Sentence examples for frozen country from inspiring English sources

That's how the spiritualism of Alejandro González Iñárritu's "The Revenant," the rugged adventure through frozen country of the grieving, angry, wounded guide and trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), plays.

In Russia, international athletic competitions -- particularly the Winter Olympics, in this frozen country -- are considered one of the last prominent international arenas to showcase the country's strength.

In O Pioneers!, the first generation of homesteaders arrive in this "stern frozen country", to find that "the land" — as Cather repeatedly, definitely, calls the prairie — just "wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness".

She adds: "As a consequence, in this world of ever-increasing mobility, families are shattered as elderly parents will decide not to join their families living in frozen countries because of their frozen pension, and so are denied the human right to a family life with their children and grandchildren.

Frozen countries are usually considered by much of the world to be under military occupation, and few such zones ever receive formal diplomatic recognition as independent states.

Paul Howlett Withnail & I, (Bruce Robinson, 1987), 2.05am, Channel 4 A sordid, supremely funny trudge through the pathetic lives of two destitute actors – Paul McGann's Marwood and the languidly furious Withnail (Richard E Grant) – who survive on drugs and drink in grotty Camden Town, then head unwisely for the rural idyll of Uncle Monty's (Richard Griffiths) freezing country cottage.

Ms. Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator in the agreement reached between the U.S. and five other global powers (P5+1), urged Congress not to pass new sanctions on Iran as talks continue on freezing country's nuclear program.

Iranian rights activists have a mixed view on the sanctions, which have halved Iran's oil exports, frozen the country out of the international banking system and caused a steep slide in the value of Iran's currency, the rial.

We know the reasons why action on climate is frozen: emerging countries such as China, India and Brazil will not accept limits that stifle their rapid emergence; developed countries such as the United States and the European Union can't or won't subsidize efforts abroad; and the U.S. federal government can't even agree on binding limits for America itself.

Few assets are being frozen, and countries have been lax about imposing the mandatory travel ban on designated individuals.

Then, as now, Moscow was breaking off a couple chunks of a former Soviet Republic, carving out frozen states — countries established on territory occupied during a conflict and not granted full legitimacy by the international community — like South Ossetia in Georgia or the Donbas People's Republic in Ukraine.