Sentence examples for eroded face from inspiring English sources

Open image in new window Fig. 20 The carbonation depth corresponding to the exposed and eroded face.

Here, for example, from Canopus, is a great life-size head of the god Serapis that was mounted in his most famous temple; the Egyptian god Osiris with his healing powers is transmuted into a Grecian deity, his eroded face framed by flowing locks.

Poorer communities, lacking the money or technology to deal with a ruined harvest or an eroding coastline, face outsize threats.

Eight sediment samples for OSL analysis were taken from the eroding west face of the parabolic dune at Cape Kiwanda, seven being associated with the six exposed paleosols, and the eighth from the base of the dune.

"In the public sector, people's dedication has been eroded in the face of continuing cutbacks and sometimes unwarranted criticism," he says.

/ Is the mountain face eroded by the winds, scraped clean by those who once practiced agriculture or animal husbandry or who are totally impoverished, and who are now enthusiastic gun owners, or who have a great number of pets?

I fear that if the threat of monetary loss via lawsuit is further eroded, we will face human loss.

Several have faces eroded by acid, a favorite weapon here.

Such details will have to be worked out over the next two years, although antismoking groups worried openly whether consensus in Geneva might be eroded once officials faced lobbying by well-funded tobacco forces.

To the extent that faith in deficit spending during downturns is eroded, the Federal Reserve could face increasing pressure to deploy monetary policy to lift the economy out of a rut — a prospect that has unsettled officials at the central bank.

But Molycorp, like other foundation stones of American industrial pre-eminence that have cracked or eroded under foreign competition, faces challenges that may prevent its bet from paying off.