For this reason, I argue, the history of Connecticut's shade tobacco landscape was informed by the efforts of shade tobacco growers to direct and control a confluence of environmental conditions, group and place-based identities, and the mechanics and meanings of mobility among seasonal workers.
The climatic conditions that predominate at the Araguaia River basin are of continental tropical nature, due to its continental position that does not suffer the direct effect of the intertropical confluence.
In extra-cardiac Fontan, the systemic venous blood is directed to the main PA confluence through an extra-cardiac conduit.
This occurs when, due to a weird confluence of circumstances – Rob Reiner's directing, Nora Ephron's clever screenplay, the aurora borealis being in the seventh house of Atreus – maddeningly annoying actors like Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal stop being annoying.
It is more a case of confluence of factors than one of direct connection, and Sperber occasionally says as much.
So 2009 had a confluence of good movies that were directed by women that made money and movies about women that people wanted to see.
That is how fast things can move in the rapidly expanding, chaotic and largely unregulated world of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, an industry at the confluence of two of the greatest of recent technological achievements — the Human Genome Project and the Internet.
By citing an unpredictable confluence of events for the death and not accepting any direct blame for the accident, IndyCar is trying to avoid any legal responsibility, she said.
In healthy cultures, our cell line grows to confluence and upon differentiation forms an electrically resistant monolayer supporting directed salt and water transport [ 6].
But when I was invited to direct a film version of Krapp's Last Tape, I couldn't resist the possible confluence of form, content and process.
