The stipe (primary stem) superficially resembles the stem of land plants and is flexible and somewhat elastic.
Part of the problem has been the so-called "margin of appreciation" – the degree of latitude allowed to each country to decide decisions within its own traditions; it is not clearly defined and appears somewhat elastic.
Even if the Chinese do arrive on the moon on schedule, it will be more than 60 years since the last Americans left.Like Mr Obama's aspirations for a Mars mission, China's ambitious moon project is at an early stage of development and the dates seem somewhat elastic.
(Truth be told, one of my DVDs was the number #1 best-seller in its category on Amazon for a week a few years ago - so I sparingly use the phrase "best-seller" regarding the DVD because... ah... it's accurate - accurate, that is, if you believe that the universe is curved and truth is thus somewhat elastic).
Early favorites included Laura Newcombe and Veronica Penny, both from Canada (the idea of the "National Spelling Bee" is evidently somewhat elastic); Sukanya Roy, a tall Indian teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Dakota Jones, a short blonde boy from Las Vegas — though it should be conceded right off the bat that the idea of picking favorites in a Spelling Bee is profoundly sad.
The Holland Society of New York is somewhat elastic in its geographical bounds.
The backup center Sean O'Connor indicated, however, that the rules regarding this were somewhat elastic.
Adopting a somewhat elastic approach to setting goals allows us some future wiggle room.
Their investigation of the program showed that its rules can appear somewhat elastic; critics of the program say it amounts to visa-selling by the United States government.
It calls to mind the famous if somewhat elastic contention by a character of John Updike, Baker's literary forebear, that "a man, in America, is a failed boy".
