Those cats always sleep on the carpet.

Her crossing the fragmented tiles, faltering at the step to the street, droning, not looking at me, Can you help me?

After the character animation was done, the carpet's surface design was applied digitally.

And she wrote a little note, she said, Hey Rags, thank you for the magic carpet ride around the world.

If that story is true, it would mean that Allawi pulled the rug out from under Maliki's feet.

Syria s opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community s support.

In the world of old, the West s economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging market countries.

Most lemurs have retained the tapetum lucidum, a reflective layer of tissue in the eye, which is found in many vertebrates.

the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.

Ironically, the British government, while no doubt just trying to be hospitable to foreign investors by laying out a red carpet, is helping to set a trap for Chinese financial institutions and the broader Chinese economy.

Asian countries, for instance, have typically liberalized at the margin (through export subsidies or special economic zones), spurring new export industries without pulling the rug from under the rest.

While sexual abuse and rape cases are usually brushed under the carpet in Arab countries and hidden from the prying eyes of local and global media, a recent case to grab the international headlines is making its way back to the UAE blogosphere.

Syria s opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community s support. They simply need to create a common body that all relevant groups on the ground can accept, as the Libyan opposition did when it set up the National Transitional Council.

In the world of old, the West s economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging market countries. Indeed, the conventional wisdom supported by many painful experiences was that when the industrial countries sneezed, the emerging world caught a cold.

As a result, serious crimes can be swept under the rug at Yale and at every other private US university I have ever visited (public universities are less free to conceal crime data) in the guise of protecting the victims.

Many animals have a tissue layer called the tapetum lucidum in the back of the eye that reflects light back through the retina, increasing the amount of light available for it to capture, but reducing the sharpness of the focus of the image.