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.

Instead, the index declined three times more steeply than others.

The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.

In fact, in its 50 year history, the indicator never climbed as steeply as it has over the past 12 months.

The eastern zone is dominated by a range of verdant hills which drop steeply to the coast of the Alor Strait.

Lo and behold, for the first time in a generation, deaths from malaria in Africa began to fall (steeply in some places).

It has been estimated that the number of people aged 100 or over will rise steeply to reach over 626,000 by 2080.

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.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted.

As a result, Azerbaijan, where quality of education is declining almost as steeply as academic freedoms, no longer has any Gulen affiliated education establishments at all.

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.

Beginning with the PROALCOOL programme, with its incentives for the expansion of alcohol production, sugar cane production in Brazil rose very steeply in only 10 years, or within two full plantation cycles.

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.

Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

If every increase in the after tax wage rate gave a permanent boost to the amount of labor supplied, we reasoned, steeply rising after tax wages since the mid nineteenth century would have brought an extraordinary increase in the length of the workweek and in retirement ages.

Instead of official forecasts of oil use and oil imports going forever up, they can turn down with the 12 dollars a barrel efficiency, down steeply by adding the supply side substitutions at 18 bucks, all implemented at slower rates than we've done before when we paid attention.