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Japanese macaque monkeys have coexisted alongside humans since the Edo period -- Japan is very mountainous and communities live close to mountains where monkeys live, so it is easy for monkeys to enter villages and towns. – Mieko Kiyono	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places. – Chen Chunyan	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Our teams do not have specific equipment to take people from under the rubble, this has to rely mostly on the efforts of the de facto authorities, which also have certain limitations in that respect... I don't have the detailed reports of how well positioned they are to operate and deploy such machinery to these mountainous areas. – Ramiz Alakbarov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Unfortunately, our initial reports show that 22 people, including women and children, have been killed and four others injured, the Mujahideen have reached to some of the affected areas, but Badghis is a mountainous province, the number of casualties might go up. – Baz Mohammad Sarwari	Found on CNN 2 years ago
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Meanwhile, Maya's family members, friends, and community members have continued searching for her on a weekly basis. They are planning a search this Saturday in a mountainous region roughly 30 miles east of Chula Vista. We just have to have faith that the truth will prevail, it's just a matter of time. – Richard Drouaillet	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now theconstructionis moving into areas without any barrier, which are primarily the most remote, mountainous areas along the Arizonaborder and some of the best corridors for jaguars and other species. – Brian Segee	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The forces trekked through mountainous terrain and eliminated four hostile ISIS fighters who were barricaded in the caves, the recovery took approximately six hours. – Myles Caggins	Found on CNN 4 years ago
These rains may cause flash flooding and mudslides, especially in mountainous areas. – The NHC	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
These rainfall amounts may produce life-threatening flash flooding, dangerous debris flows and landslides are also possible in mountainous terrain. – National Hurricane Center	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Apollo landing sites were all near the Moon’s equator, such that the Earth was almost directly overhead for the astronauts, but from the Philolaus skylights, Earth would loom just over the crater’s mountainous rim, near the horizon to the southeast. – Pascal Lee	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Flying into Saba is extraordinary, you approach the mountainous island towering out of the sea, to see an impossibly tiny runway appear perched on a cliff. – Adam Twidell	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan. – Ben Cardin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan. – Ben Cardin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide. – Ray Pruitt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This has affected us negatively, because it is the mountainous border areas of the Kurdistan region that have been bombarded, people have been displaced, people have been injured. ... Therefore we hope that both sides will go back to the ceasefire. – Falah Mustafa Bakir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Armed forces have been ordered to start patrols throughout Greece, and particularly in mountainous regions. – Defense Minister Panos Kammenos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was real mountainous terrain with heavy tree cover, Basically all we were doing was a recovery. – Archuleta County Sheriff Rich Valdez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. – H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack. – Steven Runciman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Japanese macaque monkeys have coexisted alongside humans since the Edo period -- Japan is very mountainous and communities live close to mountains where monkeys live, so it is easy for monkeys to enter villages and towns.

– Mieko Kiyono

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places.

– Chen Chunyan

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Our teams do not have specific equipment to take people from under the rubble, this has to rely mostly on the efforts of the de facto authorities, which also have certain limitations in that respect... I don't have the detailed reports of how well positioned they are to operate and deploy such machinery to these mountainous areas.

– Ramiz Alakbarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unfortunately, our initial reports show that 22 people, including women and children, have been killed and four others injured, the Mujahideen have reached to some of the affected areas, but Badghis is a mountainous province, the number of casualties might go up.

– Baz Mohammad Sarwari

Found on CNN
2 years ago

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Meanwhile, Maya's family members, friends, and community members have continued searching for her on a weekly basis. They are planning a search this Saturday in a mountainous region roughly 30 miles east of Chula Vista. We just have to have faith that the truth will prevail, it's just a matter of time.

– Richard Drouaillet

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now theconstructionis moving into areas without any barrier, which are primarily the most remote, mountainous areas along the Arizonaborder and some of the best corridors for jaguars and other species.

– Brian Segee

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The forces trekked through mountainous terrain and eliminated four hostile ISIS fighters who were barricaded in the caves, the recovery took approximately six hours.

– Myles Caggins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These rains may cause flash flooding and mudslides, especially in mountainous areas.

– The NHC

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

These rainfall amounts may produce life-threatening flash flooding, dangerous debris flows and landslides are also possible in mountainous terrain.

– National Hurricane Center

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Apollo landing sites were all near the Moon’s equator, such that the Earth was almost directly overhead for the astronauts, but from the Philolaus skylights, Earth would loom just over the crater’s mountainous rim, near the horizon to the southeast.

– Pascal Lee

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Flying into Saba is extraordinary, you approach the mountainous island towering out of the sea, to see an impossibly tiny runway appear perched on a cliff.

– Adam Twidell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan.

– Ben Cardin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan.

– Ben Cardin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.

– Ray Pruitt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This has affected us negatively, because it is the mountainous border areas of the Kurdistan region that have been bombarded, people have been displaced, people have been injured. ... Therefore we hope that both sides will go back to the ceasefire.

– Falah Mustafa Bakir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Armed forces have been ordered to start patrols throughout Greece, and particularly in mountainous regions.

– Defense Minister Panos Kammenos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was real mountainous terrain with heavy tree cover, Basically all we were doing was a recovery.

– Archuleta County Sheriff Rich Valdez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

– H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

– Steven Runciman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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