Sandwiched between unfriendly natives to the west, Cherokee, Shawnee and Creek Native American tribes, and indifference on the part of English officials in Charleston, who considered residents of the Backcountry uncivilized, the early settlers frequently found themselves targets of Native American raids, and the local militia became an early police force, patrolling the area for possible Native American or slave troubles and controlling the seemingly numerous outlaw bands which roamed the region.

Sandwiched between Charlotte and the South Carolina state line, Pineville cannot expand its municipal boundaries.

Sandwiched between Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, it is one of the cities in the Coachella Valley ( Palm Springs area ) of southern California.

Sandwiched between the Old Bedford and New Bedford rivers, they consist of washland which is used as pasture during the summer but which floods in the winter, and are the largest area of such land in the United Kingdom.

Sandwiched between the powerful Amago and Ōuchi clans, Motonari led the clan by carefully balancing actions and diplomacy.

Sandwiched between two atolls, the northern part of South Maalhosmadulu forms a clearly delimited, roughly triangular, natural atoll without a distinctive name ( Fasdhūtherē merely means ' between five islands ').

Sandwiched between roads, factories, railway lines and the aerodrome, Filton expanded little after WWII.

Sandwiched between the release of Music of My Mind and Innervisions, Talking Book saw Wonder enjoying more artistic freedom from Motown.

Sandwiched to the east and west between the Amagi Mountains and Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean, Higashiizu has numerous hot springs.

Sandwiched between the Amagi Mountains to the west and Suruga Bay on the Pacific Ocean to the west, Nishiizu has a hill hinterland and a rocky, indented coast.

: Sandwiched between two bores, a hapless prey,

Sandwiched in between are 25 executive boxes and a large concourse with merchandise outlets, food shops, betting booths and a restaurant.

Sandwiched between the Karakoram, the Himalayan and Ladakh mountain ranges, the Baltistan region is highly valued for its strategic geo-political location.

Sandwiched between the railway tracks, Jockvale Road, Greenbank and Strandherd is the neighbourhood of Barrhaven on the Green.

Sandwiched between them is the device under test ( DUT ) that is being measured.

Sandwiched between Burma in the east and south and Bangladesh in the west with a total of 630 miles, Mizoram is inhabited by the Mizo people and the minority Chakma ( Mizo: Takam ) and Reang ( Bru ) ( Mizo: Tuikuk ) communities.

Sandwiched between his two spells at Plymouth, Steve joined Torquay United for free from 12 / 07 / 1996 to 24 / 06 / 1998, joining former Plymouth team mate and manager Kevin Hodges as Torquay United's management team.

Sandwiched on both sides by enemies, Guan Yu was eventually captured by Sun and executed.

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

For example, if one purchases many risky bonds, then hedges them with CDSes, profiting from the difference between the bond spread and the CDS premium, in a financial crisis the bonds may default and the CDS writer / seller may itself fail, due to the stress of the crisis, causing the arbitrageur to face steep losses.

The French left flank was protected by broken country, and by a stream, the Petite Gheete, which runs deep between steep and slippery slopes.

These include boat lifts, such as the Falkirk wheel, which use a caisson of water in which boats float while being moved between two levels ; and inclined planes where a caisson is hauled up a steep railway.

However, there is a steep imbalance between rural and urban areas, with some regions below 10 percent and the big cities exceeding 30 percent.

In the case of steep grades, however, cable traction has the major advantage of not depending on adhesion between wheels and rails.

The much shorter Atbara River, which also originates in Ethiopia, joins the main Nile north of Khartoum between the fifth and sixth cataracts ( areas of steep rapids ) and provides about 14 % of the Nile's waters in Egypt.

This may be the difference between the ecosystem present in wetland situated in a small depression on the landscape, and one present on an adjacent steep hillside.

These steep southern slopes are nearly uninhabited, thus an effective buffer between languages and culture in the Terai and Hill regions.

However with a joint effort between San Marino and Italy the railway was extended to reach the capital through a steep and winding track comprising many tunnels.

On the peninsula, the eastern line of the Great Rift fault is visible in the steep and, in places, high escarpment that parallels the Red Sea between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Aden.

The heart of Nejd is the area of the Jabal Tuwayq, an arc-shaped ridge with a steep west face that rises between 100 and 250 meters above the plateau.

The ridges of the Pindus are parallel to the sea and generally so steep that the valleys between them are mostly suitable for pasture rather than large-scale agriculture.

To the west of it the steep gorges of Dalaman Çayi (" the Dalaman River "), the ancient Indus, formed the traditional border between Caria and Lycia.

Most of these landscapes alternate between rough cliffs and fine sand beaches ; the region of the Algarve is recognized for its tourist-friendly sand beaches, while at the same time its steep coastlines around Cape St. Vincent is well known for steep and foreboding cliffs.

The start zone of an avalanche must be steep enough to allow snow to accelerate once set in motion, additionally convex slopes are less stable than concave slopes, because of the disparity between the tensile strength of snow layers and their compressive strength.

Her design was inspired by her European ventures, especially from the Italian Renaissance gardens, and consisted of a establishing a sophisticated relationship between the architectural and natural environments, with formal terraced gardens stepping a down steep slope and transitioning to a more naturalistic aesthetic approaching the creek.

It is also the nearest village to the scenic Glaslyn gorge, an area of tumultuous river running between steep wooded hills.

574, 090 hectares or 65 % of Banten is classified as flat, 186, 320 hectares ( 21 %) is classified as corrugated with slopes of between 2 % and 15 % steepness, while the remaining 118, 471 hectares ( 13 %) is classified as steep with slopes over 15 %.

It is divided between a high, nearly treeless prairie to the northwest ( the southern limit of the High Plains ), and a lower semi-desert rangeland to the southeast, by the eastern portion of the steep Canadian Escarpment.

It comprises two distinct heights, one greater to the northwest and one lesser to the southeast, divided by a steep cleft that provides the base for an ancient roadway between the heights.

It runs between steep and narrow banks of sandstone, and deposits but little of its fertilizing slime upon the dreary and barren shores.

The escarpment between South Quarter uplands and the valley is forested — too steep to farm — and dissected by streams that have eroded ravines back into the uplands.