How To Use Averse In A Sentence

The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
Who knew breaking up with Ted would so aversely affect her story-lines. How I Became Disappointed With HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER | the TV addict
I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then). Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present. Pamela
The bonus of having to traverse a network of constantly changing roads?

Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV.
The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
At 3.1 kilometers, this dive is the longest underwater traverse of two cave systems in the world.
There are other fault lines that traverse the earth. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.
The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses.
Climb the groove on rock then grass until you are level with a scary looking traverse back to the left.
One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction. Edmonton Sun
The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
Even now he is flooded with offers, still he has resolved to keep off since he is averse to writing songs for set tunes.
It is traversed by veins of quartz, containing cannulated and often articulated prisms of rutile titanite two or three lines in diameter. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Traverse, I say these things to you that being 'forewarned' you may be 'forearmed.' The Hidden Hand
The pharmas have been very averse to lowering those prices in the developing world for fear that it will set a precedent.
We made the traverse out and were at the last climb for the easy path leading back to homebase.
Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.
ERC is not averse to change and recognises that it is healthy and necessary to embrace it. Times, Sunday Times
Half-artist, and half-Forsyte, Jolyon was constitutionally averse from what he termed 'ructions'; unless angered, he conformed deeply to that classic description of the she-dog, 'Er'd ruther run than fight.' The Forsyte Saga - Complete
The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor.
Those who traverse the earth's wild land often end up full of wonder and respect for it.
So for another thirty days I traversed the whole southland of the continent, from Wood to Huss. Enjoyment
A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
I besought Sir Charles, that he would not be pre-vailed upon to take part with them, if she continued averse to a change of condition. Sir Charles Grandison
I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me.
_Entry_ (Mauser), over the centre of the right zygoma; the bullet traversed the right orbit, nose, and left orbit. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth.
That allowed him to traverse the Arab world, meeting hundreds of actors. Times, Sunday Times
We're all hands averse to bloodshed, and we intend to work our business without it, if possible -- you understand, _if possible_! The Missing Merchantman
The First Minister has hinted that he is not averse to it. Times, Sunday Times
The gun is placed under a vault whose generatrices are at right angles to the line of fire (Fig. 8), and which contains a niche that traverses the parapet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
Our financing system is increasingly risk averse, which is stifling entrepreneurship and innovation. Ten Questions For Diane Hendricks
The tortuously narrow Lolo Trail, blocked by crags, trees and undergrowth, was quickly traversed by Joseph's uncomplaining cavalcade.
Photographer Unknown . Spider - like mountain climber executes a Tyrolean traverse between spires in the Italian Dolomites.
The fruit of his excursion into the Pawnee country, on the waters of the Arkansas, a region untraversed by white men, except solitary trappers, was “A Tour on the Prairies,” a sort of romance of reality, which remains today as good a description as we have of hunting adventure on the plains. Washington Irving
Out at his eyes it would go, traverse the dim stairless space, and sport with the wind-blown monster. Robert Falconer
I didn’t post the insane plank and chain traverse pics. More Hua Shan Mountain pics | My[confined]Space
And one way in which they are not rational is that they are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
Around Britain a series of deep seismic traverses has revealed many of the structures produced during the Caledonian orogeny and other earth movements that are continued out over the continental shelf.
an untraversed region
Accounts by military and civilian air-traffic officials agreed the commercial airliner had received proper permission to traverse the zone.
The Lone Star State may also be aversely affected by the expected decrease in defense spending as contracts won in the Bush years begin to expire. America's Best Bargain Cities
Not that he was absolutely idle, or averse to business then; far from it.
They marched by the sound of atabal and comet, and, as they traversed the streets of the capital amidst the acclamations of the soldiery, they made the city ring with the shouts of "Castile and Tlascala, long live our sovereign, the emperor. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more. Miscellanies
It was traversed by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the cross-bow. The Waverley
It's vague, but I remember really liking it, but in "canticle", the story traverses many eras, and, deals with the theme ultimately of global violence. Where did the film THE BOOK OF ELI come from?
The phenomenon of granitic spherical weathering is frequently encountered in railway engineering which traverses granite areas.
The traverse east to west across the island is a pilgrimage that many famous geologists have made. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
In gambles, people are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
The gate particle has the larger positive valence and traverses a greater fraction of the membrane potential drop; thus it contributes the majority of the gating charge displacement.
Kevin Jones, engineering manager at JVM, said: 'The HP400 accelerates in the linear axes at around 1G to 60m/min rapid traverse in all axes, which is fast for a machine of this size with ballscrew drives. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
The elevation and traverse are powered hydraulically.
I also stand to see the value of my property increase, which I'm not averse to.
I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. The Mysterious Island
Gröschl stepped on the rocker plate which controlled the power traverse and at the same time adjusted the elevation handwheel. Panzer Aces
Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
I am not averse to a dance party and a good mean after a week's hard work.
Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana.
As he traversed the globe I learnt to switch my mind off to all the dreadful disasters he may encounter. Times, Sunday Times
The boiler is the same as that in the standard type of engine, but the wheel base is 17 ft. 7 in., and in order to allow it to traverse curves easily, the front axle is fitted with a radial axle-box, which is in one casting from journal to journal, and fitted at each end with brass steps for the bearings; the box is radial, struck from the center of the rigid wheel base, and the horn plates are curved to suit the box, the lateral motion being controlled by strong springs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
The quartermaster of the battalion in the fort immediately sprang forward, and seizing the fallen flag tore it from its hold and leapt on to the traverse, where he stood under the heavy fire immovable, until a jurymast was rigged and raised in the place of the shattered staff. The War in America
NAKRI will traverse the ridge axis of the steering subtropical ridge and recurve.
Organisations don't want to get into trouble so they have become risk averse. Times, Sunday Times
Besides, this thinking goes, families tend to be overprotective, risk averse and are to be mistrusted.
We live in a time when people traverse lots of music, but in classical music the composer traverses larger musical structures.
He is interested in the spirit of the play, and he is not averse to throwing in an anachronism or two if he thinks it will help underscore a point.
The end of compulsory language teaching in secondary schools is leading to a renaissance in linguistic ability in a nation notoriously averse to acquiring a foreign tongue. Times, Sunday Times
Most mail traffic is never encrypted as it traverses its way around the Internet.
The wintry worlds you traverse are bright and detailed. The Sun
Most rocks and soils are traversed by cracks along which water can flow much more easily.
To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another.
He was averse to the consumerist craze of the middle class, which has led to the bankruptcy of capitalist mores.
But he acknowledged some business and civic leaders were suspicious at first: "They seemed to think I wanted to turn the place into the People's Republic of Traverse City.
Only special events cross busy route 322 and traverse the scenic backyard and in-street trackage leading to the end of the line.
Listening to a human being speak and being put out that you didn't get what you ordered as if you've gone to KFC and gotten Original instead of Extra Crispy is ridiculous, risk-averse, and coincidentally deeply chicken-hearted behavior. Steve Martin At The 92 St. Y
FRANKFURT — Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along ... Jennifer Schwab: Renewable Energy -- Not in My Backyard!
I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me.
It became an emphatically risk-averse society, partly because actions encouraged by the government could not fail, while those undertaken without central support could not succeed.
Stitched with colorful silk threads on a wool ground, primarily in cross-stitch, it features an acorn and carnation border, three wide floral bands, and averse.
And we are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
They are unusually cautious and averse to risk taking. Christianity Today
As the plane came within range, the searchlight traversed its flight path only to hit a cloud.
He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured.
To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
-- N.S. (Fig. 147.) Shell small, thick, sub-acute; whirls, seven or eight; apex sub-tuberculated, constricted above, and traversed spirally by rather coarse raised lines; apex papillated, and the first whirl is spirally lined, and without tubercles or short ribs. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
The kingdom of the Greeks is now dismembered by them, and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it can not be traversed in a march of two months.
General faradization, so-called, consists of a series of local faradizations, administered during one and the same séance, until the current has alternately been made to impinge upon and traverse the entire or at least a large portion of the body. The Electric Bath
Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium.
Stanley traversed the continent from west to east.
Once this is performed, intelligent resamplers traverse the three-dimensional model to combine the pixels into the desired map projection and scale.
Instead of cold dry snowstorms, wet snow and warmer than normal temperatures should occur as storm systems traverse the southern third of the United States in late winter.
The thief and his pursuers were uncertain on their feet while they tried to traverse the unstable landscape.
The daily trek was two miles each way and taking the cross-country route they traversed five fields.
Voters in elections where economic losses are in prospect are likely to be more risk averse. Times, Sunday Times
O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose. Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It
As teams progress, they become loss averse and more protective. Times, Sunday Times
My wife, perhaps becoming complacent, went ahead across the steep traverse, lost her footing and slid at terrifyingly high speed, bumping to a halt on some rocks where the terrain levelled and badly grazing her arm.
Bellston was as shy, or rather as averse, as any of the tenantry themselves, to acting the part of fugleman. A Changed Man
The virus traverses the placenta and, may seriously interfere with organogenesis.
The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
An insider describes him as "incredibly camera-shy and publicity-averse."
No, the reason they reject the deal is because they are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
ERC is not averse to change and recognises that it is healthy and necessary to embrace it. Times, Sunday Times
The northwest front has now five arches with ramparts fallen in; northeast barbette battery unserviceable; east front scarp much scaled by slant fire, with large craters under traverses; principal injury at level of arches and terreplein; two-thirds of southern wall east of magazine damaged; stone abutment unhurt and protected by rubbish; gorge not damaged since yesterday. Memoirs of the War of Secession
The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny.
Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations.
But right now he seems to have become averse to the whole thing. Times, Sunday Times
Mousa fled in disguise from the palace of Boursa; traversed the Propontis in an open boat; wandered over the Walachian and Servian hills; and after some vain attempts, ascended the throne of Adrianople, so recently stained with the blood of Soliman. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The pressure required to traverse an arterial stenosis and perfuse the distal tissues of the foot may not be met.
They are unusually cautious and averse to risk taking. Christianity Today
Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney.
Often the best partnerships comprise an obvious shotmaker alongside a more nuggety, risk-averse player. Times, Sunday Times
Many of them are pretty computer averse, so anything that reduces their interaction with the computers is a godsend.
Being seriously risk averse is as harmful as having too much risk tolerance. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks Part Two
It was filmed from the right handlebar of Jonas's bicycle as he traversed the streets of an unnamed Third World city.
Just as most people anchor, so most are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
When he discovered that the revolutions in Central Italy traversed his plan, he should have warned Victor Emanuel and Cavour that this new condition would warrant him in breaking his compact.
The unusually bloodless conflicts of the past 12 years have made political leaders somewhat risk averse.
Bounded on the east by Lake Winnebago, the county is traversed by the Wolf and Fox rivers.
The weblog explores the convergence of the metaverse with the real life practice of architecture.
The whole affair still disturbs Barr who as an engineer is not averse to wrestling for long hours with a seemingly insoluble technical problem, but he really would like to move on.
As movies have become more expensive to make and market, big studios have become more risk averse, which is why more and more films are remakes, sequels, or are based on popular previous works. Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
We continued, however, to ride on without pause and even when night fell and overshadowed the desolate wilds which we traversed, we were, as I understood from Mr. Jarvie, still three miles and a bittock distant from the place where we were to spend the night. Rob Roy
Another step of his heavy boot knocked loose stones free from the ledge, and Chaltiford realized that the traverse was a little more challenging than he had first suspected. The Dragons of Krynn
I have traversed elevations of 700 meters (.5 miles) and higher while pulling a 100 kilogram sled (220 lbs) and experienced an Antarctic hurricane that caused damage to my tent, which was fortunately reparable. Johan Ernst Nilson: Status Update: Trekking Through Antarctica
Kondō rushed headlong into lands that looked untraversed by human steps, into the virgin lands of the high-mountain wilderness. SERIAL 9: Kondo Katsusaburo among Taiwan's Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930
Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse.
With this retort he withdrew overland through Aetolia, and by roads, moreover, which no army, small or great, could possibly have traversed without the consent of the inhabitants. Hellenica
When the playing field is the worldwide internet and today's trailblazers can just as easily become tomorrow's forgotten url, Phair's dedication to continued excellence anchors The Outnet firmly in untraversed waters. Anisha Lakhani: Social Media Princess Stephanie Phair: The New Face of the Outnet Empire
As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid. The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
Aunt Emmeline was still averse to her niece, but she abstained from crimination. Ayala's Angel
This is a growth stock and not one for the risk averse. Times, Sunday Times
The can get a perfect enfilade on the redoubts so we are going to strengthen the traverses. The 5th Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches
On either side of the anus, in the ischio-rectal space, D D, Fig. 1, Plate 51, is found a considerable quantity of granular adipose tissue, traversed by the inferior haemorrhoidal arteries and nerves-branches of the pudic artery and nerve. Surgical Anatomy
You had to traverse a small bridge to get there. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
Yen traded at a 13-Year high during Asian trading as risk averse investors fled Japanese equities into the safe havened US Dollar. Currency Trading News by DailyFX
Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, an appearance that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds. V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
And one way in which they are not rational is that they are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
I duly followed, passing a man trying to negotiate the slabby traverse.
The experience gained is of no use in any other employment, and the unusual freedom makes the messenger who has outgrown his calling averse to the discipline of more regular occupations. The Trade Union Woman
With its action, the state's highest court has potentially granted exclusive fishing rights to anyone owning land traversed by a recognized navigable waterway.
Bankers were also largely risk averse. Times, Sunday Times
But right now he seems to have become averse to the whole thing. Times, Sunday Times
Numerous active and historic gas and oil utility corridors traverse forests of the region.
It was his second time on the traverse and his return this summer was in preparation for a winter assault negotiating the eleven peaks.
Probes were constructed, thankfully unmanned, that could traverse space for long enough to touch down on the face of a planet and act as a beacon, or as a receiving antenna for the light matter.
To get here they had traversed mile after mile of rugged terrain while strafed by aircraft.
The rest of those twenty feet took eons to traverse, and it was immeasurable suffering.
Bankers were also largely risk averse. Times, Sunday Times
The moisture which currently sustains the rainforest is mainly provided by north-west winds, the efficacy of which would have been reduced as they traversed land rather than water.
Those averse to horses or not yet inclined to pick up a rod or gun could try their hand at zorbing or quad-biking, still be down-with-the-countryside with ferrets and falcons, see artists at work, and be extremely well-fed and watered in the aisles of the food show. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I have traversed five years of university to decide that academia is my probable vocation.
Big drop-offs in the use of contraceptives occur when women have to invest more time and traverse greater distances to get them.
the traversers slowly ascended the mountain
Now some of you may know that if an opportunity arises of a little fun with a person of the opposite sex I'm not averse, rare as it is.
His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand. Lahoma
But, besides attending to such cases as the village may afford, he is day and night at the service of every one who may command his assistance within a circle of forty miles in diameter, untraversed by roads in many directions, and including moors, mountains, rivers, and lakes. The Surgeon's Daughter
The course then ended up in a series of traverses across the mountainside and switchbacks, bringing it to the finish.
It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness.
Traverse for a variation, ski the side of a rib or drop over a roll, pick up speed, carve a big arc.
Do you remember, Traverse, the low attic where we used to sleep, and how on stormy nights we used to listen to the rain pattering on the roof, within two or three inches of our faces, and how we used to be half afraid to turn over for fear that we should bump our heads against the timbers of the ceiling? The Hidden Hand
_Entry_, immediately above zygoma; the bullet passed through the temporal fossa, fractured the neck of the mandible, traversed the mastoid process, and emerged at the lower margin of the hairy scalp, 1 inch from the median line. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
Just as most people anchor, so most are loss averse. Times, Sunday Times
The north park is home to a couple of tiny ponds, traversed by bridges festooned with clunky metal turtles designed by a local artist.
I was not above taking Gerald aside and giving him a good talking-to when the occasion called for it - and, under extreme circumstances, I was not averse to doing so in public.
Clinicians working in anaesthesiology tend to be risk averse and interested in patient safety because anaesthesia can be dangerous but has no therapeutic benefit of its own.
It was traversed by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow. Waverley
Many travellers enjoy the ease and comfort of train travel and, for those who have time on their side, it's a great way to traverse our enormous country.
This is passed by a delicate traverse on the left to a scramble down and final chimney, or else is laddered also to the left.
They crossed the bridge and traversed the road through Southwark and out into the open country. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It is the extreme risk-averseness of the government which picked the Propaganda heads. Lee Kuan Yew tells China how to play the Western media rules
In 1991, he traversed the State, covering 2,850 km on a bicycle.
She hid it under the carpets to keep it from the grasping claws of her greedy brother, who was a man not averse to physical violence and who put pressure on everybody to help him service his frequent debts.
We must keep in mind, moreover, that many things that happen even in one same body escape the notice of the entire being, especially when the bulk is large: thus in huge sea-beasts, it is said, the animal as a whole will be quite unaffected by some membral accident too slight to traverse the organism. The Six Enneads.
Members of their cultivated or political classes are specially averse to this treatment.
The output pinion of the traverse gearbox meshes with the gear rack segment attached to the carriage body, providing 800 mils of traverse.
Each and every allegation herein contained is denied as if specifically traversed and the Claimant is put to the proof thereof.
In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk.
I took the wrong street and found one sadhu right on the riverbanks, which they called the Ghat, and then I said, "Oh, yeah, the holy men are generally by the holy river of the Ganges," so I traversed back and forth from one end of the Ganges to the other when I should've gone back to my original starting point and taken a different road. Amazing Race's Ron and Christina: We Were Very Aware of Our Physical Limitations
He gambles on football, thinks Las Vegas is heavenly and isn't averse to extensive investment in the stock market.
I mean that the Wilderness woodsmen, without orders from Clay, had converted the entire area that would have to be traversed into a natural death trap, an abatis, a French word my grandfather did not know, nor did I when I first heard it. Mexico
Yes; you will no doubt be astonished to hear that the plain "seedsman" at the town end, who sells you your roots and bulbs and seedlings, keeps in his pay a staff of plant-hunters -- men of botanical skill, who traverse the whole globe in search of new plants and flowers, that may gratify the heart and gladden the eyes of the lovers of floral beauty. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
As the gully became wider on the descent, we were forced to traverse ever farther left, on tiny broken ledges, eventually reaching the top of the wall.
In any event, what can be said is that it did not play a role in the findings of fact about causal connections which had been much traversed in two trials and two appeals and are no longer contested.
From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Talent, truckmaster for the battalion's 218th Transportation Company, helped with the assessment missions and noted the LMTVs can traverse areas flooded with several feet of water. GlobalSecurity.org
Measuring the deflection in question -- which is equivalent to the so-called versed sine of the arc traversed -- we have a basis for determining the strength of the deflecting force. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
Finally, must characters converse so often from opposite ends of the traverse stage? Times, Sunday Times
Great public assassinations, political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of civilization, and thrust their corpses there. Les Miserables
Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney.
When I had traversed the “Hall of the Gods,” we came to a lofty two-leaved gate of brass, which stood between two sculptured propyla of Libyan stone. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
After this we all adjourned to the Traverse Theatre bar, which is very nice but exceedingly expensive even by Edinburgh's standards, by way of some strange multicolour fibreglass cows that seem to have sprung up on the streets of Edinburgh for some reason. Weekend Wastrelry
There is no shortage of well-rehearsed explanations for Europe's underperformance: less venture capital and no Silicon Valley community to foster start-ups; an allegedly more risk-averse culture; a more fragmented market with substantial language barriers, making it easier for U.S. firms like Groupon and LivingSocial to snap up smaller European rivals. Digging For Europe's Tech Gold

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