carve
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“Inevitably it will happen,” said Mike Tavioni, who runs a carving and arts workshop dedicated to preserving Cook Islands Maori life.
“So we use animals to construct our identity,” Ms. MeLampy argues early in her book, “carving ourselves in the negative space around them.”
Between the famously liberal City by the Bay and Sacramento, he quietly amassed influence and carved out an unusual lane: a wonky Democrat who accelerates housing construction through legislation that pushes for denser development.
One of the most ambitious is the Zojila tunnel, which is being carved into the mountains of northern India at around 11,500 feet.
With a roughed-up face that defied Hollywood glamour, Hackman helped carve a path for unconventional leading men who in another era might have been pigeonholed as side characters.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
