Could this be an object that will someday have a history of its own?
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The problem with this analogy is the prospect is a passive object that is acted upon.
Critics will object that Barack Obama regularly appears in public wearing a dress shirt with no tie.
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Some might object that root-and-branch tax reform is a hopelessly ambitious scheme, but this only encourages Mr Forbes.
"It's the only three-dimensional object that connects those two, " says Jeanne Sloane, head of the silver department at Christie's.
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In this scenario, the gamma ray burst was caused by a large, comet-like object that fell into a neutron star.
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The fourth "d" here is time, referring to an object that, once printed, is capable of changing shape (over time, naturally).
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Viewed at night, it turns the museum into an object that seems to float above the waterline, encased in delicate blue threads.
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Not surprisingly, Bakken fracking has active critics who object that the process utilizes diesel fuel and solvents that can cause environmental harm.
Details about the object that caused the fireball explosion are slowly emerging.
Critics object that these fiscal targets will not withstand the coming recession.
Army bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object that was found on the Cavehill Road, close to a police station.
Should the border declaration apply to codes, passwords and other intangibles as well as to any tangible object that is dedicated to accessing prepaid funds?
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In theory, if the animal being tested was properly interpreting the gestures, it should have been lured to the object that the experimenter was indicating.
With our dollars, we support the very object that constrains us.
This globe within a globe, as it were one full of artefacts, the other of books glances at the play between word and object that underlies the exhibition.
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Some might object that a downloaded movie has no physical form, and that there is thus nothing really "there" to tax, but that's an easily vanquished argument.
One might object that they concentrate on this at the expense of the deeper forces compelling the warring parties towards compromise, or at least to contemplate compromise.
What Confederate offers, Mr. Jacobs said, is an object that will last a lifetime actually, several lifetimes, an indestructible heirloom, timeless and indefatigable and so, in its way, immortal.
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The lingering question, to which nobody seems to have a good answer, is why it took so long to find an object that ought to be fairly common.
But in a couple of cases, where I was more than 6 inches away from a simple object that was out of focus, clicking on it brought it into focus.
It will act like a memory box, with a sealed section inside where the victims' relatives will be invited to put an object that reminds them of their loved one.
For example, instead of creating a user account, you now can create a user object that includes various attributes that help identify where the user account lives in the network hierarchy.
Usually viewers are the ones that look at art, but what we are trying to do is reinvert the viewing perspective so it's the art object that is doing the viewing.
You might object that nobody is going to stop buying iPhones, other gadgets, and software that is defended with inefficiently aggressive use of IP law, so consumers have nothing to threaten.
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With touchscreen interfaces, though, designers can create the illusion of acting on information and content directly, manipulating it like a physical object that you can touch and stretch and drag and nudge.
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Sure, it's costly to get duplicates made, but the tradeoff is that you have a physical object that can literally be shared, passed from hand to hand, in a warm personal moment.
While discussions of cultural differences can spark debate, the Smithsonian's Eric Jentsch, a specialist in the NMAH's division of science, medicine and society, points to one object that's literally too hot to handle.
Apophis is some 350 metres across, considerably larger than the object that is thought to have flattened 2, 000 square kilometres of Siberian forest as it vaporised in the atmosphere above Tunguska in 1908.
Because the theory relies on an object that itself has already found a way to grow to the size of Mars, the bow shock idea creates a bit of a chicken or egg problem.
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