The cities are separated by the thin trickle of the Rio Grande, which flows through concrete channels, built to put an end to the river's natural habit of changing course and muddying boundaries.
But, instead of giving near-death research scientific credibility, medicalizing the experience greatly muddied the boundaries of what an N.D.E.
Nabokov liked to vaunt art's "splendid insincerity"; for Fellini, whose life impossibly muddied the boundaries of truth and lies, fable and fantasy, the aim was to make films that were "sincere to the point of being indecent".
But ultimately, one expert suggested, the desire to open U.S. markets will prevent Europeans from muddying the boundaries between the "separate tracks" of the TTIP talks and the digital privacy agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
This could potentially be construed as the muddying the boundaries between the board and the management.
A variant of the tropical rainforest, the mangrove forest, is found along estuaries and on sheltered sea coasts in tidally inundated, muddy soils (see boundary ecosystem: Coastal systems).
Unless you're married or in a romantic liaison or family situation, it's not recommended to share the food costs with a roomie — doing so can easily muddy the waters and blur boundaries.
A woodcock, probing muddy grass, rockets through branches of the old boundary ash tree and off into the murk without a sound.
With the boundary between cure and enhancement so historically muddy, one suspects we'll walk that fuzzy line with greater wisdom and enlightenment only if biology's power to enhance ultimately "improves" the most complicated trait of all: human nature.
We spend so much time on our professional lives that the boundaries between the professional and the personal are muddied.
