| Broad expanses of open sand undulate, sweeping up into steep mountains or falling off into lakes, ponds, and shallow quagmires of quicksand. |
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| The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. |
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| Heavy rain turned the car parks into quagmires to such an extent that cars were banned for Saturday's official qualifying day. |
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| Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles. |
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| The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough. |
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| This would be particularly severe for low income economies that are striving to pullout of their current economic quagmires. |
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| There are few roads, and some of these are impassable quagmires in the rainy season. |
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| The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. |
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| Hundreds of contracted trucks became stuck for weeks on dirt roads that were washed-out or transformed into quagmires in both countries. |
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| Indian conglomerates are often financial quagmires but Mahindra has high returns and little debt, and uses capital efficiently. |
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| Still, even the British experience during the Great War has its moral thickets and quagmires. |
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| The resulting crossscale linkages need to work effectively, since communities are keen to see the resolution of jurisdictional quagmires. |
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| Wordy and redundant, the document wandered in and out of various verb tenses, stumbled over boilerplate prepositional phrases, and sank into quagmires of purple prose. |
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| In muddy conditions likened to the quagmires of Passchendaele, the First Canadian Army joined the Allies in a fierce push to drive the Germans back across the Rhine. |
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| Chickweed willowherb often forms a pure stands on wet patches of moss, while Hornemann's willowherb grows more scantily on the edge of quagmires and firmer peatlands. |
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| Both areas have proved quagmires for previous governments. Mr Monti's other, less debateable, criticism was of the constant sniping at the government from the very parties that form part of it. |
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| This is a result of the traumas the region has had to endure, first under the Baath, and now under the occupation, but Mr Siti seems wary of concentrating on the political quagmires. |
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| As to swampy or waterlogged land, it includes that abundantly covered by sloughs or quagmires but which, because of its dimension or of the continuity of its swamp formation, may not be considered as a natural pond. |
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