I prefer hardwood floors to carpet.

Under this veneer we're all savages.

CAPTAIN I asked how much hardwood did you get?

My compliments on procuring that fine hardwood... from the navy sawmen ashore.

The term covers logs, sawnwood, veneer sheets and plywood.

One doesn't want too many scratches in the veneer.

And if you're remodeling your house, take out all the carpeting and put in hardwood flooring.

The term covers logs, sawnwood, veneer sheets, panelwood and engineered structural wood and plywood and furniture .

Volunteers helped collect native hardwood tree seeds that were sent to state nurseries as the latter were unable to meet the increased demand for trees.

And it has two nice fences of tropical hardwood trees you have the shade trees planted in year one, then you underplanted with the sugar palms, and you plant this thorny fence.

Given a democracy that is deep rooted and without ambiguities, no violent action can enjoy a veneer of legitimacy on the contrary, it must be disqualified and branded as terrorist.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US. And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

It demands the power of ideas that can galvanize others. Such power also serves as the moral veneer to the assertiveness often involved in the pursuit of any particular cause or interest.

It would have been far clearer to address the issue head on and change the BoE s mandate. That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.

And inside, we have this area for reforestation as a gene bank to keep all that material alive, because for the last 12 years not a single seedling of the tropical hardwood trees has grown up because the climatic triggers have disappeared.

1alt. Tropical timber means tropical wood for industrial uses, which grows or is produced in the countries situated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The term covers logs, sawnwood, veneer sheets and plywood

HONG KONG After less than 100 days in office, C.Y. Leung, Hong Kong s new Chief Executive, is already in political intensive care. In record time, he has managed to lose his veneer of competence, credibility, and steely leadership.

It drives people from the smart part of the brain that dark, deep well of the subconscious, where instincts and experience, and all the other factors of creativity and good judgment are it drives us to the thin veneer of conscious logic.

There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world s tropical forests. Cutting down the hardwood forests even when they presently receive just 5 of the final price in, say, New York is the only way people can make ends meet.

This is one reason why London has experienced the other, darker side of the multicultural society the veneer of multiculturalism is thin. It does not take much to turn people of one group against those of others with whom they had apparently lived in peace.

And what it entails is the use of resin, of this very thick resin with a veneer of the same kind of wood that's used throughout the hall, in a kind of seamless continuity that wraps the hall in light, like a belt of light rather than separating, like a proscenium would separate the audience from performers, it connects audience with players.

By eliminating the two assumptions critical to negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel s current leadership and, indirectly, the majority of Israelis has destroyed the thin veneer of legitimacy that the international community had erected around a country that has been occupying another people for nearly five decades. The justification for not censoring Israel too harshly in international institutions or using boycotts to punish Israel for war crimes is no longer valid.

In the Netherlands, Wilders more a one man show than the leader of a real party has already been in government, thereby providing a veneer of legitimacy to Le Pen simply by forming an alliance with her. Interestingly, the main Danish and British anti European parties have refused to follow suit, refusing to enter into a pact with a party that was and probably remains anti Semitic at its core.

These numbers seem to paint a comforting picture of an increasingly autonomous Asia that can better withstand the blows from the West s recurring crises. But research by the International Monetary Fund shows that, beneath the veneer, 60 65 of all trade flows in the region can be classified as intermediate goods components that are made in countries like Korea and Taiwan, assembled in China, and ultimately shipped out as finished goods to the West.