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As Mr Diamond arrived at the slopes, back in London Mervyn King was spelling out some dismal economic truths.

Nearly half of the trickle irrigation in the United States is in California, some of it in avocado orchards with slopes up to 50% to 60%.

But the vegetation did not extend far, and a long, sandy plain, which began at the foot of these slopes, reached to the beach.

The pieces of this type of stand collar are often curved in shape at the front so that the collar slopes in smoothly towards the upper neck.

That feeling of freedom and risk in equal measure was difficult to find at work, so we sought it out on the slopes or the ocean.

Exposure of inner soil of the slope and appearance of new cracks on the slope are early signs of a landslide. Keep away from such slopes.

Her walk had not taken her through Flea Bottom, so its denizens had packed onto the lower slopes of Aegon's High Hill to see the show.

On the slopes of Spain's Sierra de Aitana Mountains, Italian Arias * waft through the air, and lions roar as if in accompaniment.

But the anxious little crowd gathered at the foot of one of these slopes on a recent morning was not in search of fresh air.

A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley , as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet .

Failure of bank slopes is often caused by seasonal water level fluctuation of reservoirs.

Children are in high spirits as they enter this snowy world. Playing around on the slopes, the children seem thrilled.

The roadside fields, the slopes, wild chrysanthemum golden yellow, like the stars dotted blue sky, decorated with a vast wilderness.

The blood pressure reduction trials can be shown in two slopes in which the X is the baseline BP and the Y is the BP reduction.

This piece of ground must be leveled up. It slopes down in places.

The side slope shape is always made up of simple linear slopes in traditional highway transect design.

Half covered with sand trees and shrubs at the bottom indicate that the slopes of the ravine were blown up.

The forward curve for Nymex crude prices currently slopes upward - known as a 'contango' - and is extraordinarily steep.

Teru has been brought up in a hill town and spent his childhood conquering the slopes on his bicycle.

Around it were thousands of other plots, each with a ger in the middle, jammed together on the slopes overlooking Ulaanbaatar.

The maximum curvature criterion of the displacement-time curve can be used to predict the time of sliding of slopes.

Farmers have to carry fertilizer up the hills, and plant the ginger in lines on the slopes; it is a very laborious and difficult task.

According to the law of demand, as the price of a good falls, the quantity demanded rises. Therefore, the demand curve slopes downward.

According to the law of supply, as the price of a good rises, the quantity supplied rises. Therefore, the supply curve slopes upward.

Hunnapuh agreed and described a coffee-focused restaurant on the slopes of the San Salvador volcano as an example of what is possible.

Do not build near steep slopes, close to mountain edges, near drainage ways, or natural erosion valleys.

During the growing season, both rims and canyon slopes are covered with a great variety of wildflowers.

With the hydrodynamic pressure from the seeping steams, more sliding of dam slopes is possible.

These operators are symmetric, which means that the slopes of upward and downward actions of these operators are the same.

Ducks glided down the outer moat, which appeared upon first glance to be a stream, and sheep grazed on shallow slopes nearby.

Over the years, more than 1, 000 people have lost their lives trying to scale the icy slopes of Mont Blanc.

A few faint coils of smoke continued to rise from dying embers on the charred slopes below the village.

But tragedy was on its way. Beneath Vesuvius' vine-covered slopes a mighty force was about to break loose.

For us, the sun shone brilliantly everyday and the slopes were empty as it was between the school holidays.

Please be particularly careful when walking on slopes, damp grass, or grass covered with pine needles as they can be very slippery.

A massive explosion poured lava down the slopes of the mountain. As the surface of the lava cooled and solidified, the ocean poured in.

The Owenses live on a five-hundred-acre ranch on the slopes of the Purcell Mountains, in an area known as Curley Creek.

This exceptionally change characteristic can be a characteristic signature to identify the sliding surface position in loess slopes.

That sudden beginning, when it takes place on the slopes of a volcanic island, creates concern about a possible catastrophic flank event.

Slope Maintenance Section was set up in April 1998 to carry out maintenance works for these slopes.

External keyboards. A keyboard that slopes away from you provides the best angle for your hands and wrists.

The proposed method is demonstrated to be valid and efficient by performing the stability of two typical soil slopes.

I mirrored the summits in you and the bending slopes, and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires.

The architecture of this longitudinal building is terraced in different levels to take up the slopes.

Villages speckle the slopes of Mount Merapi, where fertile land lures farmers into a volcanic hazard zone.

Indeed, volatility has a "curve" , rather like the bond market, which generally slopes upwards over time.

Vegetation lines the slopes at lower elevations, but much of the land in this image lies above the treeline.

When a shorter term MA moves across a longer term MA and both slopes go down, it's can be considered a bearish signal.

A roof with two slopes that form a triangle at each end is called a gable roof .

He liked to position structures over waterfalls, on steep slopes, at the bottom of arroyos.

All terrain car able to descend slopes up to 65 degrees.

The eastern slopes of the Cottonwoods drop to the Snyderville Basin, which contains Park City and its three neighboring ski resorts.

The method can be applied to slopes with any configuration, different layering and external load distribution.

Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest.

The study of bridge foundation high-slopes can be used for reference to the similar engineering s.

Whatever the cause, survivors of the Gansu landslide are now huddled in tents, which are drenched through, pitched on unstable slopes.

a roof with two or more slopes on each side of the ridge.

The reduced diameter tube section on each tube slopes away from the solids falling down the wall.

The stability of rock mass slope is influenced by various factors and the influence degrees of these factors vary with different slopes.

The results show that natural regeneration of young forest gap in the mid-slope is better than those in the upper and lower slopes.

To carry out within the conservation area landslip preventive works which include earthworks for slopes .

Your landscape designer will calculate slopes and check soil types to size and plan runoff and drainage control for your situation.

Small landslides constantly add to the steep rubble slopes along the lake's shore, and large boulders periodically drop into the lake.

Though spring has been creeping up the slopes since late February or early March, it does not scale the summits until May.

I'm ready to graduate to the advanced slopes, now, and the last thing I want is cold feet!

When I'm out on the slopes, it feels good to know that I ski better than most people who have their legs.

It lies right beside the cable cars that lead up to some of the best slopes in the Pyrenees.

Where rate of climb was critical, slopes were measured with an Abney hand level or some comparable instrument.

BOB DOUGHTY: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter studied many mountain slopes across the planet's southern hemisphere.

The sound lanced through the air and reverberated off the shale slopes below.

Most of the vineyards are on a small raised area of mostly gentle, but occasionally steep, slopes surrounded by the hills of the Langhe.

Hill slopes within the railway line's right-of-way shall be conditioned by the railway transport enterprise.

The road slopes gently downward for a mile or two.

his outwardly relaxed manner hides a sharp mind and a keen will to win , something he did a lot of on the nursery slopes of formula bmw.

Expansive soil, one of the special clay soils, had caused many problems to foundations and slopes.

So effective protecting measures have to be taken for dam slopes both upstream and downstream.

A 3-month-old baby died of breathing difficulties, a doctor told local television, Thousands of residents on the slopes have been evacuated.

The study of slopes of curves, accelerations, maxima, and minima by means of derivatives and differentials.

In a sacred pool on the slopes of Mount Penanggungan, men bathe beside statues of Sri and Lakshmi, the consorts of the Hindu god Vishnu.

The field investigations indicated that the main failure modes of glacial deposits slopes are landslide, collapse and debris flow.

Thickets, roadsides, slopes; Low to medium elevations. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan [Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam].

TBA patterns of these three life forms along the altitudinal gradient were similar on both slopes.

The scenic area is full of bumpy roads and steep slopes. For your own safety, please fasten your seatbelt before the bus starts.

Multinomial factors should be considered in the stability analysis and hazard prediction of seismic loess slopes.

He hands me a picture of a robust young climber standing on the mountain's snowy slopes, looking fit and determined.

Water erosion generally occurs only on slopes, and its severity increases with the severity of the slope.

Distal to this line the bone slopes dorsally and gives rise to the attachment of the volar wrist capsule and volar carpal ligaments.

Sand is blown up the gentle slopes and falls down the steep lee side of the dunes.

The terrain of Winnipeg slopes gently. During the rain season, the Red River across the city always causes flooding.

The protesters were demonstrating against the opening of a new dump on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.

Tangun, Korea's mythical founder, was born on its slopes, and Kim Jong Il, in his official biography, made sure he followed suit.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano.

The mountains of northern Iran line the southern end of the giant lake, and emerald green vegetation clings to those mountain slopes.

It is of great theoretical and practical value for studying collapsing and sliding of slopes triggered by seismic loads.

Some factors, such as the topographic slopes and geological structures where landslide always occur in case of an earthquake are studied.

GPS relative positioning technique was used in Shuichang open pit mine to monitor deformation of its high steep slopes.

Sometimes our engineers and architects do not care about slopes in bathrooms but here they will care properly.

THE elephant had been snared in the thick forest spilling down the slopes of Mount Kenya.

High-elevation valleys, terraces, rocky slopes. Qinghai, Xinjiang, Xizang [Mongolia, Nepal, Russia (S Siberia), Sikkim, Tajikistan].

A new method of calculating the slopes of the rose and decline of the torque was proposed in this paper, the duty ratio can be calculated.

I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain, and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails.

When do you think the slopes might be less crowded?

Otherwise, natural fibers like jute netting and excelsior matting will help plants take hold on steep slopes, slowing the flow of water.

The mountains are higher on the west side of the island, their slopes thickly forested. A more rugged beauty, perhaps.

Temple stands in the east slopes of the Andes, surrounded by the Amazon River basin, where the rich resources.

During or after cutting of natural slopes, different gradients of slopes are usually formed on the upper part and the lower part.

Case studies show that the mechanical mechanism for the retreat evolution of steep rock slopes is consistent with the actual one.

The land is lush and fertile, and the slopes are covered with terraced crops, meadows, and moors.

In practice, the controlled tolerance, easy getting of coordinate values and normal's slopes is due to this program's usage.

The railroadvertising slopes up slightly at this point.

The mountains of northern Iran line the southern end of the giant lake, and green vegetation clings to those mountain slopes.

Forests, mountain slopes, meadows. Gansu, Guizhou, Jilin, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan [widely distributed in N temperate zone].

The thin, minimalist roof plane slopes downwards to the woods, following the descending topography of the mountainside.

Lower slopes of mountains are blanketed in forest, while above treeline, the ground appears to be bare rock.

The studio is located near the slopes of the Sacred Heart Church. To reach it, one must climb countless stairs.

As James MacDonald tells us one renowned Japanese mountaineer has made it his life's works to clean up the slopes.

Taking off from an Atlantic coast airport , the plane is soon flying over the gentle slopes of the Appalachian Mountains.

The terrace system in mountainous areas is a typical product of the ponding technique which has allowed cultivation even on steep slopes.

Slightly saline-alkaline deserts, arid slopes, ravine sides, alluvial fans. NW Gansu, Ningxia, N Qinghai, Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia].

In August 1997, Pan visited the Qin Ling study area, expecting most pandas would be in their summer ranges on the high slopes.

The Lavaux Vineyard Terraces blanket the lower mountain slopes along the northern shores of Lake Geneva.

This paper recommends a method of lowering the ground water table by setting up the horizontal drains in hill slopes.

High mountains and steep slopes, loose surface material wealth, topographic and geologic conditions are very bad.

Dense to open forests, on slopes or in valleys. Hainan [Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Thailand].

And, the dangers of climbing would not likely be as life-threatening as scaling the slopes of Everest.

Seismic stability evaluation methods of rock-soil slopes are the cores of seismic stability analysis of rock-soil slopes.

In winter a layer of carbon dioxide ice covers the dunes but this evaporates in spring causing dark material to streak down the slopes.

Grasslands on mountain slopes, dry fields, roadsides. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan [Philippines].

I've outgrown the green, beginning slopes and I'm not comfortable on the intermediate blue ones.

v. The ground slopes(down)sharply at this point.

Mountain slopes, sand, wasteland. N Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan; N Africa, SW Asia, Europe].

Mr Chang and other villagers used sand and rocks the quake had dumped into a river to shore up slopes.

Deforestation and blasting activity associated with mining and road construction are also undermining the stability of slopes in heavy rain.

00 yesterday morning, a small town in western Sichuan city side of a desolate slopes and carelessly stacked soil, a small package.

The steep slopes of the DSP filtering, when adjusted aggressively, can impart an unnatural sound to an incoming signal.

His blessing has since been appreciated by the Dwarves, as mines beneath the slopes where his talons once perched pour forth ore abundantly.

With high and steep slopes and large river bed gradient, the Damiao Mountain is an area where mud rock flow occurs frequently.

This means that bridges often lie within plan curvature and that they follow the slopes or curvature in elevation.

Nestled between snow-capped mountains on the eastern slopes of the Tibetan Plateau, its far-flung location is proving no deterrent.

Surface erosion, surface infiltration and movement of ground water are possible triggering mechanisms of failures in loose filled slopes.

Through the finite elemental program of ADINA, a three-dimensional model of high slopes of Geheyan Power Station was established.

Dry mountain slopes, along banks of streams. Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi.

Since the roof slopes, all the planting was done along its perimeter.

The cardiovascular system may also need a tune-up before skiers hit the slopes -- aerobic exercise can increase stamina and prevent fatigue.

The road slopes down at this point.

This sea-harvest crawls up the pavements and covers the slopes of the town.

The steepness of the terrain is emphasized by the deep shadows that darken north- and northwest-facing slopes.

The slopes of the auditorium, showrooms, and meeting rooms create a circulation path that winds from bottom to top of the Showcase.

General Sherman is growing on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains in the United States.

Sandy places along seashores, dry sandy gentle slopes, thickets; low elevations. Guangxi, Hainan [Thailand, Vietnam].

Perform cool tricks and awesome jumps for maximum airtime, race down the slopes at breakneck speed and beat the records.

To carry out landslip preventive works which include earthworks for slopes within country park.

The complex geological conditions are so different that the factors affecting the stability of slopes are various.

After a 23-year interval, the German government has funded the reopening of Jenin's open-air cinema on the slopes below the refugee camp.

Indonesian police say poisonous fumes from a volcano near Jakarta has killed six students who were camping on its slopes.

Hillside homes are wonderful places to live; they provide excellent views and sunsets, while slopes add privacy and visual texture.

The authorities in Ecuador have begun evacuating people from the slopes of the Tungurahua Volcano after it started spewing ash.

Torrential rain on more than half of the slopes causes erosion and subsequent flooding and silting in the valleys beneath.

Motion gradients, or slopes of the motion curves, were generated to allow for comparison of lumbar spinal motion profiles.

The rainfall induced infiltration increases the pore water pressure, and leads to cause the failure of the shallow slopes.

Your route is over rugged terrain strewn with boulders that requires some climbing up and clambering down muddy slopes.

The design they ended up with was "rain" squirted from misting nozzles fitted on the ends of pipes stationed here and there on the slopes .

Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever cease to flow?

behind it rose the first gentle slopes of the hill clad with trees , and trees marched away westward along the curving shores of the lake.

Mountain slopes, forest margins, forests, commonly cultivated as an ornamental; ca. 1100 m. Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi.

Centrifugal model tests are conducted to investigate the behaviors of cohesive soil slopes with weak layers under rainfall condition.

Villagers use every stream pouring down from the mountains to irrigate tier up tier of terraces carved into the precipitous slopes .

Especially steep slopes call for landscape design and careful engineering, requiring that local building codes be consulted.

Regardless of the state of the economy, skiers will still enjoy the slopes.

Some centrifuge model tests were conducted with clay slopes containing interlayers in the middle part under excavation conditions.

By midday skiers will swarm over the slopes of this popular winter resort.

(of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper.

This paper proposes aa approach for calculating the failure probability of rock slopes with multiple slip surfaces or with multiple wedges.

Mountains and hills cover more than 80% of the province, where intensive cultivation of hill slopes has caused significant erosion.

It has a small historic downtown, gravel pathways, nature trails, and nearby ski slopes.

It is reasonable that the displacement of the junkyard slopes is great because the height of the yard is so big as well as its deformation.

One has learned that curves in plan must be seen in space in combination with curves and slopes in elevation.

During the winter, skiers take advantage of the volcano's steep slopes.

Low and hilly type slopes, gentle and beautiful unique wilderness, and satisfy golfers enjoy hitting different challenges and fun.

Meadows among scattered thickets on slopes, grassy places on sunny slopes. Hebei, Henan, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan.

Gobi desert, arid slopes, alluvial fans. W Gansu, W Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (SW Siberia)].

Kitzbuhel is also home to one of the most challenging and exciting downhill slopes in the world .

An Indonesian volcano has unleashed more searing ash clouds, sending thousands of people who risked a trip home fleeing its slopes.

Meadows at forest margins, mountain slopes, river banks, steppes. Nei Mongol [Russia (Far East, Siberia); North America].

Born into a herding family, she tends 30 yaks on steep slopes near the Karola pass.

For instance, calculus is usually first introduced interms of slopes, areas, rates of change, and so forth.

They are best used to counteract a green site that slopes excessively from back to front.

To meet the requirements of high slopes stability, the combined blasting is designed from theory and experience.

She seemed "electric, " remembered Mr. Abrams, a gregarious Denver native and Harvard graduate known to favor ski slopes and rodeos.

Gobi desert, inter-dunes, gravelly alluvial fans, sometimes on arid slopes. W Gansu, Xinjiang [Russia (SW Siberia); C Asia, Europe].

He was half glad. He turned up the hill, and stumbled blindly over the wild slopes.

Construction of rockfall fence along the slopes on the north side of this section of Tuen Mun Road .

The gambrel roof has two slopes on each of its two sides , the upper Being less steep than the lower.

Engineering structures falling in this category are gravity dams with foundations, slopes and embankments , etc.

Slopes, forest margins, open forests at mountain summits. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi [Vietnam].

For this reason, a new method for surface vegetalization of slopes reinforced with anchor and shotcrete is developed.

Daur villages are neat, usually built on mountain slopes and facing streams, and the houses have courtyards surrounded by wickerwork fences.

the number of shade ferns regularly increased on the south-, west-, east-, and north-facing slopes.

The steel net covered pebbles are very useful to protect banks or slopes from being washed away by river or rain water.

Mixed forests, forests of shady slopes, open places on slopes, stream sides. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol.

At tunnel portals and portal slopes, engineers should strengthen aseismic design of retaining structures.

Snow does not gather significantly on steep slopes; also, snow does not flow easily on flat slopes.

the railroad slopes up slightsly at this point.

Seismic damages of road slopes in mountainous areas have different characteristics in mechanism and types from those in plain.

Mongolia's landscape is basically a strip of green beneath a stripe of blue, with the odd fluffs of white and slopes of emerald in between.

Inside the Pavilion, the exhibition halls on all the floors are connected through lift-type slopes and stairs.

Limits the collider to only climb slopes that are equal to or less than the indicated value.

The main cause of soil erosion is deforestation for farmland reclamation and cultivation on steep slopes.

Overcrowding and flimsy construction meant that houses perched on steep slopes were no match for the torrents.

while the up slopes and fault ridge areas far away from the fault are the main direction areas of hydrocarbon migration.

The stretch of the road slopes down so sharply that it's difficult to ride on a bike.

The train passes by the two famous ski slopes.

Slopes orientated differently receive direct solar radiation in different amounts.

Repeated observations have tracked the seasonal changes in these recurring features on several steep slopes.

The steep slopes on either side of the streams are bare of vegetation, possibly making them prone to landslides.

Undergrowth in moist forests on hill slopes. Guangdong, Guizhou, Taiwan, Yunnan [Japan, Thailand].

Mudslides usually start on steep slopes and can be activated by natural disasters.

The large deformation method is more suitable for the calculation of soft soil(rock) slopes or the wall of foundation pits.

Skiers can only use skis, mono skis or snowboards on the slopes.

Luhe County, Jiangsu Cheng Bridge, Changsha, Hunan Dragon Cave excavated slopes and other places of the Iron Spring and Autumn Period.

'engineering methods', which involve the construction of terraces on hill slopes and check dams across gullies.

A new method, particle swarm optimization(PSO) algorithm, is adopted to locate the non-circular critical slip surfaces of slopes.

New Temple stands in the past and slopes , towering spectacular, building in an orderly, rational layout.

Its steep slopes are composed of many layers of hardened lava left from previous eruptions.

slopes are arranged on both of the two arched wedge blocks, and the fixed directions of the two slope are opposite.

Gobi desert, saline soils in deserts, sunny slopes. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (W Siberia)].

The vegetation and the biodiversity index of shade slops and south-facing slopes all showed the tendency of increasing with elevation.

Travelers in mountain regions will be familiar with the accumulations of scree which occur at the base of steep slopes.

A city of central Pennsylvania on the eastern slopes of the Allegheny Mountains east of Pittsburgh.

It was snowing when I arrived, and the clouds had settled on the slopes of the mountains behind their log cabin.

First, they imagined two tilted slopes that could be laid on top of each other or held apart.

Also a scorecard would be nice along with putting greens with slopes and grid of ups and downs.

AT the back, a flower garden slopes down to a line of poplar trees.

Faults, which were well exposed on the uplifted slopes of Mount Parnassus , had cut through bituminous limestone.

An inverted, or negative, yield curve slopes downwards from left to right, with short-term yields higher than long-term yields.

Poured concrete retaining walls work well where heavy or unstable soil and steep slopes make other walls inadvisable.

A new kind of chaos harmony search method is developed for the local factor of safety analysis of soil slopes.

The gentle lower slopes belie the true nature of the mountain.

Transpiration of Tea Plants on Red Soil Slopes and Its Influencing Factors .

Ski brakes trigger when the boot is released from the binding, stopping the ski from continuing down the slopes.

The land slopes downward from the northwest to the southeast.

Lowland forests, sunny places on slopes or along roadsides. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan.

hairy Eurasian perennial having deep yellow daisies on lax willowy stems; found in the wild in open woodland and on rocky slopes.

The effect of material parameters variation due to cyclic wetting-drying on shakedown safety of slopes is investigated.

Thickets on mountain slopes, rock crevices along seacoasts. E Fujian, Taiwan, E Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].

Preliminary studies were completed on all registered old slopes and detailed geotechnical investigations were completed on 646 slopes.

The ancient city, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, surrounds the upper Amazon Basin.

It is necessary to carry out fuzzy random reliability analysis of slopes because there are fuzziness and randomness simultaneously.

Physical Features: The terrain of Panzhihua slopes downwards from the northwest to the southeast.

Beneficial impacts on landscape resources will result from the partial restoration of eroded slopes.