Small clay figures, human and animal, were modelled and placed as offerings on mountain peak sanctuaries. |
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The oil rig would be transported to port for scrapping, while the legs would be left behind to become fish sanctuaries. |
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This frame has been variously interpreted as a reflection either of temple architecture, or of the stoa which formed part of so many sanctuaries. |
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In recent years, Florida boaters have had to comply with a proliferation of no-wake zones and manatee sanctuaries. |
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Kapiti is home to birds only seen in sanctuaries or on islands including stitchbirds, North Island saddlebacks, takahe and Little Spotted kiwi. |
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Some statues were erected on pedestals in sanctuaries exclusively meant for worship by the King and the priests. |
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An initiative targeting wildlife sanctuaries cutting across international boundaries hopes to replicate this success elsewhere. |
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The ideal place, most would agree, with the family would be a visit to wildlife sanctuaries, national parks or zoos. |
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The firman of the Sultan contained also a guarantee for the status quo in the sanctuaries. |
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There are 11 elephant ranges in the country, each consisting of sanctuaries, national parks, protected areas and non-protected areas. |
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At Kattikulam, the right fork of the road leads to Nagarhole and the left to Tirunelli through elephant sanctuaries and bamboo forests. |
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The November paper fueled concerns that such supposed sanctuaries for natural genetic diversity are feeling the impact of bioengineering. |
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Usually, bird lovers have to wander in remote national parks or sanctuaries to spend time watching birds. |
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She wants to end private ownership of big cats so that sanctuaries like hers will no longer need to rescue animals from poor living conditions. |
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Old wounds opened as he remembered the sting of refused sanctuaries and broken friendships. |
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Other sanctuaries of Demeter in Greece were located at some distance from town centres. |
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The shelterers made it clear that they intended on making these new sanctuaries their homes. |
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However, there are many marine parks and sanctuaries in which the thorny oysters may be found. |
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Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots. |
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Some of the most satisfying projects were chapels and sanctuaries in hospitals. |
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This Himalayan region abounds in faunal beauty and there are hosts of parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the whole of Sikkim. |
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Many acropolis sanctuaries of Demeter, like those at Eretria and Corinth, were at some distance from the agora. |
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Modern technology has given us exciting new forms of projection and screens that can be seen in well-lighted sanctuaries. |
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The lucky ones end up in animal sanctuaries, others are slaughtered for pet food. |
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While some activities are prohibited, sanctuaries do not impose a total prohibition on human use. |
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Most such sanctuaries have either been encroached on or have been completely degraded. |
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In East Africa's game sanctuaries, tourists interrupt critical activities like feeding and suckling of the young. |
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However, the temple with its three-tiered pagoda-type roof, and the sanctuaries and pond around it are pure Nepali. |
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This unusual city with many different lanes, passages, bystreets is full of monumental palaces and sanctuaries. |
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For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland. |
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It was replaced by the older form, shrine Shinto, the worship of kami in shrines or sanctuaries, tended by priests. |
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Situated north of the Luxor temple Karnak sanctuaries were dedicated to the Gods Amon, Montu and Mut. |
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The theoroi of each polis conducted ritual acts in the Panhellenic sanctuaries in the name of that polis. |
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He boasts of weeding old sanctuaries, and uncovering the ground-plans of old temples so that he could rebuild them as they were supposed to be. |
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There are 20 million annual visitors to our national seashores and even more to our marine sanctuaries. |
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Bath and Gosbecks were presumably tribal sanctuaries, and drew worshippers from far afield. |
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Horses, ponies and donkeys are overcrowding animal sanctuaries after being abandoned by their owners. |
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Animal sanctuaries take in about 33,000 rabbits a year, but that number is just the tip of the iceberg, she said. |
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The animals at Southport Zoo deserve a better life in specialist sanctuaries, not to be on display for public amusement. |
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The group also recruits volunteers interested in working at one of five Thai sanctuaries for injured or abused wildlife. |
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Most birding hot spots in the State are in the periphery of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. |
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Regions once preserved as national parks, sanctuaries, and havens for wildlife have no laws, regulations, or societal values to protect them. |
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Unfortunately this was not the case in many of the wildlife sanctuaries and National Parks in the country. |
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The government announced today that the wild animals in the submergence area would be shifted to the proposed national park and sanctuaries. |
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Environment Canada should report regularly to the public on the state of national wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries in the basin. |
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This provides sanctuaries and supports the growth and continued success of stocks that are under fishing pressure. |
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Basins of different shapes, sizes, and quality have been found in various Delian contexts, e.g., in sanctuaries, houses, and agonistic establishments. |
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Nature holds out a welcoming hand to every sort of landscape and sea-scape, and in the national parks she provides sanctuaries for human beings. |
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We establish local horseshoe-crab sanctuaries, try to reduce harvests, gather habitat data, and let people know about these animals. |
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Unfortunately, shelters, sanctuaries and even zoos are now full to bursting point and cannot take any more saved animals. |
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Worshipers visit Buddhist sanctuaries and circumambulate a stupa or a sacred image, and monks are given food and other gifts. |
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The mayor, Richard Daley, has added lakefront parks, bird sanctuaries and nesting grounds, and the result has been dramatic. |
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Pray for the sinful cities where so many women are lost, where so many sanctuaries are profaned, and so many lamps extinguished. |
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The English inns of the Middle Ages were sanctuaries of wayfaring strangers, cutthroats, thieves, and political malcontents. |
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Slopes and embankments have been remodeled, trees have been planted and sanctuaries set up. |
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She didn't want to do a splashy miracle, like it happens in great sanctuaries which excite the admiration and have world fame. |
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Its particular shape also recalls the space of Celtic sacred sanctuaries, which were traditionally bordered by megaliths. |
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Next you'll visit Jaipur, and take an elephant ride to its Amber Fort before heading to Bharatpur, one of the world's finest bird sanctuaries. |
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The parishes, sanctuaries, spiritual retreat houses are overflowing, the fraternities and prayer groups are multiplying. |
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This government has established whale sanctuaries in our far north and have quadrupled the size of Nahanni National Park. |
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Most of the large puffin colonies in Canada are protected as provincial reserves or federal migratory bird sanctuaries. |
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But the pictures also looked bizarre because hedgehog sanctuaries aren't part of everyday life. |
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He also built a number of new sanctuaries in Upper Egypt and Nubia and added his mortuary temple in western Thebes. |
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Schools should be respected and protected as sanctuaries and zones of peace. |
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Learn about habitat conservation and link to information on protected areas, such as marine wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries. |
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Mountains are areas that contain some of the few remaining wildlife sanctuaries left in Europe. |
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We recognize that there are challenges and assets in our protected areas, including the national wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries. |
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These sanctuaries are important zones of protection for whales, but they are subject to periodic review. |
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We mobilized villages to govern the resource, generate income and engage in managing the bird and fish sanctuaries through local protection. |
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A management plan has been developed that sets quotas for subsistence hunting, creates sanctuaries and restricts boat traffic in certain areas. |
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Cambodia, for example has set targets of doubling the area of fish sanctuaries and reducing household fuel wood dependency by almost half. |
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The area is also home to wildlife sanctuaries, rambling countryside and national parks to walk, horse ride and cycle through. |
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Since 1999, however, the Goa state government has ceaselessly tried its best to denotify the sanctuaries and open them up to commercial interests, particularly to the mining lobby. |
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Among the world's botanically richest sites, the sanctuaries are also home to other endangered animals such as the red panda and the snow leopard. |
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The traditional place to see Asian elephants in the wild is India, where about 80 national parks and 440 sanctuaries provide a host of opportunities for wildlife viewing. |
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Strategically located anti-poaching camps that serve as excellent deterrents to poachers and smugglers are indispensable in all our national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. |
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The widespread worry about the fast dwindling wildlife of the country has been alleviated to some extent by the establishment of wildlife sanctuaries and National parks. |
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Abroad, this story could be seen as a demonstration of British eccentricity, as curious as the advertisements for donkey sanctuaries below headlines about starving children. |
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She has chimpanzee sanctuaries in four African states, looking after animals that have been orphaned or captured as babies and cannot be returned to the wild. |
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Some zoos are partnering with sanctuaries that provide lifetime care for their surplus animals, says Hutchins, and others are developing holding space for them. |
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The converts among the merchants and nomadic rulers built temples, pagodas and cave sanctuaries carved into the canyon cliffs and mountains along the Yellow River. |
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In the sanctuaries, besides the temples, there was a theatre and a stadium, because the Greeks used to pay the same attention to the soul, the spirit and the body. |
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For centuries, Italians had been building churches, both immense and ornate sanctuaries, and tiny rural stone chapels that bore the name of the mother of Jesus. |
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Followers of the goddess Bast, the goddess of pleasure, created sanctuaries with bronze statues of cats and mummified hundreds of thousands of cats. |
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It gives me much pleasure to help keep open Francis House and other sanctuaries for suffering children whose parents can ill afford the ways and means of looking after them. |
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More research is needed into similar initiatives in order to establish what conditions can encourage negotiation of respect for schools as sanctuaries or zones of peace. |
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Some banditry in Nigerian waters started as a protest against the threat to fishing from the oil industry. Scientists would like to see more sanctuaries, starting with a big area in northern Mozambique. |
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However, to make sure they are protected, the CWS feels that monitoring in the sanctuaries should be stepped up during the breeding and rearing season. |
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Restoring of degraded habitats and creation of sanctuaries. |
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In this context, how can there be a guarantee that organic farming areas and agrobiodiversity sanctuaries be protected when transgenic technology is introduced on a large scale? |
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Unlike other European sanctuaries, in Liche everybody can easily find a place for solitary prayer and meditation on weekdays. |
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Archaeologists therefore use such terms as gods, myths, temples, sanctuaries, priests, magic and cults. |
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The government has established a large number of protected areas, wildlife sanctuaries, and game reserves to address these issues. |
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In some areas, this is a protected species, and some places have otter sanctuaries that help sick and injured otters to recover. |
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Some examples include airports, diving sites, popular beach sites, marinas, natural reserves or marine sanctuaries. |
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Furthermore, these trees or rocks with their dedicatory bands are seldom located in wholly natural surroundings, but rather, like the sanctuaries, in the border areas between the world of humans and truly wild country. |
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Concurrent with the biological surveys would be the development of a regional biodiversity database, mostly archiving biological information regarding the existing national parks, nature reserves and wildlife sanctuaries. |
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Whether riding or walking, you'll pass historic forts, coraltinted beaches, and bird sanctuaries, where you might see nesting longtails. |
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Others, like the brilliantly plumaged jungle fowl, the striking red-faced malkoha and the shy brown-capped babbler can be found in forests and sanctuaries throughout the island. |
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We should not make them into sanctuaries, or into deserts. |
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What a difference there is between this little cenacle and the big sanctuaries where they make confusion, they don't receive the Eucharist in a state of grace and don't respect the commandments! |
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The UWS set up the sanctuaries to care for orphaned chimpanzees and animals seized from smugglers. |
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Community-based manatee sanctuaries had been established in Chad and some relocation work had been undertaken in the Senegal River to move individuals from dwindling pools to the main river channel. |
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These sanctuaries are important breeding sites for a variety of sea birds and contain some of the largest puffin populations in the Atlantic area. |
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When they emerge from their sanctuaries, or kivas, onto the dancing plaza, they dance to invoke rain, health, and other blessings for the people from the supernatural spirits. |
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If you are interested in spotting wild animals, Bandipur and Nagarhole wildlife sanctuaries have thick forests with elephants, samba deer, sloth bears, wild boars etc. and are ideal for trekking and bird watching. |
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They would very probably have been originally located in the tower sanctuaries constructed in miniature at the foot of the major temple of My Son consecrated to Shiva in the form of the linga. |
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The earliest of these figures were, as might be expected, dedications in sanctuaries, especially on the island of Delos, but some were grave markers, as on another island, Thera. |
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These marine sanctuaries support the world's largest and most diverse pinniped community. |
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Monumental tombs were naturally still required for ruling families, but nobles and the nouveaux riches could also aspire to them now, designing some as minor sanctuaries for the heroized dead. |
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Carefully huddled in these unpretentious sanctuaries is a humble and quiet, but nonetheless strong and committed, middle and lower income family unit, struggling to find a better way to live and survive. |
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The preservation of the most important voodoo sanctuaries and encounters among priests of the various countries concerned should help revitalize this shared heritage. |
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In addition to its role as the custodian of Islam's two sacred sanctuaries at Mecca and Medina, the kingdom is said to represent the religious tradition in its most pristine or puritanical version, Wahhabism. |
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Both of our Angsana Samana Bay spa retreats are designed to be intimate sanctuaries, to refresh and rejuvenate your spirit as well as your physical being. |
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It is heaven on earth, where you can see among carob tree branches, spectacled bears, deer and pumas as well as ancient religious sanctuaries displaying sophisticated rock paintings. |
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Hindu sanctuaries also are concealed by hangings. |
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Encourage the riparian communities in taking part in the management of the reserves and sanctuaries with the support of the private forester and mining sectors and of the internal and external development partners. |
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They have unimpeded access to sanctuaries and supplies in Pakistan. |
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Objection is sometimes offered to this system upon the hypothesis that all but the rich or fullhanded, are excluded from our sanctuaries. |
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Although it did not have any important monuments or public buildings, it was rich in popular devotional sanctuaries such as the temple dedicated to Juno, patroness of women in labour. |
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Inexplicably, the Sith Empire learned of the planet's location and attacked with a mighty force of shock troops and Sith, slaughtering the small group of Jedi on the planet and leaving their sanctuaries in ruins. |
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The São lourenço Estate is neighboured by renowned forests, by famous thermal waters, by sonant beaches, by historical cities and by its renowned gastronomical sanctuaries. |
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Only a short boat trip away are the uninhabited nature sanctuaries Green Island and Great Bird Island, home to West Indian whistling ducks, rare lizards and laughing gulls. |
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One of the Millennium Projects in the UK was the Scottish Seabird Centre, near the important bird sanctuaries on Bass Rock, Fidra and the surrounding islands. |
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Goa's wildlife sanctuaries boast of more than 1512 documented species of plants, over 275 species of birds, over 48 kinds of animals and over 60 genera of reptiles. |
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The Texas Administrative Code lists 18 freshwater mussel sanctuaries within Texas stream segments and reservoirs with three being on the Sabine River in northeast Texas. |
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Gardens in Japan are designed with moss to create peacful sanctuaries. |
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In some instances, deities of an enemy power were formally invited through the ritual of evocatio to take up their abode in new sanctuaries at Rome. |
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Misfortunately, the hurly-burly world, all jostling shoulders and grasping hands, has a way of gatecrashing even the most jealously guarded of sanctuaries. |
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India is home to many national parks and wildlife sanctuaries showing the diversity of its wildlife, much of its unique fauna, and excels in the range. |
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The actual cult images in the innermost sanctuaries of Egyptian temples, of which none have survived, were evidently rather small, even in the largest temples. |
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