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  • n  extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)

  • Meanwhile, out on the steppe, Jampur is stubbornlysome might say foolishlyclinging to the nomads' age-old way of life.
  • Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm.
  • The Steppe, when Anton Chekhov wrote about it in a tale as monotonous and mesmeric as the steppe itself, was in Russia.
Quotes

  • Achim Steiner in YubaNet
    Permafrost and steppe peatlands are already being impacted by climate change,added Steiner.
  • Jim Bowden in International Herald Tribune
    I didn't have to try very hard! When it's snowing, when the wind is blowing off the steppe and coming in off the Baltic and you're down by the lowlands and rivers and it's that damp that penetrates and you're trying to load a Schmeisser [submachine... Edward Zwick http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Zwick&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEi59yypq0DwkF5amfZWqszMIoJPw Los Angeles Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-defiance2-2008nov02,0,4776272.story&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEwD4o-axdBPQqAzBniQIQjxg8L_w Nov 1, 2008 94559 150719 stepped Nationals general manager Jim Bowden said his team's owners demonstrated their commitment to win, when they stepped up in negotiations ...... at the highest level."

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