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Nonetheless many of these sites illuminate areas of environmental activism you might not have considered.
It also features adaptive headlights that swivel with the direction of travel to illuminate the road ahead.
Pillar candles in wall sconces faintly illuminate the small dining room, which is dark by day and night.
An account of knowledge should illuminate sceptical arguments and show wherein lies their force.
In Cambodia, the lights of an operating theatre illuminate a body that has been ravaged by a landmine.
Some actors are born to play the hero and others exist to illuminate the darker recesses of the human soul.
Bright lights illuminate a picture of the ancient kingdom's king and queen, and Xinjiang musical instruments hang on the wall.
As a historian, she can put things in order, illuminate the past and maybe right a few wrongs.
Archeological remains can illuminate how and where early cultures lived, stored food and produced tools.
Occasionally, satire or irony can illuminate a subject in a clever or comic way without leaving you chortling uncontrollably.
The endnotes are primarily scholarly citations of sources, while the footnotes amplify, explain, or illuminate details or side stories.
Now the sun will supply enough light to illuminate half the world at one sitting, so there's plenty of power and then some.
Camera flashes illuminate the speaker as she concludes her two-hour address to a thunderous standing ovation.
Dark green leaves arranged in rosettes cover the ground at a rapid rate, and stems clad in bright yellow bracts illuminate the spring garden.
Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
Despite the addition in the 1960s of pole-mounted floodlights to illuminate the roadway, plans to light the entire structure never materialized.
The roll-call of interviewees foregrounds his allegiances, while failing to illuminate the problems of American racial politics.
Cross-cultural research can help illuminate and clarify the social and developmental differences that exist across various cultures.
Like the rescue workers there, one waded in trying to find something that was alive, that would illuminate and explain what had happened.
Engagements during hours of darkness can require illumination, such as a star cluster or parachute flare, to illuminate enemy positions.
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The modern artificial-daylight lamps make it possible to illuminate galleries with light at night which approximates daylight.
Will she be able to illuminate a screen treated with platino-cyanide of barium?
The road was obliterated, and it was my duty to keep a petroleum stable-lamp swinging to illuminate the untracked wilderness.
If only they would continue to illuminate the atmosphere our navigational difficulties would be enormously reduced.
As it gets darker, the flashes of the guns and the Very lights' solemn brilliance illuminate the whole show like a map.
John groped vainly in mental depths for other experiences likely to illuminate this.
The rays of the new moral Drummond light were first concentrated to a focus at Paris, to illuminate the universe.
It was a sky the sun did not illuminate or enkindle, as is usual at sunsets.
As we have noted, headlights aren't only to illuminate the path ahead of you.
A footlight is placed within this tent-like cover to illuminate it.
No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment.
London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night.
The motion of the mill-wheel serves to illuminate your house.
Tom squeezed his small body behind it in order to illuminate it for Becky's gratification.
Studying naval mutinies of old are worth studying today, researchers point out, because they illuminate how modern-day ill-treatment toward subordinates can lead to violence.
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