In the lead case, Rapanos v. United States, No. 04-1034, John A. Rapanos, after being informed that three parcels he wanted to develop probably contained regulated wetlands, cleared and filled the land without obtaining a Clean Water Act permit.
Other parts of the site have been cleared and filled with sand to ensure that the remains of the old glass works are preserved.
Nothing underscores the surreal, disheartening nature of that Sisyphean task more powerfully than the scenes in Michael Pitre's new novel, "Fives and Twenty-Fives," depicting a road repair platoon's efforts to clear and fill potholes — 157 out of 157 of them containing some form of explosive device — day after day, week after week on the highways of Anbar Province in western Iraq.
With the prospect of a major highway passing through his property, Áleman rushed to prepare it for development: he had it completely cleared, leveled and filled in.
Near a display of spray bottles of environmentally friendly cleaner is a similar bottle, clear and filled with resin.
The drinks arrive, and they're iceless and clear and filled to the lip.
McFarlane's writing is clear and filled with specific details, making his works superior to many other Stratemeyer series titles.
But as far as the couple of hundred spectators following Mickelson's every move were concerned, the weather was warm, clear and filled with optimism that one of the most popular players in golf history had found his game again.
It was a superbly crafted address, clear, eloquent and filled, like some of his other speeches, with sentiments about both personal and governmental responsibility to combat poverty that could have won as much agreement on the left of the political spectrum as on the right.
But the picture he gives us of Alexander is clear, compelling and filled with fascinating detail, especially in the military realm.
We also observed a small percentage of mosaic animals (∼1%) that became clear, vacuolated, and filled with fluid (the Clr phenotype), a defect associated with abnormal osmotic regulation (Nelson and Riddle 1984).
