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convoluted and trail
Ukiko then embarks on a convoluted trail, given to her by Akemi, so she can forge a new identity and life for herself.
Rock City features a long, convoluted rock trail lined with gardens.

convoluted and led
This note was the first in a series of convoluted instructions that led Condon and Lindbergh all over Manhattan.
The second half of The Gripping Hand is a convoluted tale of alliances, diplomacy, trade, and space combat between the Empire, led by Bury and Renner, and the many, many factions of Motie civilization.

convoluted and human
convoluted type of ‘ human nature ’ argument.
The cortex of a dolphin or whale, on the other hand, is more convoluted than the cortex of a human.

convoluted and whom
In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and " lofty Atticisms " on purpose, so as to make everything " plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech " for his son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work.

convoluted and 1977
" Some, like the Hitler puppet, made it into the final broadcast ; others, like a notably convoluted story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk ( ad-libbed during a 1977 Mama's Family sketch ), would be edited, replaying the uncensored version ( Lawrences ' response ) years later on CBS specials.

convoluted and .
The convoluted sheets can be combined to attain certain cushioning effects mechanically rather than chemically.
The murders are often extremely ingenious, involving some convoluted piece of deception.
Southeast Alaska is the northern terminus of the Inside Passage, a protected waterway of convoluted passages between islands and fjords, beginning in Puget Sound in Washington state.
Given the complexity of the calculations involved and the convoluted structure that a convertible bond can have, an arbitrageur often relies on sophisticated quantitative models in order to identify bonds that are trading cheap versus their theoretical value.
Some parts, such as the cerebral cortex and cerebellum, consist of layers that are folded or convoluted to fit within the available space.
The sagas they created were elaborate and convoluted ( and still exist in partial manuscripts ) and provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.
As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.
Thiazide-type diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide act on the distal convoluted tubule and inhibit the sodium-chloride symporter leading to a retention of water in the urine, as water normally follows penetrating solutes.
Frequent urination is due to the increased loss of water that has not been retained from the body as a result of a concomitant relationship with sodium loss from the convoluted tubule.
Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors inhibit the enzyme carbonic anhydrase which is found in the proximal convoluted tubule.
Kevin Welner points out that vouchers funded through a convoluted tax credit system — a policy he calls " Neovouchers "-- present additional accountability concerns.
Narrative structures sometimes involved convoluted flashbacks uncommon in non-noir commercial productions.
The District's convoluted borders run no farther south than 4th Street or St. Luke's Place, and no farther east than Washington Square East or University Place.
A convoluted chip surface with angled facets similar to a jewel or fresnel lens can increase light output by allowing light to be emitted perpendicular to the chip surface while far to the sides of the photon emission point.
While all theories of language acquisition posit some degree of innateness, a less convoluted theory might involve less innate structure and more learning.
Iconography, often convoluted and abstruse, is a more prominent element in the Mannerist styles.
He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
Soap opera storylines sometimes weave intricate, convoluted, and sometimes confusing tales of characters who have affairs, meet mysterious strangers and fall in love, and who commit adultery, all of which keeps audiences hooked on the unfolding story twists.
David Quammen has described the book as written in everyday language for a wide audience, but noted that Darwin's literary style was uneven: in some places he used convoluted sentences that are difficult to read ; in other places his writing was beautiful.
Faced with growing competition from Marmite, from 1928 to 1935 the product was renamed as " Parwill " to make use of the advertising slogan " Marmite but Parwill ", a convoluted pun on the new name and that of its competitor ; " If Ma might ... then Pa will.
There is a bit of realisation by Vladimir that the world they are trapped in evinces convoluted progression ( or lack thereof ) of time.
Some have taken the convoluted plot as evidence of the play's parodic origins.

trail and led
In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.
The trail of evidence led to the secretary of the cabinet and the provisional premier of Yuan Shikai's government.
Although this gap between the Trachinian Cliffs and the Malian Gulf was only " wide enough for a single carriage ", it could be bypassed by a trail which led over the mountains south of Thermopylae and joined the main road behind the Greek position.
A second party, led by Dr. John S. Ford and financed by a group of Austin merchants, pioneered a trail that ran north of the Davis Mountains before turning southward toward El Paso.
The region was traversed by a trail known as the Black Warrior's Path, which led from the Tennessee River near the present location of Florence, Alabama, to a point on the Black Warrior River south of Cullman.
Protests led by Elim Students Against Uranium ( ESAU ) have included demonstrations in 2008 and 2009 at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start, and on the Iditarod trail in Elim.
It is located on an old portage trail which led west through the mountains to Unalakleet.
The first people of European ancestry to visit the Twin Falls area are believed to be members of a group led by Wilson Price Hunt, which attempted to blaze an all-water trail westward from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812.
Dawson was located along an old Indian trail that led from Clear Lake, Illinois, to Buffalo Hart, Illinois.
A trail of asbestos dust led from the old dump site to the new dump location.
They had been led to expect to meet the main party on the trail but after going as far as Laramie without a sign of them they went south and wintered at Pueblo, Colorado where they were later joined by the Mormon Battalion sick detachments.
The trail of evidence led to the secretary of the cabinet and the provisional premier of Yuan Shikai's government ( Zhao Bingjun ).
Following the submarines ' large trail of debris led Ballard and his team directly to both of them and made it significantly easier for them to locate the submarines than if they were to search for the hulls directly.
The Summer Community Crews are six to seven week crews over the summer in which students complete trail maintenance and site restoration projects in public parks, learn about the local environment through field trips led by the Crew Leader, visit local parks, learn outdoor skills, and go on a recreational camping trip.
The troops were led by two local Christian Maoriknown to missionary Gorst, who guided them at night through a trail only known to locals.
Red Cloud's War was led by the Lakota chief Red Cloud against the military who were erecting forts along the Bozeman trail.
The early settlers, with the help of a resident Shinnecock Indian guide, were led over an old woodland trail that is now North Sea Road to an ideal spot for their first settlement.
As dawn broke on 26 October, they located the correct trail, but inexperienced or unwilling guides first led them about mid-morning to a point on the river opposite de Salaberry's forward defences.
The trail led northward from central Spanish colonial New Spain, present-day Mexico, to the farthest reaches of the viceroyalty in northern Nuevo México Province.
A series of colorful spring houses, bridges, and gates dotted the expansive grounds, and a " serpentine trail " led party excursions from one spring to the next.
The killer's " trail of blood " led into the garage and stopped at the window that Routier told police the killer escaped through.
While Fiordland as such remained one of the least-explored areas of New Zealand up to the 20th century, Milford Sound's natural beauty soon attracted national and international renown, and led to the discovery of the Mackinnon Pass in 1888, soon to become a part of the new Milford Track, an early walking tourism trail.
The same intersection and the town that grew around it was at the point on the Cariboo Wagon Road where a branch road, and previously only a trail, led east to Savona's Ferry on Kamloops Lake.
He divided his forces into four commands: one, under Col. Sterling Price, appointed military governor, was to occupy and maintain order in New Mexico with his approximately 800 men ; a second group under Col. Alexander William Doniphan, with a little over 800 men was ordered to capture El Paso, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico and then join up with General John E. Wool ; the third command of about 300 dragoons mounted on mules, he led under his command to California along the Gila River trail.
The only chance was to turn aside and take a trail near Dayton that led up into the adjacent Big Horn Mountains.

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