As Bosnian Serb troops, aided by Yugoslav forces, shelled and sniped at the city from their mountaintop positions, with United Nations peacekeepers standing by powerless, much of the violence was broadcast on television and shocked the world.
OBSERVATION POST TWINS, Afghanistan — When an 82-millimeter mortar round slammed onto a bunker at this mountaintop post last week, its explosion signaled more than the start of another attack on an American position overlooking an arc of hostile Afghan villages.
As part of a larger soil-geomorphic study, four major landform types were identified within the southern Fry Mountains in the southwestern Mojave Desert on the basis of topography and landscape position: mountaintop, mountainflank, mountainflat (intra-range low-relief surface), and mountainbase.
It has sacrificed a strong position on mountaintop removal in order to ensure the support of coal-state legislators for a climate bill.
Recently, the administration unveiled its new position on mountaintop coal mining and set out a number of new restrictions on the practice in six Appalachian states.
hrvatski gardijski zdrug - HGZ), the Bosnian Croat special police and the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Guards Brigade were blocked by the VRS holding a fortified position on a mountaintop between the Šator Mountain and Glamoč.
The worst slums were on the mountaintop, out of view.
Dr. McAlister's team of Georgia State astronomers has deployed six telescopes for viewing visible and infrared light from carefully measured positions on the mountaintop.
Positioned on a mountaintop, Monti's team was swarmed by Taliban fighters.
Their plight, and their widely circulated accounts of the Islamic State's atrocities, has aroused the West's conscience, leading the US government to intervene in Iraq by dropping food and water on the mountaintop and bombs on the Islamic State's positions surrounding them.
