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School connection is a protective factor for students — “a buffer for stress,” she said.

It’s not gathering feedback on whether you’d support a sea wall versus expanding a natural wetland as an ocean buffer.

In Washington, the smallest buffer allowed on a stream that provides drinking water is 50 feet from either bank, and the state requires that additional trees be left behind up to 200 feet from the water.

A tree buffer along Old Georgia Highway 3, however, obscured his view of the coal ash ponds on site.

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said that “no one can do anything other than go to and from voting” in the 100-foot buffer.

He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.

The buffer zone would protect civilians, Syrian rebels, and Kurds against ISIS assaults.

Levin is calling for a Turkish buffer zone inside Syria, protected by a U.S.-led no fly zone.

The Kurds entered a buffer zone on the Turkish border and in the melee at least four protestor were wounded.

And the Americans are currently ruling out boots on the ground in Syria or buffer zones.

The Indian agent is the local buffer between contending forces.

This arrangement acts as a buffer to take up the end thrust on the shaft caused by the varying pressure of the wind on the wheel.

I took my seat beside him, while the lady, a useful little buffer state, was squeezed in between the two men of wrath at the back.

She sketches out a letter to be written to the lady who is at present a buffer-state between the dried man and the parched women.

His letters make a soft buffer, a foolish pretty window, a tinted veil between me and my too-harsh actualities.