I sat for two seconds, with all the material laid out in front of me, and I tried to understand what they inspired within me.
The C.I.A.'s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration to a federal court in New York, comes a week after the Obama administration declassified documents about abuses in the C.I.A.'s secret overseas prisons and the Justice Department began investigating the actions of C.I.A. operatives.
A book proposal is the prospectus or the campaign map of a concept, showing how the writer will attack the material, laying out in almost diagnostic fashion what will be in the finished manuscript.
For techniques using a substrate, the material is laid out as a thin, uniform layer of liquid resin (SLA) or powder (SLS) covering the build area.
Participants were recruited for the study in four different ways: In the two psychiatric hospitals in Erlangen, informational material was laid out and contact details were given so that either the participants or their physicians could apply for study participation.
The materials are laid out in the order in which the surgeries are scheduled.
The design features and material specifications are laid out, as well as resources for installation and inspection.
The chapter material is clearly laid out, but of a fairly technical nature for the most part.
These conditions on research materials are often laid out in the form of a memorandum of transfer agreement, or M.T.A. "There's no doubt that the M.T.A. being delivered to people who request these cells has provisions that most of us don't like to work with," Dr. Varmus said, referring to reporting requirements and the sharing of intellectual property rights.
Instead of paying $40 to take a tour in one of those open-topped vehicles, though, I set off on my own version of the tour, using as source material the bike route laid out in the "Beverly Hills Star Home Loop" section of the book "Bicycling Los Angeles County" by Patrick Brady (Menasha Ridge Press).
Much of this volume's narrative amounts to a repurposing of material Mr. Ellis has laid out in enterprising earlier books like "Founding Brothers," and in absorbing, psychologically astute portraits of individual members of the revolutionary generation including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the cantankerous John Adams.
