The Soviet planners who re- drew the map in the 1920s divided Central Asia broadly along linguistic lines, hoping to construct nations from the various nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of desert and steppe by exaggerating the differences between their dialects.
Only in the monsoon season would they construct temporary huts from pandanus leaves, repair their boats and wait out the rain.
Where documentaries must construct their narratives from found matter, reality TV can place real people in artificial surroundings designed for maximum emotional impact.
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Reed figured what bioengineers needed to turn fantasy to fact was a library of standardized DNA components that could then be used to construct designer genes from scratch.
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To me, watching Wynton Marsalis construct a new piece from the chord progressions of a South African folk song is a little like magic.
Mr Obama's has been to construct a public identity from scratch.
The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust plans to construct a new waterway from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington to the River Avon in Melksham.
Nor is there any shortage of raw material from which to construct virtual observatories.
Pyrolising stoves are easy to construct and available models range from the portable to industrial-scale machines costing tens of thousands of dollars.
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My mental construct for this correction comes from sovereign wealth funds and other big money moving out of euros and placing their portfolios into other currencies.
One problem has been that bond issues have been largely denominated in U.S. dollars, a construct designed to protect buyers from holding bonds in a volatile currency such as, say, the Indonesian rupiah.
But last Thursday the club got planning permission from Haringey Council to construct a new stadium and Spurs insist those plans remain on track.
The orbiter will carry instruments to study gamma ray and heat emissions from the planet and construct a global map of the planet's elemental composition.
Unlike previous projects at Microsoft and the University of Washington, the team at UNC used a home PC (albeit one with four GPUs) to process millions of images pulled from the Internet and construct 3D models of such landmarks as the Colosseum and the Roman baths at Sagalassos (above).
Some years from now, he will construct and manage an Internet medium that belongs to all of us.
Samuels immediately took the new ball but Bravo, whose decision-making in the absence of skipper Chris Gayle has been far from impressive, failed to construct a field conducive to maintaining the pressure and Prince swiftly went on to reach his half-ton.
After spending a lot of time falling asleep at the library while facing the philosophy books, I determined that the concept of destiny is a construct that allows man a gentle release from facing the terror of his existence, and that a Hyundai full of twenties would pretty much offer the same benefits.
Another cool first for this generation of the Mindstorms bot is a 3-D instruction manual, enabling users to see the pieces from all angles to design and construct their own robots.
First Solar used loan guarantees from the Department of Energy to construct another project in the Southern California desert, called Desert Sunlight, which it sold in September to NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc.
At the annual National Governors Association meeting, both Democrat and Republican chief executives expressed pessimism that both sides could find a way to avoid the massive, automatic spending cuts set to begin March 1, pointing to the impasse as another crisis between the White House and Congress that hampers their ability to construct state spending plans and spooks local businesses from hiring.
Under what construct could six days, in terms of transfer from the U.S. lead to NATO command and control for the no-fly zone be a prolonged period of time, and two more days, or several more days, to resolve the underlying issues of an agreement that has already been reached on civilian protection, the civilian protection aspect?
But their respective cultures draw from the same fund of psychological resources to construct each of their deeply-felt, guiding moralities.
It turned out that the data from Beth Israel that Google was using to construct the diagnosis list included insurance claims, which are notoriously imprecise.
Shared fiber : The government constructs (or authorizes a private company to construct) a network of fiber optic cables that run from each home in the municipality to a central peering point.
Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
He also called for increased efforts to build and distribute fairly the 36 million units of affordable "social housing" that the government has pledged to construct over the next five years to help meet demand from migrants and ease property prices.
He conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence and helped construct the Voyager interstellar record, which carried pictures and music from Earth out into the cosmos.
The government files from the founding phase of the monetary union reveal that this construct cannot function.
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The subsidy guidelines encouraged builders to construct on pricier land closer to urban areas, so that residents benefit from existing infrastructure and shorter commutes, and to erect apartment towers rather than town homes.
To construct their temperature record, the researchers used 173 different proxy sources for temperature from around the globe.
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