"He interacts with people on a very down-to-earth basis," said Mark Baillie, a friend of Mr. Bell who heads the North American real estate division of Macquarie Bank.
There's something about the food of these fantastical worlds, striking the perfect balance between wild exoticism and a down-to-earth basis in everyday eating, which makes me yearn not just to eat them, but to make them.
Given that Mr. Gingrich led the Iowa and national polls mere weeks ago, the post-mortems for his campaign have literally already been written, with the news media depicting him as an Icarus-like figure who fell back to earth on the basis of a flimsy foundation.
A bed of densely overlapping organic shapes, rather like those in Mr. Witkin's sculpture but made of cast earth, is the basis of Charlene Teters's "American Holocaust".
[4] Named after the Greco-Sicilian philosopher who posited the theory of the four elements (air, fire, water and earth) as the basis of everything, it is one of the 12 underwater volcanoes of the so-called Phlegraean Fields of the Sea of Sicily.
Optical remote sensing, i.e., passive sensing of visible and near-infrared reflectance from the earth, forms the basis for much of current global scale mapping (GoogleEarth, for example, is based on a combination of observations from the Landsat and Quickbird series of satellites).
In contrast to ship and buoy measurements that sample localized areas on a quasi-synoptic basis, earth-orbiting satellites offer an opportunity to uniformly sample the surface of the globe on a nearly synoptic basis.
One strategy for minimising corrosive attack on carbon steel involves the application of hybrid coatings rich in rare earths, on the basis of their low toxicity and environmental sustainability.
Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah, director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, told delegates: "No society on Earth progresses on the basis of someone else's language.
Deva, ( Sanskrit: "divine") Iranian daeva, in the Vedic religion of India and in later Hinduism, one of many gods, often roughly divided into sky, air, and earth divinities on the basis of their identification with the forces of nature.
This theory was given something of a boost in 1975, when the Chinese claimed to have predicted a big earthquake in Haicheng on the basis of earth movements beforehand.In addition to the idea that earthquakes might give a few hours' notice of their arrival, there was also a feeling that, in some places at least, a grander pattern was detectable, and that earthquakes came in regular cycles.
