Sentences with phrase «by thickets»

The difficulties, says Raymond, begin in law school, where their sense of story is extinguished by thickets of case law.

This structurally complex mosaic of open woodland characterized by thickets of tree - sized [taller than six feet] individuals of deciduous broad - leaved taxa has the potential of significantly altering abiotic and biotic conditions within the Low Arctic....

It is a field richly complicated by thickets and rabbit holes — suggestions of places partially glimpsed, hidden and waiting to be explored.

Cayo Coco: Covered by thickets of mangroves, palms and other forestation, has a 22 - kilometre strip of beach.

Many new editors find themselves deterred by the thicket of rules that govern the encyclopedia, a problem made worse by the brusque attitude of some experienced editors.

A family divided by things beyond their comprehension surrounded by a thicket of not only trees but complete solitude.

Ours was a gated compound, guarded at the front by a thicket of rose and hibiscus bushes.

At Mount Irvine Beach, in the south - west, a thick carpet of sand forms a double horseshoe and is backed by a thicket of seagrape and palm trees.

Entering the main gallery, the viewer is confronted by a thicket of roughly painted raw timber lengths rooted to the floor in cement bases.

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Other proposals would make it easier for competing, «biosimilar» alternatives to break through the thicket of patents created by sellers of complex drugs such as insulin.

We again thank for their patience and appreciation our customers in our Spring Branch service area who have endured among the longest outages resulting from the catastrophic flooding brought by Hurricane Harvey including the subdivisions of Fleetwood, Meadows of Memorial, Memorial Thicket, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham Oaks, River Forest, Talia Trails, Thornwood, Winchester, Yorkchester and others in the Memorial area.

CAYO COCO, Cuba — Uprooted mangrove thickets are still piled up behind the beaches along Cuba's north coast, interspersed with shards of concrete and steel and other flotsam left over from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.

Smaller firms in particular face a thicket of litigation by competitors and «non-practising entities» — the polite term for patent trolls.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

I can only try to conclude these remarks by trying to carve out a few narrow footpaths in the thicket, which may perhaps point out where the main road lies and how it is to be found.

I had similar feelings about Todd and my wedding, but when it was all said and done I am glad it was larger (and by that I mean it wasn't just the two of us on top of our special cliff spot in a thicket of birch trees, which is where I would have prefered to have gotten married if I knew it wouldn't insult our friends and family).

By penetrating a thicket near the river Dr. Cottam was able to show me one of his prize birds, Merrill's pauraque, a whippoorwill - like creature and the largest of the goatsucker family in the U.S.

It is an unusual role for Helgerson who goes by the handle @policywonk1 on Twitter and has largely stayed above the fray when it comes to politics, even as he navigates the thicket that is Medicaid spending in New York.

The current system, with its thicket of regulations, was designed to guard against a repeat of the 1980s, when a scandal involving no - bid contracts and influence - peddling tainted the Koch administration and was punctuated by the suicide of Donald R. Manes, the former Queens borough president.

It took ESD several weeks to wade through the legal thicket erected by SUNY Poly — the projects were not managed by the school, but by two affiliated non-profit entities — before authority lawyers in November said they would invade SUNY Poly and try to salvage its existing partnerships.

According to reports, he realized that the road was blocked only to be attacked by some heavily armed men who were hiding in the surrounding thicket.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

By holding researchers» hands and helping them through the thicket of NASA rules and regulations, the centre aims to reduce bureaucratic hassle.

Introduced to North America by Botanical Gardens in the 1890s, Amur honeysuckle — referred to by Conover as public enemy number one — has formed dense thickets in the local forest sub-canopies, choking out native species everywhere it grows.

Prized by diners for its tasty white flesh, the yard - long lingcod is a voracious predator that ambushes other fish among the submerged rock pinnacles and kelp thickets of Prince William Sound.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents publicly held utilities, submitted a letter saying any attempt by FTC to define additionality would lead the commission into a «conceptual thicket.»

«There's a place in the south,» he says, «where you can stand with one foot in the rain forest being sucked on by land leeches and the other foot in a spiny thicket with baobab trees and a 12 - month dry season.»

Juniper thickets not only reduce the number of jackrabbits and cottontails for eagles to capture, but also makes it difficult to capture the ones that are there by allowing the rabbits to hide in the thickets.

Extensive thickets of staghorn corals at Carysfort Reef, approximately 6 nautical miles east of Key Largo, Fla., are gone today and replaced by a structure-less bottom littered with the decaying skeletons of staghorn coral.

It has always been one of the hallmarks of this series that even when the plotting, especially for those unversed in the books, resembled a brambly thicket, and the cinematic magicmaking was more overloaded than inspired, the acting served up by this ongoing parade of hall of fame hams carried the day.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as frontier entrepreneurs in a war of wills, is dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations, designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

In perhaps the most revealing moment of John Trengove's The Wound, a band of young Xhosa tribesmen who've been living in huts and enduring an unspeakable initiation ceremony wander out of a thicket and are confronted by an electric pylon.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

Jane Krentz stepped away from the elementary classroom and into the thickets of state lawmaking 10 years ago after deciding that students were shortchanged by education policy she had no control over.

Now a new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social and emotional learning programs and decide on an approach.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

The walls were singed and sodden, garlic hung by muddy stems from the charred beams, thickets of soot clumped batlike upon the ceiling.

This is the Big Thicket, dark and brooding, haunted by racial tensions and economic despair.

For some examples of the big - 5 published top 50 books for taste purposes: KSR's Shaman, Nicola Griffith's Hild, Joe Lansdale's The Thicket, The Shining Girls by Lauren Buekes, Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, River of Stars by Guy Gavariel Kay, American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett, and Karen Lord's The Best of all Possible Worlds.

Sheltered by dense forest thickets, yet opening up onto wide, expansive views over lagoons and channels, the camp showcases the best of what the Delta has to offer.

WHAT TO SEE This mosaic of elongated lagoons, connected by creeks, savannas and logwood thickets is excellent for birds.

Stretching from fynbos covered peaks to Karoo thicket; Kleinrivier is bisected by two rivers, each cutting a deep gorge... more

Against a gorgeous backdrop of towering trees and thickets of giant bamboo, guests will be serenaded by the song of the river and the sounds of nature.

Finally, along the Caribbean shore (mostly on private land outside the park), vegetation is dominated by littoral thicket species such as Cocoplum and Sea - grape.

The high lands are generally covered by littoral forest, palmetto, broken palmetto thicket and coconut; the low lands with high, medium and low mangrove.

With its quiet thickets of trees broken by the occasional sandy white beach, the Blackwater has become a popular paddling spot in the greater Pensacola area.

In the lush paper thicket coiling its way down the hallway, we see larger - than - life floral forms whose tranquility is undercut by carnivorous plants creeping and crawling across the gallery wall and floor.

«Blue Thicket,» for example, starts from the top of the canvas with a splendid array of wild untamed gestures followed by a mass of colors huddled together in active conference coming to a serene close as blue streaks seep down drawing one's eyes to rest in just the manner Carol is so proud of.