Taking control of their destiny may also mean changing attitudes common in a society that combines the most rugged individualism with what many call "an entitlement mentality".
The general looked around him on terrain that is some of the steepest, wildest, most rugged on earth, with peaks ranging from 3,000 feet to more than 20,000 feet.
The city's environs, about 15 miles northwest of Santa Monica, are home to some of the largest and most rugged parks in Southern California, with superb camping.
This desert, where the corners of Oregon and Idaho butt against northern Nevada, is some of the most rugged in the country, with just a few outposts, many, like Jordan Valley, founded by hardscrabble Basque homesteaders.
For the more vigorous, the Simien mountains, Africa's most rugged, provide excellent trekking opportunities with dramatic skylines, unique wildlife and rich grassy plateaux.
The island, roughly 300 miles wide by 500 miles long (500 km wide by 800 km long) and covering an area of 75,767 square miles (196,236 square km), is the most rugged in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, with towering mountains (especially in the north), vast ice fields, and a deeply indented coastline.
One of the most rugged and barely visited landscapes in Britain, with remote interior and dramatic coastline.
Tattooed and pierced, the young faithful come from some of the capital's most rugged neighborhoods, and many of them acknowledge that they run with gangs and use drugs.
The most generalist phage (e.g. s={100,200}) offered little adaptive benefit on the most rugged landscapes, explained by the shallow gradient in lysis rates with increasing genetic distance relative to the steep local gradients in growth rate.
To deal with the hostile environment of the interior, leather must be of the most rugged grade.
