Our destination was the Playa de la Caleta, a beach nestled among cliffs and reached by a precipitous and serpentine road barely wide enough for one car but, we found out soon enough, serving drivers going both directions.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came to claim them, too, waiting only for a film they deemed grand enough to accommodate the precipitous grandeur of Skellig Michael, the larger of these two oceanic outposts.
But even if we were successful in such an endeavor, will it be enough to counter the precipitous decline in fish populations?
Many depend heavily on a single export, such as coffee, where there have been precipitous declines in prices.Nor have donors done enough, adds Mr Gore, to encourage private investment, or to educate people how to behave in the new, open, system.
That's Indianapolis, strong enough that it never suffered the precipitous decline of so many Midwestern cities (think Detroit or Cleveland), but not so strong that it's been booming, exactly, compared to Sun Belt cities.
The rogue caliphate, he explained, represents a cautionary tale about the risks of a too rapid and precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, before the country has stabilized enough to ensure its long-term governance and defense.
There is a precipitous learning curve in coding but I guarantee, if you stick with it long enough, there will come a point when it starts to click.
The pattern is clear enough to be painted by numbers, yet the insistence that boxing walks a thin, precipitous edge at every given moment is not only prevalent from mainstream media, but the norm.
The precipitous decline of the markets leaves many investors with Bell Canada and Nortel stock that, taken together, is just enough to cover their tax bills.
Repairing to their districts, they told voters that the reason for the downgrade of American debt and the precipitous slide in the stock market was not gridlock but a final budget deal that did not cut enough spending.
