Sentence examples for uppermost reaches from inspiring English sources

They addressed one another by the familiar tu — an almost unheard-of liberty in the uppermost reaches of the French state.

The report reveals pressure for the adoption of more aggressive interrogation techniques came from the uppermost reaches of the Bush administration.

A precarious rescue effort concluded with daring helicopter pilots ferrying stranded climbers to relative safety from the uppermost reaches of Mount Everest, the world's deadliest peak.

Speyer shot me a look that implied I had a vulgar conception of behavior at the uppermost reaches of the business world.

Hydrologic changes were highly variable both spatially and temporally, and the uppermost reaches of the forested highlands were most significantly affected.

It will be Canadian ice demons against their American cousins in a mad indoor skating dash, spiraling from street level to the uppermost reaches of Fifth Avenue's Guggenheim Museum -- and spiraling right back down again.

The Bell Creek valley is narrower, beginning a few miles south of Trabuco Canyon, California, and running in an almost perfectly straight southward course to San Juan Creek, which at this point is shortly out of the uppermost reach of its watershed, San Juan Canyon.

Subject to no meteorological effects and unprotected by a substantial atmosphere, the uppermost surface reaches almost 400 kelvins (K; 260 °F, 127 °C) during the day and plunges to below 100 K (−279 °F, −173 °C) at night.

The American strongholds of Fort Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga near the lake's southern end protected access to uppermost navigable reaches of the Hudson River.

For example, if a 500-m-diameter crater penetrates through the uppermost unit and reaches to the underlying unit, the thickness of the uppermost unit at the point is estimated to be thinner than (sim 100 m.

Failure is now defined when the growing mode I crack reaches the uppermost layer of fibres.