Tiffany-style pendant lights lend the only flash of colour in an otherwise monochrome and sparsely decorated room.
The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.
The area is sparsely populated, leading to hopes that casualty figures may not climb much higher.
There are stations in sparsely populated neighborhoods with gas, while scores along the highways remain closed.
This is a sparsely populated semi-desert area roughly 80 miles east of San Diego.
About an hour later, I spoke with Pandit in a sparsely furnished hotel room.
He and his followers were called plantados, planted squarely though sparsely as trees across Mr Castro's path.
The area is rural and sparsely populated, leading to hopes that casualty figures may not climb much higher.
The Kara Sea region is remote, sparsely populated and bitterly cold, frozen over for much of the year.
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
Although Mexicans populate the north of their country more sparsely than the south, they make up for it weight-wise.
Both offer remote, sparsely populated areas with low levels of man-made radio interference, along with world-class teams of astronomers.
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For decades the government has encouraged immigration to the huge, sparsely populated region from more crowded parts of Indonesia.
The Senate gives inordinate power to time-servers particularly bloody-minded time servers from sparsely populated states.
These failures could be played down because the events occurred in sparsely populated areas of Hokkaido and northern Honshu.
UNESCO, which has designated Butrint a World Heritage site, turned the sparsely inhabited land around it into a national park.
It's the least populated region in Chile, and one of the most sparsely populated places in the world outside Antarctica.
The bridge involved would have connected the small town of Ketchikan with a sparsely populated island that has an airport.
Skeptics may argue that unlike the U.S., Canada is sparsely populated and does not experience the U.S. illegal immigrant problem.
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White South African farmers have been granted long leases on wide tracts of the sparsely populated northern province of Niassa.
Its low value encourages owners of land to leave much of it fallow or sparsely grazed by a few cows.
The 4, 000 residents eligible to vote in the first local planning referendum live in the most sparsely populated area of England.
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It uses the post office to send clothes by air to the farthest-flung corners of the vast, icy, sparsely populated country.
North-eastern Kenya, bordered by Ethiopia and Somalia, is a remote and sparsely populated area where lack of security is a problem.
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The smaller provinces have resisted a census because they fear that sparsely populated areas will get less money from the government.
The state should no longer subsidise the private pursuit of Arcadia through expensive public services for remote and sparsely populated areas.
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Put volume in excess of 18, 000 contracts sticks out like a sore thumb against open interest in the sparsely populated November contract.
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Unlike the West Bank's western hills, the Jordan valley is sparsely populated.
In the 1900s, a Bhutanese "baron" won the right to tax Nepalese who were settling and farming Bhutan's sparsely populated southern plains.
Indeed, it is perhaps more surprising that the seminar was sparsely attended.
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