• It will take years for it to counterbalance the commander culture that holds valleys hostage to the local gunslinger.

    ECONOMIST: Now the country's fragile peace must be made to stick

  • The train let us off at a spacious lodge with restaurants and brilliant views of peaks and valleys that stretched to the Black Forest.

    NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

  • U.S. forces established a series of bases in the region's scenic but treacherous valleys that sought to block insurgents coming in from Pakistan from pushing toward Kabul.

    WSJ: Role Reversal: Pakistan Fears

  • First proposed 14 years ago, the Locarnese National Park Project aims to encompass the heavily forested mountains and deep valleys that run west from the shores of Lago Maggiore.

    BBC: Exploring Switzerland��s green legacy �C on foot

  • The document includes ideas on ways to develop the 'green' potential of the Valleys that is designed to give the area's economy a kickstart while ensuring the environment isn't neglected.

    BBC: Plaid Cymru debate

  • Washington County is a terrain of gentle hills and close valleys that grows more rugged as you get east over toward the Vermont border, where the Green Mountains begin in earnest.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

  • Concentration for most pollutants remains high despite legislation passed in 2002 to control emissions in ten of China's biggest cities and several river valleys that provide industrial arteries into the interior from the heavily populated coasts.

    FORBES: Pollution And Prosperity

  • If this plan manages to stay on track through the various fiscal cliffs and valleys that lie ahead, then some company will eventually get a contract worth tens of billions of dollars to build the new bomber.

    FORBES: Air Force Wants A Bomber That Balances Cost With Capability

  • Dr Haydon and his colleagues have calculated, using data from a rabies outbreak in 2003, that vaccinating between 10% and 25% would suffice, provided veterinarians gave jabs to those wolves living in the narrow valleys that connect the subpopulations.

    ECONOMIST: How to protect Ethiopian wolves from rabies

  • Best of all, the probe found that, although Schiaperelli's original canali were indeed an artefact of his telescope, the planet did have canyons and what appeared to be networks of valleys that seemed to have been carved by water flows aeons ago.

    ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles

  • Moffett has often called attention to the fact that the Mississippi River has been flowing down the center of our country for 60 million years and dumping sediment into the Gulf all the while, ultimately creating mounds and valleys that could trap debris that was eventually turned into oil and gas.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The only thing certain about the market is that there will be more peaks and valleys ahead, and that's about as specific as a fortune cookie.

    NPR: So The Dow Hit A Record; Now Where Do We Go?

  • Merthyr is a fine place to raise a boxer - Thomas claimed that children born in the tough valleys town were so angry that they came out with their fists clenched.

    BBC: 5. Howard Winstone

  • That move left the valleys hotbed without a fully professional team and alienated many supporters.

    BBC: WRU considers north Wales region

  • He finished it off with his signature hair that sported peaks and valleys.

    FORBES: The Men At The 2013 Oscars Red Carpet: Who Looked Best In Their Black Tie (And Beards)

  • The estimated SAAR tries to smooth out peaks and valleys like that which are to be expected based on sales history.

    FORBES: U.S. Auto Sales To Pick Up In February, Thanks In Part To Pickups

  • The European Commission said it was disappointing that West Wales and the valleys had not managed to improve their prosperity, but blamed the global economic crisis and the region's geography.

    BBC: Rhondda

  • Conservative David Melding congratulated Business in the Community for their review in identifying possibilities for green jobs in the valleys and hoped that the assembly government can work with them to ensure a trained local workforce to fill those jobs.

    BBC: Debate on the Climate Change Strategy

  • That still hurts in the valleys.

    ECONOMIST: Nationalism

  • On this back side of the island, the West Maui Mountains exert themselves and push the road around like a piece of string, tight switchbacks yield to long swooping arcs that bring me deep into valleys and then shove me back out toward the coast.

    CNN: Driving Maui's wild highway

  • Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott also welcomed the opportunity to debate Ms Wood's vision for the Valleys, however emphasised that the document "doesn't have all the answers".

    BBC: Plaid Cymru debate

  • Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.

    BBC: The natural wonders of Banff and Jasper National Parks

  • They discovered that by shifting the "phase" of light so that the peaks of one wave line up with the valleys of an adjacent one, the two cancel each other, creating "shadows" between waves that are smaller than the waves themselves(see diagram, p. 141).

    FORBES: Trick Of The Light

  • While the business cycle can not be repealed we can avoid policies that flatten the growth and deepen the valleys.

    FORBES: The Business Cycle Throws The GOP A Curveball

  • As he explored wild country, he heard a call to preserve our country's heritage that echoed throughout our forests and river valleys.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Park Week, 2012

  • That left Bridgend under the Ospreys umbrella and ended more than 100 years of top-flight rugby in that area and the nearby south Wales valleys.

    BBC: Jonathan Davies

  • Down in the valleys, women scratch the soil that is left and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man.

    NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS

  • And if that were not bad enough, the Himalayan valleys act as chimneys, pumping pollutants from the Indian plains to the mountain peaks.

    ECONOMIST: Pollution in the Himalayas

  • But as one of our great American educators once said, if you drew a line through all the valleys and all the peaks, that line would be drawn with an upward curve.

    WHITEHOUSE: In Honor of International Women��s Day

  • It is undoubtedly true that many communities across West Wales and the Valleys have benefited from Objective One funds and the Welsh Assembly Government has made good progress towards making full use of the money available.

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