Radio and television reports normally provide only a general outline of which roads are running smoothly.
The "figure-ground" illusion is commonly experienced when one gazes at the illustration of a white vase, the outline of which is created by two black profiles (see ).
The Chinese seem to have been dragging their feet over the deal, the outlines of which were first leaked (to their irritation) last autumn.
It was a remarkable evolution, the outline of which is apparent from the official record of votes and opinions in the thousands of cases that came before the court during his 24-year tenure.
The Bottle Imp, for example, the outline of which Stevenson knew as an early 19th-century melodrama, though it was a tale of Germanic folk origin, was translated into Samoan and published in a local missionary magazine.
The unofficial figurehead for this movement, the outlines of which will become clearer with the formation of a new charity early next year called Rewilding Britain, is Guardian columnist and author George Monbiot.
And by Thursday morning, Mr. Dayton announced he supported a compromise, the outlines of which had been suggested two weeks earlier by the Republicans, signaling what seems likely to be the reopening of state government sometime next week.
Stephen, to whose fate Saul assented, spoke for a pre-Pauline Christian movement, overwhelmingly Jewish, the precise outlines of which are not easily recoverable because they have been covered by layers of great change.
The pressure resulted in concessions that "diluted key aspects" of the original plan, the broad outlines of which were approved in December, said Sergio Cárdenas, an education expert at CIDE, a Mexico City university.
The Russian prime minister Vladimir V. Putin signaled the importance of the agreement, the broad outlines of which were agreed to last August, by hosting the signing ceremony at his home near Moscow.
