Sometimes raised bed gardens are covered with clear plastic to protect the crops from wind and strong rains.

For surgery, many dermatologic and plastic surgeons first use a freezing solution, usually liquid nitrogen, on a raised mole and then shave it away with a scalpel.

The heart of the system is an interchangeable metal or plastic " daisy wheel " holding an entire character set as raised characters moulded on each " petal ".

Past exploits have included Hird as a dominatrix, a football hooligan, a dictator ( having plastic surgery to look like Saddam Hussein ), a Satanic priestess, a May Day protestor, and raised by Southerners.

This is usually part of a sophisticated mechanical process, where raised beds are formed, plastic is rolled out on top, and seedlings are transplanted through it.

Some other changes included the removal of the rear speaker grilles for a flat rear deck, a cheaper cloth interior, a raised mount passenger airbag, a plastic cover replacing the rear ashtray, and the digital in dash clock was now optional.

Certain brands of foam pads put raised plastic sections under the directional buttons to allow them to be more easily felt by a player's feet, so as to help keep him centered on the pad.

Machines that form raised beds create a plastic surface higher than the inter-row soil surface.

North Luzon Expressway raised plastic transverse rumble strips approaching Balintawak Toll Barrier, Philippines

The development of ceramic and plastic raised systems enabled installation on concrete pavement highways, and the smaller footprint was better suited for the dashed centre-line.

Further, concerns have been raised about the endocrine disrupting ( in particular, estrogen-mimicking ) effects of plastic chemicals such as Bisphenol A used in composite resins.

The outer surface of the metal pin is knurled so that the raised detail ' bites ' into the plastic irrespective of whether the size of the hole in the plastic closely matches the diameter of the pin.

A gobo can either rest on the ground or be raised on adjustable legs made from wood, plastic or metal.

Embossing tape is " printed " by pressing raised elements similar to printing type onto it, which produces raised glyphs that look white due to discoloration of the plastic.

The mine has a slightly domed pressure plate made from flexible plastic with a raised 6 spoke wagon wheel pattern on top.

From 1984 until 2011, when a person was allocated an NI number he or she also received a plastic ' numbercard ' of similar proportions to a credit card with the number raised on the front.

At one point it had a factory that produced plastic frames for glasses and raised chinchillas for their fur.

In May 2010, concerns were raised in Australia and New Zealand over their respective flag carriers, Qantas and Air New Zealand, reusing their plastic cutlery for international flights between 10 and 30 times before replacement.

In this method, raised beds are formed each year, fumigated, and covered with plastic to prevent weed growth and erosion.

This system did not use bulbs ; instead, an inverter and transformer raised the battery voltage to over 100 volts AC and passed that high voltage through special plastic layers, causing the gauges to glow with a blue-green light.

He and Penny would go out on tame elephants, raised from babyhood in the keddah.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.

Fortunately, the embarrassing questions raised by objects do not need to be answered, or we would all have to go sleep in the open fields.

Participation for the educator in this case, however, would have to be raised to full and complete membership.

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Funds raised from the sale of land were to be used to bring out working class emigrants, who would have to work hard for the monied settlers to ever afford their own land.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

This raised the question of what would happen if he were to produce first a daughter and then a son.

However, from ground level, this sunset would be obscured by a ridge in the landscape, and the viewer would need to be raised by two meters: another observation platform was needed.

Romania had raised an army and declared war on Bulgaria on 10 July ( 27 June ) as it had from 28 ( 15 ) June officially warned Bulgaria that it would not remain neutral in a new Balkan war, due to Bulgaria's refusal to cede the fortress of Silistra as promised before the First Balkan war in exchange for Romanian neutrality.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

Thus, Conservative Judaism rejects patrilineal descent and would hold that a child of a non-Jewish mother who was raised as a Reform or Reconstructionist Jew is not legally Jewish and would have to undergo conversion to become a Jew.

* In 1898, the Unamended Fellowship was separated from as a result of differing views on who would be raised to judgment at the return of Christ.

"; others, however, some being Anglophones who wish to sound modern and Westernised ( or were raised in an almost exclusively English-speaking family environment ), or some who advocate gender equality, would dispense with the distinction altogether.

When the regimental companies in the Grants had been raised, they held a vote in Dorset to determine who would command the regiment.

We could never have imagined ( had we not seen it fall out in experience ) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .... And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name.

These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation.

He lived a life of great simplicity, with few possessions and lived alone for a long time, but in his old age he adopted a friend's child who would otherwise have been left to die, and raised him with the aid of a woman.

Lang's fears would be realized following his departure from Austria, as under the Nuremburg Laws he would be identified as a Jew even though his mother was a converted Roman Catholic, and he was raised as such.