Even in less-Romantic modes (Rationalist or Modernist ones), yeah, you could maybe see the human scale narratives as ways of defusing, mediating or engaging with the strange in a similar fashion, by concretising it as the vast environment within which more finite, human-scaled struggles take place. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)
The whole point about characters having the potential to escape "into eternity", to become unmoored from the straight-line track from cradle-to-grave as Platonic forms which can be (re) incarnated elsewhen and elsewhere, therefore, is to raise the question: is the whole idea of binding one's self into a graving -- of concretising one's identity, fixing it as an essential "soul" in order to make this immortality possible -- an artificial hobbling? ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
The programme must have begun the process of identifying and concretising these possible opportunities from the planning stages. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday in the latest step towards concretising the programme, endorsed at the 37th summit of the ❋ Unknown (2002)
The conclusion of the process of concretising of our working partnership will take place in three months time from now when the two parties will sign a Memorandum of Agreement, giving legal and binding effect to the mutual commitment. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Sweden, concretising the implementation of future initiatives in the science and technology field between the two countries. ❋ Unknown (1999)
South Africa's Constitution already recognised self-determination, and attention now had to be given to ways of concretising this, he said in a statement. ❋ Unknown (1998)
This conference has a key role to play in concretising the follow-up to the Social ❋ Unknown (1995)
It has no executed traitors, no public testimonials and no police forces and para-state mobs concretising its countersubversive intent with illegal raids. ❋ Heather (2011)
A wealth of detail from architecture to cuisine, layer and nuance the tale, concretising the abstract, personalising the past. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Its product portfolio includes speciality cements used for strengthening airstrips, concretising railway sleepers, cementing oil wells and consumer products ` Vajram 'and ❋ Unknown (2010)
In yet another step down the road to concretising a US-style religious right in the UK, the Bishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, has been appointed Archbishop of Westminster. ❋ Unknown (2009)
