Sentence examples for * the plateaux from inspiring English sources

"That sounds wonderful, that sounds good," he said when I recounted the Plateaux story.

For two weeks, then, his party of about eighty people was plodding over the plateaux and passes with Chinese troops and aircraft in pursuit.

And there was Alexei Ivanov, a Russian economist, who went missing in April 2000 on the plateaux just above Manikaran, and was last spotted in the village.

The novel follows several principal characters: Dalinar, a soldier; Alethkar, who is beset by crazed, prophetic visions; Kaladin, a slave who transports bridges across the plateaux; and Shallan, artist and thief, seeking to save her once affluent family.

Comparisons are made with nickel polycrystals and it is found that the plateaux in copper are narrower than those reported in nickel.

Thus, the plateaux of the elastic junctions are increasingly deformed and displaced with increased damping and, less markedly, with decreased response time of the material.

Soon, the elaborate plateaux de fruits de mer began to tower over tabletops, edible still lifes of local shellfish.

Hundreds of foreigners, a majority of them French, have taken refuge in a French military camp after violent looting broke out in the Deux Plateaux suburb.

Armed police officers sealed off a number of streets in the Deux Plateaux district of Abidjan and entered the house of Gen. Lassana Palenfo shortly after 6 a.m., witnesses said.

Crossing the Hauts Plateaux for most of the year as a chain of marshes and muddy pools, the river loses most of its water but is replenished by a stream near Chabounia, the Nahr Ouassel River.

Till on the interior plateaux of the island in areas with scoured bedrock have low chemical index of alteration (CIA) values, low meteoric 10Be (10Bemet) concentrations, and clay mineralogy consistent with erosion from an unweathered bedrock source.