They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen, sliced them thinly and made delicious chips.

If the turtle needs eight spaces to live, it is going to have to be very thinly populated.

When the subject is still very thinly populated, you can with diligence and hard work become the world authority.

Generally, programme activities were thinly spread, and activities in Sida funded areas were not well coordinated with those of UNICEF.

Efforts in that regard should not be weakened by spreading resources too thinly with time consuming negotiations aimed at developing new instruments.

Only small number of women living in remote and thinly populated areas has not been able to enjoy cultural, art, radio and television programmes.

It is for the Member States to ensure that we are not imposing too many tasks on the Secretariat and spreading resources too thinly.

There was no gainsaying that in some conflict theatres, some troublesome elements could be encouraged to engage in irregular activities, particularly where personnel were spread thinly.

So instead, we decided to take the column, and we decided to build it as a layered model, made out of very many slices, thinly stacked over each other.

On the other hand, the activities of INSTRAW are and continue to be dispersed thinly among a variety of those themes, since under each the Institute is responsible for only one or two narrowly defined activities.

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky. And the regulatory failures in Europe consider the German Landesbanks, for example will become only more obvious in the coming months.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity. The full extent of the political damage that Germany s bailout policy for the eurozone, with its austerity, mass unemployment, and economic depression, has caused in southern Europe remains to be seen.

But, while doing so, they are not likely to be expanding private sector lending to support economic growth. European banks are far more thinly capitalized, and account for a much larger share of credit extended, than banks in the US, where much more lending originates in capital markets.

He expressed appreciation for all the work that had gone into producing the draft strategic long term vision statement, which highlighted UNIDO's desired profile in the multilateral development system, and welcomed its focus on three key areas so that resources were not spread too thinly over too many areas.

His operation in Syria is partly designed to divert attention from his dismemberment of Ukraine. And his thinly veiled threats against the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, and now Turkey whose airspace and relations with NATO have been probed by Russian aircraft reveal a strategy of aggression that has as its chief goal the weakening of Europe.

Chinese leaders, for their part, view America s strategic pivot to Asia as a thinly veiled step to tighten its geopolitical containment of China. Moreover, they have become obsessed with US dominance in international finance and technology and, most important, America s ideological commitment to liberal democracy, which they regard as an existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Indeed, Greenspan s political stances were so thinly disguised as professional wisdom that his tenure exposed the dubiousness of the very notion of an independent central bank and a non partisan central banker. Unfortunately, many countries have committed themselves to precisely this illusion, and it may be a long time before they take heed of Greenspan s most important lesson.

There is a particular irony to a self proclaimed Hindu nationalist like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label. Patel would have been outraged not only by Modi s conduct in office, but by the kind of remarks that Modi has repeatedly made against minorities.