11.   Snowshoeing may conjure up images of a fur trader slogging through rugged northern back country on shoes of wood and rawhide.

12.   The rugged country south of here on the shores of Laguna Madre is an inhospitable tangle of mesquite chaparral and sand dunes with more cows than people.

13.   This is rugged country, and the Gage Hotel fits right in.

14.   Trained cattle dogs are used in this rugged country to chase cattle from thickets during roundups, he said.

15.   First election results were expected Monday, after military helicopters fly ballot boxes from remote locales to provincial capitals in the rugged country of highlands and desert.

16.   First election results were expected Monday, after military helicopters flew ballot boxes from remote locales to provincial capitals in the rugged country of highlands and desert.

17.   First results were expected Monday, after helicopters flew ballot boxes from remote locales to provincial capitals in the rugged country of highlands and desert.

18.   In decades past, informal slavery of blacks by Moors and Arabs was commonplace in Mauritania, a rugged country of mountains and sweeping deserts.

19.   It is far worse in the rugged back country.

20.   The boy, Farouk Kassam, then seven, was kept in a cave in the rugged Sardinian back country for six months.