Sentence examples for huge rugged from inspiring English sources

Another called Congo the "soft belly" of Africa, a huge, rugged place with a notoriously inept army that has become a magnet for all the rogue groups in Africa.

The watchtowers, checkpoints and armoured-car patrols that punctuate every winding mile suggest that security, in this huge and rugged country whose waning civil war has cost perhaps 100,000 lives, remains tenuous.But the sight of families picnicking by roadside streams, and happily feeding the local Barbary apes, hints that things are not so bad after all.

But that's where Royal Dutch Shell is heading in an attempt to survey huge tracts of rugged and remote terrain that might be hiding oil.

North of the main range the Andysky-Salatau and Gimrinsky ranges enclose a huge triangle of extremely rugged mountains known as the Dagestan Interior Highland.

There are so many sacred areas there and they've had huge demonstrations; very hard, rugged area to get up to.

Sheepskin rugs and rugged armchairs give the place a slightly gaucho feel, and a huge map with drawings of fjords and animals provides a reference guide to the next day's activities.

Xian Xian chicken tenders bring a huge plateful of breast meat, rugged with cumin and chilli.

Alaska is sometimes thought of as America's last frontier, with the state's rugged mountains covering huge amounts of land, and much of it largely untouched by humans.

By the time it ends in 1793, just before Antoinette meets the guillotine, he, like many modern-day upper-class idealists, has found that there is a huge gulf between populist pronouncements and rugged reality.

O'Neal, still huge but suddenly human against the Pistons' rugged platoon of big men, had just 14 points, his lowest output in 23 career finals games.

The authorities acknowledged that the huge smuggling ring operated under their noses, in rugged terrain that is difficult to patrol.