1.   It was quite another thing to build a dam, store the water, and make the desert bloom.

2.   For decades, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and its irrigation districts have plumbed the arid West, bringing water to a parched land and making the deserts bloom.

3.   Its tree-planting program long epitomized the Zionist enterprise in its ambition to make the desert bloom.

4.   Public and private, each needing the other, sweat and sometimes lives spent on colossi that, for good or ill, made the desert bloom.

5.   Then they could throw out the possibility that the rotting garbage might make some portions of the desert bloom again eventually.

6.   They made the desert bloom, cultivating dates, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and avocados and raising cattle and poultry.

7.   Utahans take great pride in having made a desert bloom, and so they likewise attempted to tame the zigzagging, hefty livestock.

8.   We both serve a God who can make the desert bloom.

9.   When he built a team from scratch in Las Vegas and made the desert bloom, his critics questioned the brainpower of his student-athletes.

10.   International agencies, however, say they have no money to squander trying to make a desert bloom.