Sentence examples for land exposed from inspiring English sources

Over a hill the red tiled roofs of Viscri appear in a valley beneath the distinctive towers and ramparts of a fortified church, a common feature in a land exposed for centuries to the slings and arrows of outrageous neighbours.

Apart from the tranquillity and the wildlife, I discovered one rather more guilty pleasure in canoeing: seeing all this private land exposed from our new vantage point on the water.

Japan is stuck in a political and economic no man's land, exposed to the dislocations of a globalized economy, yet absent a government capable of preparing the country to compete effectively.

One reason is that the white surface of the ice reflects a great deal of sunlight back to space, but the darker water and land exposed when the ice melts absorb more heat from the sun, which in turns leads to additional melting, more sunlight absorption and so on — a feedback loop that scientists call Arctic amplification.

Annual cropping leaves the land exposed for off-season grazing, direct rainfall impact and runoff with the resultant soil loss.

The analysis found Taiwan particularly dangerous, with 73% of its land exposed to three or four of the following hazards: flood, earthquakes, cyclones, and landslides.

The final piece honours those who died fighting for their land, exposing a history long overlooked (if not silenced), through the subversion of western iconography and traditional memorialisation of Anzacs.

Marian Silvester, the SLF's access adviser, says that some landowners are now worried that lots more people will tramp across their land, exposing them to bigger liability insurance risks if someone injures themselves on a rickety stile or a bridge normally only used for sheep herding.

The valleys of the Red and Minnesota Rivers lay in the beds of Glacial Lake Agassiz and its prehistoric outlet Glacial River Warren; the lands exposed when these bodies of water receded were flat plains between low uplands covered by prairie grasslands.

Trajectories of vegetation response on lands exposed by dam removal influence higher-order responses such as human and wildlife use and biogeochemical processes (Shafroth et al. 2002).

A fee simple approach is well-suited to areas that are subject to a threat that can only be prevented if the land is acquired outright, or when land is exposed to numerous threats that cannot be tackled in a piecemeal manner.