Sentence examples for rugged history from inspiring English sources

The same painstaking research has gone into the views of Malta, with its rugged history etched on its limestone face, and into the close studies of the islanders, admired by Max for "their wry humor, their rough savoir faire and their burning faith".

Ed Goedhart, a Republican assemblyman from northern Nevada, said that brothels speak to the state's history of "rugged individualism".

In her song lyrics Ms. Collins conjures ghostly images of people and places from her family history in rugged Rocky Mountain territory.

Christmas Island: A history The rugged tip of an extinct volcano, Christmas Island was not inhabited until 1888, when Britain realised it contained rich phosphate deposits.

The landscape is stunning with a rugged coastline seeped in history, the towns interesting reflecting with a early twentieth century feel.

His passion resulted in the purchase of a number of Urals (a Russian copy of a 1930s BMW design) and some imaginative rebranding of these rugged pieces of Soviet history into suitable sightseeing vehicles.

Yet, one by one, in the past few years they've all started quietly creeping back north, lured by its rugged beauty and Viking history, by which I mean cheaper housing stock and free babysitting.

Instead, Riccarda Torriani, a historian at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, links the country's sense of identity to such things as its system of direct democracy, which enforces popular participation in government; the idea that its citizens are frontier people (living in or near the rugged Alps); and a history of collective courage in defense of freedom, even when outnumbered.

Had it been able to hold out a while longer, International, a company with a real heritage and a history in rugged commercial trucks, would probably still be a player in an S.U.V. market successfully populated by such unlikely truck makers as Porsche and BMW.

For relatively not much money we can buy ourselves a piece of that rugged individualism and triumphant history ("For nostalgic hunting or cowboy type shooting the 1886 Classic Carbine or Standard Rifle are perfect") and raise a big middle finger to Isis, the feds, the gays, feminists, whoever it is we think is messing with us.

Lush green hills, miles of rugged coastline, a vibrant history, charming neighbors, a pub at every corner, and a prospering economy?