I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

Capacity to absorb an innovation

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

And finally, on your right side, you see a bubbly, cell like structure appearing, from which the body will absorb the fat.

By invisible, I mean it doesn't absorb in the electromagnetic spectrum.

It feels like it's going to absorb you into another world.

In addition, the existing UNDP advisers will be able to absorb some functions that UNOTIL advisers are currently engaged in from May 2006, namely

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries will be able to absorb only limited numbers of surplus workers from labour exporting countries owing to current work nationalization policies.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

Subsequent interviews indicate that a number of previously reunified returnees have separated themselves from households that are not able to absorb them and have returned to the local authorities.

So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture bound listeners that we are.

We stole the idea from bicycle seats, and put gel in the cushions and in the armrests to absorb point load distributes the loading so you don't get hard spots.

And in these cavities, these micro cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Should the executive office that provides this service find it difficult to absorb, then the capacity released from the Executive Office of the Office of Legal Affairs should be appropriately redeployed.

But manufacturing today is not what it used to be. It has become much more capital and skill intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.

And he showed that gasses such as CO2 absorb heat, thus acting like a blanket warming Earth's surface.

But I love that one, because that was an experiment about how much information one human brain could absorb.

In some cases, an island or group of islands may be able to absorb the likely displacement of population.

Due to our release, through factories and automobiles every year, of more than six billion tons of carbon dioxide which helps air absorb heat from the sun our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer.

And by using mycelium as a glue, you can mold things just like you do in the plastic industry, and you can create materials with many different properties, materials that are insulating, fire resistant, moisture resistant, vapor resistant materials that can absorb impacts, that can absorb acoustical impacts.

In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.

Cool roofs are highly reflective surfaces that don't absorb solar heat and pass it on to the building or atmosphere.

A good book can completely absorb your attention, to the extent that you forget your surroundings and even your existence.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

They consider the CKREE subject to be so designed that it would gradually absorb their son into the Christian faith.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 was insufficient to absorb 31,500.

And again, they only absorb light at particular colors when electrons jump up and fall down, jump up and fall down.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

Yes, many African countries need skills. But they are unable to absorb them, owing to several factors associated with economic backwardness.

In addition, the Government of Somaliland was increasingly concerned about the number of returnees and their capacity to absorb the returnees.

The problem this entails is worsening because neither the private sector nor the State has the capacity to absorb the increase.

b The missions will attempt to absorb the balance requirement for the period 2005 06 within the proposed 2005 06 budgets.

The most exciting prospect held out by Venter, however, is a form of algae that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to create diesel fuel or gasoline. Synthetic Genomics has a 600 million agreement with ExxonMobil to obtain fuel from algae.

Fortunately, income from the Facility was able to absorb losses in other divisions, most notably the UNOPS Asia office, where actual project delivery for 2004 fell short of its budget target of 47.5 million by 64 per cent.

However, the Bundesbank has entered a new regime in which it will have to borrow extensively from the private banking sector to absorb the flight money from the crisis countries. They, in turn, will continue to compensate for capital flight by cranking up the money printing press.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

Because these materials could actually absorb six to 12 times as much energy per pound as steel, and do so a lot more smoothly.

Allah knoweth that which every female beareth and that which the wombs absorb and that which they grow. And everything with Him is measured.

Allah knoweth that which every female beareth and that which the wombs absorb and that which they grow. And everything with Him is measured.

A number of instruments can be used to absorb a successful practice, including institutions and facilitators of the learning process and tools and guidelines.

Given the importance of the topic, States should be given a reasonable opportunity to properly absorb the significance and scope of the draft articles.

Urbanization was so rapid that cities could not fully absorb the new pool of labour, thus giving rise to the phenomenon of urban poverty.

On a hot day in New York, locals sprawl out on the grass fields of Central Park, not on asphalt parking lots or concrete sidewalks. Bricks, concrete, and asphalt the building blocks from which cities are made absorb much more heat from the sun than vegetation does in the countryside.