This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.

The bullet had penetrated in the area of the right collarbone ; ;

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''.

Warren thought of all the men out that night who, like himself, had left their protective ridge and -- fear working at their guts -- picked their way into the area beyond.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.

Arlene had taught them a new way to have fun in their little private area ; ;

In the reproductive area it could be readily observed that all felt freer to discuss things than students had previously in `` mixed '' marital status sections.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

The two had been hunting in the Simmonsville area of town and Mr. Parrillo dropped the gun which fired as it struck the ground.

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.

The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of this century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

In reality, however, the number of chariots in Ahab's forces was probably closer to number in the hundreds ( this due to archaeological excavations of the area and the foundations of stables that had been found ).

The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

In a few years, he had turned himself into a leading authority on this area of functional analysis — to the extent that Dieudonné compares his impact in this field to that of Banach.

He came back from one of his voyages and reported he had been close to a black island, which was on fire, and there was a terrible noise in the area.

The area was then recovering from the terrible Gothic Wars, and the small Byzantine army left for its defence could do almost nothing.

In the mid-1920s, a terrible drought hit Mansfield and the surrounding area.

One Prussian general later wrote " the area around the entrance of the village was the scene of the most terrible blood-letting and slaughter ".

Led by David Brower, the environmentalist organization Sierra Club fought a protracted battle against the Bureau of Reclamation, on the basis that " building the dam would not only destroy a unique wilderness area, but would set a terrible precedent for exploiting resources in America's national parks and monuments ".

Inconsistent newspaper accounts reported by witnesses from 1850-1851 described seeing " fire thrown to a terrible height " and " burning lava running down the sides " in the area of Cinder Cone.

Romanian troops caused terrible damage to the area as the front stagnated here for 77 days.

They find the trees in the area dying with many fallen onto the ground because of a terrible frost ( this is an actual event from Russia in 1840 ).

The work to create the National Park and the Skyline Drive began following a terrible drought in 1930 that destroyed the crops of many families in the area who farmed in the mountainous terrain, as well as many of the apple orchards where they worked picking crops.

The area was the line of division between the provinces of Illyricum and Macedonia. The area suffered from terrible earthquakes.

This famine left a terrible socio-economic gloom in this area.

The newest one, which springs up a few metres from the other, was discovered in 1884, many centuries after a terrible earthquake whose epicentre could have been very near the area.

Of course, the great number of people living in such a small area, together with the poverty of the population, caused terrible hygienic conditions.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

The troops on horseback were able to operate in difficult terrain ( unsuited for motor vehicles ) and had the advantage of being able to control the area around them, with a clear view over the grass ( which foot troops didn't have ).

Bicycles can also be hired, though because of the unsealed roads and hilly terrain, these are more suitable for use around the Stanley area.

Owing to the difficult terrain in the area, the line from Glasgow, to the south, enters from the northeast and trains from Glasgow to Mallaig, the terminus of the line, have to reverse at Fort William railway station.

Because the rugged terrain has made the land difficult to traverse and equally difficult to cultivate, this area has not been highly developed.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a slightly raised central area.

Land mines were designed for two main uses: to create defensive tactical barriers, channeling attacking forces into predetermined fire zones or slowing an invasion force's progress to allow reinforcements to arrive ; and to act as passive area-denial weapons ( to deny the enemy use of valuable terrain, resources or facilities when active defense of the area is not desirable or possible ).

Saint Helena has a rugged, volcanic terrain, with small scattered plateaus and plains, with the largest area of level ground on the island being Prosperous Bay Plain in the eastern arid area.

For example, an area that is still much too complex for the use of CFD is determining the effects of flow on and around structures, bridges, terrain, etc.

Covering an area of, the region's terrain ranges diversely from permanent glaciers to verdant valleys, rich pasture lands and orchards, through to the arid steppe plains of the central lowlands.

The Taliban and al-Qaida forces fired mortars and heavy machine guns from entrenched positions in the caves and ridges of the mountainous terrain at U. S. forces attempting to secure the area.

In 2007-08, the ski area opened some of the most extreme, in-bound, hike-to terrain in the country.

Engaging the Eburones because the difficult terrain of the area provides them with numerous opportunities to hide from the Romans.

Gen. John Bell Hood moved forward against the troops of the Union V Corps, and Longstreet withdrew them at 8: 30 p. m., having a better idea of the terrain and enemy soldiers in the area.

A lethal agent is designed to injure or incapacitate the enemy, or deny unhindered use of a particular area of terrain.

The flat peatlands of East Tyrone borders the shoreline of the largest lake in Ireland, Lough Neagh, rising gradually across to the more mountainous terrain in the west of the county, the area surrounding the Sperrin Mountains, the highest point being Sawel Mountain at a height of 678 m ( 2, 224 ft ).

The still wines of the area were highly prized in Paris under the designation of vins de la rivière and vins de la montagne-wines of the river and wines of the mountain in reference to the wooded terrain and the river Marne which carried the wines down to the Seine and into Paris.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is the second-largest province-level division of China by area, spanning over, after Xinjiang, and mostly due to its harsh and rugged terrain, is the least densely populated provincial-level division of the PRC.

This new capital would be on better terrain, would entail no costly reclamation of land, and would provide for an industrial area.

The western plateau slopes gently southward and merges imperceptibly into an area known as the Haud, a broad, undulating terrain that constitutes some of the best grazing lands for Somali nomads, despite the lack of appreciable rainfall more than half the year.

Approximately only 0. 7 % of Iceland's surface area is arable, since the island's terrain is mostly mountainous and volcanic.

When an area is constructed specifically as a terrain, the playing surface is typically loose gravel, decomposed granite, brick grog or crushed sea shell.

The route provides access through the extraordinarly rugged and scenic terrain of the North Coast and into vast groves of protected Redwoods in area parks, including Redwood National and State Parks before reaching the Oregon border.