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There seemed no way to concretize it with a metaphor.

You concretize certain aspects of your own nature in the external world, and then sacrifice them.

It outlines steps that will help concretize what the youth themselves desire.

Another plan is to concretize the airstrip to avoid rough landings of planes.

And I'm reaching the age where I need something of value to concretize my expectations a little."

The international governing body accepted at the same time that a new Organizing Committee took over concretize the tournament.

The answer, actually, is yes and no. "I concretize the abstract," Martin explains when she stops moving for a minute.

"Let us prepare to concretize in the definition of group the principle of freedom of association."

If you concretize your symbol and see the answer to everything in one external form, you have become an idolater, so kill it.

"You're speaking cynically-but you're still attempting to concretize an abstraction," Foster said.

The very moment you settle down to concretize a scene, a passion, a thought, you are splendid and no one could find fault with your writing.

We expect the Commission to concretize rapidly the political agreement of the Council on the utilization of budget appropriations allocated to employment.

Quicklime (calcium oxide) is commonly employed to concretize oil sludge containing PCBs.

The sculptures concretize the elegiac, memorial quality of Mr. Twombly's paintings with tangible objects and miniature structures.

This means that if we take an element from the abstract space, concretize it and abstract the concretized version, the result will be equal to the original.

While he could not concretize his apprehension, he feared that his contact with the medical establishment or law enforcement would pose a significant risk of impacting the timeline.

On the other hand, if you pick an element from the real space, abstract it and concretize the abstract version, the final result will be a super set of the original.

In 2007, he founded a non-profit organization called UFO-Science to concretize some research ideas he could not experiment on while working due to lack of allocated funds at the time.

President Kennedy's proposal on May 25, 1961 of an explicit manned lunar landing goal spurred NASA to concretize its launch vehicle requirements for a lunar landing.

It was, however, Morazzone and the d'Enrico brothers, Giovanni and Tanzio, who helped concretize the gran teatro montano.

Definition: The development of behaviors, values, language, institutions, and physical structures that elucidate history and culture, concretize and protect the present, and insure the future identity and independence of a nation.

It provided an appropriate vehicle to concretize her beliefs that the individual is of supreme value, the "fountainhead" of creativity, and that selfishness, properly understood as ethical egoism, is a virtue.

"We need to recapture Frederick Law Olmsted's vision of American democracy and concretize it in a new series of public spaces that acknowledge the right of every living thing to have a place."

Cultural change will ultimately concretise the ideals and ideas that we all have in promoting our future together.

I also agree with Parliament that we must concretise how we can achieve our aims, since good intentions are certainly not enough.

Although statutory interpretation usually involves a personal predisposition to the text, the goal is generally to "concretise" it: to harmonise text and purpose.

Then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did all he could to concretise his appreciation of Mother's efforts in this field.

The three selves were conceived as mutually supporting selves, as the imagery Bendre used to concretise this idea clearly suggests.

Yet, before he had even begun to concretise his thoughts into the unspoken state which the trawl could read, the suit made him sleep again, as dreamlessly as before.

Many Voices - One World and the movement towards a new information order have tried to concretise and apply the right to communicate in the real world, both on the national and international levels.

As at 2013, in the streets of Rajkot, there are people who tell stories of how Manubhai helped to concretise an idea or to hasten the building of a school or a business or a hospital or a park.

The use of neuter is rather complex in Asturian; anyway neuters nouns have no plural (except in some cases, where they are taken metaphorically, in which case the lose this gender, such as in l agü tán frí (Waters are cold) or when you want to concretise an abstract noun: