The samples were placed in the embedding media such that a cross section of the leaf was obtained.
There might never have been such a cross-section of people cooperating since National Service was abolished.
Such a cross-section is not seen in this film, an unabashed appeal for immigration policy reform.
At what other time in modern history would it have been possible for one fairly ordinary building to embody such a cross-section of worries?
On such a cross-section we could clearly see how the micro-cracks propagate from the coating surface through all the layers that compose the multilayer structure.
The women are compellingly strong, each in her own way, and it is little short of a marvel how Day forges the seemingly impossible links between such a cross-section of society.
Adrian Monck, head of communications for the World Economic Forum, said that because there was such a cross-section of paying invitees from all kinds of industries, nobody could skew the selection of people invited to attend free.
"I don't know what that means when such a cross-section -- liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans -- know it is time to reform these laws," said Assemblyman Michael J. Bragman, a Democrat from the Syracuse area (2-to-1 Republican) and leader of the recent coup attempt against Mr. Silver.
And then, being a documentarian, I realized that this was the kind of story I'd like to tell, and it affected such a cross-section of New Yorkers.
"Today you saw such a cross-section of people of all different ages, people of all different colors, people of all different sexual orientations, people of all different socioeconomic statuses," Shannon Craine of San Francisco told The Huffington Post.
