Sentences with phrase «as the desert terrain»

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The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

Our goji berries are sourced from the remote desert terrains of the Qinghai - Tibet Plateau, a vast elevated plain often referred to as «the Roof of the World».

For generations, researchers dismissed the Amazon as a cultural desert, a jungle terrain too treacherous to support any civilization more sophisticated than nomadic tribes.

The 2016 University Rover Challenge concluded on Saturday (June 4th) at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in southern Utah as 28 rovers and more than 300 college students took on the harsh Mars - like terrain of this unique venue.

As a boy, Cal and his friends rode horses for hours over the desert terrain, when they weren't tending their families» flocks of sheep.

Seeing as equine transportation was more or less the only available method of traversing the rough terrain of the frontier back in the day, as trains only connected major settlements, characters inhabiting the Red Dead world had to learn this skill unless they wanted the coarse desert sand to chew through a pair of shoes every three months.

In the case of Gun Fury, this includes shoot - out choreography, barroom composition, and the heightened depiction of forward motion, from galloping tracking shots to camera angles staring down a row of reigns as horses sprint headlong over the desert terrain.

These places are large maps made up of several smaller interconnected areas, and cover a variety of terrain types such as snowy mountains, volcanoes, deserts, and jungles.

On the outskirts of the lakebed, the desert terrain is something very much out of «Mad Max: Fury Road,» and its paths and trails are what you'd expect if someone used toad skin as tarmac, ranging from soft and sandy to rutted with slight jumps.

But as we transitioned from the lakebed's smooth, almost pavement - like texture, the squishy cadence withered away in the desert heat as we made our way onto the OHV area's rocky and rolly terrain.

The 550 - mile (885 - km) race offers a variety of rough terrain, from salty desert wallows, to dry lake beds and mountain passes as high as 8,000 ft (2,438 meters) above sea level.

With an extra-wide stance, specially - engineered suspension and oversized tires, the SVT Raptor is just at home on the pavement as it is careening across the desert, where it can travel at nearly triple - digit speeds through terrain that would tear lesser trucks apart.The cabin features a grippy, SVT - exclusive leather - wrapped steering wheel with an orange on - center marker.

The Saluki was bred as a sight hunter and was frequently utilized as a hunter of antelopes and hare in rough desert terrain.

During the desert's eight - week rainy season, when the entire terrain transforms into a lush, flowered plain, the frogs emerge for what I like to imagine as an eight - week party.

With a terrain described as dramatic — «more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site» — perhaps portenos could not find a way inside its depths.

The country's terrain, stretched across 1.2 million square kilometres, is as diverse as its culture and people — from rugged shorelines and towering peaks, to bushveld, shrubland, magnificent indigenous forest and endless, barren desert.

Designed by Heckenkemper to fit seamlessly into the natural desert terrain, the course is as challenging as it is picturesque, offering a variety of strategically placed bunkers to provide an enjoyable challenge for golfers of all abilities.

Considered by many as the Caribbean's most geographically diverse destination, you'll find white sand beaches alongside wild mountain terrain, rainforests and desert.

Witnessing the changing terrain from desert to cliff side, from the rich blue waters of Lake Mead to the red and brown rock walls that are as deep as two CN Towers, it is a truly breathtaking experience.

This three and a half hour adventure tour offers a taste of the outback as you traverse the desert terrain at Undoolya Station, located near Alice Springs.

As I walk along the green fields of Pin, I smile in delight at the pink, purple and yellow flowers in bloom; I haven't seen greenery for the last 3 days in the mountain desert terrain of Spiti.

When fighting in the different terrains, they do provide the necessary details such as sand blowing across a desert, or the dark cramped feeling of being in a mine.

Miramar is a barren desert, and adds loads of interesting wrinkles to the PUBG formula as there aren't many forests to hide in so you have to adeptly use the actual terrain to hide from enemies.

As a futuristic shooter, all maps are sci - fi themed in a world where technology is advanced, but not all that futuristic on the terrains where deserts, ice and grassy environments still exist to vary the look and atmosphere within each map.

Artschwager returned many times to New Mexico as an adult, still captivated by the endless roads, craggy terrain, and desert shrubs, and portrays the scenery from many different perspectives in drawing and painting.

Artschwager returned many times to New Mexico as an adult, still captivated by the endless roads, craggy terrain, and desert shrubs.

The encroachment of increases in desert terrain around the fringes of the equatorial region is expected to show increases as the warming process reaches its «peak», before the «turn» back to a «glaciation dip».

The building is surrounded by the natural terrain of the Sonoran Desert, but instead the worst possible site adjacent to the paved road and SW facing brick wall was chosen in 2009 as the location to monitor temperature.

As any Copper State resident can tell you, to grow anything in desert terrain, you need to conserve water.

In order to successfully navigate an insurance world that's as unforgiving as the Sonoran Desert, the most important place to start is to understand the terrain.

Seeing as equine transportation was more or less the only available method of traversing the rough terrain of the frontier back in the day, as trains only connected major settlements, characters inhabiting the Red Dead world had to learn this skill unless they wanted the coarse desert sand to chew through a pair of shoes every three months.