The European Oasis

And I have an oasis.

Oasis Open City Foundation (Special, 2003)

Oasis Open City Foundation (FOCA) Ms. Marillia Bernard

I'm the go to animal when the oasis is dry.

I went to the Siwa Oasis. That was one of my stops.

IFAD has assisted the Mauritanian Government in oasis protection and environmentally sensitive development.

Birds then came, bringing in seeds, and our pile became an oasis of life.

Have a Follow up Pacific Forum Group and Pacific Oasis meeting in New York with Tuvalu Officials

8 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2004), Economic Development in Africa Debt Sustainability Oasis or Mirage?

This is what happens every spring. For six weeks, six to eight weeks, I have this flush of green oasis.

Statement submitted by Oasis Open City Foundation, a non governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

No one can remain safe and secure, or even content, while living in an oasis of wealth surrounded by a desert of poverty.

Well, I come from the former Soviet Republic of Belarus, which, as some of you may know, is not exactly an oasis of liberal democracy.

It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism. The question for Europeans today is whether they can and, more important, should be content with their status.

So if you go back into the parking, into the corridors, it's almost like traveling into a parallel universe from cars and colors, into this sort of south facing urban oasis.

So now we had a system that we could actually take to some place that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the ocean that might be patrolled by large predators.

The UNCTAD secretariat prepared a report entitled Economic Development in Africa Debt Sustainability Oasis or Mirage? , a summary version of which was presented to the Trade and Development Board at its fifty first session.

And the Siwa Oasis is famous for several things, but the key thing is that it was the place that Alexander the Great went to when he wanted to find out what his destiny had in store for him.

Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity. But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

NEW HAVEN In September 1998, during the depths of the Asian financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the United States Federal Reserve s chairman at the time, had a simple message the US is not an oasis of prosperity in an otherwise struggling world. Greenspan s point is even closer to the mark today than it was back then.

Its strategy of gradual reform, economic modernization, and social development has made the country an oasis of stability in a region rife with violence and strategic rivalries and thus a reliable partner for Europe and the United States as they seek to influence events in North Africa and across the Middle East. Indeed, with Morocco s proximity to Europe making it a gateway to Africa, its full economic and geopolitical potential has yet to be realized.