But the relative isolation this harsh landscape affords also means the fishing villages, hill villages and maritime towns built on and under these slopes have been able to hold on to their charm and beauty as stubbornly as they've clung on to the mountains on which they're so precariously built.
Filling out an NCAA tournament bracket is the perfect metaphor for life because it affords us the opportunity to make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
"We think it's exciting because it affords our partners even in cable and satellite to get those consumers in their ecosystem, and it's likely they will upgrade into cable platform," he said.
Romola Sanyal, an Indian American, criticised Khan's elite status that affords him preferential treatment, exempting him from the harsher interrogation and humiliation that is routinely meted out on south Asians and Muslims.
These days, you're likely to get flatscreen TVs and chocolate truffles along with the uninterrupted views and peaceful idyll which a farmhouse location traditionally affords.
Kutsuplus comes very close to delivering the best of both worlds: the convenient point-to-point freedom that a car affords, yet without the onerous environmental and financial costs of ownership (or even a Zipcar membership).
"You may perhaps find some compensation for living in Cambridge in the excellent opportunities it affords for a strenuous intellectual life; it is a great advantage too that there should be so many young men from who to choose suitable and worthy companions".
Grieve told MPs: "If we are in fact going to dilute those rights, and present the British public with something which is in fact the convention shorn of some of the protections it affords the citizens, then the consequences for the convention will be catastrophic.
No one can deny that the pill is invaluable for preventing unwanted pregnancy, and that it affords women greater sexual agency.
In the world as he presents it, prison affords him a sense of power that he hasn't felt since he was the free and spoilt son of a beloved mother.
Related: How I fell in love with cricket: my many summers on the outgrounds of England One of cricket's joys – well, one of red ball cricket's joys – is that it affords plenty of time to look around and consider one's surroundings.
