And the grid itself is a kind of artificial imposition on the land, establishing boundaries designed both to protect nature and to restrict its unruly spread.
The move means Cameron will have to abandon his dual plan to cut the number of MPs to 600 and fight the next election on redrawn boundaries designed to equalise the number of voters in each constituency.
The N.S.A. is believed to have gone beyond legal boundaries designed to protect Americans in about 8 to 10 separate court orders issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to three intelligence officials who spoke anonymously because disclosing such information is illegal.
For the first time, boats come equipped with electronic systems that warn skippers when they get too close to electronic boundaries designed to keep the cats in range of video helicopters overhead.
The Republican-controlled legislature had created district boundaries designed to enhance their party's control over state and national offices, leading to some oddly shaped legislative districts.
This has happened in cities across America through geography, Jim Crow, sundown laws, or housing prices ― boundaries designed to keep black bodies out of white spaces ― even if those spaces have long been owned by black people.
Census block groups have a population of about 1,500 individuals and are defined by the Census Bureau as small statistical subdivisions of counties with generally stable boundaries, designed to have relatively homogeneous demographic and economic characteristics (U.S. Census Bureau 2000a).
This design is principally similar to the grain boundary design in zinc-oxide varistors.
This work considers an inverse boundary design problem which involves radiation and convection heat transfer.
