Joel Polack, an author who travelled in New Zealand in the 1830s, wrote that "the natives claim to have received tradition that very large birds had existed, but the scarcity of animal food, as well as the easy method of entrapping them, had caused their extermination".
Washington was thus vindicated in his hopes of entrapping Cornwallis on the Yorktown Peninsula.
Reticulopodia are fine threads that may not only branch but also anastomose to form a dense network, which is particularly useful in entrapping prey.
Far from destroying or entrapping, it returned the damaged object to a condition of beauty.
Walters and his crack cast expertly pace the spiralling lunacy that involves a multiply over-booked room, mixed-up bags, and two entrapping alarm bells secreted under the bed.
The consternation of abortion-rights proponents in Washington and elsewhere, S.939 is proving to be a masterpiece of pro-life public relations--one that may well succeed in entrapping the pro-choice movement in its own rhetoric, with potentially tragic consequences for women across the country.
Baudrillard, the French philosopher, is best known for his theory that consumer society forms a kind of code that gives individuals the illusion of choice while in fact entrapping them in a vast web of simulated reality.
She said he had been so worried about entrapping his friends that he began cutting himself off from Wall Street contacts.
A Peruvian woman has accused a top official at Peru's mission to the United Nations of entrapping her in a life of involuntary servitude in the New Jersey suburbs, forcing her to work as many as 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for little or no compensation.
The 53 sheets, printed between 1846 and 1985, have images as disturbing as a black spider entrapping comatose Italian patients, and a skeleton pouring wine for a Hungarian alcoholic.
