She supports health care reforms in her native state as well, largely because health care costs for Alaskans are up to 70 % higher than costs in the contiguous United States.

Well separated from higher peaks by large, low basins, it is the most topographically prominent peak in the state, and the eighth most prominent peak in the contiguous United States.

The Atlanta University Center Consortium ( AUC Consortium ) is the largest contiguous consortium of African Americans in higher education in the United States.

The mountains were originally contiguous with the higher Sawatch Range to the west but were separated during the formation of the rift valley at the headwaters of the Arkansas River approximately 35 MYA.

Two people sit in contiguous seats, and the one sitting behind kicks the friend higher in the air.

After Henry's death in 936, his widow Saint Mathilda founded a religious community for women (" Frauenstift ") on the castle hill, where daughters of the higher nobility were educated.

Whereas a snowplough might safely be used directly down the fall line of a given hill, a Christie on the same hill would result in higher speeds, and skiing this technique normally requires the skier to turn across the fall line almost constantly.

: Mountain-" 1a: a landmass that projects conspicuously above its surroundings and is higher than a hill "

Perhaps learning from Thomas's experience, Harvey's tunnel was higher up the hill, and thus a shorter distance from the coal beds.

Instead, a single-lane road crosses the New River on a single-track railroad bridge, crosses the main line, and climbs the hill behind the town so that it parallels the town 150 feet higher on the hill before dropping down next to the tracks.

At the eastern end of the ridge and rising above sea level, the site of the first hill fort was not the highest point along the ridge, although the highest point is the neighbouring Hog Hill and is only higher.

While developed hill forts were of a higher status than their smaller predecessors, they were not all equal and Cunliffe states that the Maiden Castle's monumental defences probably indicate that it was of higher status than other developed hill forts.

The garden axis points towards a 60 meters higher hill, which since 1775 has been crowned by the Gloriette structure ( Fischer von Erlach had initially planned to erect the main palace on the top of this hill ).

From Church Street, enter through the archway and up the steps, next to the Boys ' Club or from higher up the hill, direct from Church Street.

When a ball rolls down a hill, it is moving from a higher gravitational potential ( higher elevation ) to a lower gravitational potential ( lower elevation ).

The graphic icon under the name features two hills, symbolic of what is unique to Richmond Hill-its higher geographical elevation, its physical position of being on a hill and the hills that run through the community.

The Americans named the lesser heights, " Kettle Hill " and the higher southern hill, " San Juan Hill " after the battle July 2, 1898.

In the heart of Burebista's empire, in the Orăştie Mountains, he built a system of stone fortifications on higher ground, the most important of such hill forts are located today in the villages of Costeşti, Blidaru, Piatra Roşie and Băniţa.

French mercenaries are thought to be the first Europeans to get to the region, but the Portuguese exploited intertribal rivalries and managed to build a stronghold on the former Caeté village in the higher hill.

* Uphill Ski refers to the ski that is in a position higher up the hill.

* Uphill Ski refers to the ski that is in a position higher up the hill.

It was stationed mostly on higher ground ; its front ranks were on the level ground, but the other ranks rose in tiers, up the slope of the hill in a horseshoe formation.

The Albanians, because of the higher degree of Islamic influence, their internal social divisions, and the fear that they would lose their Albanian-populated lands to the emerging Balkan states — Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece — were the last of the Balkan peoples to desire division from the Ottoman Empire.

State peasants were given higher social status than estate peasants, and many peasants under the servitude of the church were transferred to state lands.

The lord of an allodium owned his lands and exercised prerogatives over the subjects in his territory absolutely, owing no feudal homage or duty as a vassal to a liege lord, nor being subject to any higher jurisdiction.

# Further eastward is a large area, including Yulee and O ' Neil, about in width, with poor drainage and sandy soil at higher elevations, pockmarked by large reas of low lands with even worse drainage.

The Court of Augmentations retained lands and spiritual income sufficient to meet its continuing obligations to pay annual pensions ; but as pensioners died off, or as pensions were extinguished when their holders accepted a royal appointment of higher value, then surplus property became available each year for further disposal.

Widow-Maker, jealous of no longer having Bill's undivided attention, bounces Sue off ; she lands on her bustle and begins bouncing higher and higher.

The topography of the area is characterized by the broad alluvial plain of the Arkansas River valley and the moderately rolling slopes which rise to the higher lands on either side.

The higher bench lands were covered with sagebrush and produced very little grass.

The constant change of authority over these lands, and the higher taxes during the time of Tsar Peter I, gave birth to a great social discontent at the beginning of the 10th century.

Nevada and Arizona are both generally arid with desert lands and mountains, and receive large amounts of snow in the higher elevations in and near the mountains.

Temperatures are more extreme in the higher lands of inner Biscay, where snow is more common during winter.

The 1953 flood did not have such an enormous effect on these towns, because the lands they are on, lay generally higher than the rest of the island.

He suggested that agricultural development of land causes arid lands to generate higher amounts of rain (" rain follows the plow ").

The bed of the river lies slightly higher than the surrounding lands and dikes are therefore essential to contain the Lek.

This attractive royalty rate is intended to encourage oil and gas exploration in the remote Canadian frontier lands where costs and risks are higher than other locations.

The province is divided into two major parts, the low river valley of the Prachin Buri River, and the higher lands with plateaus and mountains of the Sankamphaeng Range, the southern prolongation of the Dong Phaya Yen mountains.

Monopolized ( and thus higher ) land rents can often result ; to the detriment of those who rely on such lands.

In the Czech lands, prosperous farmers and even cottagers and tenants had a long history of boarding their children in towns or cities for secondary, vocational, and higher education.

The majority of the lands of ' upper ' Swansea are 30 to 40 feet higher than this, with steep hillsides along Grenadier Pond, Humber River and Rennie Pond.

Temperature difference between day and night is wider in higher lands, and precipitations are scarce outside the temperate area of the San Francisco River.

The objective of the University College is to play a leading role in the development and expansion of opportunities for higher education and research in Agriculture, Forestry, Mining, Energy, Water and Environmental Science in arid and semi-arid lands.

The agricultural sector shrank rapidly, with higher wages, lower prices and diminishing profits leading to the final demise of the old demesne system and the advent of the modern farming system centring on the charging of cash rents for lands.

Some of this seems to have been the result of migration from the mountains of modern Albania into lands which could support higher populations, and that the putative migrants brought Islam with them.