Sentence examples for low lying with from inspiring English sources

Most of the islands are small, no island is more than eight Km long, and all are low lying with an average elevation of 1.6m above sea level.

HCMC is low lying, with 40 45% of land lying between 0 and 1 m above sea level (Asian Development Bank, 2010).

Although varying forms of land-use occur throughout the transect, forestry is predominant in higher elevation, Drift-sparse areas, while agriculture and urban development are more characteristic of low lying areas with clayey Drift.

It is a low lying country, with the highest point being 306 meters above sea-level.

After Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans coastline, breaking the levees and engulfing the city's low lying areas with water, President George W. Bush suspended Department of Labor workplace rules, allowing federal contractors to enlist immigrant workers for the recovery effort.

Residents in low lying areas or with property near the river should be particularly vigilant.

"Species restricted to small, low lying islands, or those with very tight environmental requirements are likely to be the first to go".

They have shown that in longer joining nanowires (n > 1) the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) are predominantly concentrated over base electrodes (reservoirs) rather than over the nanowire constriction, while the short (monatomic) nanowires are densely populated with low lying LUMO's.

It forms low lying, gently sloping topography with extensive red earths and loose poorly sorted sands that are mixed with an abundance of clays.

They are characteristically low lying and conspicuously foliated with abundance of platy biotite minerals sandwiched into zones that are markedly distinguishable from the light-coloured quartzo-feldspartic portions.

This could lead to issues of homelessness in countries with low lying areas such as Bangladesh, as well as statelessness for populations in countries such as the Maldives and Tuvalu.