In a startup environment, the layers of hierarchy are veneer-thin.
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Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.
An array of vibrant colours and oversized, abstract characters cover Kelburn, bringing a thoroughly modern veneer to the 13th-century building.
"Now courts are much better at recognizing how behavior can be anticompetitive even if it's characterized by a pro-competitive veneer, " Balto says.
Beneath the veneer of its squeaky-clean streets, super-efficient tram systems, rigorous banking principles and holier-than-thou Alpine churches lies a somewhat stranger city that is ready to surprise at every turn.
Still, beneath the pop-provocateur veneer, Sachs has always maintained a childlike awe of the golden age of industrial might and technology, most recently in his fascination with space exploration.
Learning to ferociously fight, to dial up Beast Girl and fend for ourselves, takes us into the basement of our being, into a lower center of gravity far below the topsoil of the nice lady camouflage, the cover-girl veneer.
The GL's 2013 updating brings along Mercedes's current spread-wing dash design, with standard Eucalyptus or optional burled-walnut wood veneer flowing into the doors' wainscoting.
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The best maple trees are highly sought-after for veneer used in making cabinets and furniture or as logs that are suitable for processing at a sawmill.
The design isn't without its faults, however -- the glossy veneer on the lid, for instance, loses some of its charm the instant it comes in contact with human skin, collecting fingerprints like a regular gumshoe.
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While Xenoblade leans heavily toward a more traditional turn-based model made more hectic by an action veneer, Dark Souls gives action combat a sense of turn-based tension and thoughtfulness.
Labour participation in the coalition is said to give his rightist-religious coalition a veneer of respectability, which is why Mr Netanyahu lavished ministries and deputy ministries on half of Labour's members of parliament.
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Golkar, which formerly gave a veneer of legitimacy to Indonesia's long-entrenched tyrant, General Suharto, is an organisation famed for infighting.
Women need not fear a president who "uses" religion to please the masses and get their votes -- nor be disappointed when the veneer of secularism cracks to reveal an ambivalent chauvinist.
In so doing, they sought to obfuscate their sentimental pro-Arab views of Israel behind the veneer of rational choice.
It appeared as if carved out of stone, but in fact was made of vast segments of hot-wire-cut polystyrene with a light beech veneer.
Strategery represented a flimsy veneer of forethought over a largely reactive and often ineffective game-plan.
In the course of his inquiry, which leads him to visit the small town where his maternal grandparents were arrested in 1944 (a horrific event that Gitai dramatizes heavy-handedly), he uncovers bitter family secrets, the revelation of which, after ninety minutes of generic Euro-cinema, complete with sentimental manipulation and intellectual veneer, drops with a dull thud.
Anti-dumping is a particularly pernicious form of protection, because it lurks beneath a veneer of respectability.
There was the eco-tastic choice of materials for the Model S, like the compressed banana leaf veneer for your door and dashboard.
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Nowadays, people just jump out of the dark all of a sudden and screech (cheap scare) or creatively disembowel screeching second-string actors (more gross than actually frightening.) Couple that with a veneer of macho stylishness, and you've got yourself a relative facsimile of a motion picture.
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The key to success in the luxury-car market seems to be to combine a reliable German motor and a lustrous British veneer.
Using NCVM (Non-Conductive Vapor Metallization) technology, an innovative coating process that produces a colorful metallic veneer, LG Aurora notebooks have a pellucid, glossy exterior that provides genuine value to customers through improved scratch resistance and a strengthened cover.
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