Sentence examples for land elevated from inspiring English sources

Large houses with seven- to nine-foot-high basements for wine cellars and media rooms are being built on land elevated with fill and are looming over their neighbors.

Archaeologists have discovered a larger quantity of papyrus documents in desert settlements on land elevated above the floodplain, and in settlements that lacked irrigation works, such as Elephantine, El-Lahun, and El-Hiba.

Lavakas (meaning 'holes' in Malagasy) are mass failure features common to the Hauts-Plateaux which lead to considerable loss of arable land, elevated suspended and river bed sediment loads (Cox and others 2003, 2004, 2009), and subsequent alluviation of streams, rivers and estuaries (Zavada and others 2009).

At the same time, hard-line mosques were given money and land, elevating a narrow, often sectarian world view that cast a pall over young Pakistanis.

The land is elevated with soils that are sandy — a mix that is far from ideal for Everglades restoration.

Those causeways that cross swampy land are elevated above the surrounding wetland and they now tend to support denser vegetation than the surrounding forest.

In some cases, elevated land areas may already contain depressions that eventually form lake basins.

"Pre-2008 we were doing a lot of condos, and land prices were elevated and the cost of construction to build them was high," said Abraham Bergman, a managing partner and co-founder at Eastern Union Funding, a mortgage broker.

We discuss the major threats to, and consequences for, biodiversity in these regions including land clearance and elevated CO2-driven forest expansion.

While the promised land of permanently elevated testosterone may appear wonderful in the ads, the actual link between testosterone and muscle growth is not as straightforward as many claim.

By combining land grants supported by land grant universities under this Act, our young nation was elevated to the top of the most productive agricultural nations in the world.