The giant panda tends to limit its social interactions and avoids steeply sloping terrain to limit its energy expenditures.

The watershed is a chain running throughout the island from N. to S., reaching in Bontona Haru 5840 ft., and sloping steeply to the east coast.

Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.

In economic jargon, the supply curve of labor was flat but is now sloping upward, so that rapidly increasing demand for labor resulting from rapid growth is driving up wages.

These simple water clocks, which were of the outflow type, were stone vessels with sloping sides that allowed water to drip at a nearly constant rate from a small hole near the bottom.

The eastern flank of the fire calmed down for several days, then down sloping winds off the Yellowstone Plateau forced flames along the west side of the fire towards the town of West Yellowstone, Montana.

We finally settled on a shape that was the proportion of the Concertgebouw with the sloping outside walls, which the acoustician said were crucial to this and later decided they weren't, but now we have them.

Thus, our understanding of ancient Egyptian architecture is based mainly on religious monuments, massive structures characterized by thick, sloping walls with few openings, possibly echoing a method of construction used to obtain stability in mud walls.