Teachers and students had to cross checkpoints on foot, risking their safety.

But for the few people left here in this bombed out buffer zone, evacuation means they get ten minutes notice to pack up and leave on foot.

With vast areas of land and poor road and transportation systems, many native Africans have to travel immense distances on foot to reach help.

Mornings and evenings are lost to long commutes on polluted highways.

A World Bank study found that women in rural Africa spend 65 per cent of their time on journeys on foot.

The report on the incident indicated that, according to the informant, 350 civilians were paid 1,000 to carry the material on foot to the weapons cache, a three day journey on foot.

In still other areas, longer distance water pipelines might be needed.

As a result, farmers can travel shorter distances to acquire needed supplies.

Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

It's the economy of moving these heavy, slow atoms over long distances that's very difficult to do.

Mega farms, feed lots, chemical amendments, long distance travel, food processing.

Historian Peter Watson dates the history of long distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.

We have travelled from further away and are more used to the hardships of travelling and to walking long distances, says Mariam, a 22 year old nursing student.

Sami and Layla walked down along the beach.

It is far cheaper and quicker to move electrons across the globe than to move large ships long distances.

Hobbies include literature, history and sports (tennis and long distance running ten Marathon events 1990 1999).

Spending much of his spare time long distance running and boxing, in his second year Mandela became a prefect.

In May 2005 there were no National Transitional Government of Liberia or UNMIL security forces at Vahun or at the Sierra Leone border, which lies nine miles away by car and three miles away by foot.

John Francis walks the Earth

It is beneficial to know the species of snake that are common in local areas, or while travelling or hiking.

During his term of office, Carstens was well known for hiking Germany in order to decrease the gulf between politics and the people.

And then we'll put on a satellite tag that will give us the long distance journeys with the light based geolocation algorithms solved on the computer that's on the fish.

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I came on foot.

We ll be going there on foot.

More than two engines were seen as a must for flight over long distances and inhospitable terrain, or over the ocean.

All of our science comes from the fact that our ancestors were able to do something extraordinary every day, which was just rely on their naked feet and legs to run long distances.

Other famous resorts for skiing and hiking include in Carpathian Mountains Zakopane in the Tatra mountains Szczyrk, Krynica Zdrój, Ustroń, Wisła in Beskides or Szczawnica and Krościenko in Pieniny mountains.

In those early years many aviation milestones were achieved conquering the height of the Andes was one of the main targets as well as long distance flights.

Technological breakthroughs have made it feasible to transport electricity via high voltage direct current (HVDC) over long distances without incurring great losses (only about 3 per 1,000 kilometers).

She goes to school on foot.

In general, Diesel engines are more reliable and much better suited to running for long periods of time at medium power settings, which is why they are widely used in, for example, trucks and ships.

This heat is useful for the majority of heating applications, however, it is sometimes not practical to transport heat energy over long distances, unlike electricity or fuel energy.

Most students come to school on foot.

Indeed, because many of these developments are so remote, residents often face a long, uncomfortable, and costly daily commute to reach good jobs.

Despite the global prevalence of electronic money transfers, most migrant workers are excluded from the convenience of modern banking services, dependent on costly cash transfers that often require rural recipients to travel significant distances.

Indeed, half of the world s smallholders are women, and we must keep in mind their punishing task of walking long lengths to get their produce to market.

In Ecuador and Bolivia some indigenous students must travel long distances on foot for hours, cross rivers and use canoes to attend schools that often lack piped drinking water.

Adan ordered the paratroopers to get out of the city on foot.

Millions of households, with tens of millions of nomadic or semi nomadic people, tend camels, sheep, goats, and other livestock, which they move large distances to reach rain fed pasturelands.

As the Strait of Gibraltar is a principal water route between the Mediterranean Sea and the rest of the world, Gibraltar is used as a port by many long distance liners and cargo ships.

From the city of Zouerate, walking on foot.

The people went on foot or used primitive boats along the coastline.

So when we pitched Toy Story to Tom Hanks for the first time, he walked in and he said, You don't want me to sing, do you?

And they're big mountains, thousands of feet tall, some of which are tens of thousands of feet and bust through the surface, creating islands like Hawaii.