Sheriff Abercrombie determined that the snares were set in a way to trap a target species, and not other animals.
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In one strait, a pod of whales appears, blowing spouts under the water to create a net of bubbles in which to trap a meal of krill.
It is not acceptable for rogue attorneys and investigators to trap a young woman in a hotel room, discourage her from calling her lawyer, ridicule her when she asked to call her mother.
In January the two companies unveiled an aerogel fabric called Zeroloft, so named because it can trap a person's warmth without being puffed up to produce loft (as a goose down jacket must be).
For homeowners, negative equity makes houses more like a trap than a piggy bank.
The circumstances of my visit to Buenos Aires were, as I now know, planned with all the care of someone setting a trap for a particular animal.
They encountered what commanders believe may have been a booby trap a box discovered while the three were collecting firewood at Kandahar International Airport.
Be it a better mouse trap or a newly crafted strategic policy built in an era of deep and painful cuts in military spending, the budget necessities facing all Americans demand a level of frugality not seen during the lifetimes of many of those now in uniform.
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This principle becomes particularly important when the federal definition of illegal conduct is one that is simply not comprehensible and acts more as a trap than as a guideline.
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Or merely to the trapped animal's unconscious feelings of respect for a well-made trap and a desire not to disappoint the person who went to so much trouble to set it...
But the clever hunter may also set a trap, such as a letter to the fugitive's family from some bogus organisation promising to erase the charges if the defendant calls a special toll-free number.
The report suggests that the sustainability of coral reefs will depend in large part on whether developing countries can improve their well-being without falling into a poverty trap -- a situation when communities are forced to degrade the very resources they rely on because of a lack of alternatives for making ends meet.
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He invented a trap that uses light and a spruce-scented spray to draw the pests to a bowl, where they drown.
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The logic of the victim-operated trap as a weapon is so simple as to be undeniable.
Liberate a coyote from a trap and they will call you a thief.
The passion trap is a destructive pattern of beliefs and behaviors that occur when someone falls in love with a business concept.
Dr Bermel's proposed trap is a thin sheet of tungsten (a heat-resistant metal) that has been processed in quite a complicated way.
America risks following Europe and Japan into the trap of a falling population combined with the spiraling entitlement costs of a graying society.
If the perceptual abilities of autocars were hooked into the police (moving about in their self-driven patrol cars), every road would be a speed trap and every car a radar gun.
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If this medicine doesn't pan out, the next competitor to Avastin is VEGF-Trap, a treatment that Sanofi is developing with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: REGN - news - people ).
Washington politicians are pointing the U.S. economy straight into a liquidity trap and instead of a bright economic future, the U.S. is looking at years of high unemployment, weak GDP growth and the possibility of widespread deflation.
The last piece of the psychological puzzle is the mental trap that a rogue trader finds himself in once the losses start stacking up and he faces an impending deadline at which point the game will be up.
"A bullish tone has been set, and we are not of the belief that this rally is a bull trap to be followed by a serious decline, " says volume-reversal specialist Mark Leibovit of VR Trader.
The company still has to prove itself with a broader user base while avoiding another startup death trap a large company like Foursquare or Facebook, a current partner, rolling out a similar service should it work.
The Germans - indeed northern Europe - have created a trap for themselves in which it is either fiscal union or a rough-hewn fiscal union in which the ECB does the heavy lifting, in defiance of its mandate and culture, and the instincts of the national central banks.
Sony may be laying something of a trap for themselves if this turns out to be anything less than a next-gen announcement.
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And if a trap isn't built just right, the pigs will find a way out, either by climbing over each other or squeezing under the fencing.
It can be a trap when things go well at first, and there's a loss of humility -- but that's my fault for not stopping that.
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