Sentences with phrase «in dense thickets»

These corals grow in dense thickets, some of them 30 feet tall, off the coasts of Scotland, Norway, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, and many other places.

Bringing the picture into focus requires both an awareness of widespread aspirations among Muslims and a lot of hard, painstaking work in the dense thicket of the particulars present in specific situations.

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In the thicket of Przywara's dense prose, it can be hard to discern what exactly any analogy is, let alone the analogy of being.

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

They can snake through the brain's dense thicket, pushing past billions of other neurons, in order to form tight connections, or synapses, with just the right partners.

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.

The sound is just as impressive, keeping Steve Zaillian's dialogue clean and crisp out front, with John Williams's now - classic score and a dense thicket of sound effects balanced beautifully in the back.

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.

It's dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations (including a not - so - veiled allegory for the McCarthy witch - hunts in Hollywood), designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

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