badlands

• “On the wall next to the door, instead of a nameplate, there was an ink and pen drawing, two inches by three inches, of a small piece of the U.S. map, with the word badlands written in the middle.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dead House

• “Known as the badlands because of their barrenness, the small rolling hills around the ranch were composed of disintegrating sandy silts and clay shales.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portrait of An Artist

• “As I sit here in my luckily obtained front row seat, I am blown away by scenes of Vash's trademark shinanagens with the accompanying crew of Milly, Meryl and Nick Wolfwood in what is appropriately called a badlands rumble.”

  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna

• “Humans cleared the land of its natural vegetation and the badlands are the result.”

  blogTO

• “A little below Afghanistan lies Pakistan's tribal zones, the so-called badlands of Pakistan, a sovereign country that has just given the boot to Pervez Musharraf, a military strongman and president once considered friendly to US interests.”

  Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

• “Does that mean we simply have to allow terrorists to operate there, in kind of badlands, where they can plan, they can set up laboratories, they can experiment with chemical weapons and with biological weapons?”

  October « 2008 « Niqnaq

• “The black-tailed prairie dogs that live in South Dakota's "badlands" are those under the greatest threat and controversy.”

  Creatiary

• “It was as recently as late June – two months ago – that we were writing on this blog that Al Amarah in the southern, British sector of Iraq had become the "badlands".”

  The British are running

• “In fact, scientists are currently debating the high probability that the intense erosion process that formed the ecoregional "badlands" was provoked by the geologic instability of the region.”

  Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands

• “Here, we know that, when the attack occurred last August, al Amarah had acquired the reputation of the "badlands", and British troops were under constant, heavy attack.”

  Archive 2007-05-01

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