The polar bear tends to frequent areas where sea ice meets water, such as polynyas and leads (temporary stretches of open water in Arctic ice), to hunt the seals that make up most of its diet.
The Titans, who are being housed in a small, stark hotel off a highway, had to conduct interviews with reporters inside a temporary plastic tent stretched across a windy parking lot.
Digital radios transmitting TCP/IP messages linked the air- and ground-based computers together into a temporary "net" that stretched for hundreds of miles and also included Strategic Air Command's underground bunker.
You can even stretch a temporary string across the area to determine whether the middle is level as well.
Filling the Willamette basin to depths of 400 feet in the Portland region, each flood created a temporary lake, Lake Allison, that stretched from Lake Oswego to near Eugene.
However, as the membrane stretches, a temporary hole opens up, which allows some of the excess solute molecules and water to escape, shrinking the vesicle.
6/10: We're warmer and more humid, with a few showers or storms possible, but it's only a temporary setback, with a nice stretch of weather to follow.
Would city officials mind terribly if he installed a temporary construction shed on a pristine stretch of sidewalk in a landmark neighborhood?
I argue that when cyanobacteria evolved chlorophylls instead of bacteriochlorophyll, and lost chlorosomes, there was another transient large change to the reductase enzyme, a temporary massive rate acceleration that artifactually stretched the stems of the tree that separate cyanobacteria from both groups of green bacteria.
His inside position gave him a temporary advantage as they moved into the stretch for the first sweep past the stands.
