Marian Bantjes Intricate beauty by design

Loretta Napoleoni The intricate economics of terrorism

The world is a complex and intricate place.

It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs.

Intricate sentences with beautiful words which were written not for understanding?

The houses here are rich in wooden plats, carved eaves, and intricate windowframes.

The military system became an intricate organization with the advance of the Empire.

These are simple guidelines, easy to communicate to electorates confused by intricate trade regulations.

This intricate honeycomb divides the entire West Bank into multiple fragments, often uninhabitable or even unreachable.

As we spin it, we can see many of the other intricate patterns contained in this one.

An intricate web of small occurrence where the only common factor seems to be my fear of violence.

Intricate biochemical processes extract from food the energy and other useful components that enable us to grow and function.

Intricate biochemical processes extract from food the energy and other useful components that enable us to grow and function.

The reason is self evident civil society is an intricate, fragile, even mysterious entity that evolves over decades, if not centuries.

In Morocco, henna is used to decorate the hands and feet with intricate patterns, and to tint the hair at the hammam.

Turkey is engaged in an intricate effort to preserve its old relationship with the West while building new ties with its Muslim neighbors.

There is so many intricate relationships that I'm not going to go there now, because you would say, Hey, go back to the Fluctus part.

This is true to the extent that the Tribunal is insensitive to the intricate balancing expected of officials in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

The situation in Syria is usually and rightly described as an intricate, multi dimensional playing field with a wide variety of political actors and competing interests.

Indeed, many in the financial community have little understanding of the intricate workings of the macroeconomic system as evidenced by their frequent mistakes in managing it.

Power sharing among coalition partners will be an intricate affair, including behind the scenes deals with the military, which will insist on measures to safeguard its interests.

And the music there, I would say, the instruments, the intricate rhythms, the way it's played, the setting, the context, it's all perfect. It all works perfect.

But if we keep running this for a while, we find out that although the pattern we get is very intricate, it has a very regular structure.

Equipped with sophisticated financial ideas ranging from the capital asset pricing model to intricate options pricing formulas, you are certainly and justifiably interested in building materially rewarding careers.

The new Libyan leader created an intricate hierarchy of political organizations that were advertised as empowering citizens, but which in reality only reinforced their subservience to his autocratic regime.

The new Libyan leader created an intricate hierarchy of political organizations that were advertised as empowering citizens, but which in reality only reinforced their subservience to his autocratic regime.

Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami using math and engineering principles to fold mind blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

So, social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous, in fact, that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

It's only when you look at it at a very large scale, and explore it and so forth, you realize it's a very intricate, complicated kind of a design, right?

This look can be seen as the more sophisticated, mature Lolita style because of its use of small, intricate patterns, as well more muted colors on the fabric and in the overall design.

Yet, Georgian designers, adept at navigating the country s intricate social and family networks, say they can more easily find their niches in this visual bohemia than in the establishment meccas of London or Paris.

Although the importance of these discoveries slowly gained acceptance during the early twentieth century, the intricate relationships between phagocytes and all the other components of the immune system were not known until the 1980s.

Economists already understand that for more than a billion of the world s poorest people, income does not come from any bank or government program, but from the intricate tapestry of forests, oceans, and wildlife that surrounds them.

The major problem in the Arab Isreli conflict, as in many other intricate disputes, has always been the incapacity or unwillingness of leaders to conduct a peace policy that is not supported by their societies prevailing, and frequently paralyzing, consensus.

With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three decade old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things including intricate objects once impossible to create.

Drawing toward himself the portfolio of current affairs, with a scarcely perceptible smile of self satisfaction, he took a pencil from the stand and became absorbed in reading some intricate papers he had sent for, relating to the impending complication.

Indeed, many in the financial community have little understanding of the intricate workings of the macroeconomic system as evidenced by their frequent mistakes in managing it. For example, most US recessions since 1945 were caused by the Fed stepping on the brakes too hard.

The Hague Tribunal is often blamed for burdening fragile reform governments in Croatia and Serbia with unreasonable requests that play into the hands of nationalist politicians. This is true to the extent that the Tribunal is insensitive to the intricate balancing expected of officials in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

With that understanding, cosmologists will begin to grasp how this dense universe started to expand and why more than 90 of its mass remains invisible to our instruments. Over time we will begin to reveal all the essential features of the cosmos to explain how a single event billions of years ago not only created galaxies, stars and planets but the atoms that assembled into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins and purposes.