The population density is very low due to the mountainous terrain and scarcity of water.

The largely rural life in early New Zealand led to the image of New Zealanders being rugged, industrious problem solvers.

The extent of the damage is still unfolding as rescue teams reach out to remote and inaccessible mountainous areas.

She carved out a successful business career in the rough and tumble of the post Soviet gas industry.

So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.

Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

I work next to Cairo University and this area has transformed over night. The bumpy streets leading to the University are now as smooth as silk.

These are the major questions looming before us as the president elect prepares the American people for what can only be a rough ride ahead.

By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan Muslims killing Muslims.

Unlike the fracas over an American missile shield in Europe, this conflict shows no signs of blowing over, and threatens to damage further the rocky relationship between Russia and the West.

Bhutan s rugged geography fostered the rise of a hardy population of farmers and herdsmen, and helped to foster a strong Buddhist culture, closely connected in history with Tibet.

And, while some young people use higher education to escape a rocky job market, their choice to build new skills should not negatively impact perceptions of their country s economic health.

It was not thought possible for the Soviets to deploy large number of troops in this rugged and almost roadless area, but the Soviets deployed an entire division which advanced along the road between Suojärvi and Tolvajärvi (now Tolvayarvi, Russia).

Onto this fiercely contested terrain marches the United Kingdom s Independent banking Commission, set up last year by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, with a brief to examine possible structural reforms to the banking system aimed at safeguarding financial stability and competition.

But it faces great difficulties and is largely restricted to the rough country on the Afghanistan Pakistan border where the Monitoring Team has witnessed at first hand the efforts of the Afghan and Pakistan forces and the tremendous physical problems they face.

The great philosophers of the Enlightenment would not hesitate to endorse the moral consciousness expressed in the postings that flooded cyberspace during the Tunisian revolution. Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

And I would travel in a C 130 transport and go and visit warlords in mountain hideaways and negotiate with them about how we were going to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, surrounded by my Special Forces escort, who, themselves, had to have an escort of a platoon of Royal Marines, because it was so dangerous.

At Tiger Leaping Gorge, where a mere 100,000 residents will have to be relocated, residents fear that they will be ordered to move up the steep mountainsides to open marginal land at 6,000 to 9,000 feet.