Let the democrats explain why a major north-south freeway at the foothills is a bad idea because of environmental or cost concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: GOP Legislative Candidates Are Toast in the Burbs Until Rhetoric on Two Campaign Issues Improves] Reference

That the fishing takes place in the lovely Andean foothills is a huge plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Winter Fishing Destinations] Reference

We first saw the foothills from the Roof Garden of the Palliser Hotel, – ghostly beckoning peaks sixty miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference

It's called a foothills fire, and it is in the foothills.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2004] Reference

Finally, I'd like to comment on our activity in the foothills, which is our only exploratory place.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

"Up here among the foothills is the big Minturn Pond Dam," Tom said, leaning forward to speak to their guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

East of the foothills is a deep loam overlying a gravel subsoil, and wherever water can be got the land is very productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

As Chris Skrebowski, editor of the UK Petroleum Review, puts it: "This is what I would describe as the foothills of peak oil.".    From Wordnik.com.  [marklynas.org - home] Reference

One of Shreve's subdivisions (the foothills of Sonora) has since been reclassified as foothills thornscrub, a non-desert biome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert] Reference

Driving through the foothills is a treat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresno Dreams | The Stiletto Gang] Reference

RONSON: That was in Harrison, Arkansas, in the Ozarks, the kind of foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Them: Adventures with Extremists] Reference

In nearby foothills they hacked the five to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Unrequited] Reference

They're the foothills, basically, of the Himalayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Survivors In Pakistan Airliner Crash] Reference

The sprawling landscape of the foothills of the Himalayas take your breath away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Soccer Movies] Reference

Tiny Town is a kid-scaled replica of an Old West town in the foothills near Denver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiny Town Train Crash: Investigators Believe Operator Error May Be Responsible For Accident] Reference

Distending the curdled skin at the foothills, trying to determine the precise aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadheading] Reference

Near its end Vali-asr climbs steeply, into the foothills of the snowcapped Alborz Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tehran or Bust] Reference

In a handsome house in the Utah foothills, Elizabeth Smart snuggled with her little brother on her lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Elizabeth] Reference

At the Gyuto Monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas, a love both familiar and exotic was in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Reincarnation] Reference

In 1968, they moved to the countryside outside Sumirago in the foothills of the Alps in north-west Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missoni: a family always in fashion] Reference

At the Gyuto monastery, in the foothills of the Himalayas, a love both familiar and exotic was in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Buddha Busts Out] Reference

I was both in the slums of New Delhi and in rural areas outside the city in the foothills of the Himalayas.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Told A Friend: Africa Changed Me'] Reference

She grew up in a house trailer in a dusty little town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Moth To The Flame] Reference

We were in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and early clouds lay below us in the valleys, high peaks looming ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fancy a go at the Tour de France?] Reference

It was a curdled light that saw us coming, out of the trees on the foothills like shadow out of shadow into shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book of Genesis] Reference

In the balding foothills just east of Caracas, a sprawling glass-and-concrete structure bakes in the equatorial sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights! Camera! Revolución!] Reference

A short jaunt around the foothills of this monstrous mountain, however, is enough to make a believer out of anybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volcano Fatigue] Reference

I visited the winery, which sits in the foothills of the Andes in 2005 and found it to be winemaking on a very modern scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Viognier's Appeal] Reference

Until a few weeks ago Tomikacho was known, if at all, for its sweet strawberries, shimmering green fields and rolling foothills.    From Wordnik.com.  [They're Heeere!] Reference

Looking for a new start, the family moved to the Colorado foothills in 1994, and Terry took a seasonal job with the Forest Service.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Moth To The Flame] Reference

In Peru, the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas are stepping up attacks after lying low in remote jungles and foothills for nine years.    From Wordnik.com.  [¿Adios, Amigos?] Reference

True Believers and Other ScientistsGlobal warming has already arrived, in disastrous ways, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House Of Cards] Reference

Tucked into the Rocky Mountain foothills, the Academy's isolation causes it to lag behind the other Big Three schools in applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHOOSING A SOLDIER SCHOOL] Reference

Unca Ole pulled up a sea robin he had never fished the salt water only the rapid streams of the foothills for the pike, perch and brim.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey Within A Journey] Reference

It insisted the development -- which backed up against a protected slice of the foothills -- would be unsafe, not to mention an eyesore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold In Them Thar Hills] Reference

Virtual armies of searchers -- some -- on horseback, some in helicopters -- had combed the Utah foothills in a futile search for the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Elizabeth] Reference

After living in Arkansas for several months, he had returned to the family's bright red, cedar-frame ranch in the Rocky Mountain foothills.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Moth To The Flame] Reference