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Contours in sentence

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It's thicker, it's darker, it's coarser, it doesn't have the contours.
And what he's done is he's actually reshaped, digitally, all of the contours of the mountains to follow the vicissitudes of the Dow Jones index.
French babies cry on a rising note while German babies end on a falling note, imitating the melodic contours of those languages.
We're just giving it form and shape and contours that were hers to begin with.
It's all different, and it's a function of your leg length and your back and the contours of your back, and if I were to put sensors, maybe 100 sensors into all of your chairs right now, I could create an index that's fairly unique to you, sort of like a fingerprint, but it's not your finger.
And we have a flexible, powered catheter with a special wire loop tip that stays inside the crunchy part of the marrow and follows the contours of the hip, as it moves around.
And we basically capture enough information with video projector patterns that drape over the contours of her face, and different principle directions of light from the light stage, to figure out both the coarse-scale and the fine-scale detail of her face.
So, if we use information that comes off of this specular reflection, we can go from a traditional face scan that might have the gross contours of the face and the basic shape, and augment it with information that puts in all of that skin pore structure and fine wrinkles.
Learn its contours, show up to the journal of your hearts.
Since they occur mostly at the heart's level (no intellect yet!), they define your soul's contours like a sculptor would do with a stone.
A high-level group, whose members included Viviane Reding, Vice President of the European Commission, and Pascal Lamy, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, outlined the broad contours of the global agenda on migration in August.
A new bottom-up approach, whose contours are only just emerging, is predicated on the basic principle that the less emissions, the better.
It may be more natural for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to strive for closer regional cooperation with Austria and Slovenia, the contours of which can already be seen in some existing regional groupings.
Although China’s charm offensive is very recent, its contours are already clear.
Europe’s Rising Global RoleBRUSSELS – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order remain in the making.
The Unstarvable BeastCAMBRIDGE – As the world watches the United States grapple with its fiscal future, the contours of the battle reflect larger social and philosophical divisions that are likely to play out in various guises around the world in the coming decades.
With the tottering tower of communist totalitarianism collapsed, the Iron Curtain's fall revealed the actual contours of the world as well as the depth of its challenge.
The Future Global EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – As the world enters yet another year in the shadow of continued financial and economic crisis, a broader view of the contours of the future global economy is required.
In any case, these three metrics represent a useful starting point for comparing the configuration of global weights in 1990, when the so-called unipolar order was emerging, and 2017, when the contours of a multipolar order should be visible.
In these countries, populism is not fundamentally changing the contours of the political debate.
It also sets establishes the contours of a legal framework for action against misuse of civilian nuclear technology for military purposes and reflects an emerging consensus, seen in meeting after meeting, that the time has come to increase pressure on countries that fail to respect these principles.
But one can see the emerging contours of a South-South development-finance landscape – one with the potential to transform multilateral lending more broadly.
Countries that want to retain power in a changing global order must learn to share it, which requires accepting and embracing the contours of a new world.
Similarly, “micro-catchment rainwater harvesting” – which uses particular slopes and contours to increase runoff from rain and concentrate it in a planting basin where it is effectively “stored” in the soil – is useful for dryland ecosystems where most precipitation is lost.
Until now, efforts to resolve the conflict have been confined to the contours of the Oslo model, according to which the route to Palestinian self-determination traverses bilateral agreement on borders, settlements, territory, and the right of return.
Lebanon’s established political contours already are beginning to blur under the relentless pressure of the Syrian conflict.
The phrase “Great Recession” creates the impression that the economy is following the contours of a typical recession, only more severe – something like a really bad cold.
The contours of such places have been reflected in literary work such as George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel Submission.
The good news is that its contours are fairly clear, and the process of constructing it is already underway, though the pace is very slow.
The address also sharpened the contours – already limned during his May visit to Saudi Arabia and his July visit to Poland – of what might be called the “Trump doctrine.”
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