Sentence examples for the terrain on from inspiring English sources

The effect of the terrain on operations was one of channelization; because of the swamps, only certain areas were suitable for large-scale troop movement.

It's won by choosing the terrain on which it will be fought.

Women's bodies are the terrain on which the battle is fought, the prey of religious fanaticism.

This is the terrain on which left-of-centre parties have to forge new electoral strategies and political identities.

It is also the terrain on which a fresh round of resistance struggles against the status quo are being fought.

He drew the map within four days of the engagement, and it remains the most accurate rendering of the terrain on the day of the conflict.

Not so, protests Darcy Frey, who tackles the terrain of Tasmania on Page 122.

Yet the terrain took on importance only because of the battle, and especially its outcome.

As the sun was shrinking to a sliver, the air grew cooler and the terrain took on a darker hue.

A 2005 property designation map from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection uses a portion of the Willimantic Quadrangle map to show the hilly terrain on the northeast portion of the park and the top of Bush Hill to the northwest.

The presence of lowland craters in Titan's Xanadu lowlands—some of the oldest terrain on the satellite can likely be explained by the age of the impacts, Neish and Lorenz contend.