The European Oasis

O you tranquil soul,

O you tranquil soul,

Will have a tranquil life

Will have a tranquil life

And I have an oasis.

Oasis Open City Foundation (Special, 2003)

But as for you, O tranquil soul.

But as for you, O tranquil soul.

Oasis Open City Foundation (FOCA) Ms. Marillia Bernard

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

But to him who comes to God with a tranquil heart.

But to him who comes to God with a tranquil heart.

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

for kings and all who are in high places that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

for kings and all who are in high places that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

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.

Repentance is not a sign of weakness. On the contrary, it is a demonstration of tranquil and conscientious strength and a precondition of good and realistic governance.

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.

She's encouraging you to contemplate this higher world to which she belongs, where she can be completely tranquil while holding the iron instruments of her death by torture.

Today, more than ever, nations need constructive, positive and honest cooperation and interaction in order to enjoy a dignified, tranquil and peaceful life based on justice and spirituality.

Thus We restored him to his mother that she may be tranquil and not grieve, and know that the promise of God is true, though most men do not know.

Thus We restored him to his mother that she may be tranquil and not grieve, and know that the promise of God is true, though most men do not know.

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.

Some in Europe assert that over time the parties may eventually see the benefits of greater cooperation, that dissolution will not occur, or that, if it does, it will likely be relatively tranquil. Such assumptions do not inspire confidence.

When what was a tranquil sea swallows up people, homes and long tail boats mercilessly, without warning and no one can tell you anything reliable about whether another one is coming, I'm not sure you'd want to calm down either.

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.

With Myanmar Burma now the in destination for the world s hot money investors, the imperial decrepitude that Lewis described will doubtless soon be transformed, the archaic charm of a fading past demolished for the sake of modern commerce. This tranquil land of timeless faith, over which Buddha s benign statues preside a land of rivers, deep forests, and blood red rubies is now in play for international investors.

Another time, when our path took us by a tranquil stream, I saw a man sitting and watching his line, seemingly at peace with the world, while next to him, fish he had already caught were flapping helplessly and gasping in the air. My father told me that he could not understand how anyone could enjoy an afternoon spent taking fish out of the water and letting them die slowly.

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.