Since it takes the devil several visits to block any given vertex, we can quickly overtake the devil, thereby controlling the length of such meanders.
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We meandered over to the cafeteria in the adjacent hospital where, ironically enough, he had been born and g iven up as an infant.
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Another metaphor might be of a river winding - but never simply meandering - through a reed bed to the sea.
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During the interviews each participant meandered across many life events.
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As wave amplitude increases, the "waves" begin to look more like meandering streams than internal waves on a homogeneous layer of fluid.
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Palms of both hands touching each other, meandering movement of hands away from body.
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Transition from simple rotating chemical spirals to meandering and traveling spirals.
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Individuals entered a fruit-fall area cautiously, usually by meandering around the area sniffing the litter surface.
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One such ecotone comprises the forest succession from bare soil that occurs naturally on beach successions along meandering rivers.
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Finally, figure 11 gives a pictorial three-dimensional description of the process of interaction between free and forced bars in meandering channels as it emerges from the present theory.
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In these studies, circular wave fronts and rotating spiral waves with a meandering tip but no epicycles, and wave interactions have been found, as expected for excitable media.
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He used the meandering cruise to begin a series of ocean stations, recordings of both surface and deep-ocean temperatures along with samples of ocean bottom sediments.
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The border is extremely long, and meanders over desolate land and, frequently, mountainous country.
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Yesterday, we were meandering somewhat nostalgically through the centuries in an atmosphere of ermine and old lace, as it were.
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The debate goes on, meandering its way to the end.
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