Extracting these, however, often involves boring into a landscape considered sacred by Tibetans.
It involves boring diplomatic appearances, boring commercial investments (and boring efforts to remind everyone of how big they are), boring educational exchange programmes, boring foreign-aid projects, and so on.
This involves boring a pair of 30-mile tunnels to funnel water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to feed an aqueduct that serves farming and residential communities to the south (see "From torrent to trickle", October 4th 2013).
Last month, the authority agreed to pay a consortium of construction firms $1.14 billion for the first phase of work on the subway project, which involves boring the tunnels and digging out space for the station at 34th Street.
That the Grey Men of Brussels are coming for us, backed by an ideology none of us would share, formed by thinkers none of us have ever heard of, with methods that seem to mainly involve boring us to death.
My only bartending stint involved mixing boring drinks for rich people who were waiting to sit for dinner, so I never learned the sorts of bar tricks that might entertain a less transient clientele.
Construction on the highway began in 1928, which involved the boring of three tunnels.
Construction of a stepwell typically involved not just boring a deep hole from which water could be drawn but the careful placement of a wide, stone-lined, sloping excavation that, once a long staircase and side ledges had been embedded, allowed access to the ever-fluctuating level of the water, which flowed through an opening in the well cylinder.
For both campaigns, the effort to frame perceptions involves not just boring down on the minutiae of the debate performances but also trying to advance an overall narrative of the race.
The goal behind the apps was simple: Turn the typical study and material retention process for students, which involves rote memorization, boring flash cards and textbook glaring, into an activity that people would actually enjoy.
