Sentence examples for in rugged environments from inspiring English sources

Some of the extra money is intended to pay for helicopters needed to transport troops in rugged environments, for unmanned planes to provide surveillance on enemy movements and for more Special Operations forces needed in Afghanistan and a mix of other possible wars.

Created by President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, the Green Berets have as one of their core missions what is called "foreign internal defense" — using combat, mentoring, language and cross-cultural skills to train local forces in rugged environments, as they are today in missions conducted quietly in dozens of nations around the world.

However, the other contributions [14, 49] are reliant on optimization methodologies for reproducing the emerged trail patterns that are observed in rugged environments, and they do not include the cost (i.e., comfort) of using formed trails in the cost estimation of their optimization algorithm.

But companies grow and thrive nevertheless in these rugged environments, and DFS Lab is an incubator focused on connecting them with the resources they need to go global.

Carmanah pioneered solar-powered lighting for airport runways, bus stops, railway crossings and other rugged environments in remote locales where grid-based electricity is unreliable at best.

In this rugged environment, exotic species would seem to have little chance.

Given where they are and how far Van Gundy has brought them, they should be celebrated -- as anyone should be for surviving and winning in a rugged environment the past five years.

In the rugged environment of the engine, precision measurement systems that can withstand high temperatures are extremely complex to design, but can equate to significant fuel savings when done right.

Toshiba announced [PDF] the MK1060GSCX today, a 2.5-inch SATA type HDD with 100GB capacity that's designed for use in "rugged operating environments".

It would be suitable for efficient near-seafloor resistivity mapping in rugged seafloor environments where it would be difficult to measure the exact positions and locations of individual electrodes in a horizontal electrode configuration (HEC) without any sophisticated positioning devices.

Depicting male figures posed in rugged natural environments, the pieces are eerily realistic yet visually disconcerting.