This balloon was of man-made fibers and was filled with air heated by a propane flame. |
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Once they were at the park, they walked to a bench that was facing a man-made pond. |
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Some experts believe man-made global warming could trigger methane on the seabed to escape into the air again. |
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Try to avoid polyester and other man-made fabrics, as they do not allow your skin to breathe. |
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So the main causes of the famine in this case are not natural but man-made. |
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Just as it seemed the worst of this natural disaster had passed, a man-made disaster erupted. |
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One of the greatest man-made lakes in Europe is Keilder Water, high in the remote hills of Northumberland. |
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People, old and young, queued up in the blazing sun, pails in hand, for man-made ice. |
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It was a hard life in those days, one emphasized by natural or man-made disasters. |
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Before March 15 this rule applied to almost all man-made and natural obstructions. |
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The water park covers 40 square miles south of Cirencester and has 140 man-made lakes. |
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Having a penchant for natural fabrics and dyes, he uses man-made fibers and chemical dyes as well. |
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Ozone can also be destroyed in other ways by man-made chemicals that have been released into the atmosphere. |
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Though it appears to be a natural calamity, to a great extent drought is a man-made calamity. |
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The plaintiff owned a house next to a man-made lake on which the defendant conducted motor-boat races. |
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These natural joints are stronger than man-made ones and save the carpenter a lot of time creating joints. |
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They are cavity-nesters, finding a natural hollow in a tree, an old woodpecker hole, a hole in a building, or a man-made nest box. |
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These theaters of anxiety illustrate collective helplessness in the face of unmanageable man-made, natural or supernatural forces. |
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Once the spring returns, this chlorine, much of it originating from man-made pollutants like chlorofluorocarbons, disrupts the ozone layer. |
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Over the years, peace activism has grown stronger and more vocal, thus reducing chances of any man-made apocalypses. |
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Shasta Lake, the largest man-made lake in the state, has more shoreline than San Francisco Bay and is home to a large fleet of houseboats. |
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But we no longer have to look to the future for victims of man-made climate change. |
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Once the sun passed below the horizon, a glittering display of man-made light and smoke enveloped the band. |
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Presently, more than 10 million people are displaced by natural and man-made disasters in the world. |
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Cycloalkanes are fairly common in the world of organic chemistry, both man-made and natural. |
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Or perhaps that's just static from the man-made fibres sported by the louche characters draping themselves across the furniture. |
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But what else can you do with 20 miles of arrow-straight road and nothing man-made in sight? |
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The draperies were, frankly, an orange-coloured man-made fibre rather than caparisons of royal purple silk. |
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There are three swimming pools, a 54-meter water slide and a swimming lagoon with a man-made white sandy beach. |
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Legionellae are found most commonly in freshwater and man-made water systems. |
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Instead of finding their way to the sea, they will scuttle along the full length of the man-made trap until the sun rises, baking them alive. |
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Through the ages, Indian agriculture has been sustained by natural and man-made water bodies such as lakes, tanks, ponds and similar structures. |
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The city was able to tap into water from the nearby man-made Big Bear Lake to create its orange orchards. |
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He drew comparisons between democracy and the Yasig laws of the Tartars as being man-made laws that were overshadowing God's laws. |
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The water fortress is the earliest man-made ancient military port in the country. |
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It's not really an island, nor has this man-made lake ever been a quarry. |
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As demand increased, other natural or man-made reservoirs were developed. |
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They are constantly quoted as evidence that man-made climate change is not happening. |
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I am pleased Paul eats primal fare such as this, and little in the way of unhealthy man-made fats such as margarine and processed foods. |
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A brief stop at a man-made lake allowed us to see gipsywort, as well as other waterside vegetation and both yellow and white waterlilies. |
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The first two chapters retell the pre-World War II histories of rayon and nylon, the first man-made textile fibers. |
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They lost a string of fortresses, and the province of Holland was only saved by a man-made flood when the dykes were deliberately opened. |
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He's currently in our waters to measure whale numbers, and to audit the impact of man-made pollutants on marine creatures. |
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Today, most of the country's southeast coast is surrounded by man-made reefs, which are harvested commercially. |
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From the late 1970s, constellations of man-made navigation satellites have taken over as beacons to guide the way. |
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To live according to the regular beat of man-made time, we have to carry time around with us. |
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Life in a setting of such spectacular natural and man-made beauty, with rooms that come and go as one pleases, seems an impossible fantasy. |
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The surrounding area has a man-made lake, surrounded by huge boathouses and houses. |
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But we aren't prepared for that first grand view of Lake Powell, a vast man-made reservoir straddling Utah and Arizona. |
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In addition, a number of radioisotopes, both natural and man-made, have been identified as beta emitters. |
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It was the first man-made vacuum, and, thanks to the publicity given the experiment, is called a Torricellian vacuum to this day. |
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Thus, even eating a healthy diet leads to an increasing burden of new man-made toxins, many of which have not been toxicologically assessed. |
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The toxification of the biosphere by man-made poisons is one of the litany of ecological disasters that is bringing us undone. |
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Through the trees however, the sparkle of a large, man-made lake was visible. |
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It embraced the themes of freedom and individuality and transposed them onto an urban, man-made context. |
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Asia's newest high-tech airport reaches out from a man-made land bridge between two islands in the Yellow Sea. |
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This bass is synthetic, man-made and stuffed full of polyunsaturates, oxidants and E numbers. |
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Well, the big deal is that suburbia is rapidly invading areas that were once considered more natural than man-made. |
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Changes in this background can indicate the presence of a man-made aerosol associated with a biological warfare attack. |
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But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth's biosphere. |
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Conceptually, the building can be read as a man-made landscape enveloped by a single undulating zinc roof like the horizon line. |
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Successful navigation was almost entirely due to the skill of the crew as opposed to any man-made contrivance. |
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In fact, such ethics, as well as the morality that underlies them, are nothing more than man-made myth to the atheist. |
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These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents. |
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In facing and planning for disasters, whether natural or man-made, we must do more than hope and pray for the best. |
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Since the composites are man-made materials, they do not have the unexpected variation of granite or marble. |
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Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax. |
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We travel along a man-made section of the canal bordered by bluebells and bright yellow broom. |
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Such commerce on the national scale was made possible by China's system of navigable waterways, partly natural and partly man-made. |
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The 1960s also saw Telemark do pioneer work with man-made snow, creating what was at the time the world's largest snowmaking system. |
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The Leat Project restored a man-made water channel or leat, at the Woodland Education Centre which is in south-west England. |
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Out of this flat tropical planisphere rises a series four man-made mountain peaks, each echoed by a ripple of lesser man-made hillocks. |
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Cabretta leather is still used, although man-made fibres and synthetic leathers are also available. |
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These man-made compounds have a ring of six carbons joined to a 7-member ring with 5 carbons and 2 nitrogens indicated by diazo. |
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This instance was not the first time that man-made construction vibrations were a concern for the tower. |
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The climbers were like spidermen, swiftly moving their bodies on the almost vertical man-made hills. |
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Animal instincts and senses proved to be far more effective than any man-made warning system. |
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The global supply of sodium chloride is mostly mined as rock salt from man-made caves resulting from evaporation of ancient inland seas. |
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If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy. |
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Derived from cellulose fibers that are made into pulp and felted together, paper is one of the most common of man-made materials. |
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Set against the mass of textured stone, the thin man-made planes of a rusted steel door and rusty faceted piling are peculiarly resonant. |
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The grounds of this estate have been handworked and the man-made pond installed with attention to detail. |
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Today, some restingas still suffer man-made impact through fire or cattle, but even apparently pristine areas display an open physiognomy. |
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He created a low-budget, effectively fatalistic horror film about a man-made plague that wipes out humanity. |
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There was, however, property tax on man-made capital to be reduced as an offset to higher tax on pure land rents. |
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This counterpoint rhythm, of natural and man-made elements, alludes to both classical and modern musical forms. |
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Other caves are either unreachable or destructed owing to natural calamities as well as by man-made destruction. |
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In the same way, we cannot say which of the heatwaves were man-made and which were natural, but we can apportion blame for the change in risk. |
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Think of the Phoenix-area canals as ersatz rivers, as man-made, tidier, vastly simplified rivers. |
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Surely Mother Nature meting out carnage on such a grand scale shows just how petty and futile man-made squabbles really are. |
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Some members of Congress are bracing for what they say is a pending man-made financial disaster. |
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The fact that a man-made object is now approaching the heliopause, where the solar winds cease to blow, is a remarkable achievement. |
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Most special occasion dresses are made of chiffon, georgette, silk or man-made silk, organza, or crepe. |
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Rocks featuring markings that resemble man-made configurations especially fascinate Fiore, who has viewed cave paintings in France. |
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Few man-made commodities have risen in value on the scale of stringed instruments. |
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This water flows back into the lake down an artificial weir and man-made stream to re-enter the lake at three outlets along the island bank. |
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Scores of carriageworkers had already succumbed to diseases brought on by working with the man-made fibre. |
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This is nonsense, because time is a man-made convention based on the movement of the earth about its axis and orbit around the sun. |
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So, why not just use man-made nuclear energy and nuke the planet today? |
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The global warmists, of course, are blaming it on man-made global warming. |
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The man stands at attention, head angled up, hands clenched at his sides, literally embodying the edifice of culture and the rigidity of man-made structures. |
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It is a lovely spot and must be one of the quietest places on earth, with no man-made sounds and only a couple of fish eagles and rock hyrax to disturb the silence. |
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When calibrated to be in tune with the planet's resonance, it created what is still the largest man-made electrical surge ever, an arc over 130 feet long. |
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The second night attack, which used high explosive and incendiary bombs alternately, caused the first man-made firestorm which affected an area of 22sq.km. |
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A man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God, is a just law. |
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Urbanski can hold forth on the inanity of man-made climate change like a pro. |
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But a man-made code that is inharmonious with the moral law is an unjust law. |
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People who know me will know the general drift of my thoughts and the intensity of my feelings on disasters, whether they be personal, natural or man-made. |
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The temple is a number of buildings surrounding this man-made pool where devotees gather around and bathe themselves to purify and cure of any sickness. |
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Because the campus is punctuated by a series of natural and man-made lakes, streams and fountains, water plays an important sensate role in the psyche of the community. |
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A report says a man-made womb could be reality within 30 years. |
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On the minus side, man-made fibres are less breathable than cotton and don't absorb moisture as well, so they can be less comfortable in the summer. |
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All weather is now born into an environment that is warmer and moister because of man-made greenhouse-gas pollution. |
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There were man-made ones too of course and most of these were forest fires in California which took some time to control as there were strong winds urging them on. |
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The choice of marble colours is extremely wide and the smoothness of the stone, coupled with natural veining, creates an effect no man-made material can ever replicate. |
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These substances are relatively harmless compared to longer-living man-made plastics like polyethylene. |
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I take a walk along the sands, free from the harshness of man-made noise. |
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To a small extent, this can also happen in the stomachs of ruminant animals, such as cows and sheep, but without the same detrimental effect as the man-made variety. |
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I've heard it used to describe the man-made features such as walls, paths, arbors, hedges, and fences that divide the garden into different areas. |
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The Risotian Expanse was home to a race of swamp farmers who resided on floating man-made islands in the swamplands at the southernmost tip of Osara. |
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We live in an age when man-made noise, of all sorts, seems inescapable. |
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It now becomes clear that prolonged exposure to man-made infrasound and ultrasound has similar effects via apparently similar physiological mechanisms. |
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The last few summers the fashion seemed to be polyester or other man-made fabrics and the skirts were quite figure hugging and looked quite appalling on me. |
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This continues to be so in the face of mounting evidence that many of them are man-made and could be averted altogether or lessened by careful planning and forethought. |
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In addition to the perennial problems of education and begging that usually presume on the generosity of the citizens, there are a host of natural and man-made disasters. |
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The former president of the Royal Astronomical Society was accused of denying man-made climate change in a column published in a Canadian newspaper. |
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Machines and engines, pulleys and wheels, and the idea that power could be harnessed by man-made devices made the toilsome labor of the past nearly obsolete. |
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They contain man-made chemicals such as mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries. |
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All natural and man-made objects emit, and reflect, different levels of electromagnetic energy at various frequencies. |
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In the absence of man-made defences such as sea walls, the annual damage to property and roads in these areas exceeds pounds 2bn. |
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The Next Generation Airport is a superhub constructed offshore on a man-made island. |
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When the water suddenly became too deep, they dragged one of the girls onto a bodyboard and reached a man-made concrete coastal defence. |
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All three species became terminally constipated from ingesting this man-made microlitter. |
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Modern tennis racquets are made of graphite, fibreglass and other man-made materials. |
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Those factors include diseases, fisheries and man-made structures such as dams and fish ladders. |
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The purple martin is a member of the swallow family and is well-known for living in man-made nest boxes. |
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On January 4, they found Dorothy's body near Blackstrap Lake, south of Saskatoon, in a man-made tunnel. |
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The bioregionalists advocate replacing the man-made, historically arbitrary political boundaries of nations, states and counties. |
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Many man-made pollutants activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and are risk factors for type 2 diabetes. |
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This has led to my involvement with the beginnings of language, early man-made marks and ogham and bardic alphabets. |
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Abu Dhabi will soon have the first man-made aquifer, which can store fresh water up to 100 years. |
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This medium-sized molossid bat roosts in buildings, the undersides of bridges, and other man-made structures. |
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It is a goal of industry and scientists alike to better constrain the sources of fugitive methane emissions from man-made activities. |
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The space probe took pictures of vast frozen plains on Pluto, which are already unofficially called Sputnik Planum after the world's first man-made satellite. |
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His study found that isoprene, once it is altered chemically via exposure to the sun, reacts with man-made nitrogen oxides to create particulate matter. |
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Two surgeons would have removed the damaged section of Houllier's aorta and replaced it with a graft, made of an inert man-made material called Dacron. |
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To create Arctic apples, Okanagan scientists silenced the apples' PPO genes by inserting a man-made gene that contains portions of four natural PPO genes. |
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Creating the perfect mixture of sand and water for our man-made Cinderellaesque castle, I looked up at the expanse of water before me and had one of those epiphany moments. |
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Th Wildlife Crossing is a brilliant man-made structure built to provide a safe crossing path for wildlife, especially to protect the endangered European badger. |
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While stratospheric ozone provides vital protection against harmful solar radiation, the same gas in the lower troposphere is a man-made pollutant and harmful to health. |
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In response to this problem, Bonneville and some of the other Columbia dams have installed fish ladders so spawning salmon can swim past the man-made obstructions. |
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A vacuum fluctuation was an even more remote possibility than the chances of a man-made elementary particle destroying the Earth, said Dr Allanach. |
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