Sentence examples for extraordinary lands from inspiring English sources

"The administration has committed these sensitive parcels of land to oil and gas development without ever taking the time to examine what that leasing and development will mean to these extraordinary lands," said Johanna Wald, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which filed the suit with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

I love the extraordinary lands encompassed in America's Red Rock Wilderness Act.

The Travels had also a profound impact on European representation of the world and it triggered indirectly Christopher Columbus' great discovery of the New World since the Genoese explorer, following Toscanelli's suggestions, was first convinced that it would have been by sailing West that he could have reached more rapidly the extraordinary lands mentioned by Polo.

In this extraordinary land, nothing seems out of the ordinary, not even beds made of glass.

"It's such extraordinary land, I didn't want to impose man-made structures on it," she said.

This compendium of curiosities showcases the world's lesser-known wonders, from the relics of ancient cities to extraordinary land formations.

Some bits of land were sold and resold several times during a single day.Among the principal beneficiaries of Florida's extraordinary land boom was Carl Graham Fisher, a serial entrepreneur who can take much of the credit for turning Miami Beach from a swampy strip of mangrove trees into the most talked-about resort in the country.

Starring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot responsible for the extraordinary landing of a plane on the Hudson river in 2008, with no casualties, Sully is an unabashed crowdpleaser about a hero fighting to maintain that title when corporate greed threatens to tarnish his image.

The early papers suggested that biofuel production could have extraordinary land use implications [2, 14 16].

The frustrating part about all this is that the extraordinary landing system devised by Steltzner's team appears to be a one shot affair.

Moved by the land and people, she soon gave up reporting to devote herself to working with non-governmental organizations helping "Afghans rebuild their shattered but extraordinary country".