Sentence examples for sensitive terrain from inspiring English sources
India's new president, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, visited the riot-torn state of Gujarat today, marching into politically sensitive terrain on his first official trip.
But Dr. Brown said the campaign against lead was also taking health workers into the politically sensitive terrain of culture and lifestyle.
He and Mr. Boehner should look again at the environmental downside and at the negative public reaction along the proposed route through sensitive terrain.
If the international shooting center, surrounded by wildlife and environmentally sensitive terrain, is far from the teeming crowds and excitement of downtown Sydney, it did not lack for Olympic pageantry today.
We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.
But Keystone XL would cross sensitive terrain where a spill of diluted bitumen would be especially damaging, including the porous Sand Hills of Nebraska and the shallow Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies much of the Midwest with water.
Furthermore, the model is highly sensitive to terrain exposure interacting with cardinal direction.
We compared faunal communities in unlogged controls with riparian treatments: (1) clearcuts (no buffer) to the stream bank, (2) clearcuts with continuous buffer strips from a few to 20 m each stream side, and (3) clearcuts with small patch (<0.6 ha) buffers left to protect sensitive streamside terrain.
Wind turbulence is also a parameter that affects vortex shedding strongly and this can be sensitive to the terrain around the structure.
The report argued that a Hoima to Lamu pipeline would be more ecologically sensitive and that the terrain was more rugged compared with Tanzania, which is flatter.
The collection of sensors sensitive to active, "tactile", terrain exploration proved effective.
