porousness

The porousness of Greek culture and the parallels to its achievements in other cultures have never been a secret.

"There is a porousness in the estate tax," one senior Treasury official, who insisted on anonymity, said.

A separator with uniform porousness is vital to the long life cycle of a battery.

There were few breaks between songs and geographical regions, which was perhaps the best way to understand the porousness of borders in Jewish music.

Even in the Khmer Rouge camps, the officials say, there is now more porousness and business activity.

The surface was bubbling slowly to porousness.

The storm damage was often whimsical, depending on the lay of the land or the porousness of walls.

There is a young man's porousness to impressions, a marvellous ear for speech, and a willingness to let anecdotes play themselves out.

When you contrast the porousness of our borders to illegal immigration and the exclusivity being shown here, it incenses me."

Bugs can be turned from things that crash your computer into things that actively exploit the porousness of our defenses.

And the rules are tough to enforce, he said, given the proximity and porousness of the United States' border with Mexico.

The military is worried about the strategic space of the former Soviet Union and the porousness of Russia's new borders, especially along the southern rim.

The porousness of jazz - because it is a musician's art more than a composer's art - is central to a clear understanding of it.

"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)"

But H.R. 4437 isn't primarily an economics bill - it's an expression of outrage over the porousness of America's borders.

Ms. Rice said, "This is one of the things that we are concerned about with the Iranians, that there may be some porousness on that border."

The resemblances reflect the porousness of a popular medium like photography, the effect its ubiquity in magazines and advertising has on anyone who tries to use a camera.

A. M. Homes captures the hypersensitivity: "There was a porousness to his humanity, a primal vulnerability that let him be profoundly affected by anything and everything."

Clues to the porousness of the border are as common as the right-hand-drive taxicabs in the cities, all smuggled from Japan or Hong Kong.

He would explore the porousness of the mind to associations and surges of memory, and meditate on the almost climatic agitations created by intense personal interactions.

This similar porousness can also develop if the mold is damp, not of the proper temperature, or if the metal is poured before it is hot enough.

Fired terracotta is not watertight, but surface-burnishing the body before firing can decrease its porousness and a layer of glaze can make it watertight.

I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age.

And this is the crux of the story: what they, and me, and we, have failed to understand is how we are going to negotiate this porousness.

One big reason, aside from the porousness of the American border, is that while Iran long dominated the industry, it has spent the last 13 years sitting in the penalty box.