But Fernando Manfredo Jr., who escorted Vice President Dan Quayle on a brief tour of the canal today, wishes people would try to think of the place in more down-to-earth terms.

But while some obviously see social support as something easily recognisable, emphasising that the supporter must actually be present or accessible during stressful episodes (e.g. Cassel, 1976), others, like Cobb, conceive of support in less down-to-earth terms.

In more down-to-earth terms, let , and let denote the canonical map.

But how fast is that in real, down-to-earth terms?

While some members speak in tongues, most do not, including Pastor Florian, a low-key man who explained the experience in surprisingly down-to-earth terms.

They have a gift for describing musical abstractions in down-to-earth terms.

Ingmar Bergman was such an idol of art house cinema in the 50's, 60's and 70's - he seemed as remote and forbidding as God Himself, and worked in even more mysterious ways - that it's refreshing to hear him described in such plain, down-to-earth terms.

People talk about Adour, Ducasse's first Washington, DC outpost, based in the St Regis Washington hotel, in more down-to-earth terms: good.

In down-to-earth terms, this resource could guide a researcher to the professional papers of a landscape architect, the site plan for a college campus, aerial photographs of a geographical region or the historic files of a local garden club.

There are some musicians who speak in down-to-earth terms about such matters as technique, musicological problems or the difficulties one faces in building a career.