Foreign correspondents, including several I met in Baghdad's al-Rashid hotel, were understandably finding the terrain hard-going.
Mr Kuprianov says Gazprom's pipelines are bigger and the terrain harder: it is "one thing to build a pipeline in the steppe, another beyond the polar circle".
The volcanic terrain is hard and jagged, hardly ideal for pitching the small tents, which become mosquito traps in the hot, humid weather.
The operation has been making slow progress through a maze of irrigation canals a terrain as hard as the bocage of Normandy in the second world war, mixed with Iraq-like fighting around civilian compounds and countless home-made bombs.
After his foray into period drama and the mysteries of artistic collaboration in "Topsy Turvy," Mr. Leigh returns to more familiar terrain: the hard luck and domestic distress of the contemporary English working class.
After his foray into period drama and the mysteries of artistic collaboration in "Topsy-Turvy," Mike Leigh returns, with "All or Nothing," to more familiar terrain: the hard luck and domestic distress of the contemporary English working class.
An exception is the Karelian Isthmus area, which is featured by rugged terrain, abundant hard rock outcrops and multiple lakes.
The new report says that pugmarks fall short as a counting tool because they are drawn from an "unknown fraction" of the 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat in India and are difficult to locate in some terrain, including hard or rocky soil as well as mangrove swamps.
Whether hampered by the PG-13 or not, Hardwicke seems to know full-well that other films have played on the 'Red Riding Hood vs. Big Bad Wolf as a metaphor for forbidden/burgeoning sexuality (if not rape fantasy)', so she perhaps wisely avoids spending too much time in the terrain that Hard Candy and Freeway among others have played in before.
