Larger rays develop increasing numbers of distinctive tubercles or bucklers (flat-based thorns) over the middle of the back from the snout to the tail base, as well as dorsal and lateral rows of thorns on the tail.
The Minneapolis based Crimson Thorn is described by Allmusic as "one of the world's most extreme-sounding Christian metal bands".
In summary, this intervention encompasses ten weekly 90-minute CBT group sessions, including nine standard CBT sessions that are based on Thorn's program [ 33] and one specific session on PC (session 8).
Colonel Kayanja Muhanga is describing his troops' latest victory when suddenly there is a rattle of machine-gun fire somewhere beyond the fortified base set among thorn trees and cacti.
The controversy over the Futenma base has become a thorn in the Japanese-American alliance, and a headache for the Obama administration, as it struggles to bolster its presence in the region and keep a North Korean provocation from escalating into regional war.
Off in the distance was a brown ridge, at its base a grove of thorn trees, Christof told me.
Disputes with Kiev over Moscow's continued lease of the Black Sea navy base have been a thorn in relations with its former Soviet neighbour.
The Social Democrats' campaign was based on Ms. Thorning-Schmidt's promises to raise taxes on Denmark's banks and its wealthiest citizens to pay for better schools and hospitals, and to finance a $4 billion expansion of what is already one of Europe's most generous welfare systems.
Theater 12 MILES WEST THEATER COMPANY "The Flowering Thorn," a musical based on Oscar Wilde's "Portrait of Dorian Grey".
Aside from the thorns at the base, the tail is smooth.
