It's a double-edged sword: Once they started finding "penumbrae," the courts turned it around on us and made up all sorts of stuff to NARROW our rights and expanded the power of government. From Wordnik.com. [troll's is now h-e-double hockey sticks] Reference
My view is that this would suggest a possibility that such statutes would in essence end up with penumbrae. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Oral Argument in City of Ontario v. Quon] Reference
From the top of the terrace he gazed upon this vague form standing up like a phantom in the penumbrae of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
That which on earth is called diffusion of light, that luminous matter which the air holds in suspension, which creates the twilight and the daybreak, which produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the magic of chiaro-oscuro, does not exist on the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
When the ascending currents are powerful, they give rise to the nuclei, to the penumbrae, to the faculae. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
These are the same people who say; '"The penumbrae of the Constitution enshrines an unwritten right to abortion on demand.". From Wordnik.com. [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference
When the ascending currents are powerful, they create those appearances which astronomers designate the nuclei, the penumbrae, the faculae. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Herschels]
The filamentary outer region (penumbrae) of sunspots show systematic radial outward flows along channels of nearly horizontal magnetic field. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Greece may trigger forex volatility: Subir Gokarn] Reference
The waves have left gray penumbrae of themselves at the point where the beach abruptly changes its declivity to a twenty degree angle diving into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Pax Nortona - A Blog by Joel Sax] Reference
What other emanations might emerge from the penumbrae of the document, leading us to discover a meaning apparently quite different from the Founders 'own understanding?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Unreal Lightmass produces high-quality static lighting with next-generation effects, such as: soft shadows with accurate penumbrae; diffuse and specular interreflection; and color bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [The game retail industry according to MCV] Reference
Unreal Lightmass, a new global illumination solver that produces high-quality static lighting with next-generation effects, such as: soft shadows with accurate penumbrae; diffuse and specular interreflection; and color bleeding; the. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - TeamXbox] Reference
But large nuclei, large penumbrae, wrinkles, faculae, do they indicate an abundant luminous and calorific emission, as Herschel thought; that would be the result of his hypothesis on the existence of very active ascending currents, but direct experience seems to contradict it. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
For more than 30 years, the cornerstone of the pro-life movement's legal (as opposed to moral) argument against Roe has been that the court's decision was "based on a new, previously undefined 'right of privacy' which it 'discovered' in so-called 'emanations' of 'penumbrae' of the Constitution.". From Wordnik.com. [Radosh.net] Reference
Herodotus’s subject is Greece and Persia and their respective “barbarian” penumbrae in the Near East and North Africa — the vast, exotic tapestry of what the ancient Greeks referred to as the oikoumene, the “inhabited quarter” of the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Historian For Our Time] Reference
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