Sentence examples for rugged eastern from inspiring English sources
Elevations rise to 1,800 feet (550 metres) in the more rugged eastern portions.
But no one doubts that village guards played a significant role in the army's 15-year campaign to assert control of Turkey's rugged eastern mountains.
There was new hope today that Steve Fossett could be found after a hiker in rugged eastern California found items believed to belong to the vanished millionaire adventurer.
When Rafael Palacios saw the vineyards around O Bolo, a village in the rugged eastern stretches of Galicia, he saw a similar opportunity to raise the profile of the white wines of Spain.
Other features include the Rewa Plateau, in the rugged eastern region of the Vindhya Range, the Bundelkhand Upland, north of the Vindhyas, the Madhya Bharat Plateau, in the extreme northwest, and the Baghelkhand Plateau, in the northeast.
In many ways, much of the war in Afghanistan, particularly in the rugged eastern part, is a war against the Haqqani family, whose patriarch, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was a legendary guerrilla fighter in the Central Intelligence Agency-backed campaign to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The Cordillera Oriental forms the country's less-rugged eastern spine, separating a narrow coastal plain to the north from a wider belt of rolling lowlands to the south, where most of the country's sugarcane is grown.
It remained broadly popular as a Kurdish national freedom movement, even as its fighters moved to Europe and the rugged mountains of eastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
Among the troubled areas being handed off by the NATO-led coalition are central Helmand Province, several districts in Wardak Province and Sarobi District, here in the rugged mountains in eastern Kabul Province.
WASHINGTON — In the most dangerous valley of the most rugged corner of eastern Afghanistan, a small rifle team of airborne soldiers fell into an insurgent ambush, a coordinated attack from three sides.
PAGE A19 U.S. Copter Crashes In Afghan Combat Zone An American military helicopter carrying Special Operations troops crashed in a rugged area of eastern Afghanistan where fighting is going on.
