| The new France, it declared, would only fight to preserve its national territory from attack and not to honour the private compacts of dynasts. |
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| It does not exude the tacky, plasticky feel of the compacts and is the sort of camera it would be a joy to roll some film through. |
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| The Act provides language for states to create regional compacts for the purpose of low-level radioactive waste disposal. |
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| It's also good to use early in the spring instead of heavier equipment which compacts wet spring soil. |
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| The problem is that walking on earth compacts it, causing a need for deep double digging in spring to get the air back in the soil. |
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| It is formed from snow falling in the interior of the Antarctic which compacts into ice. |
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| The buildings were so poor they had collapsed into dust and rubble which compacts down, making it very difficult for people to survive. |
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| Vintage bowling bags have been reinvented as women's accessories, from compacts to purses. |
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| There were lipstick holders, compacts and mirrors discreetly designed to go inside. |
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| At the bottom of nearly all my handbags and suitcases can be found a random array of black eyeliners, lip glosses and discarded powder compacts. |
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| They are available in eight-round capacity for full size guns and seven-round for compacts. |
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| Used as a family snapshot camera it's on a par with early colour compacts, using cheap colour film and cheap laboratory processing. |
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| The baby-size pocket guns, the compacts, the full size, and the long target models, all fit the same holster. |
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| Most titanium metal powders currently available in commercial quantities do not have sufficient purity to produce ductile metal compacts. |
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| The Constitution and federal law require that the state and tribes sign detailed compacts to spell out exactly how the casinos will be run. |
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| But at the heart of this collection of treaties, compacts, laws and court decisions are two sets of documents. |
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| This vacuum not only holds products in place, it also compacts the package size, reducing the amount of space they take up in cartons. |
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| High chroma, the intensity of a color, will put more punch in reds and light blues for compacts and sports cars. |
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| Come spring the snow compacts under its weight like a fallen cake. |
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| I almost regretted agreeing to let her help me get ready for the party when I saw the array of brushes, compacts, bottles, and tubes littering the top of her sink. |
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| The format compacts sound to allow up to 10 hours of recording on one CD, which reduces this production from a hulking box-set to a slender two-disc pack. |
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| The properties of powder metallurgy compacts produced by the techniques described above are not comparable to the properties obtained in the wrought metal. |
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| And if you work it or walk on it when it's wet, it compacts easily. |
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| It is equipped with an agglomerator that predries and compacts the material. |
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| Rice Rockets Tricked out Japanese compacts, as opposed to American 'muscle' cars. |
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| In contrast to red top tabloids, compacts use an editorial style more closely associated with broadsheet newspapers. |
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| With the consent of Congress, states may enter into interstate compacts, agreements between two or more states. |
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| Examples of such interstate compacts are the Great Lakes Commission and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. |
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| Small clutch bags are all the rage, designed to hold compacts, lip rouge, cigarette lighters, gloves and embroidered hankies as well as money and keys. |
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| There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc. |
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| Compacts are frequently used to manage a shared resource, such as transportation infrastructure or water rights. |
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| The new Compact builds on and replaces the previous Compacts between the Third Sector and the Local Authority. |
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| The wars ended in 1436 with the ratification of the compromise Compacts of Basel by the Church and the Hussites. |
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| For various reasons Puerto Rico's political status differs from that of the Pacific Islands that entered into Compacts of Free Association with the United States. |
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