Individual accounts financed by borrowing are a costly fig leaf, trying to hide the truth of excessive benefit cuts.
Paolo Uccello's unmistakably Gothic "Annunciation," from around 1415-20, sumptuously decorated with gold leaf and costly ultramarine paint, seems worlds away from his later works, yet is learnedly based on a fourth-century homily and shows in the architectural setting a firm grasp of measured perspective.
For example, a portrait from his golden period of Adele Bloch-Bauer, which is literally decorated with gold leaf and silver, is one of the costliest paintings ever sold.
Similarly, the production of costly antibiotic compounds and the extra time needed for cleaning leaf material with endophytes, which can increase by 40% on average when leaf material is high in endophyte abundance [ 16], could decrease the developing colony's ability to properly patrol and clear the garden from microbial invaders [ 35, 36].
The Leaf platters in bubinga wood and sterling silver are more costly still (the 14-inch wood version, top, is $25,000, and the six-inch silver one is $50,000).
Our destination was the Rancho Valencia Resort, well-known among tennis enthusiasts for its 18 perfectly tended and leaf-enshrouded courts, but also for its quiet and its high -- and costly -- standards of service.
Consuming 19% of the total labour input, leaf removal is considered by the growers and their staff as a tedious, repetitive and costly task.
These products are normally costly and are used in specialized horticultural crops by root application (drip irrigation for instance) or sprayed on the leaf (foliar sprays) [7, 8].
But this is costly to the trees' metabolism, and as a result they produce less of other compounds that protect them from leaf-munching pests.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
