• When he saw Joe Rosenthal's picture of the flag-raising in Iwo Jima he made a plaster model of the scene.

    ECONOMIST: Felix de Weldon

  • But London Zoo officials later identified the creature as a North American Jungle Cat after a plaster cast was taken from paw prints made in a forest near Port Talbot.

    BBC: Catalogue of Wales' weird cats

  • Often, in the case of jaw or face plates, the only way to make the mould is to take a plaster cast of the outside of the patient's head, says Dr Richards.

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • Let them make do with a plaster effigy.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is a plaster, not a cure.

    ECONOMIST: Why the rescue plan for Spain is not enough

  • The new gown can be adapted for many forms of surgery and post-operative care needs, including heart surgery, the insertion of a neck line or hernia repair, or accessing a plaster cast on a broken arm, the hospital said.

    BBC: New hospital gown at Birmingham Children's Hospital

  • He criticised efforts to recruit GPs from overseas saying it was like putting "a sticking plaster on a gaping sore".

    BBC: GP consultation

  • The ECB is regarded as having provided a sticking-plaster rather than a cure for what ails the eurozone.

    BBC: Why Cyprus's rescue matters to us

  • IMF, but it will be a mere sticking-plaster over a festering financial wound.

    ECONOMIST: A puzzling progress

  • At the time, Dali called his creation of a painted plaster lobster attached to the receiver the Aphrodisiac Telephone, presumably just to mess with people.

    CNN: Apparently This Matters: Lobster iPhone case

  • That is why investors see any purchases by the European Central Bank of Spanish and Italian debt as - at best - a sticking plaster.

    BBC: How ECB failed to reassure investors

  • Some reporting comes close to repeatedly ripping a sticking plaster off.

    BBC: Newtown overwhelmed by media

  • Physio Chris Towers said Henson is still in a walking plaster, which is due to come off on 10 July, and is recovering well from his injury.

    BBC: Henson will miss start of season

  • The question then for the countries with warships in the region is this: Do they have the long-term commitment to keep funding a force that is at best a sticking plaster for the problem?

    BBC: Somali pirate patrol: Day five

  • To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).

    BBC: What might a Greek default look like?

  • One maalem (or master craftsman), in particular, opened many doors for the decorator: Ma'alem Houman, who was skilled in the brickwork and tadelakt (a glazed plaster mixed with pigment and soap) that Willis brought out of the hammam (or bathhouse) and into Moorish interiors.

    WSJ: A Magician from Memphis

  • The policies have been described as a "sticking plaster" or just "one-piece of the jigsaw".

    BBC: Social care - the next big issue?

  • It would allow them to plaster a "C" on Wright's uniform so they could sell replica jerseys and T-shirts.

    WSJ: David Wright Is Captain Without the 'C'

  • Plaster a city with poems in the middle of the night.

    BBC: The bloom of cancer

  • He told MPs that any future financial rescue package for Ireland must address underlying economic problems rather than act as a "sticking plaster".

    BBC: Ministers urged to rule out Ireland bailout

  • "Mash up a ripe avocado and plaster it over your face for 15 minutes - you'll smell like a chicken salad but your skin will feel revitalised, " reckoned Coombe.

    BBC: Beauty treatments abroad

  • Turland spent a month with her leg in plaster after being hit by a motorcycle in Rome in March on her way to the world cross-country championships.

    BBC: Moqhali is the marathon man

  • It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race.

    NPR: Reporter Shares Account Of Bomb Blasts At Marathon

  • Plans are for The Firm to develop a cartoon series and plaster the bears on calendars and greeting cards.

    FORBES: Dog-and-Pony Show

  • He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).

    NEWYORKER: The Wedding March

  • He used this stone to knock a hole through the plaster, lathing, and masonry of the supposed sky, and when the stone rattled off into emptiness on the other side he reached up into the hole and pulled himself through.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • "There are the short-term sticking-plaster steps of a proper firewall to prevent contagion around Europe, a much more decisive settlement for Greece... strengthening the European banks, " he told Sky News.

    BBC: Nick Clegg warns against 'needless rivalry' in Europe

  • The ornate plaster ceiling of a room, designed to look like the interior of an imperial Chinese palace, was covered by multiple coats of paint, forming a deposit more than a centimeter thick.

    WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand

  • The frieze, a mix of honey-coloured marble panels and glaring white plaster casts of pieces in the BM, shows a procession of worshippers carrying offerings to Athena, the temple goddess.

    ECONOMIST: A new tribute to the Parthenon

  • The fourth side was partly closed by a high wall, surmounted by jagged edges of broken glass set firmly in old lime plaster, and pierced in its center by a wide entrance-way.

    NEWYORKER: A Man And A Woman

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