Sentence examples for persistent land from inspiring English sources

Those that remain intact are known as persistent land mines.

"We'll be the first ones to end the use of persistent land mines, both for antipersonnel and antivehicle land mines".

A random stratified sample design was used for assessing the change detection accuracy, with 250 pixels selected within areas of persistent land cover and 250 pixels selected within areas of change identified by the CCDC algorithm.

To create two complete wall-to-wall land-cover maps for the region, we merged our 2001 and 2006 change layers with the remaining area of persistent land cover from the NLCD.

The wasps' nests are typically found in large aggregations with as many as 150 built close together, and each colony faces persistent landing attempts by outsiders from these other nests.

Persistent drought, land grabs and political repression have created a crisis in that region in recent times.

And persistent violations could land the shareholder in the cross hairs of a claim "that gets your lease terminated," he said.

The Initiative commits "a persistent US air, land and sea presence in the region, especially in Central and Eastern Europe" for allies "now deeply concerned by Russia's occupation an dattempted annexation of Crimea and other provocative actions in Ukraine".

Grandiose and bursting with macho energy, Kwak Kyung-taek's fierce yet formulaic action film, shot in Korea, Russia and Thailand, features elaborate set pieces aboard ships and on land, persistent machine-gun fire and a booming score that conveys villainy or heroism, depending on what the scene calls for.

Cincinnati Arch, geologic anticlinal (archlike) structure influential during the Paleozoic Era (542 million to 251 million years ago); it existed as a persistent low-lying land area flanked by seas covering a large part of the continent while connected with the ocean.

In the persistent war over the land, blood has been spilled on both sides.