Sentence examples for blocking mountain from inspiring English sources

Some Afghan officials insist that date is too early — snow is still likely to be blocking mountain passes, potentially reducing turnout.

Most of the new enterprises have no possibility of processing wood, which is why they use only industrial wood and why the rest of the wood is left blocking mountain rivers and streams.

Some villages were reachable only by air after landslides blocked mountain roads.

Meanwhile, new landslides blocked mountain roads in the district of Gorkha, one of the regions hit hardest on 25 April, and previously damaged buildings collapsed with the latest quake.

Their duties included temporary assignments to search for weapons in state prisons, remove snow from blocked mountain passes and, in May 1993, to bury a gray whale that had washed up on the beach near Eureka.

Snow may soon start to block mountain passes and impede the delivery of assistance.

First they extracted another tree-sitter who'd been blocking the mountain's access road.

Geologically, with the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands are an extension of the central fault-block mountain ranges of Puerto Rico and are thus part of the Greater Antilles.

Yunnan is more distinctly a plateau with areas of rolling uplands, precipitous folded and fault-block mountain ranges, and deep, river-cut gorges.

The West Usambara mountains are a part of the Eastern Arc chain of mountains of Tanzania and Kenya, a globally important tropical montane ecoregion made up of isolated fault-block mountain complexes characterized by high biological endemism, population density, and agronomic productivity.

Essentially, Death Valley is a graben, or rift valley, formed by the sinking of a tremendous expanse of rock lying between parallel uplifted, tilted-block mountain ranges to the east and west.