Sentence examples for land linking from inspiring English sources

The theory holds that about 13,500 years ago, bands of big-game hunters in Asia followed their prey across an exposed ribbon of land linking Siberia and Alaska and found themselves on a vast, unexplored continent.

Best for families are the beaches on or around the Rías Baixas: Sanxenxo has the most blue-flag beaches in the region, while La Lanzada on the narrow neck of land linking the mainland with the island of Grove is regularly voted Spain's best beach.

Since their win in Qusair, backed by fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Syrian government forces have made slow but steady gains in the region, control of which would secure a swath of land linking the capital, Damascus, to the country's ports on the Mediterranean.

In Macau construction has begun on an estimated $6 billion project with partners to erect seven new hotel-casinos, a megamall and a cavernous convention center on the Cotai Strip, a man-made ribbon of land linking Macau's two islands, Taipa and Coloane.

Assad's latest government military offensive has focused on controlling a strip of land linking Damascus in the south to Homs in the center up to Aleppo and the western coastland of Tartus and Lattakia where a majority of Alawites live, President Assad's sect.

The troops assumed that the local Iraqis, in this land linked by bloodlines, would be able to flee to their relatives.

The monasteries were brought firmly into the web of feudal relations, with their holding of land linked to the provision of military support to the crown.

These scattered private lands link together millions of acres of existing public lands thereby creating one vast and seamless landscape.

The last land link between Britain and France was worn away by storms after the last Ice Age.

India severed air and land links, and mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops along the border.

Pakistan has the potential to give China a land link to Middle Eastern energy reserves.