Vested interests in horses, as well as poor roads, steep gradients, inadequate springing, and an inadequate technology of materials, hindered the adoption of his ideas for steam engines on roads.
For example, WVCs were less likely to occur when a road bisected steep slopes; however, steep slopes may be located along specific road-types and habitat that also influence the occurrence of WVCs.
The road is steep and hard, and the journey often takes a few days.
A wheelchair stands in the corner, but the path from his hut to the nearby road is steep and rocky.
But what is remarkable is what lies across the road – a steep mountainside, terraced with layer upon layer of deserted stone buildings.
Sanders alluded to this exercise in his Santa Monica speech by saying that he was "pretty good at arithmetic" and knew the road was "steep".
But not Ihsanullah, 10, another boy who stood on a high arc of road so steep the trucks struggled to a standstill and looked as though they were about to tumble backward.
It was dark as the bus took a winding road beside steep cliffs.
Yet, long the road and steep the climb, Too many blind, and short the time, So whence the victory?
In the early 1960s, as the Interstate Highway System was being built throughout the United States, east-west travel through western Maryland was difficult, as US 40, the predecessor to I-68, was a two-lane country road with steep grades and hairpin turns.
