Sentence examples for exposed coastline from inspiring English sources

But $30 million goes only so far in a country of 93 million people with an economy worth more than $200 billion and a long, exposed coastline.

DASHKA SLATER __________ CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG: To talk to Cynthia Rosenzweig, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, is to confront the vulnerability of a huge city with hundreds of miles of exposed coastline.

Given that southern Florida – with its billions of dollars of vulnerable real estate on exposed coastline – is considered by many scientists as ground zero for climate change, I started my listening tour there.

The most rapid growth has occurred in the main coastal resorts, scattered as far north as Cairns and Port Douglas, but there is a high concentration of developing resort areas in the southeast that offer not only accessibility to Brisbane and other cities but also fine beaches and surfing on the exposed coastline south of the Great Barrier Reef.

Severe winds are expected across the UK tomorrow, with some areas of exposed coastline potentially seeing gusts of wind of more than 80 mph.

This study examined whether the influence of storms may be more pronounced in sheltered coastal waters compared to more exposed coastlines where biota could have adaptations to persist in larger swell conditions.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued a flood alert for Argyll and Bute, warning: "Large seas and gale force winds have the potential to result in some spray and wave overtopping at high tides on exposed coastlines in the region over the weekend.

The insurance industry, alone, could significantly change the location and kind of development along exposed coastlines by either refusing to insure property or making it so expensive that few could afford to rebuild there.

Another form of resilience lies here, in requiring that structures along our most exposed coastlines have the same solidity and durability, something that could be done either through building code requirements and/or through the leverage of insurance policies.

Rock pools in this region are found along exposed coastlines and form in granitic depressions.

Fenzl, commonly known as knotted pearlwort, is a small, diploid, perennial herb in the Caryophyllaceae family found predominantly in archipelagos and along exposed coastlines of the Northern hemisphere.