`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

Frontage on a body of clear, clean water will be vastly different from the same amount of frontage on polluted water.

The transducer is coupled to the body through a water bath, not shown.

Although the fatty protein molecules, carried in the blood and partly composed of cholesterol, are water soluble, cholesterol itself is insoluble, and cannot be destroyed by the body.

On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.

* Association of Drainage Authorities, membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom

Within the North Atlantic, ocean currents isolate the Sargasso Sea, a large elongated body of water, with above average salinity.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or current.

Some of the ancient names of this body of water include Sindhu Sagar ( meaning " Sea of Sindh " in Sanskrit ) and Erythraean Sea.

The system in general aims to increase blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water the body retains, although angiotensin is also very good at causing the blood vessels to tighten ( a potent vasoconstrictor ).

This can be attributed to many reasons, the main being that women have less body water than men do.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world ( other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea ).

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

The game is started by the Mayor of Bodmin by throwing a silver ball into a body of water known as the " Salting Pool ".

The analysis begins with the free body diagram in the co-rotating frame where the water appears stationary.

Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in error — that every person must have two births — the natural birth of the physical body, the other of the water and the spirit.

Chondrichthyes also lack ribs, so if they leave water, the larger species ' own body weight would crush their internal organs long before they would suffocate.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

The cholesterol level in the blood is influenced by the glands of the body.

The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not unprecedented in history.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial.

Sheer plumpness, he knew, is not a vital part of the body and has no procreative functions.

The purpose of the Club is to promote better athletic teams at Carleton and to increase interest in them among the student body.

This is done by encouraging the entire male student body to participate in either the intercollegiate or intramural sports program and by sponsoring the Carleton cheerleaders.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

Laguerre Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation -- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet -- and has the smoothest gait.

He is a fine-looking colt with a good body, good set of legs and nice way of going.