While the proposal to merge the island's three elected bodies into one would indeed have brought a bit more autonomy over matters such as the environment and tourism it was also an effort by the government to thin down Corsica's bloated bureaucracy and boost private investment.
At the same time, he could try to pin down the thin, fast-fading shadow that was himself and his past.
But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
When pressurized water is fed over such an intersection, the pressure pushes down the thin layer of rubber, separating it from the fluid below, and it clamps shut the fluid channel below, like stepping on a hose.
Dow itself invested in thin-film solar startup NuvoSun for its solar shingles and shut down its internal work on thin-film solar.
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Visually everything has been stripped down, with thin clean sans-serif fonts, large images and lots of soft grays.
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That leaves these phones with shaved-down prices and thin margins.
To do this the laboratory used the thin atmosphere, which slowed it down, albeit not as effectively as the Earth's more substantial atmosphere slows re-entering spacecraft.
They managed to hold out until deep into the final minute, when O'Gara slid a precise grubber kick through the London Irish thin green line and Tuitupou touched down.
Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.
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The curtainless windows were rectangles of electric-blue sky that turned to gray and then normal daylight as the patients rose and slowly, in their thin striped cotton robes, began wandering down the corridor that led into the common room.
That price can overshoot both on the way up and on the way down, particularly when buyers are thin on the ground and sellers are distressed.
Helicopters cannot fly to the area because the thin air disables their blades, making hauling this graveyard down nearly impossible.
Fires in the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest show little sign of the usual September slow-down, and firefighting resources nationwide have been stretched thin.
He hoisted her further forward, so that her head hung down near his waist, and then her long, thin arms flopped forwards and gently tapped his knees.
Even now that her hair was thin and graying, she wore it in a single long braid down to her waist, like a young woman in the village.
Looking initially like a fastball, it darts down as it reaches home plate, leaving batters flailing at thin air.
Now that the heavy lid of technology has been lifted so we (finally) have ample bandwidth, a multitude of screens (computers, tablets, phones, ultra-thin LED screens), and a cheering audience, it all boils down to a single element that has been with us since troubadours sat down to play madrigals: Great Content.
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But Adel, the thin young student, was there, sitting alone, an open book face down on his lap.
He had just put the bucket down and grabbed the rope when he looked up and saw a thin light at the edge of the pasture.
The reality is that Hurricane Sandy has already forced refiners to shut down their operations, and this is coming in a time of thin inventories in the East Coast.
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She was a bone-thin woman with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair that hung down her back.
When you - you're crack climbing a thin crack, you stick your toes into the crack and then kind of wrench down on to stand up, and it's painful.
The researchers' technique was to put extremely thin layers of the precursors all of them oxides of various metals down on a small wafer of glass.
Also, scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have been able to build a nano-thin layer of particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material.
Rocks laid down at the time - some 65.5 million years ago - show a thin layer abundant in rare elements like Iridium, spherules and shocked Quartz that could only have come from a meteorite impact.
The great 19th-century philanthropists laid down their fortunes and set up their foundations in the days when profits were fat, taxes thin and labour weak.
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