porous

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• That, combined with the lengthy porous border with Pakistan’s least governed regions will give extremists a large field in which to train, plan and plot.

• Instead water flows through and around the highly porous Venus’s-flower-basket and forms a gentle zone of water that flanks the sponge and displaces turbulence downstream, the team found.

• The Titans likely won’t rocket to the top of the AFC just with the addition of Jones, given their porous defense, but he does fill key offensive needs for them.

• We can have border controls and quarantine and they’re very important, but we can’t forget that these are porous land borders.

• The outbreak reflects a broader one across Nepal, which shares a long, porous border with India.

• Our porous borders are seen as a midterm election play-to-the-base appeal instead of a problem to be solved.

• The Brazilian defense, touted as impenetrable in pre-tournament hype, proved to be bedraggled, and porous.

• “The world is porous and full of holes…so you just find the cracks,” Austin says slyly.

• Among the biggest problems is the porous border Afghanistan shares with Pakistan.

• Functioning countries cannot have such porous borders, for security reasons let alone communitarian concerns.

• On very sandy fields the heaviest rainfall may be taken up by the earth, so that no streams are found.