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So named because its finely divided leaves resemble a bird's foot.
In fact, their brains closely resemble those of modern reptiles.
Unfortunately, the market does not always resemble the model.
Since then, however, the country has come to resemble an old-fashioned banana republic.
We rate faces as more trustworthy if the images have been modified by computers to resemble us.
For instance, sledging parties often encountered sastrugi, wind-sculpted snow that can resemble the surface of a stormy sea.
Familiar enough on the surface, these stories leave one with tremors that resemble the start of a breakdown.
We're not here to help our students make their minds resemble their laptops, fast and feverish.
Some are deeply quirky, designed to resemble a headless dog.
But we're still watching you, citizen, thanks to a spy panel cleverly made to resemble a dull and opaque window.
But the pattern could also resemble other letters of the alphabet.
Some songbirds also go through speech phases that resemble babbling.
Often the story that gets back around to the original story-teller does not resemble the original tale.
Coral reefs can resemble underwater monuments, with strong towers and meandering walls that stand firm against the tides.
However, when the crisis finally did come, the mechanism did not at all resemble the feared sudden stop.
These noises resemble the sounds made by hitting two round pebbles together.
Learn why these intriguing animals resemble monkeys but are really related to raccoons.
Please explain how this order differs from mantids, which to my untrained eye they seem to closely resemble.
It would resemble one of those monstrous creations of antiquity, half human, half beast.
When you drift away from one of those conditions, the market ceases to resemble a free market in behaviour.
And unlike the picture symbols of ancient hieroglyphics, they do not usually resemble objects either.
Even when departments are unchanged, government is increasingly coming to resemble a game of musical chairs.
The creep of regulation is one reason why hedge funds increasingly resemble more traditional investment managers.
Some studies argue that dogs can resemble their owners, but the research is debatable.
Some resemble ears of corn, clam shells, and bugs while others are abstract boxes or blobs.
But the next five years will not resemble the five preceding the crisis.
There are no limits on call times, and the resulting sessions occasionally resemble protracted talk therapy.
Descended from the wild vicuña, alpaca resemble a cross between a llama and a sheep.
Interesting research reveals that cities resemble brains in communications flow.
The makeup was smeared on faces to resemble battlefield camouflage and war wounds.
Arguments over currencies, trade and climate policy will resemble a tug-of-war.
They have long, thin, curving horns that resemble a scimitar sword.
Instead of being a collection of departmental silos, they could come to resemble computing platforms.
The drugs both resemble nicotine in their molecular makeup, but are missing nicotine's addictive properties and toxicity.
The more they resemble actual human thinking and behavior, the more useful they can be.
Flying would, in short, more closely resemble navigation at sea.
Several other conditions may at some point in their course resemble gout.
They resemble hyacinths but are taller, with looser flower clusters and fewer, narrower leaves.
After weeks of writing and research, other cast members have come to resemble their chosen historical figures as well.
Some were kept in cages lit constantly, so as to resemble a never-ending overcast day.
They say that as couples grow old together, they start to resemble one another, but this is ridiculous.
The wet coastal plain is formed into large polygons that resemble moon craters.
Indeed, in some ways, these unconventional thinkers resemble each other more than the less striking birds in-between.
Several plants in these woods resemble ginseng,so our task is not easy.
Later she is done up to resemble a remote-controlled snowflake.
The sleek buses race between raised stations that resemble train stops.
Practice with family members, especially kids, as they often resemble fast and ever-moving fish.
The best thing when you're a songwriter is to have your own style that doesn't resemble anyone or anything, and he has that.
Although javelinas may superficially resemble wild boars and domestic pigs, these species of animals are not closely related.
It is said that by some strange quirk of biology, dog owners and their pets come to resemble each other.
Fragrant flowers in late summer resemble scarlet heads of broccoli.
The rig's perforated red beams resemble a giant segmented insect.
Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored b more add to my plant list.
Bottom line, the two extremes here resemble each other more than either wants to admit.
Metamorphic semiconductors resemble the high-efficiency cells used in space.
Without archaea to eat the dissolved organics, the ocean might resemble chicken soup.
These western dynamics have started to resemble the process of natural selection.
In many ways, separation appears to resemble drug withdrawal.
Early observations of the fossil show that the threads resemble silk spun by modern spiders.
Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored by birds.
Flowering stems have odd inflorescences springing out at right angles and said to resemble hovering mosquitoes.
In some ways, their relationship had come to resemble a co-dependency more than a co-presidency.
In the past year, however, the middle ground has begun to resemble quicksand.
Chronic gout can often resemble rheumatoid arthritis.
Fluffy white azaleas and hydrangeas piled in containers resemble snowballs.
The researchers say that gibbon vocalizations more closely resemble those of rainforest birds in both sound and purpose.
Mislabeling is common, since many of these plants closely resemble one another.
And then there are instances in which lines of songs closely resemble musical phrases in the liturgy.
They have thin, disk-shaped bodies that closely resemble their equally recognizable cousins, the angelfish.
The remaining rocky or metallic core would resemble a terrestrial planet in many respects.
Our cities were destroyed and re-created to resemble a foreign country.
Ask students if they are familiar with any dogs that more closely resemble wolves.
The markets now resemble those nesting chicks that chirrup constantly for their parents to feed them.
But in practice, it is coming to resemble a government piggy-bank.
Ask students to name some common behaviors of house cats that resemble those of their larger relatives, tigers.
Soviet-era apartment blocks abound, and resemble penitentiaries.
The agents do not look terribly exciting: they resemble simple stick figures that move through a three-dimensional environment.
Newfangled video-game controllers resemble cybernetic fruit bats.
The soft-bodied animals, a fraction of an inch long, resemble twigs and gumdrops in shape.
These are snap-together circuits on pieces that resemble electrical schematics.
As their name suggests, stick bugs resemble twigs, an effective camouflage.
One key feature is that it has bone structures in the skull that resemble that of mammals that no reptile has ever had.
The building was constructed to resemble a historic fishing stage, a once-prominent type of building in this old town.
The usual objections to accessory lights is that they are too bright, distracting or resemble lights on emergency vehicles.
Both have flippers that resemble paddles, which make them powerful and graceful swimmers.
It is often observed that enemies come to resemble each other.
In the insect world, different species can resemble each other, even though they are not the same genetically.
The effect can be gained by training on tasks that don't resemble the test questions.
These gap filling dark matter equations seem to resemble another type of dark matter to me bovine fecal matter.
Even true immortality to accomplish this they would have to resemble echinoderms, such as sea urchins, except much more high-tech.
They also resemble brain images of people under the influence of cocaine.
And tasty viceroy butterflies are safe from birds because they resemble monarchs, which are unpalatable.
Many of the symptoms of hypothermia resemble those of a drunken stupor: sleepiness, clumsiness, confusion and even slurred speech.
What will be indoors there hopefully will resemble sculpture.
His typewriter, if that's what it was, apparently didn't resemble the modern machine at all.
Silicon chips built to resemble the brain could shed light on its computational power.
They predicted the catch would resemble the interstellar gas and dust from which the sun and planets originated.
Crushed wooden houses now resemble matchwood, scattered in every direction over swampy wasteland.
It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the avian bird of paradise in flight.
This, he says, is why the bay's once crystal-clear waters often resemble a pea soup.
Ice particles stack together in sheets that resemble honeycombs.
It really does resemble a castle and it really is on a hill.
The different life forms described in the book in detail resemble the anthropological findings.
Many stick insects have wings, some spectacularly beautiful, while others resemble little more than a stump.
Which, to some, might resemble not having any training at all.
Because there is a clear line of demarcation, it may resemble an immersion burn.
Though at first glance it may resemble other commuter vehicles, a few key features set it apart.
Though far beyond the range of human hearing, the calls resemble duets between birds or singing humans, according to the authors.
These fast, low-voltage brain waves resemble the ones that occur during wakefulness.
The argument appears to resemble one of those wild and unsustainable conjectures.
The fungus also infects the bats' delicate wing membranes, eating away at the skin until the wings resemble torn, crumpled.
Most leopards are light colored with distinctive dark spots that are called rosettes, because they resemble the shape of a rose.
But nearly half resemble humans in lacking visible signs.
As a result, fungal proteins resemble nothing so much as animal proteins.
In short, the website is coming to resemble television.
In some ways, today's new teachers resemble their graying counterparts.
Flowers are followed by woody capsules that can last for years and may resemble rows of beads pressed into bark.
The snakes' colors can resemble venomous coral snakes, and the creatures can mimic a rattlesnake's noisy tail shake.
It may have come to resemble a video game, but it is one with no reset button, no next level.
And so my nights superficially resemble those of other people.
Many of these state-run giants resemble old-style chartered companies.

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