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How to use the word Desert in a Sentence? Page #3

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Two people sit by the Barcaccia fountain near almost empty Spanish Steps, in Rome on Tuesday. ( AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday said he will consider requests to toughen Italys already extraordinary anti-virus lockdown. Adding to its efforts, the Italian government also announced a $ 28 billion allocation to fight the outbreak on both medical and economic fronts. The first measures, expected to be outlined Friday, will support health services, the civil protection agency and the labor market. The Vittorio Emanuele shopping arcade appeared almost desert in Milan on Wednesday as Italy mulls even tighter restrictions on daily life. ( AP Photo/Luca Bruno) The World Health Organizationon Wednesdaydeclared the virus a pandemic, noting that the number of cases outside China had exploded13-fold over the past two weeks. There are now more than 118,000 cases of COVID-19 in 114 countries, with 4,291 deaths, WHO Director-GeneralTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Other European nations are issuing measures to slow down and control the spread of the virus, and provide a cushion for the economic shock of the outbreak. Spain Spains coronavirus cases have surpassed 2,000, with roughly half of them in the Madrid region, where two-thirds of the countrys 47 virus-related deaths have occurred, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. The number of cases saw a 60 percent increase since Tuesday. United States TOURISTS QUARANTINED IN SPANISH HOTEL AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS : HEALTH OFFICIALS Madrids fatalities are high because much of the contagion there is taking place in nursing homes, said Fernando Simn, director of Spains health emergency center. Empty shelves are seen in a supermarket as people begin to stock up on provisions in Madrid on Tuesday. ( AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Schools and universities in Madrid and two northern regions have been ordered to close for two weeks to help slow the outbreaks spread. Workers were urged to telecommute to help reduce crowds on public transit. Denmark The Scandinavian country saw a 191 percent spike in Spain Spains coronavirus cases, with 90 more infections confirmed on Wednesday, for a total of at least 262. Local Denmark SEES FIRST CORONAVIRUS CASE IN MAN RETURNING FROM ITALY VACATION Denmarks leaders have advised the public to avoid using public transportation, while some schools also closed, Local Denmark reported. Health officials also have advised against shaking hands, a measure that has suspended naturalization ceremonies, which require a mandatory handshake by law, The New York Times reported. Germany With at least 1,300 infections as of Wednesday, Germany so far has only three deaths a low rate that experts attributeto rapid testing as the outbreak unfolded. German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a warning, citingexpert estimates that up to 70 percent of the population could be infected with the virus. HOW IS GERMANY CONTROLLING THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ? You have to understand that if the virus is there, and the population has no immunity yet to this virus, there are no vaccines and no therapy so far, a high percentage experts say 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

He's traveled around the country for the last four years listening to young immigrants talk about the struggles that they've had of traveling across the desert, risking their lives with their families, to come to a place that has a president that demagogues them, that treats them like second-class citizens, it's really moved him in some of the most emotional ways I've ever seen Bernie Sanders react.

Chuck Rocha

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In my intelligence work I assisted with Operation Desert Storm, helped to locate secret tunnels in North Korea, and used my skills to erase crucial diplomatic discs on their way to Moscow.

Uri Geller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We couldn't resist the allure of this cute little town in the middle of millions of acres of vast desert, and the chance to join together with locals... to try to create a new spark of excitement, to build a future for this place with a complex and colorful past.

Stuart Siegel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This really affirms the right( s) of people crossing the border or otherwise in the desert to receive humanitarian aid and our right to give aid.

Jeff Reinhardt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're in the middle of desert, and two years ago we came out of a seven-year drought.

Jerry Morales

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Friends thought we were crazy, even our closest friends said: 'Ridiculous, caviar in Madagascar – what's next, salmon in the desert?' Lots of them laughed.

Delphyne Dabezies

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's a group of us concerned residents that really do not want this even to happen, it's going to destroy Rachel as a beautiful small town in the desert.

Joerg Arnu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sanders has core support that will not desert him.

Patrick Murray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Typically you dont see a mushroom cloud in the desert.

Aaron Cassell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I just saw a black mushroom cloud go up, typically you dont see a mushroom cloud in the desert.

Aaron Cassell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Once they walked north, they were out in a real desert area, the little girls started during poorly right off the bat.

Pete Bidegain

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the time since I was arrested in January 2018, no fewer than 88 bodies were recovered from the Arizona desert.

Scott Warren

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The military appeals court found Michael Behenna disobeyed orders, became the aggressor against Michael Behenna prisoner, and had no justification for killing a naked, unarmed Iraqi man in the desert, away from an actual battlefield.

Hina Shamsi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The pleasure of hunting is to be in open space. I like the mountain, desert, shotgun and being awake during the night to hunt, the pleasure of hunting is to be a success in it. A hunter's hope is hunting. Being a success in every job in the world has a special pleasure.

Jan Agha

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I feel definitely more comfortable going into that match than, for example, today, i had never played( McHale) before, so you feel like you don't really know what's going to happen. Earlier, Latvian 11th seed Anastasija Sevastova became the latest player to be stuck down with a viral illness at the tournament. Sevastova was down 5-0 in the first set of her third round match with Estonian 21st seed Anett Kontaveit when she retired. Her departure came less than 24 hours after Venus Williams was unable to continue Venus Williams match on Sunday, also citing a viral illness. Men's third seed Alexander Zverev also said on Monday after losing to fellow German Jan-Lennard Struff that he too had a virus. Among those women still feeling healthy, three-times grand slam champion Angelique Kerber battled back to beat Russian qualifier Natalia Vikhlyantseva 3-6 6-1 6-3. Kerber took a while to warm to her task on a cool morning in the California desert.

Venus Williams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Four years later, during the market meltdown when everyone's hair was one fire, this young woman walks in and says she's there to put a $5,000 down payment on their house, it was like water in a desert.

Dennis Nolte

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The science is how do I fuse them together? How do I take multiple optical, infrared, and electromagnetic sensors and use them all at once in real-time, if you are out in the desert in an operational setting, infrared alone may be constrained heat so you need all types of sensors together and machines can help us sift through information.

Rickey Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Boring, oh well, I still meet with friends and I’m enjoying life at 97 here in Palm Springs. They are trying to establish a new theater here in the desert, and if they raise enough money I understand they might be calling it The Carol Channing Playhouse. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? What an honor that would be.

Carol Channing

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5 years ago

The fact that they’re out here in the 105-degree weather in the desert is a symptom, I think, of a moral failing on behalf of the United States government.

Joaquin Castro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Look at this, it's a desert.

Juan Jose Murillo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.

Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
5 years ago

It's not difficult for him to hide in the Syrian desert.

Iraqi Gen. Yahya Rasool

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is not difficult for him to hide in the Syrian desert.

Iraqi Gen. Yahya Rasool

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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