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If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge buried in the ground in various places in the world.
So this is the complexity of the world that surrounds us.
Because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, the voices fetuses hear, starting around the fourth month of gestation, are muted and muffled.
And in New York, everybody has a story that surrounds this tremendously impactful event that happened on September 11 of 2001.
That means that microenvironment and the context which surrounds those cells actually are telling the cancer gene and the cancer cell what to do.
As Dirk Helbing pointed out in the last quote, we don't really understand the complexity that relates to us, that surrounds us.
It will go in search of phosphorus, but only within the one millimeter which surrounds it.
It surrounds us all the time, just like the air we breathe in this room.
The CSF fills the space that surrounds the brain, and wastes from inside the brain make their way out to the CSF, which gets dumped, along with the waste, into the blood.
But there's an easier way to remember them if you just remember what surrounds them.
When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
When you choose burial at the cemetery, your dead body is not coming anywhere near the dirt that surrounds it.
What surrounds the brain, between the brain and cranium, is something called cerebrospinal fluid or fluid, which acts as a shock absorber.
It's about this air that surrounds us.
That person surrounds himself or herself with advisers.
And the people he surrounds himself with need the connection.
The dried cotton seed pod, or boll, that surrounds the fibers cracks open, unveiling a burst of several thousand fiber cells in a fluffy mass.
And basically, the concept is, how do you represent the three-dimensional image of the night sky that surrounds us onto a flat, portable, two-dimensional surface.
In this photograph a hostile crowd in a slum surrounds him.
Infamous horror films seldom measure up the hype that surrounds them and I have yet to come across a worse offender than Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes.
Too bad the movie which surrounds him is in fact rather bad.
This film surrounds the life of Albert Fish, one of the most well-known serial-killers in the world.
Don't be fooled by the nostalgic aura that surrounds "Mon oncle Antoine," because like the best of Canadian films darkness lurks just below the surface.
His role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the "ups and downs" of the hard-nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style.
The plot surrounds the contestants--dogs--and their owners as they venture into the world of competitive dog...OK, it's about a dog show.
And like a modern day Ed Wood, he surrounds himself with an epic crowd of fellow losers, his genuine affection for whom is his greatest redeeming feature.
A wall surrounds the palace to keep her in and morgana out.
The only redeeming factor was the setting and atmosphere, avoid this one, too much hype surrounds it, not worth the effort of finding it, this refers to the welcome to the grind house edition.
The plot surrounds a deaf woman who is picked on by friends and colleagues alike.
A good director surrounds himself with good actors and he is willing to wait till a good story comes along as in this super movie.
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