Sentences with phrase «mountain near the border»

According to local residents, this mountain near the border town of Sierra Blanca is named Movie Mountain because a silent film was shot there in the early 1900s.

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This upscale mountain escape in the Italian Alps near the French border (thus the French name «Heart of Snow») is less a hotel and more a cluster of 16 charming chalets all sporting rustic - luxe decor and modern conveniences.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

«Peshmerga forces have reached Mount Sinjar, the siege on the mountain has been lifted,» Masrour Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish region's national security council, told reporters from an operations centre near the border with Syria on Thursday, according to Aljazeera.

Until the kidnappings, the air force had been mounting near - daily bombing raids since mid-January on the Sambisa Forest and mountain caves bordering Chad.

Clinton ratcheted up her attacks on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» gun control record, telling a private gathering of state legislators near the state Capitol that many of the guns used by New York criminals come across the border from the Green Mountain State.

ALBANY — Hillary Clinton ratcheted up her attacks on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» gun control record Monday, telling a private gathering of state legislators near the State Capitol that many of the guns used by New York criminals come across the border from the Green Mountain State.

As you move from west to east, from the low, scorching deserts of the Colorado River basin to the snow - and pine - topped mountains near the New Mexico border, a range of habitat unfolds.

In a 2011 report, a team led by Todd Atwood of the state Game and Fish Department compared the genetic markers of «mainland» bears living in the forested central part of Arizona with the bears in the mountains near the Mexican border.

The 22 - year - old college student, his parents, and his five younger sisters fled on foot to an arid mountain near the Syrian border, along with about 50,000 other Yezidis, members of a religious minority.

Lippl and his colleagues invited 20 obese men to an environmental research station about 300 meters below the summit of Zugspitze, a mountain near the Austrian border.

The team's evidence of «gene flow» from descendants of modern humans into the Neanderthal genome applies to one specific Neanderthal, whose remains were found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia, near the Russia - Mongolia border.

The Tian Shan Mountains, which form the northern border of this desert, are part of a chain of mountain ranges that have long served as a central corridor for the prehistoric Silk Road routes between China and the Near East.

The team's evidence of «gene flow» from descendants of modern humans into the Neanderthal genome applies to one specific Neanderthal, whose remains were found some years ago in a cave in southwestern Siberia, in the Altai Mountains, near the Russia - Mongolia border.

Mexico recently released nine Mexican gray wolves near the U.S. border in the Sierra Madre, and wolves from the northern Rocky Mountains could make their way south at any time.

The nearest mountain range in the south is separated by the international border with China, delineated by a trench and an approximately 400 km wide steppe of the Alashan Gobi desert.

Some of the longest lived people come from the Bulgarian mountains near the Greek border where fermented milk products have a long tradition in the local diet.

In fact, most of its landmass is covered in unpopulated terrain such as forests, tundra, and the Rocky Mountains and 82 % of the entire 35.15 million people living in Canada all live in large and medium - sized cities, most near the American border.

A black bear looks up at a line of picture - taking tourists near the popular Laurel Falls Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.

It is bordered by the Sacramento Mountains and is near the White Sands National Monument.

Alpine is located near the Mexico border and is surrounded by mountains and desert.

However, the mountains between near the border of England and Scotland, as well as the extraordinary herding instinct of the breed lead everybody to believe that Northumberland is the birthplace of the Border Cborder of England and Scotland, as well as the extraordinary herding instinct of the breed lead everybody to believe that Northumberland is the birthplace of the Border CBorder Collie.

A pure white bobcat was sighted in the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota near the Manitoba border.

Situated at an altitude of 1250 metres near Hatton in central Sri Lanka, the resort borders the World Heritage Central Highlands and offers breathtaking panoramas of mountains and lush tea fields.

We began with a wine tasting at the Lawrence Dunham Wine Gallery, a showcase store for the unique vineyard founded by Mr. Dunham himself in the Arizona wine country located in the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeastern Arizona near the Mexican border.

Surrounded by the Kogelberg Mountains and bordered by the Bot River Lagoon, the Arabella Golf Course is situated near Hermanus, just over an hour's drive from Cape Town.

PHOTO GALLERY: Sapa — Vietnam Sapa is a small charming town situated in the rugged mountains of far Northwest Vietnam near the Chinese border.

Surrounded by the Kogelberg Mountains and bordered by the Bot River Lagoon, the Arabella Golf Course is situated near Hermanus, just over an hour's...

Barcelona is located in a small coastal plain near the French border at the foot of the mountain Collserola.

Near the Russian border view the striking Mount Kazbek and drive by jeep up a mountain trail to visit the 14th century Gergeti Trinity Church.

Near to the Spanish border in the picturesque village of Prado lies Hotel Monte Prado, a four - star property which offers splendid views of the Gerês and Galiz mountain ranges.

Artist Statement «Yosemite National Park is the best - known of a collection of preserved wild lands in California's Sierra Nevada, a spectacular mountain range near California's border with the state of Nevada...

The technology will be applied to three wind - turbine drivetrains at Rocky Mountain Power's 99 - MW High Plains Wind Project located on both sides of the Albany and Carbon county border near McFadden, Wyoming.

Alpine is located near the Mexico border and is surrounded by mountains and desert.

It is bordered by the Sacramento Mountains and is near the White Sands National Monument.

Located west of the Franklin Mountains near the Mexican border, Northeast El Paso is home to many military families stationed at Fort Bliss.

Oregon: Most of Oregon's 3.8 million residents live east of the Cascade Mountain Range near the border of the Pacific Ocean.