in my day. I led the fiercest group of bandits who ever terrorized these sands!

Because my legs were finally catching up to my age I decided to drive down to Long Sands Beach in York, Maine.

the morning person like to jog on the sands and I found a woman rided this kind of bicycle.

Its gleaming sands and backdrop of pine woods and distant hills give it a pleasant and restful atmosphere.

Peter Sands, who was promoted to chief executive in November, said the bank had "huge growth opportunities" in its markets.

Mike Cavallo and Russell Sands both reinforced the point that Faith had a helping hand that other Turtles did not have.

On a bare stage with a couple of heavily annotated books, Mr Sands is like an eager pupil in a natty suit, charismatic yet nervous.

It boils down to the shifting sands of the self and trying to look good both to ourselves and others, experts say.

Put to a Canadian, such talk may elicit reminders of that country's pivotal influence as a potash, tar sands and uranium producer.

The little snail tried to move to the door of the shell to have a look, but soon he was hurt by the sands.

Behind the sands, the darkness is coming. As the blood is in the wind, it's being nearer. Don't stop, or you will lost yours.

Even a flat opening day for Wynn Macau would be a positive sign for Sands and push it to move ahead with its plans to list.

Paced up and down the sands, and bared his head to the east-wind.

One of the draft energy bills floating around the Senate this year even proposed removing the ban on government purchases of tar-sands oil.

Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.

Without foreign capital, he said, Canada 'could struggle to get investment for the things it needs for oil sands' projects.

Although reclamation of the land, a legal obligation, has not kept up with the disturbance of the tar sands, it was "achievable" .

Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thou-sands of species of marine life.

For most people faced with images of oil sands being dug up in Canada or reserves in the Arctic being exploited, this might seem remarkable.

Shifting dunes of gypsum, sculpted by the wind, cover White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.

As Las Vegas Sands struggled to raise capital, construction was curtailed and the number of workers crossing the border began to fall.

Chief executive Rob Sands of the New York-based beverage company said he will formally announce a top executive for its Asian business.

He thought Sands's prime motivation for selling the rules was to raise money and get back into trading.

Explanation: The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula.

The moonlight penetrates the windows, casting on the grant sands, and a carrack flashes into his eyes.

A desert village perches "on the edge of the hot sands like a small harbour on the edge of a great sea" .

Naked, wounded, and defenseless on the sands of Tatooine, Fett was rescued by his fellow hunter Dengar, who nursed him back to health.

A small jetty extending from a shore to protect a beach against erosion or to trap shifting sands.

The perfect blue water and golden sands have been attracting tourists since the turn of the century.

It was a good place to be, as Kidder had access to clients interested in traders like Sands and Parker.

No matter what time of the year, you can find a beach that is in season and just waiting to welcome you to its warm sands.

If the price of natural gas rises, or that of oil falls, the oil sands will look less enticing.

Where oil sands are close to the surface, they are extracted in large open pit mines.

Sands China's promise has always rested on its plans to turn swampland called Cotai into the Las Vegas Strip of the East.

To that end, it will soon require oil-sands projects to reduce the ratio of emissions to oil produced by 2% a year.

11My advice is for you to gather all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba, as many as the sands of the sea, and go to battle in person.

If the wave energy is weak coastal barrier sands do not form where the delta meets the sea .

Such a missile is being developed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, and will soon be tested at the White Sands Missile Range.

With just a modest fall in oil prices, the sands' production would start to go.

Walk on the sands with you, write down the promise of this life.

It also means the environmental costs of the sands' oil are not about to be reflected in their price.

I believe that the creature you refer to is one of the ancient Horadric mummies from the tombs that lie buried beneath the desert sands .

A mouse told his mother, "I'll cross burning desert sands. " "How about a glass of water? " Asked his mother.

close to the source direction is better sands development, to the far from the source direction, sand size decreases.

The sky is raining sands, Also worrying about me. I bury my love in the sand, Still with your fragrance.

Without Sands pushing the envelope, they argue, Macao's development would have been nowhere as rapid as it has been.

Of course, the oil spigot is not going to run dry tomorrow. There is still coal, tar sands, heavy oil and shale gas.

Las Vegas Sands and MGM appear to have more upside, "as the two operators continue to drive operational efficiencies at their properties. "

Sands said Canadian concerns about losing its sovereignty to the United States date back a few hundred years.

True, alternative sources, like oil from Canada's tar sands, have continued to grow.

The Sands was therefore granted a "sub-concession" and allowed to go its own way.

The Sands generated more than twice as much operating profit in the first quarter on less than half the invested capital .

What's the matter? The students are laughing at the sands and the dogs.

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula.

The reservoirs were uplifted to be exposed and be denuded and were changed into the present oil sands finally during the Himalayan movement.

Alberta tar sands: Referred to as the most damaging project on the planet.

The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed.

What was once important is now unimportant; what once excited has vanished in the sands.

But as it turned out, watching the ancient past emerge from the sands had a romance all its own.

It was the preventing mechanism of barriers to decrease wind speed and deposit sands before and after barriers.

Inside, lightnings crackled among the falling sands. Outside, a giant turtle was engraved upon the glass.

Sands China also said the board had approved an extra $100 million for the project.

Iron oxide colors Arch Cliff a luminous red, one of a palette of hues seen in Fraser's mineral-rich sands.

Two big US companies have decided to avoid suppliers that source fuel from Canada's oil sands to curb their carbon footprints.

But oil sands usually need at least $55 to $60-a-barrel crude prices to be produced profitably.

The two projects, known as Mackay River and Dover, are being developed by Athabasca Oil Sands, a privately held Calgary-based group.

Should a time arise in which you must gain entry to this accursed fortress, use the Scepter of the Shifting Sands on the sacred gong.

To many critics the broader environmental legacy of the tar sands is reason enough to halt the whole endeavour.

They had office space down there that they had given to Sands and he had been trading their money.

The rack "illustrates a lot of the things we need to know about how beach sands are different, " he said.

The children had a good time (in) playing football on the sands.

Palm red sparkle sands like gold, most of the baby can help refresh opportunities, and can potentially attract destined to have arrived.

True to his enigmatic character, facts about Boba Fett remain as shifty as the sands of the Dune Sea.

That would give oil from the tar sands much easier access to refineries in Texas, even if the rest of the project remains in limbo.

Canada has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the top supplier amid aggressive investment in its tar sands region.

One day, while walking along the sands towards his boat, Crusoe saw in the sand the mark of a man's foot.

Western companies, including Shell, have come under pressure over oil sands' awful environmental footprint.

The limits of the altered sands are considered to be the most forward penetration of the oxidizing groundwater.

Environmentalists, so vocal about Canada's tar sands (see article), have so far been silent over Venezuela's bitumen.

The opening of Sands Macao in 2004 was greeted with so much interest that visitors broke fences and smashed windows as they rushed in.

The sky is raining sands, Also deriding my silliness. You need not pursue again, These unclear footprints.

Sands suspended construction of its Cotai projects due to the global financial crisis but has since resumed work.

We initially grumbled at a dark and freezing cold 5am start but our reward was a glorious orange sunrise over the barren sands.

In their natural state , oil sands are made of quartz sand covered by layers of water and bitumen .

'If you combine that with the increased need for energy, ' he says, the oil sands are 'a sweet spot' to be.

Your legacy shall drift away, blown into eternity like the sands of the desert.

The Las Vegas Sands unit's aggressive expansion plans have appeared to clash with the government's calls for sustainable development.

road foundations . methodology for laboratory study of materials treated with hydraulic binders . part 2 : hydraulic binders bounded sands.

The water is warm, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

Philippe Sands, professor of law at University College London, believes the Libyan leader is at personal risk.

After a series of delays, Sands will only open some parts of Marina Bay on Tuesday, with a bigger official opening in June.

The Earth holds other, less-accessible fuels, such as tar sands, and a more exotic possibility in the form of icy methane hydrates.

After "Iron Man 2" came "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, " which should go down as one of the biggest failures of the year.

Sands said he was not fired, but chose to resign.

Standard Sands with excellent quality characteristics were fabricated by controlling technological conditions strictly.

Aboard his luxurious sail barge out in the desert sands, Jabba breathed his last fetid breath.

Granular material is one of the materials widely existing in nature and used in engineering, such as soil, sands, concrete.

Thy Power is greater than man's horizon, and Thy Ways of manifesting that Power are more numerous than the sands of the sea.

But Sands China claims more than 40 per cent of the market in terms of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation.

Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.

layers of sands containing deadwood and defoliation of Tamarix ramasissima were mixed accumulations of these two formers.

Athena: Follow the song of the Sirens, Kratos. Find and destroy them all, and the path through the deadly sands will be opened to you.

"The oil sands represent a more technically complex and expensive endeavour" than traditional oil recovery methods, the report said.

Sands's only American property outside Vegas is in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where the state taxes gross gaming revenue at 55%.

the sands in you ay beg for your song and your movement, dancing ater. ill you carry the burden of their lameness?

Both methods, say the tar sands' critics, threaten local rivers, poison fish, destroy the landscape, kill wildlife and pollute the air.

"Wally from Wallis Sands, " she said.

Therefore, cadmium content and lead content in the water can be estimated roughly by measuring the content of suspending sands in the river.

Beach sands with snail shells revealed they were doing the butchering on the banks of a freshwater lake, like Yardi today.

Las Vegas Sands Inc. set out enormous investment and sincerely, long-term undertaking to Macao with that.

At Egypt's Solar Boat Museum in 2008, tourists surround the reassembled boat long ago excavated from the sands near the Great Pyramid.

Tightening environmental regulations and escalating protests in the US and Europe against the oil sands present another difficulty.

The four dragons, Staghelm, and a large group of qiraji and night elves appear out of the sands of time.

Whether Alberta's government can be relied on to promote greener tar sands, however, is questionable.

The industry has run ads featuring ordinary workers talking up the wonders of the oil sands.

It was found that the undrained shear behavior of loose sands was considerably dependent on the orientation of the principal stress.

He wrote part of an energy bill passed in 2007 that seemed to ban American government agencies from buying oil produced from the tar sands.

The outfits are planned for Asia's first Playboy Club, opening this weekend at the top of the Sands Macao Hotel.

Should Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sign a permit this summer allowing a huge new pipeline to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta?

Las Vegas Sands, the biggest casino company by value, is to set up an online gaming site this year in the UK and then continental Europe.

Visitors will be encouraged to run their fingers through the sands, to relax, to meditate and to get in tune with nature's wonders.

Of course, listed casino companies, like Las Vegas Sands Corp. , are blue chips on the U. S. market.

Get grit in your eyes, and sands in your hair, and service in your soul.

The Athabasca Oil Sands are a stable source of oil for North America, including the United States, the world's largest consumer of oil.

Mr. Joerres said hundreds of trained staffers have been recruited from Asian countries to develop Canadian oil-sands projects.

The children were playing on the sands.

You're missing one of life's true joys if you haven't been charmed by the evocative singing sands of China.

For the period from January to April, all the natural sands from Mainland unloaded at sand depots were categorized as "Retail" .

the humble sands couldn't move with you now, you see.

Lighted by a normal flashlight, tar patties appear dark brown against the sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida.

Outcrop examples are used to illustrate production scale attributes of deepwater reservoir sands.

Single rope grab is an efficient tool for loading and unloading sands, coal, mineral powder and bulk chemical fertilizer.

Life in Color: Yellow Yellow beach umbrellas line the sands at a hotel on Phuket Island, Thailand.

The results showed that the main metallic minerals are titanomagnetite, ilmenite and hematite in iron sands.

personally , i was a huge sands of time fan , but was rather disappointed by the generically darker warrior within.

The children are playing on the sands.

a poor name from its commonness , whether derived from the remarkable purity of its waters or the color of its sands.

The effects of smashing way and classifying means to the crystal form and the size distribution of the silica sands are discussed here.

However, Mr Sands said: "We do not offer such products yet in India or Africa, where there are Muslim populations. "

Of the portion that remains -- oil available for public investment -- half is in Canada's oil sands.

The Alberta oil sands resource is increasingly recognized as a strategic source for North American energy supply.

To one side of the white sands are campgrounds , and the surrounding areas consist of shopping streets and accommodations.

Kenobi's blade sheared from him his lower legs and his left arm, and his crippled body tumbled onto the searing black sands of Mustafar.

Walking along the sands , Crusoe saw in the sand the mark of a man's foot.

As long as the price of crude oil continues to increase, the technology and money for tar sands mining will probably be found.

The deals included a stake in Syncrude, an oil sands project in Canada, and a stake in Repsol Brasil.

By some measures , though , the Sands Macao is still outperforming the Wynn Macau .

Mr. Leven said earlier this month that Sands China hopes to have its new chief executive in place by the end of 2010.

Parker thought Sands's actions violated Dennis's training not in a legal way, but in a moral and ethical one.

We're proud of our record as an oil sands pioneer, but we know there is still a lot to be done.

Metamorphic minerals, which form at high temperatures and pressures underground, can become heavy, brightly colored sands like these.

Unlike many cut-throat graduate MBA programmes, Prof Sands says that the dynamic in Simmons' classrooms is co-operative and supportive.

Don't miss the Whistling Sands, which squeak as you walk on them!

White sands and clear waters have since spurred a tourist boom, with an added fillip from offshore finance.

As well as curbing oil use, high prices have put tar sands in business which create far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil.

The best hope to reduce pollution from the sands is probably finding alternative energy sources or cutting consumption.

Mr. Sands said Constellation may grow via its own organization or consider a partnership or acquisition.

During the dry season, roughly August to November, strong winds push sands inland, forming tall, crescent-shaped dunes.

"Other federal death-qualified counsel in the District have identified conflicts or declined representation, " Sands wrote.

There were sugar sands and islands of fern and pearl, palm jungles and stretches of a never-ending sea.

Canada's oil sands are considered unconventional fuels, and producing them emits more greenhouse gas than conventional production.

Located at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, the White Sands National Monument is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.

To carry out its China campaign, the Sands needed a man in Beijing. It hired Yang Saixin.

But choosing Canadian oil sands as the first major project since the spill is a smart move, says Gheit.

Ignorant youth, in the sands of time, flowing from silk; raise time, a gradual change in the season, gradually submerged.

The growth prospects of oil sands have been underpinned recently by the rising price of crude oil.

For well over a thousand years, camel caravans have traversed the dry sands carrying salt, gold and slaves.

Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico, experienced a modest decline in civilian payroll costs.

Early Portuguese mariners who wrecked on its aptly named Skeleton Coast dubbed its hinterland "the sands of hell" .

The pyramid was situated 22 fathoms down, stood 120 feet high, with only 90 feet projecting out of the sea floor shifting sands.

It is decrement of addition of sodium silicate-bonded sands by various kinds that the collapsibility of the sands is improved.

Kami raced light-footed across the sands toward the glow on the horizon.

The article analyzes the existing state of iron in silicon sands in the Tongliao area of Inner Mongolia.

The greater dragon actually submerges itself in the shifting sands, and can use its ten powerful limbs to swim through the dunes.

Another piece of the Sands's charm offensive was buying a basketball team.

Tar sands take lots of energy to process, and therefore entail copious emissions of greenhouse gases.

But like Camelot , it was short-lived, and its legacy was buried in the desert sands.

Riversides, open sands of seashores, rice fields; ; low elevations. Hainan, S Taiwan [tropical Africa and Asia, N Australia].

With sedimentary compaction and cementation, loose sands are gradually consolidated.

Oil sands that are buried more than 80 meters below the land surface are retrieved through in situ wells.

Strand Holiday Village, with hills and waters, sunlight above and sands Below, is a paradise on earth, an fountainhead of happiness.

Along the gentle sloping land area to the southeast are beaches of yellow, white and black sands.

Claims that the tar sands were the "most environmentally destructive project on Earth" were "not accurate" , it said.

This leaves energy equities, particularly high oil-weighted companies (like oil sands) exposed to greater downside risk.

The deal will "turbo charge" the growth of its newly launched private bank, according to Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered.

People stand on a platform of the Helix Bridge leading to the Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore.

The natural pigment comprises stone grains, stone powder, glaze, colored sands, egg shells, dry reed, dry tree branches, and dry bark.

The oil sands represent the largest proven oil reserve outside Saudi Arabia and reduce Washington's dependence on Middle Eastern fuel.

Assessing metal matrix composites for corrosion and erosion- corrosion applications in the oil sands industry .

He stood on the sands with his bare feet and they all came crowding round to hear him.

An experiment on pore-blocking mechanism in gravel pack was simulated with different gravels and different sands in diameters.

And domestic opposition to exploiting the tar sands and building pipelines, which has long been fierce, is gathering momentum.

Sands distribute widely in these oil well and its thickness is large. The article analyzes clearly the "three-good and one-poor" phenomenon.

Get consistent rock parameters: P-wave velocity, porosity, and mineral properties of sands, fluid modulus and density.

Tar sands and biofuels represent only a small part of global energy use.

THE latest print issue of The Economist features a comprehensive briefing on Canada's oil-producing tar sands.

Buried in the sands was an ancient village.

Stronger coke demand may stem from fuel substitution at oil sands production facility, perhaps on a pilot basis.

One by-product of the tar sands upgrading process is sulphur, which has a number of industrial uses.

When trapped in drifting sands , do not struggle, or you will be sucked in deeper.

He was notoriously pugnacious, but Mr Sands shows he could also be warm and even funny.

It has well-watered hills, rolling green tea estates and miles of palm-fringed white sands.

But now, Canadian tar sands are starting to look much more attractive to the oil giant.

Sinopec has also bought a 9 per cent stake in Syncrude, one of the biggest oil sands producers.

Herrmann says he became interested in the problem after watching lightning in swirling sands over dune fields at night.

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Venetian casinos in Las Vegas and Macau, opened Marina Bay Sands in Singapore in April.

The connection between the sands state and the repose angle of sands was concluded in the particle system.

Although it is wealthy in natural resources in certain areas, most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sands) Desert.

Then by longer main stem and branches, and large canopy, the vegetable had considerable capability to hinder wind-drift sands.

One is "Cockscomb Flowers" oil painting series, the other is "Flying Sands" comprehensive material series.

First, does this mean that happy times are here again for developers of the heavier, more expensive oil sands?

Our known fossil fuel reserves are soaring. New finds of coal, natural gas, oil, tar sands, and oil shale keep growing, not declining.

Also, the application of octacosanol in many sands of fields, especially in food industry, were summarized.

backed by The Jandia Peninsula is a stretch of white sands backed by a mountain range.

The reservoirs encountered are of complex lithology consisting of authegenic clays, heavy minerals and feldspathic sands.

This did not stop 36, 000 people, including many locals, turning up at Marina Bay Sands in its first 24 hours.

However these models have proved inadequate to explain the behavior of more heavily over-consolidated clays and sands.

"We're looking at our carbon footprint, and tar sands fuels are higher carbon, " Mr Besancon said.

Many Libyans were held in two large concentration camps: one in Suluq, a dusty town near Benghazi, and the other in the sands of Al Uqaylah.

Make time to find out with "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" in theaters.

Seeing a chance to escape , he ran quickly along the sands towards where Crusoe was watching .

Sandy places, margins of mobile sands in desert regions. Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang [Mongolia; C Asia].

If given the go ahead, the pipeline would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, across six U. S. states to the Gulf Coast.

Now we drove to Playa de las Teresitas, a beautiful beach. The yellow sands on this beach is original from the Sahara desert in Africa.

Unlike the reddish-tan sands comprising the dunes directly south of the Kuiseb River, the stream-channel sediments are lighter in color.

Sands had been trading in Kidder Peabody 's Richmond office.

Kill Alberta's tar sands, say some, and rising crude prices would choke oil consumption and force an era of clean energy into being.

Methods on fire: Use sands, water and Bicarbonate oxide extinguisher.

There is oil aplenty of other sorts (tar sands, liquefied coal and so on), so the stuff is unlikely to run out for a long time yet.

One year, a British expedition entered an area of Sahara Desert, trudging in a vast sea of sands.

He tried to shake off sands in his clothes.

Sands is depending on Macau to provide relief as U. S. consumers drastically cut spending at its Las Vegas properties.

Sands of seashores, open places; ; low elevations. Hainan [Cambodia, Vietnam].

Oil sands consist of clay, sand, and other minerals, coated in water and thick, viscous oil called bitumen (or asphalt).

Sands, saline soils, forests, shallow watersides; ca. 800 m. Xinjiang [Afghanistan, N India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia; Europe].

Our innovations are many, from extracting oil from tar sands to deep-sea exploration and production.

For foreign majors like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BP PLC, their former heartlands in the Gulf sands are now largely off-limits.

The complex resistivity of patial-water saturated shaly sands has been investigated under reservoir condition.

Traditionally, BP has steered clear of gleaning petroleum products from the oil sands in North America's frozen north.

Industry and environmentalists disagree on how carbon-intensive oil sands fuel is, but both agree it is higher than traditional crude.

The inside and outside surface of casting shall be smooth, sands, oxides and burrs on the un machined surface shall be removed.

Sands China is the second-largest player in Macao, where total gaming revenues reached $10. 4bn over the first three quarters of this year.