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The light, portable ivories would have been particularly attractive as loot.
The evidence from these workshops shows that the craftsmen were producing prestige valuables: enamels, glassware, ivories, bonework and elaborate metalwork.
Policy-makers do not operate in an ivory tower, exempt from the pressures of interest groups.
Unlike the academic moralists, she is not "firmly imprisoned in an ivory tower".
Scientists will have to quit their ivory towers in order to explain how the patient sorting out of tested information can facilitate agreement.
All ivory gulls were observed in small areas of open water in large expanses covered with mostly solid sea ice.
On three of the four occasions when the ship encountered a polar bear, ivory gulls were also present.
Of the four bears seen during the 1993 cruise, three had ivory gulls associated with them.
In contrast, no ivory gulls were observed near this community in 2002.
The observations of ivory gulls at sea presented here are consistent with this.
A thorough search in the early evening failed to show any ivory gulls at all.
Even the ivory towers of academia were affected.
His ivory tower has always been equipped with a high-speed elevator.
To protect the elephant, trade in ivory has been banned since 1990.
The items concerned— about 20 in number—are nineteenth century copies of seventeenth century ivories.
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Votive seals and ivories have been found in the cave.
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She is also found in sculpted form, whether small ivories for private devotion, or large sculptural reliefs and free-standing sculpture.
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He has collected things off of endangered animals like elephant ivories, baby seal pelts, dolphin hides, and mountain gorilla skulls.
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The key commercial species were elephant and ostrich for the ivory and feather export markets.
He emphasises its ' ' instrumental mission ' ' within the black community, and consequent rejection of ' ' ivory tower elitism.
The first of these was not an ivory caravan but one of work seekers.
Ivory tusks were ensured safe arrival at the coast after they had been ritually marked with spots, lines and figures.
I sat down, put my coffee on the piano, tinkled some ivories, and four minutes later 80 percent of the song was written.
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In the afternoon 10 ivory gulls (six adults, and four juveniles) were observed on the east side of the bay.
No ivory gulls were observed along the western side, including the community dump.
In 1993, most of the ivory gulls seen on the cruise were flying.
The authors saw a total of 74 ivory gulls in 1993 and 17 in 2002.
Preservation of a precarious order, limiting cattle raiding and controlling the ivory trade were the primary goals.
Lighting levels should also be limited, especially for polychrome ivories.
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Such policies are impacting not in the ivory towers, but in the lived experience of musicians.
Rather than attempt to paint on large surfaces, many portrait miniaturists from this period used ivories of only 1 to 2 inches in height.
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He still sometimes paints small sized miniatures, but he more frequently paints on ivories of around 2 inches in height.
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The concomitant collapse of ivory and wild ostrich feather production underlined the fact that harvesting wild animals on the public commons was unsustainable.
All the ivory gulls observed were in adult plumage (all white, no black speckling).
The ivory gulls observed could have been breeders feeding at sea, failed breeders, or non-breeding birds.
A single token or a few tokens will do it, even when my ivory tower is out in the field.
Scenes commonly portrayed in relief on the ivories capture the dynamic and cosmopolitan coastal activity related to the transatlantic trade.
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Apart from protecting caravan personnel, the mganga also ritually cared for the ivory.
To the sceptic, it is simply an 'ivory-tower' activity that may have a payo sometime in the future.
They traded their ivory and built up their supplies of arms.
I have agreed that scientists should no longer shelter in ivory towers.
Colony usage by ivory gulls appears to be intermittent.
Scrimshaw is being created today still using fossilized ivories, recycled teeth, bones, plastic and more.
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They wanted the money to pay off their debts and to start on a new venture, ivory trading.
An artist trying to be useful, not someone shut away in that 'ivory tower'...
The distribution of ivory gulls seen during the cruises roughly corresponded to the distribution of breeding colonies in the area.
Initially, in temperate climates and for short distances and unpredictable periods, this was achieved by drying vesicle fluid on threads or ivory points or by sealing it between glass plates.
The vast quantities of ivory found in these same contexts suggest this luxury item was plentiful enough both for local consumption and to exchange for imported goods.
Ivory towers or earthen trenches?
Small ivories were also mostly in relief.
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Edible birds' nests, beeswax, feathers of birds of paradise, and hornbill ivory were also in demand as were products from the mangrove forests such as cutch and nipah.
He dislikes attempts to measure research, he rejects rhetorical conceits which marginalize academic critics in ivory towers, and he is coruscating on le trahison des intellectuels.
The observers did not examine the area over the two previous days due to other research commitments, so there is no determination concerning when the ivory gulls first appeared.
Painting in fresco, illuminated manuscripts and on wood panel and, especially in earlier periods, mosaic were the main media, and figurative sculpture very rare except for small carved ivories.
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We had got them; there before us were millions of pounds' worth of diamonds, and thousands of pounds [sic] worth of gold and ivory, only waiting to be taken away.
Excavations revealed remarkable bas-reliefs, ivories, and sculptures.
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The becomingly modest account in the manual counsels academics how to import a realworld function like mailmerge into their ivory tower and live happily ever after.
Many of these were religious in nature, although a large number of objects with secular or non-representational decoration were produced: for example, ivories representing themes from classical mythology.
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His painting style does not really change from that developed in the preceding years, but his ivories are now large, measuring around 3 to 3 inches in height.
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Not one of them was allowed to marry before he had carried a load of ivory to the coast, and brought back one of calico or brass wire.
Ivory prices also play a role.
An export licence is required for any trader to export ivory, either in raw or in worked form.
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First, we are a major staging post in world ivory trade, including that which is traded illegally.
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The ivory itself is inspected to ensure that it matches with the numbers, weight and markings.
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We need a ban on all ivory, and we need it now.
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The validity of the export permits produced for this ivory is being checked by the international ivory trade monitoring unit.
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He should now leave his ivory tower and visit the two areas to see for himself what is going on.
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Scientists need to come out of their ivory towers and talk to religious groups and others.
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We are also entitled to remind it that in the these days of interdependence it is impossible to live in ivory towers.
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The prohibition of international trade, particularly in ivory, must remain in place.
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However, curtailing the ivory trade seems to have been successful in preventing a complete wipe-out.
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The pro-immigration lobby should come down from its ivory tower and start to listen to the voice from below, the voice of the nations.
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The major cause of the decline is the ivory trade.
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I also gave as my impression that scientists were living to a certain extent in their own ivory tower.
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Quantities of ivory are regularly seized by customs and held pending disposal.
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Conferences such as this are often criticised for excluding the people whom they affect, and for being packed with unresponsive bureaucrats inhabiting ivory towers.
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The seizure of 55 kgs ivory products was confiscated.
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The work has not proceeded in a departmental ivory tower.
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All over the country statutes would have been erected to him—no doubt in ivory—in recognition of the great service he had performed.
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Could it be that those on the ground have a different experience from that of those who sit in ivory towers?
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In this vacuum we need positive action to open the ivory gate to end violence, and to encourage co-operation.
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Do not let us sit in an ivory tower.
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Is there not the usual danger that the ivory tower attitude of the academics will prevail?
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They do not sit in their ivory towers.
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In a way, they are a series of ivory towers.
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However, as we all know, it is not an outlandish theory that has been put forward by some academics in an ivory tower.
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The aim of these controls is to prevent any illegal ivory from entering into legal markets and to discourage an upsurge in poaching.
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We therefore remain unconvinced that any country can prevent the mixing of legal and illegal ivory.
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He spoke, for example, of the ending of what he called the ivory silo.
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Innocent people are dealing in ivory which has come from dead elephants' tusks and there is nothing wrong with that.
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I am not painting a picture of an ivory tower separated from industry.
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