Porous, nonporous.

But even this monolithic system of control is porous.

Europe, however, demands greater assimilation and offers a less porous economy and politics.

Afghanistan's border with Pakistan is over 2,400 kilometers long and remains extremely porous.

So she started skipping class and started smuggling goods across the now porous border.

Nomadic populations move freely back and forth across the vast and porous Afghanistan Pakistan border.

The threat that this would represent is not abstract the Kingdom s borders are very porous.

The supporters of ITER explain that if the walls are porous, the bubbles can escape.

They trade globally, across porous borders, attaching little significance to the geographical location of capital and liquidity.

In the US, especially, the borderlines between showbiz and politics (or indeed religion) have always been porous.

So this is a cinder block, uncoated, and you can see that it's porous, it absorbs water.

Otherwise, the region seems destined to become a porous economic and political space buffeted by uncertainty and instability.

But nothing can be both leak proof and porous, and ITER is not designed to study this contradiction.

Sharing a mountainous and porous border with Afghanistan, this region includes many Taliban sympathizers among their fellow Pashtuns.

After a rough passage to democracy, a traditionally strong Indonesian state is reasserting itself, forcing jihadists out, and across Mindanao s porous frontiers.

The radar observations at the wavelength of 2.2 cm showed that the ice regolith has a complex structure and is very porous.

Second, at a time when economic globalization is rendering national borders porous, political leaders may get carried away by their rhetoric of independence.

Two factors seem significant first, relatively porous economic, political and educational arenas that allow immigrants entry to these key areas of American life.

Second, at a time when economic globalization is rendering national borders porous, political leaders may get carried away by their rhetoric of independence.

But Bar Zeev and colleagues developed a chemical free system using porous lava stone to capture the microorganisms before they reach the membranes.

These include legal impediments to labor mobility, reform of a complex tax system beset by excessive rates and porous loopholes, and substandard road infrastructure.

These include legal impediments to labor mobility, reform of a complex tax system beset by excessive rates and porous loopholes, and substandard road infrastructure.

The gas may bloat the body to twice its normal size and slow circulation, but tissues are elastic and porous enough to prevent rupture.

The decision was likely driven, at least partly, by how difficult it is, given the EU s porous internal borders, to determine where a refugee first entered.

In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.

These two systems operate side by side, but the border that separates them has gradually become more porous, and the open breaches in it have become ever greater.

And, in a world where borders are becoming increasingly porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must mobilize international coalitions to address shared threats and challenges.

They drove into a gravelled courtyard surrounded by flowers, where two men were making a border of rough porous stones round a well forked flower bed and stopped beneath a roofed portico.

In a world where borders are more porous than ever to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must help build international coalitions and institutions to address shared threats and challenges.

This might work, but the first wall of the blanket will need to be not only leak proof and porous, but also sufficiently permeable to neutrons, which have to hit the lithium atoms beyond it.

The Durand Line that marks the general division between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a rich source of bloodshed for Afghanistan as Pakistan based insurgent groups move across the porous frontier into their poor South Asian neighbour.

But Danbi, who took on her new name after fleeing, is from a city near the Chinese border which has become surprisingly porous, and so she s grown up in this presumably closed nation with a window to the outside world.

The multiple insurgencies that developed in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 were supported at least in part by money, materiel, and fighters from abroad. Suicide bombers from all over the Arab world crossed into the country through the porous Syrian and Jordanian borders.

Militants have also attacked non governmental organizations, particularly those located in the undeveloped tribal Northern Areas that lie beyond the writ of Pakistani law. Sharing a mountainous and porous border with Afghanistan, this region includes many Taliban sympathizers among their fellow Pashtuns.

This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage. In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.

Rather, greater mobility, enlarged markets, and increased access to information have made traditional borders increasingly porous, and a more globalized world has led to the emergence of political actors seeking to gain a greater say in international councils. The steady growth of network communities, linked together by a religious identity that transcends the hierarchical organization of nations and states, reflects this emerging new reality.