Sentence examples similar to steep passage from inspiring English sources

The new aluminum fishway has sections that make a series of pools, giving fish a less-steep passage over the dam, which was built in 1794 to power a grist mill.

On the Nomads trip, during the steepest passages and at the highest altitudes, even those of us who had done some training approached the limits of our capacity.

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On his eighth attempt to scale the Matterhorn, on July 14 , 1865 Whymper made the ascent by the Swiss ridge, a steep and menacing passage that had previously been thought too perilous to attempt to climb.

But that chamber seems like less of a steep hurdle for passage.

If the Manchin-Toomey version is defeated, the gun measure on the floor would be left with a more expansive background check provision with even less support, and the overall gun bill would have an even steeper climb to passage.

The couloir presented them with three especially steep and difficult passages (each known as a "crux") and had at the top one of mountaineering's greatest hazards, a serac – a glacial ice column that at any moment might collapse without warning.

The seasonal thermocline became steeper during the passage of each typhoon than it had been beforehand.

On the side of one steep and narrow mountain passage sits the gnarled mess of a car — a memorial, a sign posted nearby says, to a family of seven killed in a Turkish airstrike.

There is room on the steep rock for safe passage of only one party at a time.

We refer to the sequential implementation of commercialization strategies, in which the first strategy enables the second, as a switchback reminiscent of zigzag paths that enable passage up steep mountains.