Sentence examples for mountain ravines from inspiring English sources

She had been used for the illegal logging trade since infancy, pulling huge weights up and down steep mountain ravines.

The patches of unadulterated forest from which the seeds would come are scarce (they are found mainly in inaccessible mountain ravines and sacred feng shui woods behind villages and temples).

Perilous, two-lane bridges span mountain ravines high above the sea, while unlit tunnels leak in the rain — and occasionally drop concrete and other building materials onto passing cars.

If the mud-and-rock embankment were to break completely, however, a 100-foot wall of water would rush down mountain ravines and onto the lowlands, causing widespread devastation in its path.

Not in years has it been heard so much in the streets here, falling from the lips of members of the Tibetan diaspora whose frustration runs as deep as the mountain ravines of their homeland.

Meanwhile, many of the region's spectacular mountain ravines are simply too dramatic ever to accommodate a bridge of any sort.There are similarly unbridgeable gaps between China's official account of its magnanimous and tolerant rule in Tibet, and the wrenching tales of thuggery and oppression told in whispers by frightened, wary locals.

Russian troops and the militants were also engaged in fierce skirmishes in the Argun gorge, the mountain ravine that connects the Chechen lowlands with Georgia.

WASHINGTON — One of them, an Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan, led a team into a treacherous mountain ravine to recover the remains of 16 American commandos shot down in a helicopter crash.

To four teenagers from city and suburb, Split Rock Falls was a magical place -- cool water rushing between the granite walls of a mountain ravine, forming pools for hours of lazy summertime swimming.

If the public feels no emotional connection with the actor and this may be because he is perceived as being a matey, overly ingratiating Brit – he can stay in that mountain ravine for 100,000 hours for all the public cares.

Curator Jane Withers is a self-confessed "ofuro-holic" (the Japanese term for someone addicted to hot water) and her selection ranges from a sauna-studded walkway that zig-zags through a remote mountain ravine in Chile, to pop-up sweatboxes driven around on the back of a bike in the Czech Republic.