Mr. KUZNITSOF: (Through translator) Everyone in the West has dug his head into the sand like ostriches.
The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.
But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?
You could throw it like a small javelin, or stab it into a piece of steak instead of using a fork, or you might take the ink cartridge out of the pen and fill the hollow shell with sand (just because you like sand).
Out it went, leaving about 200 meters (yards) of exposed sand, like a giant drawing breath.
The company is the second largest producer of commercial silica, which is a sand-like substance used in fracking as well as glass making and chemical manufacturing.
Among the dunes, Robert has built his own small memorial, and segments of the ship's hull still lie partly buried in the sand, like an excavated dinosaur skeleton.
" and "Why is he trying to protect something that has fallen through his hands like sand?
Early modern compilers of information feared that without care for its safekeeping, information might run through their fingers like sand, lost forever.
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Where there is less sand they, like Mr Serrato, can mix it into the soil, but the mixture does not hold water so well.
"To bury our head in the sand and act like Twitter (and who knows what else comes into existence next month or five years from now?) isn't increasingly becoming the source of what informs people in real-time is ridiculous, " he wrote.
This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.
Hanson explains, stress is like fine sand being drizzled into the brain.
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When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
For the remaining decade he and some hired engineers improved the aqua- barrier design, adding new products like protective sand-filled barrels and the first collapsible crash-cushions.
Ms. HARRELL-MILLER: Like breaking stone, like breaking sand.
Professor John Zarnecki, principal investigator on Huygens' surface science package (SSP) said the area where Huygens landed appeared to have a thin crust that overlies a material with more uniform consistency something like wet sand.
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Other landmarks are also visible from the 273-room Grand Marina, including the Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia cathedral, which looks like a gigantic sand castle.
From tee to green, golf on sand-green courses is just like regular golf.
They fear that with vital catches of fish such as sand eels getting smaller, breeds like puffins and guillemots may also decline in the future.
These oceans, and the fish that live there, are full of plastic, reduced to confetti, incessant from shore to shore, spread out like a spoonful of sand across a football field, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
Delivering the homily of his first Mass as leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis ended his remarks with a call to reconstruction of the church, which he said is in danger of being like a house of sand built by children on a beach.
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But it is miniscule progress, like a toy shovel of sand being removed from a mountain.
Only one place on Earth holds big, beautiful T. rex-like dinosaurs in relatively soft sand, in a vast, remote landscape that all but insures privacy.
In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.
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Keeping track of all of this will be like trying to count grains of sand on a windswept, stormy beach.
"She is miles off course but probably thought sand being used to expand the reservoir looked like home, " he said.
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To Obama, the old order of securities created by contracts freely entered into is like the "house built on sand" in Jesus' parable.
The kids' camp keeps them busy with sand castle building and craft making, plus sports like pool volleyball and beach bowling.
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