While the suction hand does not work well with porous objects (clothing) or flat items, such as disks, it can pick up most hard objects, including glasses or bowls.
Replacing concrete with porous pavement, employing green roofs and rain barrels, restoring creeks and wetlands, and increasing tree cover can help cities absorb rain water rather than funnel it to sewer systems.
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The lawlessness in Somalia and along its coastlines, combined with its porous border with Kenya, allows terrorists to easily travel in and out of Somalia to Somali communities across the world.
"We are dealing with a porous southern border opposite Africa, " he said.
But with two porous defences on display, there was always a chance of another before half-time and it came from the head of Steven Taylor who powered in a left-wing corner from four yards.
There is a length of one side of a 200-year-old arch turned black and porous with pollution.
In fact, according to a study by the Center for American Progress released today, states with the most porous gun laws had the highest rates of gun violence in several categories.
It has also been able to take advantage of porous borders with Chad and Cameroon.
Ecuador, which also shares a porous border with Colombia, is in the throes of an economic meltdown.
Rather than brave it, the Mumbai bombers are believed to have entered through the porous border with Bangladesh instead.
Pakistan has always denied senior Taliban leaders are living on its soil, saying they go back and forth across the porous border with Afghanistan.
In recent days, Phnom Penh has been pounding the bases of the hardline holdouts of the Khmer Rouge (remember them?) in the north, close to the porous border with Thailand.
Oxman estimates that making concrete columns this way with low-density porous concrete in the center could reduce the amount of concrete needed by more than 10 percent, a significant savings on the scale of a construction project.
Turkey will be working for the opposite outcome, wary that Syria's Kurds might seek common cause with its own restive Kurdish minority and concerned that prolonged instability will spill into Lebanon and across Syria's long and porous border with Turkey.
The country's tax-collection system, notoriously porous to begin with, has sprung several new leaks in the past year.
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The artificial bone, porous and coated with a thin layer of calcium phosphate, is implanted into the arm in place of the damaged bone.
The remaining clan members have refused to budge, while concerns have grown that other groups from the Philippines' restive southern provinces might enter Sabah, which shares a long and porous sea border with the Philippines that's difficult to patrol.
Lastly, it needs to be covered with a layer of non-porous, non-cracked rock to provide a leakproof cap.
To begin with, our borders have been porous for decades.
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Umar was arrested in Pakistan's Mohmand Agency, one of seven semiautonomous tribal agencies along the 1, 500-mile porous border that Pakistan shares with Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
And it's with mobile that the mosquito net is most porous.
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Here, on the northern frontier with Lebanon, the mountain border is relatively porous, but in recent days on the Syrian side fresh minefields have been laid.
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Afghanistan is also thought to be seeking security guarantees to protect its porous borders, including the frontier with Pakistan that is the main infiltration route for insurgents who retain sanctuary in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.
Aberdeen were 2-0 down after nine minutes, with David Templeton and Rudi Skacel taking advantage of a porous defence.
There are coach doors, bench seats, and a flat floor with no divider to make the car more capacious and porous for entering and exiting.
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Alkermes, teaming up with Lilly, is altering the shape of insulin particles, making them light and porous enough to float into the lungs.
The grind-it-out Tebow Broncos weren't supposedly built for a free-for-all with New England, but here they were, easily pushing the ball downfield against a porous Patriots defense.
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