Sentence examples for Greater altitude from inspiring English sources

Greater altitude grants more visibility to you, but makes you more visible to enemy players at the same time.

In particular, it appears that the change of temperature gradient should occur in the tropics at a greater altitude and lower temperature than elsewhere.

Stress tests would have common standards, Mr. Oettinger said, but "if you have a plant which is on the coast, well then obviously flooding and tsunamis will be tested for perhaps more thoroughly than plants situated at much greater altitude".

The firm wants, one day, to recover the Falcon's second stage, too though the greater altitude and speed the second stage reaches makes this a far tougher proposition.Still, being the biggest, the first stage is the most expensive part, so retrieving it should make a huge difference to launch costs.

Cryosols and Leptosols (WRB) roughly corresponding to Gelisols and Entisols (SSS), respectively, are the most common soil classes, with an overall tendency of absent permafrost in the coastal areas, changing to sporadic permafrost at mid-slope, and discontinuous permafrost with greater altitude and substrate stability.

This effect suffered from Low-Flying-Bird Syndrome: it was certainly off the ground, but it would have cast a larger shadow if it had achieved a greater altitude by casting itself as a more general principle of value — not just a camera's cost affecting the perception of a photo's quality, but a restaurant's cost affecting the perception of a meal's quality, and so forth.

He perfected the parachute and made jumps from greater altitudes than had been possible before.

The tall forests of rhododendron and fir began to thin as we gradually ascended to greater altitudes.

They would be flying the U‐2, a plane capable of greater altitudes than any other, along Soviet borders and across Soviet territory.

More recently, great flocks of long-tailed ducks and smaller groups of white-fronted geese, both of which migrate at greater altitudes, have populated the sky and filled the air with their distinctive calls.

Greater altitudes are attained on the Bauchi and Jos plateaus in the center and in the Adamawa Massif (which continues into Cameroon) in the east, where Nigeria's highest point (c.6,700 ft/2,040 m) is located.