• Dr John Morgan, head of the Forestry Commission's plant health service, said the work would help shed light on "the history and nature of the introduction of new pests like Chalara, and in helping to understand how we tackle the disease that's arrived and to understand what the risk of spreading is".

    BBC: Ash fungus genetic data released

  • Given the history and nature of IT industries, one should fully expect clever IT startups to be at the leading edge of smart building networks and both successfully competing with entrenched players, or getting acquired by them.

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  • That name, and the theme of aboriginal wisdom about nature, thus entered the history of environmental activism.

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  • Mr Kennedy said Mr Blair instead needed to focus on "the big issues that count, the things that will make his place in history and change the nature of politics in this country".

    BBC: Charles Kennedy

  • Or will he be talking more about the history-making nature of this?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Electoral history and the nature of the 2014 races indicate that Democrats actually stand a greater chance of losing the Senate than they do of winning the House.

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  • For most of the century-long history of the wrist watch, it has been a circular affair, reinforcing the cyclical nature of time.

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  • The vigour of its culture, the strength of its identity, forged amid adversity wrought by nature and history, are both shining evidence of this.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • This connection also has historic roots -- during the Middle Ages, extravagant meals or banquets hosted by the wealthy often featured sculptures made from edible ingredients like pastry dough, sugar and ice, according to the book Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance.

    BBC: The origins of ice sculpting

  • But there are a lot of musings about the nature of attention, and a nice history of the debate over whether being constantly connected sometimes screws up our our performance.

    FORBES: Stunning News: Brain Scientists Go Whitewater Rafting Without Their iPhones

  • Despite the brutal nature and violent history of most of the inmates, not a single major assault against a corrections officer has occurred since the first inmates arrived in 1994.

    CNN: Reporters get first look inside mysterious Supermax prison

  • Her general theme is that Ulster's Catholics and Protestants have shaped each other's character and political history, and even the nature of their religion: church attendance was always an obsession of each denomination.

    ECONOMIST: Irish history

  • Who shall stand against the common wisdom when it is wrong about deterrence, wrong about the causes of war, wrong about the state of the world, wrong about the ambitions of ascendant nations, wrong about history, and wrong about human nature?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Sleeping under the stars in rustic beach campsites and exploring the forested domes of these drowned mountains blends history and nature in an unforgettable sea-to-summit trail.

    BBC: Kayaking Australia��s Whitsunday Islands

  • There are moments in history when there is a demand for the better angels of our nature.

    FORBES: Newtown America: A Time To Sacrifice

  • Its history (see "Udder Success") reflects the different nature of enterprises in nations with long-standing state dominance.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He presents data from pharmacological or epidemiological studies on what exactly those are, bolstering his argument with discussions on the nature of addiction and changing attitudes to psychoactive substances throughout history.

    ECONOMIST: Plain speaking on a highly coloured issue

  • Seen here in his mid-thirties, just four years removed from the acrimonious breakup of the most successful double act in the history of show business, Lewis is comedically fearless, so much a force of nature that he literally has Paar climbing the walls.

    FORBES: Twilight Of The Gods

  • The rest consists of essays on how history has treated Francis and his relationship to God, nature, Scripture, and so on.

    NEWYORKER: Rich Man, Poor Man

  • It is also about history, about understanding where one of the key tools of our modern life came from and appreciating its true nature.

    BBC: Computer user

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