Sentence examples for rough mountainous from inspiring English sources

There were varying accounts of the killings in Zab, which is in the rough mountainous area that stretches between Mosul, Kirkuk and Bayji in northern Iraq.

It had to be quick and easy to put up — and take down — in deep snow on rough mountainous terrain, and light enough to be flown there by helicopter.

While the degree of utilization of available knowledge is not known, the rough mountainous terrain interlaced with many deep wadis, distant spring water sources and low seasonal rainfall availability (Laureano, 2005) presented water supply problems requiring unique innovations from Nabataean engineers to maintain year-round water supply for Petra's population.

But this rough, mountainous region does have such a hold on us today, so the story becomes larger and scarier as each scene unfolds.

When Anaxibius and his men, who were strung out in the line of march, had entered the rough, mountainous terrain in which Iphicrates and his men were waiting, the Athenians emerged and ambushed them, killing Anaxibius and many others.

The rough mountainous geography of the region raises additional difficulties despite being favorable for the development of severe weather and convective activity in general, and only with abnormal meteorological circumstances can medicanes form.

But the Swiss managed to complete the GBT for some $12 billion, tunneling through some of the roughest mountainous terrain in the world.

Israeli officials point to the continued flow of arms into Gaza and to links forged between the groups in Gaza and those across the southern border, in the rough and mountainous desert terrain of the Sinai Peninsula.

With the exception of the valley between Taegu and P'ohong-dong, the terrain along the line was extremely rough and mountainous thanks to the Taebaek Mountains which ran from north to south down Korea's east coast.

Accordingly, they are narrow, rough, and steep off mountainous coasts but broad and comparatively level offshore from plains.

That was true of "Independence Day," and it is doubly true of "Arrival," in which a dozen mountainous ovoids — charcoal gray and rough to the touch, like a pumice stone — show up at various locations around Earth.