| There are obviously many degrees of cultural self-assertion, cultural defensiveness, cultural porousness and cultural boundaries. |
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| By examining the porousness of this boundary, some otherwise-intuitive notions about the American consumer can be called into question. |
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| The fact that it journeyed unimpeded to its final destination was offered as alarming proof of the porousness of our ports. |
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| Given the porousness of U.S. borders and the volume of international traffic, sealing off the country would be a formidable task. |
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| This is too neat to be true, and doesn't sufficiently acknowledge the porousness of the boundaries between fiction and life. |
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| The quality of the cork depends on speed of growth, that in turn determins the porousness and density. |
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| This respect for open-mindedness and open-endedness, this porousness at the borders, is, then, one of the most refreshing dimensions of the editorial voice in this volume. |
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| It has also created the freedom of movement and some of the porousness that have put us at risk in this most recent circumstance. |
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| Given the porousness of borders and the globalisation of the world's airline industry, these problems must be solved. |
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| One aspect of these weaknesses relates to the inadequacy of border controls and the porousness of the border between the Darfur region and neighbouring countries. |
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| It grows extremely slowly, giving it time to filter and absorb large quantities of nutrients from the sea, especially calcium and magnesium, which it is able to retain because of its great porousness. |
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| Another advantage of vitrified bonds is the controllable porousness of the grinding rim during production, ranging from a closed to a very open rim structure. |
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| You do wonder whether Jonathan Davies's run past Shontayne Hape to create Wales's try for Morgan Stoddart exposed a porousness in the England defence that the best attacks will keep on exploiting. |
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| The Wearside outfit appeared to have resolved their early-season defensive porousness against Swansea City at the weekend. |
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| But despite the tighter security, the porousness of the border and the proximity of ISIL have left Turkish residents feeling insecure. |
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| The United States is unusual in the porousness of the membranes that separate the different branches of the legal profession. |
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| The length and porousness of the border allows the Taliban and various militant groups to easily cross the border without detection at various points. |
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| Here, openness to tradition is openness to ourselves, to our porousness with regard to tradition and its effective influence on our orientations and assumptions. |
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| In addition to this temporal fluidity and porousness of classifications, we need a more interactive or circular concept of the flow of ideas between Africa and China. |
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