Weather is an amalgam of systems that is inherently invisible to most of us.

Weather is an amalgam of systems that is inherently invisible to most of us.

Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or not, depending on the circumstances.

It's an amalgam of wood, and cast iron, and felt, and steel strings, and all these, and they're all amazingly sensitive to temperature and humidity.

If information exists, it may also be gleaned through secondary sources or an amalgam of interviews, searches of financial records, documents, procurement records, or by examining personal associations and hierarchical structures.

Thus, Turkey will continue its unprecedented amalgam of Islam, capitalism, and secular liberal democracy. As unlikely as it may seem in the wake of the crisis over Gül s candidacy, so far Turkey is managing this challenge well.

Not only do more than 190 countries now belong to the UN publicly funded international institutions have proliferated, with not one multilateral institution having been shuttered since WWII. The result is an inefficient and confusing amalgam of overlapping mandates.

Doctors are no different from laypersons in drawing on personal and cultural resources involving imagination, responsibility, sensibility, insight, and communication to accomplish their care giving. And what they engage in is an amalgam of ethical, aesthetic, religious, and practical action.

Indeed, India is a complex amalgam of 28 states with widely varying social indicators. For example, the nine states that the government has labeled high focus account for 62 of India s maternal deaths and 70 of infant deaths, but contain only 48 of the country s population.

And what they engage in is an amalgam of ethical, aesthetic, religious, and practical action. The physician s art now so circumscribed by bureaucratic, political, and economic forces turns on both the professionalization of these inherently human resources and the impact of their routine use on the doctor s own moral life.

The indigenous people are an amalgam of echoes from all the great wars of empire that have troubled the recent American conscience. Although they are physically a fantasy sci fi mix of blue skin and cat like movement, they are culturally a mix of Native Americans and Vietnamese, with Arabic accents thrown in.

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