Looking up, he watched lines of icicles forming where water sluiced through cracks in the plaster.
Potholes are formed by water seeping through cracks in the asphalt surface of a road.
But speech, like water through cracks in a dam, will always find a way.
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By not falling through cracks, I mean that the database keeps track of anything pending for a customer, supplier or partner.
Even then, the icy swamp fights to reassert itself, pushing up through cracks in the frozen asphalt roads of the town centre.
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On the white-painted ceiling high above I could see the brown stains where water had found its way in past winters through cracks in the nineteenth-century lead roof and had dripped into buckets and bowls hastily placed on the floor.
Costs slip through the cracks, and an organization never gets a holistic view of its expenses.
Barry Larkin had also fallen through the cracks in several conversations regarding elite shortstops.
Ground and seawater is now leaking through the cracks in to the basements around the reactors.
"This means about 25 percent fell through the cracks at the doctor's office, " he explained.
The simple claims of humanity have all too often fallen through the cracks of the great Indonesian ambivalence.
The companies fall through the cracks between U.S. law and Irish tax law.
Cases can slip through the cracks, as with Madoff and Stanford Financial Group.
"Doing random testing -- someone could fall through the cracks, " Smith told CNN.
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As a result, Mongolia, though poor, had a decent enough social-welfare system, and few Mongolians fell through its cracks.
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But it is an enormous site and things may fall through the cracks.
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Although all products are checked at the retail store before being shipped to Grapevine, there are things that fall through the cracks.
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The site focuses on covering the untold stories of everyday people whose lives might fall through the cracks of bigger news organizations.
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Yu Baihui is one of many who have fallen through the cracks.
Many transactions escape it legitimately and many others slip through the cracks.
My job is to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks.
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They will help families and individuals who are falling through the cracks.
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What results is a poorer quality of care, more overtreatment, more fraud, more medical mistakes, and more patients falling through the cracks.
While some will still tragically fall through the cracks, and surely there will be many unnecessary reports, I believe this will save lives.
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While public education for five-year-olds is often available for at least part of the day, three and four-year-olds often fall through the cracks.
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Victim Support chief executive Javed Khan welcomed the draft Victims' Code but said the charity was "worried that victims will fall through the cracks".
But while the doll's main objective is busting computer nerd stereotypes, there is one that seems to have slipped through the cracks: those spectacles.
Not only are there delays in projects when people leave and new ones must be brought up to speed, but knowledge falls through the cracks.
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Missed sales goals, failed projects and details slipped through the cracks are often indicators of a very serious problem at the root: the bad boss.
With 500, 000 startups being created each month alone, it seemed like there was a huge percentage of companies who were just falling through the cracks.
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