| And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world. |
| Concrete walls and roofs reinforced with rebar had absorbed the blasts, or the shells had simply penetrated the ceilings, leaving only a hole. |
| Quite how the developer thinks this remote area, that is only penetrated by one minor road, is not a wild place beggars belief. |
| He needed to make sure the procedure was even feasible, that the tissue around a human ankle bone was soft enough to be penetrated by sutures. |
| By now most of our soils are so dry they've become water-repellent and what little rain we've received has barely penetrated the surface. |
| By 1888 they had penetrated the rabbit-proof fence erected by the New South Wales government. |
