oases

Effectively, firms can be seen as oases of planning and command within the vast expanse of the market.

The random distribution of crater oases is apparent, indicating that the canal system was adapted to this haphazard arrangement.

It's a positive trend but the problem is that the city as a whole is still automobile-scale, just peppered with tiny oases, which seems a kind of inelegant shoehorned solution.

People in the Gobi, particularly the northern Gobi, don't always (or even usually) travel by way of journeys between oases.

But it varies greatly and often the situation is more like a desert of tedious, exhausting work only sometimes alleviated by the few oases of tenacious talent encountered along the way.

The circular oases on Mars are the size, shape, and number of comparable lunar craters.

If you want to tax people crossing the desert, you station the tax collectors at the oases all travelers must visit.

Maybe there were a few oases of ideality hiding the vast curtain of reality.

The structure of traveling through that is that you follow the silk road between a bunch of major cities built around oases.

It's so nice to have these little oases of ethical businesses in tech.

There are oases in this desert (which is, indeed, not inevitable), thankfully.

They truly look like oases and it must be surreal to sit in the shade and read while looking out onto the surrounding desert.

Crater depressions form a natural reservoir, accounting for the intense vegetation in the Martian oases, > “4.

Those that will actually take the time to help users out, or projects with sufficient and good enough documentation that the "hand holding" as you put it, isn't necessary, are like refreshing oases in a vast desert.