Interest, therefore, was based on an unnatural act, that of treating wealth as though it was fertile, when it was as barren as a mule.
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McLaren have now set the pace in the the last four practice sessions and will be aiming to end a barren spell of 10 races without a podium finish on Sunday.
But for a landowner, planning permission can turn barren fields into a goldmine.
Agnes DeWitt, a young Swabian nun living on a barren reach of North Dakota, discovers, on the convent piano, a sensuous love for Chopin.
The area, once a barren and bitterly contested site, has since given way to the beginnings of construction for a long awaited "Freedom Tower, " or the 1 World Trade Center.
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The determined Scot had to break a barren run at his home circuit to win the first race, not having won there aboard a superbike since 1995.
It is not undeserved: he has succeeded in transforming a barren land into one that has 18, 000 kilometres (11, 400 miles) of tarmac roads and a network of schools and clinics.
On the screen, Liam Neeson fought his way through a barren artic landscape, battered by the weather.
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Such brilliant colors are a sign of life in what was once thought to be a barren environment.
As well as ending a barren spell, the win marked Aberdeen's first away league victory since August's match in Hamilton.
At that, all of Alcina's powers are broken, the temple collapses, and her lush island is transformed into a barren desert.
The North Cape is found in a barren, dry and mostly uninhabited area of Norway called Finnmark, an alarmingly desolate town.
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But private-equity firms are anxious to return money to their profit-starved investors and take some cash for themselves too, after a barren few years.
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Madura is a barren island, and the Madurese are known throughout Indonesia for being hard-headed survivors who are ready to fight for their living.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape.
The government resettled them on a barren hillside in Kowloon.
Now the hills are a barren brown in all directions.
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Summer, despite being the time where players have the most free time, is often a barren wasteland where hardly anything worthwhile is released, which has been especially true this year.
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But what a barren victory: how can he or any other Israeli centrist persuade Israel's religious hawks to accept the need to give ground on Jerusalem, for example, while America has a president who is not willing to make such a demand?
But their bowlers struggled to take wickets on a slow and barren pitch, with off-spinner Jason Krejza being hammered for a demoralising 76 runs off 11 overs following his 0-123 in the first innings.
The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.
In 1996 they came close to a fresh clash, over a few barren islets not far from Edremit.
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As 11 p.m. passed outside barren Gillette Stadium, a huddle of 40 or so Ravens fans gathered in the parking-lot cold to say farewell to the Baltimore team bus.
These barren outposts are of course a proxy for a general challenge to Japanese strategic interests.
They frequently rebelled under Venetian and then Ottoman occupation, with southern strongholds like Sfakia (a rocky, barren territory centred on port village Hora Sfakion) remaining unconquered.
In London alone, Reynolds has led dozens of covert digs with hundreds of flower-empowered followers to transform derelict dirt on street corners, roadways and roundabouts into places of rediscovered horticultural beauty -- one of his favorite projects, Reynolds says, is a lavender field planted in a once-barren median on Westminster Bridge Road.
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Adrian Archibald is a three-times TT winner from 2003 and 2004 and after several barren years on Mona's Isle, a third-place in last year's Superbike TT heralded a return to form.
The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.
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