Sentence examples for intense ground from inspiring English sources

Both sides called it one of the war's most intense ground battles.

An effective way of reducing the destructiveness of earthquakes, therefore, is to build structures capable of withstanding intense ground motions.

Seven Taliban were reported killed in the most intense ground combat by Americans in the eight-week war.

The scale of the fighting — among the most intense ground battles in Syria's war — has forced Lebanon to contend anew with a perennial problem.

General Hagenbeck's remarks, delivered to reporters here, provided a kind of valedictory to the most intense ground battle of the five-month-old war.

It was the most intense ground attack on the capital of the rebellious province of Chechnya in nearly four months of fighting.

Modern cities full of state-of-the-art buildings were tested by intense ground-shaking that lasted about 120 seconds — compared to about 40 seconds for the 1906 and 20 seconds for the 1989 San Francisco earthquakes, which had magnitudes of 7.9 and 6.9, respectively.

Gumbel's previous book, They Shoot School Kids, Don't They?, detailed how only about 5% of France's top students get into classe préparatoire [preparatory classes], the "military-style boot camps" that provide intense grounding for the country's 200 elite grandes écoles.

The lyricism of the intense yellow ground sprayed with pearl gray blobs contrasts with the blackness gathering over the dancer's head.

The elongated Climachus, about three times the size of George and Blaise, stands against an erstwhile emerald green and intense red ground, revealing a taste for contrasted colors that would be revived in avant-garde painting of the 20th century.

It was inspired, according to the catalog, by a circus act performed at the Cirque Medrano in Paris throughout the 1920s — apparently the twirling black line that stands out against the intense blue ground catches the brief movement of a whip lashing through the air.