Dense thickets of thorny branches slashed their arms and legs.
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Thickets of tall trees give way to dry, grassy hills.
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I tangled through thickets of pine, oak, holly and mossy cypress.
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Power lines ran through thickets of trees to connect to houses.
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Immigration has driven Mr. Trump even deeper into the constitutional thickets.
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Once gone, thickets of almost impenetrable black birch fill in their place.
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And those sideburns — great thickets wide and deep enough to plant potatoes.
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There were elk tracks in the thickets and ice on the roads.
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The water, about knee high, was dark with detritus, and surrounded by thickets.
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Clinton has a way of meandering legalistically through thickets of caution and temporization.
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In addition to difficult competitors and terrain, Amazon will face thickets of regulation.
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The Spanish named the lower stretch Rio Palmas, for its thickets of palms.
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It's dense and otherworldly, but generally peaceful somewhere underneath the tangled thickets of instrumentation.
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We were heading for a marshy patch, pushing our way downhill through the thickets.
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Regulatory thickets, technical complexity and the public's skittishness have proven to be formidable hurdles.
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In previous capture operations, the tigress stole into thickets of lantana bushes and vanished.
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Her bravado is on the verge of barreling into the thickets of saccharine sentimentality.
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The acting is strong even when the script wanders into thickets of rhetoric and mystification.
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But they will hunt through any number of more open habitats including fields and thickets.
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Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
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But thickets of regulations in California stand in the way of a quick housing fix.
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Since then, however, ultra-low interest rates and thickets of new regulations have squeezed bank profits.
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Broken back down into the thickets of flowers and jewels, objects and ornament that envelop them.
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The rangers stake out water holes and game trails, regularly camping out overnight in the thickets.
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At the beginning of the month, I pick raspberries, before the thickets are in full thorn.
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The resulting overgrazing decimated young aspens as well as cottonwood saplings and willow thickets along the streambanks.
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These legal thickets are designed to protect companies from litigious online shoppers and users of web services.
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What a curious detour Jemma's birth took us on, through obscure thickets of paperwork and existential worry.
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He doesn't over-explain the trickier plot entanglements, confident in his audience's ability to sort through its thickets.
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His wife, Emily, became his amanuensis, often smoothing the way through the political thickets of dealing with the board.
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There, among the unruly thickets of brush, was Mr. Russo, hanging from a tree, a rope around his neck.
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Slipping through the grey-green teak forest he wound around thickets of wild sage, cloaked behind its orange flowers.
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They include the "Black" and "White" paintings: dense thickets of monochrome paint, with collaged, cut and reused canvas additions.
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It's easy to get lost in the technical thickets of former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony on Thursday.
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I just enjoyed being there, with the sky, the earth, the bamboo thickets, the cat, the dog, the flowers.
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Right, a lot of the tension stems from how she wanders into the thickets of gender and racial politics.
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On the Court, the liberals bowed to the conservatives and agreed to keep the courts out of political thickets.
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But several archaeologists argue that ancient civilizations once thrived in its thickets and played a role in its development.
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TV images showed thickets of jungle sopped in black sludge and clean-up crews lifting buckets of crude from rivers.
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You cut through the thickets of the musical landscape and brought us to the futuristic, smooth, syncopated land of Missy.
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So begins a sweaty thriller by a first-time novelist who really knows how to handle himself in these thickets.
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With thickets of facts, Price unfurls social history in tandem with the successes and failures of the Aliquippa High Quips.
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It is a dead-end street and there are thickets of beech, black cherry and red oak on three sides.
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Jim Rutenberg's seeming difficulty in conveying the essence of this story shows how tangled are the thickets of modern communication.
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Thickets of snakelike tubeworms and other bizarre creatures often blanket the hot features, as do hungry prowlers such as spider crabs.
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But insulin is a complex drug to manufacture, and existing manufacturers have created patent thickets to shield their products from competition.
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The system is a strange blend: there are pockets of laissez-faire attitudes here, thickets of rules there and lobbying everywhere.
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Dodging thickets of poison oak, we stomped up hillsides surrounding the town to get close up views of the ISP's towers.
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What wasn't easy, however, was being able to make his professional way through the often-impenetrable thickets of the movie industry.
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It's steps from the beach, where crowds congregate in the summer, but its battlements are hidden by thickets of coastal vegetation.
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Compared with the thickets of regulations governing the East Village and other parts of Lower Manhattan, these are real estate prairies.
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The eastern cottontail is truly a homebody, spending its short life in old fields, sheltering under shrubs and thickets of brambles.
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The Oliver Lake Crash Bang Trio's raucous set pulled Mr. Lake's sometimes smoky, sometimes squealing saxophone through pummeling thickets of drums.
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Great evil lurks in the misty thickets of Twin Peaks, and it's a blessing that it comes in amorphous, deliberately unrecognizable forms.
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The understory is infested with deadly snakes, jaguars, and thickets of catclaw vines with hooked thorns that tear at flesh and clothing.
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He spent the rest of his life traveling the world, growing orchids, and cultivating thickets of roses to protect pheasants from hunters.
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It is hard to conclude that the untested solution to the region's politico-military-economic-societal thickets is more and bigger bombs.
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A bright chattery mountain stream runs the length of the park, and on either side are tangled thickets of birds and flowers.
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Competition, development and regulatory thickets are creating a lot of industry angst, said Matt Geller, president of the National Food Truck Association.
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There, the excruciatingly vivid architecture of the thickets of corporate and hotel towers expresses Doha's most obvious 221st-century characteristic: extreme economic wealth.
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That's why local governments and nonprofits are also trying to surface investable projects, and speed their progress forward through thickets of zoning approvals.
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Beautiful women with long, flowing tresses; thickets of thistle and winding wisteria; elegant birds poised to take wing — they all sound so poetic.
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The statement specified only badgers and bamboo rats, a species of rodent found in southern China that lives in (and eats) bamboo thickets.
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In Mount Kenya forest, fruit and vegetable farms have replaced natural thickets along river banks which used to hold the soil together, said Mutuoboro.
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From the beach, which is relatively peaceful compared to the adjacent Jacob Riis Park, the wartime architecture is concealed by thickets of coastal overgrowth.
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The fate of Dylann Roof will likely wind through thickets of legal appeals and an equally onerous state trial before it is ultimately resolved.
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But Marshall also took us on a journey down side roads more obscure and intimate, deep into the thickets of an artist's individual passions.
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These thickets and palmetto patches gave cover to runaways seeking sanctuary from Georgia, the Carolinas and other points north more than 200 years ago.
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I pushed through the thickets of Akron, Iowa, as he joined Iowa Congressman Steve King's Iowa pheasant hunt, winning his formal approval two weeks later.
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The air had been damp and clammy....dense thickets of half drowned trees pressed close around them, branches dripping with the curtains of pale fungus.
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In physical form, the silver tiger's paws flexed and sprang as it stepped nimbly through the thickets of my childhood memory, an awe-inspiring presence.
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Alex Jimerson, 27, a graduate student in the food-studies program at New York University, dug up burdock in the wild thickets between corn fields.
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Lynch and Frost spent this season fixated on portals, from vortexes materializing in wooded thickets to wormholes abruptly spitting matter out into parallel planes of being.
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"Stride," unfolding in a series of fitful episodes — thickets of glassy strings, declamatory brass and contrapuntal juxtapositions that evoke Charles Ives — is both solemn and celebratory.
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Chimanimani National Game Park has not been spared, as the plant displaces other vegetation and creates thickets that are nearly impassable for wildlife, environmental experts say.
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Roberts appeared to be suggesting that entering dense political thickets which implicate untested constitutional frameworks, like partisan gerrymandering, could well undermine the Supreme Court's institutional legitimacy.
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Around New York City you'll find thickets of restaurants — so-called restaurant rows, or neighborhoods so saturated with food choices that they seem zoned for dining.
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Winding paths, just wide enough for two, meandered south, coiling along the waterfront, weaving through thickets of tall bluestem grasses, wetland pools and flowering rose bushes.
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Sometimes we emerge with red welts from stingers (usually jellyfish) across faces and limbs, and have to battle thickets of seaweed, powerful currents and crashing waves.
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Broadleaf evergreen and teak and mahogany rain forest covered all except for the thickets of bamboo and the clearings in the valleys of tall elephant grass.
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"Yes, there is sadness," one scientist says on camera, as the film contrasts thriving reefs bursting with color and fish against tangled thickets of dead coral.
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They belong to the New England intellectual tradition of looking for signs and portents in thickets of happenstance, but they usually stop short of facile meaning.
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Martens, having adapted to these conditions, rely on the open crests to travel in search of food and mates, while building their dens in shadier, cooler thickets.
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you that frolicking through and then fondling thickets of lush, heaven-scented, sticky icky was not an ethereal experience.
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And while "Marriage Story" delves into the tangled thickets of its characters' feelings, it is coy — or maybe just tactful — about their sexual lives, together and apart.
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The are complicated thickets that bring in a lot of different business and constituent elements that likely will only serve to bring new problems to the table.
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Several Neo-Baroque chandeliers dangled from the ceiling, laden with wax flowers, taxidermy birds, religious statuary, tassels, bows and thickets of chicken wire coated with black sand.
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More-level parts of the region contained intermittent bamboo thickets and tall, sharp-edged elephant grass that cut, then infected, uncovered skin and tore apart our clothing.
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In the American mind, a "GMO" is a symbol for profit-driven corporations, for big agribusiness, for endless uniform fields of corn and restrictive thickets of patents.
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At regular intervals—almost wherever there are stations, even if seemingly in the middle of nowhere—thickets of newly built offices and residential blocks rise from the ground.
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Doom-laden drones collide with the gentle strains of organic instrumentation—there's moments of peace, but often that stillness will be destroyed by fiery thickets of gnarled noise.
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For instance, after years of trying to slash a way through thickets of bureaucracy and vested interests, big multinational firms now manage the bulk of the beer industry.
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Tradable services—in finance, or information industries—are subject to thickets of domestic regulation, for example conditions that must be satisfied before a firm can invest across borders.
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In America drugs firms sometimes use thickets of patents and payoffs to biosimilar upstarts so that a lucrative but ageing drug can be milked a few more years.
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She waded with care into the thickets of national reckonings over police violence and violence against the police, hoping to position herself as an unlikely agent of harmony.
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It didn't cut through any constitutional thickets; it opened no new road to equal rights for undocumented immigrants, and no new road to the right to an education.
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She largely sets aside the math-rock guitar thickets of her early indie-rock, and she touches only occasionally on the elegant chamber-pop that she deployed for contrast.
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The land has important cultural significance to the shishalh, an indigenous community, and its thickets of cedar and Douglas fir are home to grizzly bears, mountain goats and eagles.
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And if anyone can thrive in that environment, it's Uber, which has proven uncommonly adept at navigating public policy thickets when it began chafing entrenched taxi services across the country.
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When white settlers arrived in the early nineteenth century, the region was a dense tangle of swamps, and thickets of wetland forest remained through the middle of the twentieth century.
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She outputted these thickets of oscillating, stuttering strokes to a plotter, whose pen could move only along X and Y axes; look closely and you can see the janky diagonals.
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But in a greeting to the audience on Tuesday to open the series, Katalin Bogyay, Hungary's ambassador to the United Nations, dived right into the political thickets of her homeland.
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"You're encountering people who are completely terrified of you as law enforcement," he said, reflecting on the experiences of finding lost, dehydrated men and women staggering through vast mesquite thickets.
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America's national-security rules, thickets of regulation, lobbying culture and political climate make it inconceivable that a Chinese firm could play a big role in the internet or in finance there.
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If there is truth here—in the dense thickets of saxophone melodies and guitar leads that tangle around one another like vines in the underbrush—they'll find their way to it.
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They are beautiful and haunting large-scale, gelatin prints — with rich silver-greys and inky-blacks — which capture dense forests, thickets, white picket fences, and eventually, the waves of Lake Erie.
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His clarity of line was admirable in the tumultuous thickets of the first movement; the ethereal Adagio unfolded with a gorgeous simplicity; and he imbued the third-movement Rondo with seething tension.
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They stood in a lank group around me, coolly observing me as I waded into the thickets and sweatily set the scythe or the sickle or some other vicious instrument into motion.
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If you scythe away the thickets of Hendrickson's alluringly presented prevarications, his assertion comes down to this: In his "Autobiography," Wright confessed "shame" and "remorse" at some of his more egregious conduct.
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Hours after the fire had been extinguished, a stretch of the river lined mostly with thickets of dormant trees was closed off by containment boom and was being patrolled by official vessels.
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Then, as now, wealth and poverty were more entwined than in many metropolises, the neat grids of red and yellow on the maps disrupted by thickets of blue and slugs of black.
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Investing heavily in its own shows and movies has undeniable benefits; Netflix doesn't have to navigate international licensing thickets to show them around the world, and they'll all remain on the service indefinitely.
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After shunning Trump for months because of possible blowback from the left, Schumer now has supreme leverage in December — hammer time for the debt and spending thickets that were postponed by the deal.
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The good news is that a new generation of startups is identifying and simplifying these thickets of rules, and the future of housing may be determined as much by machine learning as woodworking.
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Buying chocolate at a supermarket these days is like navigating a Minecraft landscape: Plowing through thickets of a repetitive landscape, you are lured in random directions by visual cues that may be meaningless.
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I was alone when I ducked under a fallen tree to take a well-used shortcut called "the swoop," a thin, tangled thread of a trail dropping fast through thorny thickets and trees.
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We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, of attempting to scythe back the growing thickets of complexity.
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They were not going to get lost in the thickets of arguments over the original meaning of a Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment when they could opine on the allegedly natural order of things.
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Their legislation is a great first step to combat product hopping, a tactic used to get around pharmacy-level generic substitution laws and patent thickets, where manufacturers deploy multiple patents to prevent competition.
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On the Democratic side, the big questions are whether Clinton really needs another trusted counselor, and whether Kaine can carve out a place for himself in the tangled thickets of Clintonworld and Hillaryland.
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Demanding and getting change live in two different spheres – the first relatively easy and popular, the second cutting through layers of political and legal thickets which dull original enthusiasm while suffering lost public interest.
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The US&aposs shift to "great-power competition" with Russia and China has focused attention on the array of sophisticated weaponry those countries field, from growing submarine fleets to thickets of anti-aircraft systems.
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Susan Collins and a bipartisan group of her colleagues are wading very gently into the debate about drug companies' patent protections, specifically the "thickets" of patents that keep competitors at bay for complex biologic drugs.
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Could they be transformed by intensive farming, just as the thickets of the cerrado have given way to fields of soya that transformed Brazil from a food importer to one of the world's great breadbaskets?
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As charcoal producers first culled trees in forests closest to Toliara, leaving villages surrounded only by thickets, the business has shifted to remote areas about 100 miles away, accessible by dirt roads and sometimes waterways.
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The sound of staffers stopping short on a hike when we come over the ridge of a high hill, and across is the side of a mountain, brown and black over thickets of twisted grass.
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Michigan's point guard, Derrick Walton Jr., a senior, had deftly amassed seven assists, looking for all the world like a quarterback finding receivers like Duncan Robinson and Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman through thickets of defenders.
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The American legal scholars Michael Heller and Rebecca Eisenberg call it the "anti-commons": the idea that innovation withers because of too many property rights, patent thickets, exhaustive and exhausting copyright licensing procedures and the like.
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Claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity, "Pavilions" is an extraordinary musical experience and a pianistic masterpiece I would unhesitatingly place alongside those of Bach and Liszt.
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Of course, the imperative to milk "intellectual property" for all it's worth comes with risks, foremost among them braving the thickets of nostalgia and high expectations that surround new chapters or rebooted versions of familiar names.
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It's not a perfect movie by any means, but it does wade right into the thickets of race and class in its depiction of the alliance between escaped slaves and Confederate deserters in Civil War Mississippi.
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Remember those late night sessions of staring at dense columns of small print, the eye galloping through thickets of prose and poetry, slowing down just long enough to pick up a crucial phrase or plot point?
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Locals bring their dogs to the so-called High Bridge to swim on their lunch breaks; high school kids in oversized hoodies pick their way through the raspberry thickets looking for a shady spot to light up.
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Yet it's possible to reconstruct the shape of his life from his published work and occasional essays (which were ocular but full of information if you were willing to work through the thickets of his obscure prose).
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The Democrats have even attacked him on the patent bill, seizing on criticism that Cornyn softened the section aimed at curbing "patent thickets" — stacking tens and even hundreds of patents up around a drug — under industry pressure.
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"The local rain and associated flooding is important because of the benefits for our desert wildlife — including waterbirds, small mammals and even frogs – and a diverse network of habitats featuring lignum thickets, coolibah woodlands and wetlands," Fleming said.
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He opened the opera's score in his kitchen, pointing to dense thickets of chords and interleaved textures, many of which he had marked up in preparation for rehearsals (as with "Written on Skin," he will conduct the premiere).
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Fiasco Theater — whose affable "Twelfth Night, or What You Will" opened on Thursday night at the Classic Stage Company — is to the thickets of Shakespeare what your favorite high school math teacher was to the complexities of calculus.
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Alas, a dramatic hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8th, involving the sacked FBI director James Comey, risked leaving Americans feeling further from the sunlight than ever, and deeper in a tangled labyrinth of thickets, snares and false trails.
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Kim believes the points corresponding to thickets of paths emanating from rational points have something of this same quality — that is, the points minimize some property that comes up when you start to think about the geometric form of Diophantine equations.
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In other drawings in ink on paper or paperboard, Nishimura obscures faces or body parts in thickets of dense, wiry lines, or he depicts mysterious, toothy creatures that appear to emerge from a common body or share a common tail.
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Donated by the artist to the Brazilian government and now known as Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, the garden here blends elements from past projects: reflecting pools, fountains, clumps of jungle, thickets of shrubbery harboring wildlife and multicolor patchworks of ornamental grasses.
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Down the road from where Reed lives lies New Hampshire's 2000st Congressional District, a hiker's paradise of evergreen thickets and snow-capped lakes where young white voters make up about a quarter of the electorate, compared to 21 percent nationally.
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São Paulo's street art, injecting bursts of color into the thickets of concrete skyscrapers and revealing the city's creative undercurrent, is famous across the globe and enjoys overwhelming support from Paulistas, but local lawmakers have historically taken a dimmer view.
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Down the road from where Reed lives lies New Hampshire's 2000st Congressional District, a hiker's paradise of evergreen thickets and snow-capped lakes where young white voters make up about a quarter of the electorate, compared to 13 percent nationally.
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Scientists have struggled to find evidence of this in the dino era, but these newly discovered footprints show hints of this process at work, such as deep footprints where thickets of plants were growing, and prints along the banks of river channels.
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CAIRU, Brazil (Reuters) - Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil's vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean.
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As he bumbles through the thickets of picaresque plot in this doggedly weird satire, Mr. Fontana maintains an air of almost saintly purity, portraying a man seeking purpose and finding it in a most un-American pursuit: giving away all of his millions.
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If you've ordered the Banquet, be prepared to crack your way through a forest of soft-shell crabs and thickets of snow-crab legs; the Feast features crustaceans bathed in a superlative marinara sauce, served over a bed of disappointingly rubbery pasta.
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According to Gabriel Sherman's deeply reported book "The Loudest Voice in the Room," Ailes determined that politicians could not risk losing voters in thickets of complication and prescription; they had to speak the language of "kickers"—evocative descriptive phrases—and constantly repeat them.
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Homeowners are encouraged to take steps to make their properties less appealing to iguanas by removing dense thickets of vegetation that the lizards can use as cover, filling in holes to discourage burrowing and even spraying them with a water hose to make them leave.
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It's significant, because the history of lynching and racial violence has a complicated relationship with place—bodies are hung from trees that eventually die or are cut down, killing fields and burial sites become thickets and forests, mobs set fire to buildings and bodies.
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A road movie (involving a quest for a lost father) that passes through the thickets of Portugal's imperialist past and present-day Cape Verde, it mixes longing with exuberance, and finds an anarchic sense of possibility in a world of pain and injustice. (A.
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There are piano notes that seem to echo across ruined spaces; sustained electronic tones that curdle aggressively into distortion; dense but distant orchestral thickets; "instruments" with an acoustic core that have been so heavily manipulated that they are no longer recognizable as physical sources.
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There are piano notes that seem to echo across ruined spaces; sustained electronic tones that curdle aggressively into distortion; dense but distant orchestral thickets; "instruments" with an acoustic core that have been so heavily manipulated that they are no longer recognizable as physical sources.
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Putting corporate executives to work running government has, at best, a mixed record of success (see: McNamara, Robert.) And even if Mr. Trump's nominees manage to clear their thickets of conflicting interests, there's little reason to believe they're taking these jobs for the management challenge.
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The duo's new LP Thoughts of a Dot as It Travels a Surface is a loose, shaggy collection of shimmery oscillations, thickets of abstract string swells, distant gasps, and field recordings bound together with a hallucinatory logic that moves seamlessly between memorable themes and foggy improvisation.
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In one display, scenes from "Down by Law" (19853) show the three jail escapees, played by Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni, paddling a skiff through the bayou as Mr. Müller's camera slowly navigates through thickets of trees that both reveal and conceal the men.
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Those lie on the other side of the Rio Grande, but they share the same terroir, which includes mesquite and pecan trees; thickets of yucca and prickly pear cactus; staples like squash, beans, potatoes, chiles and corn; and seafood from the river and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Approaching Adelso by car in early summer is like flipping through one of Hilma's sketchbooks, with rapidly alternating glimpses of water and forest, thickets and clearings, deer and other wildlife, not to mention the exuberant wildflowers whose colors and forms the artist celebrated in her work.
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It covers beautiful and rugged terrain, including achingly steep inclines (and those are after the roughly 700 stairs near the start), chaotic trap-door drops into Muir Woods, and tangles of single-track trails over rocks and roots and through thickets of poison oak, among other nasty elements.
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"The point is to advocate for culturally important works that are just not on the menu of the wealthier organizations," said Mr. Rose, who has a particular love for American music of the 22008s and '22009s, but who has also taken his offbeat Odyssey Opera company into Wagnerian and Verdian thickets.
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Now playing on a team with two superior scorers and with a point guard that can actually shoot (Jeff Teague), it will also be important for Wiggins to show an increased willingness to give up the ball rather than try to fight his way through the thickets of the defense.
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It's been Ryan's triumph to fool people all over the political spectrum (liberals and centrists as well as conservatives) into thinking that he's a different sort of Republican, a policy maven with a genuine mastery over numbers who can grapple with the policy thickets of the tax code and health care.
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And at the pier's big reveal, three tourists, chattering in German, who had crossed from the upland side of the park, snapped selfies around the large sheltering bowl of a central lawn, peppered with forbs — a mini-version of Sheep Meadow — half-secluded behind thickets of Linden trees and curving paths.
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Exorbitant drug prices owe less to wondrous innovation than interference with normally functioning markets: pharmaceutical companies engage in anti-competitive behaviour, such as paying off generic-drug manufacturers to delay production after patents expire, refusing to grant enough sample drugs to generic producers, and creating "patent thickets" that successfully ward off competitors.
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It's probably the most immediately satisfying moment on the record, but even it's full of these wonderful thickets of ideas—a little bit of 70s singer-songwriter tropes here, a little minimal jazz there, a synth-marimba (or glockenspiel or something) that pops up for a tiny melody and then drops away.
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It also doesn't it rely on clichéd melodies; pieces like "Norrsken" by Karin Borg, are carried by dense thickets of intersecting arpeggios and the low-lying fog of digital reverb—not a million miles away from the blunt piano pieces of the last Grouper record (Which I mean as basically the highest possible compliment).
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If you can wade through the statistical and methodological thickets that Kramer, as your Virgil, leads you through in this book, you will most likely come away convinced by his argument for the efficacy of antidepressants — and moved by his humane concern for his patients, and for the needless suffering of unmedicated patients around the world.
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