Sentence examples for harsh area from inspiring English sources

"It's a harsh area," said Major Yerkes, a 39-year-old from Cincinnati.

But there has been plenty of fighting lately in this harsh area near the border with Chad, and Ms. Sanusi, like so many other hakamah, has been belting out war song after war song.

Shabwa is a harsh area of craggy, volcanic peaks and desert plains that alternate between punishing heat in the height of the summer and freezing cold in the winter.

Not surprisingly, the struggle resolves on the side of tradition, with more than a genuflection to the importance of religion, even superstition, in sustaining human life in this harsh area.

She is also a person who her colleagues have called "an oasis of humanity in the sometimes harsh area of international criminal law" and, per my own experience, one of the most knowledgeable, caring, and helpful lawyers I have ever encountered.

In the harsh areas of climate, the messenger wire is covered with ice for a long time.

They mined gold, felled timber, dug canals or lay rails, most often in harsh areas to which free labor could never be enticed.

Cultivation is possible even in very short seasons such as those of the Himalayan slopes, although the yield there is smaller than in less harsh areas.

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) have various applications in safety and mission critical systems because of their suitability in remote and harsh areas.

UN figures suggest that many tens of thousands of people--overwhelmingly children and women--have already been displaced, many to harsh areas with little or no humanitarian relief capacity.

Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Environment Group's Arctic program, said that the region was the harshest area in the world in which to drill for oil, as well as a delicate habitat for a variety of sea mammals.