"A great power is not mountains of weapons and subjects with no rights," Boris Yeltsin declared in 1997.
Walkers often come in for directions, but this isn't mountain country, and the locals don't use the noun of even the highest escarpments.
Of course these were not mountains; the Tour will not reach them until Saturday.
The difference is that today's inventory buffers are not mountains built to a "just-in-case" standard, but carefully calculated as part of a distribution network able to respond to real-time conditions on the battlefield.
Remember, race bikes aren't mountain bikes.
"I was surprised by how much damage there wasn't," Mountain said Saturday as Alaskans took stock of their state after the powerful earthquake the day before.
These aren't mountains in the Western sense but a seemingly endless expanse of green hills.
Technically speaking, Koyasan is not a mountain at all.
He added, "The stock market is not a mountain climber and the constitution is not a living organism".
Plus, it is not a mountain of beef.
