Sentence examples for mountainside on from inspiring English sources

IT seems somehow apt that when Paulo Lins looks out the living room window of his comfortable apartment in an artists' neighborhood here, he sees a mountainside on which is perched one of this city's most notorious squatter slums.

Inscriptions found in some of the caves in the mountainside on which the town sits confirm it as one of the earliest centres of Christianity in the world, and some residents can still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ.

Ladera, St Lucia This dramatic retreat clings to a mountainside on a former cocoa plantation.

The plant is buried in a mountainside on a military compound near the Iranian city of Qom.In this section Anything more to declare?

A SECRET uranium-enrichment plant is discovered, built in a mountainside on a well-defended military compound outside the city of Qom.

When I met Heo, he was living in a house on a mountainside on the northeastern edge of Seoul with seven other young defectors.

MOUNTAINSIDE - ON at least one point, his family, colleagues and even rivals are in agreement: Thomas H. Kean Jr. is a nice guy.

And it gives 12 separate bands within the Tribal Council autonomous rule over almost 260 square miles of old-growth forests, beachfronts and mountainsides on Vancouver Island and nearby Meares Island.

Almost 2bn cups of coffee perk up its drinkers every day, but a perfect storm of rising heat, extreme weather and ferocious pests mean the highland bean is running out of cool mountainsides on which it flourishes.

They showed Umi and his younger brothers and their adventures in old Hawaii: sailing down mountainsides on morning-glory vines ("From vine to vine the boys slid with lightning speed"), diving into pools formed by lava tubes, crossing the sea in war canoes ("Slaves shall accompany Umi to his father's palace in Waipio").

Historians of accident investigations recall an American Airlines flight that crashed in December 1995 on a flight from Miami to Cali, Columbia, running into a mountainside while on autopilot.