Sentence examples for broken countryside from inspiring English sources

They advanced over broken countryside and after the lead company had crossed the Song River, they were engaged by machine-gun fire from a strong defensive position.

They are especially angry at the ministers' proposal to pay farmers twice from separate budgets for "greening" activities and their refusal to withdraw grants from farmers who break countryside laws, such as those on pesticides.

"Chaos has broken out in the countryside" says Amanda Barrett, a former BBC wildlife filmmaker and one of the activists.

The old social contract, whereby power flowed from Bangkok and the political establishment could count on quiet acquiescence in the Thai countryside, has broken down.

"Order has not broken down in the countryside as it has in Cairo," he says.

As armed groups continue to swallow up large swaths of the Afghan countryside, the broken mineral sector may become a serious liability.

In one of the predella panels is a painting of the first true nocturnal scene with realistic shadows, and in another is a depiction of the dawn breaking over the countryside, the rising sun's rays illuminating foothills and a hill-top town while the valley beyond the mountains remains in half-light.

From October December 1958, the economic system in the countryside broke down as farmers refused to go to work in the fields, raided government granaries for food, and in Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Qinghai, rebelled.

The tranquility of a countryside walk might broken by the regular metallic twang that follows the wearer around.

Here, in HD, a young couple have broken down somewhere in the California countryside.

Many rivers across the region have broken their banks and spilled across the countryside.