Sentence examples for descent across from inspiring English sources

As we scramble to the skyline itself there's the promise of an unmarked, diagonal descent across deep peat groughs towards the old Withins ruins.

8 30 p.m. 3) FRUIT OF THE SEA The restaurant Solsiden, set in a converted warehouse on the waterfront, offers an ideal setting for dinner, particularly when staff members roll up the huge canvas window shades and patrons can watch the sun as it begins its slow descent across the Oslo Fjord.

There would also be time, with a guide, to hike up to the summit of La Plagne's Chiaupe glacier and make the long and magnificent off-piste descent across a second glacier, the Cul du Nant, before catching a shuttle bus back from the hamlet of Le Bois to Champagny en Vanoise.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere's most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation's public schools and vastly increase the number of university students of African descent across the country.

However, the detailed mechanism of slab descent across the upper- and lower-mantle boundary still needs to be constrained, as important geophysical issues such as deep earthquake mechanics and the fate of oceanic crust hinge upon it.

The collaborative has been recognized in the arts world for centering accessibility, and Kinetic Light is now preparing to bring DESCENT across the country for its first tour.

However, riders claim their horses are often startled by cyclists doing jumps and fast steep descents across paths that they use.

Brutal, punishing climbs, many made possible only by fixed ropes tied to the trees, were followed by leg-snapping, mile-long descents across a chaos of boulders.

The trail became a nightmare of steep climbs and descents across two rivers, before we finally arrived in the dark to a damp sodden area by a river in a steep valley with thick moss hanging from the trees.

While we do not know the extent of introgression across the genome, several studies have identified specific regions carrying important agronomic traits such as shattering ability, pericarp color, seed length, seed number, fragrance, plant height and tiller angle that are identical-by-descent across divergent germplasm [20] [28].

Furthermore, our survey of the exons of the Comt1 gene showed no other confirmed polymorphisms in a set of strains that represent as far as possible the progenitors of the Comt1 locus, which is in an extensive region of identity-by-descent across the classical inbred strains (Yang et al. 2007).