Well, to answer the slightly easier question first, about 10,000 years ago, I would say, is the beginning of this process in the ancient Near East, known as the Fertile Crescent.

The Palestinians of Gaza indeed, all those across the region who lead blighted lives without hope cannot wait for new administrations or international institutions to act. If the Fertile Crescent is not to become a futile crescent, we must wake up and find the moral courage and political vision for a quantum leap in Palestine.

And it was also fertile.

The soil here is fertile.

The Shadow of the Crescent

The Myth of the Shia Crescent

The land on his farm is very fertile.

Injustice is a fertile ground for breeding violence.

b) Islamic Committee of the International Crescent

Yes, America s wars in the region as destructive as they were stupid bear a substantial part of the blame for the mayhem now engulfing the Fertile Crescent. But that does not exculpate the Arab fundamentalist monarchies for their role in reviving the seventh century vision that ISIS (and others) seek to realize.

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Because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium.

It's rain. Africa is fertile. They can grow the crops.

Because, as you can see, it was crescent shaped.

Cervical and breast cancers are most common among young, fertile mothers.

The latter provides fertile ground for corruption, extremism and organized crime.

Women make over 51 of the population, 25 of them being in fertile age.

At the sixth Pan African Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, held in Algiers in September 2004, African Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies adopted a plan of action containing several objectives.

The incident unfolded in Ballynagard Crescent on Thursday at about 19 30 BST.

It retains its crescent shape and moves in the direction of the horns.

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

More generally, construction materials and construction services seem to be fertile ground for cartel operators.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies participated as an observer.

Since 2000, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society has made cash donations exceeding 6.5 million.

Tourism thrives on a pristine environment, and it therefore provides fertile ground for testing innovative policies.

International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (General Assembly resolution 49 2)

I think all of us have been interested, at one time or another, in the romantic mysteries of all those societies that collapsed, such as the classic Maya in the Yucatan, the Easter Islanders, the Anasazi, Fertile Crescent society, Angor Wat, Great Zimbabwe and so on. And within the last decade or two, archaeologists have shown us that there were environmental problems underlying many of these past collapses.

And they can be completely fertile have the same number of progeny as the normal worms do.

Without access to fertile land, uncontaminated water and a healthy biological ecosystem, farmers' livelihood is in danger.

This legislation establishes a system of prior authorization for the exercise of the import, export, production, possession, transfer, use or transport of fusible, fissile or fertile nuclear material or any material, with the exception of ore, containing one or more fusible, fissile or fertile elements.

And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles.

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

Noting also that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is identifying the current state of international law relating to disaster response for a report to be submitted to States and national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies at the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in December 2003, and emphasizing the need for intergovernmental oversight of this process, particularly with regard to its principles, scope and objectives,

It's been estimated that a single ton of soil fertile soil contains approximately four million species of bacteria, all unknown.

Even so, the number of maternity wards per 1000 women in fertile age presents a great disparity between the provinces.

We know there are associations between the two groups and there is fertile ground for these sinister relationships to flourish.

Having received a standing invitation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies participated as an observer.

Mr. Gospodinov (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) Allow me to start on a personal note.

This awareness of serving the greater good is very self inspiring and it creates fertile ground for compassion to grow in.

The history of Europe was full of examples of xenophobia and intolerance being propagated to create fertile ground for subsequent violence.

Last year, during the Sixth Pan African Conference held in Algiers, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement identified four major goals scaling up the HIV AIDS response the African Red Cross Red Crescent Health Initiative 2010, known as ARCHI 2010 addressing food security and building local capacity.

As part of these efforts, the IFRC Secretary General, together with senior officials from 12 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, are now working in the field with our Sudanese Red Crescent colleagues, trying to find solutions to some of the most urgent humanitarian challenges in the Sudan.