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  • Though waterproof material cannot be pourous or ‘breathable’, Ambient Lounge have designed a SmartVent ™ system to avoid uncomfortable air pockets that would otherwise be trapped inside the bean-filled Sofa.

    Living Landscape : A 90 Degrees Twisting Sofa 2009

  • Western officials, meanwhile, say that they have been asking the NTC to lock down stockpiles of regime weapons to stop them falling into the hands of smugglers and spreading from Libya's long and pourous borders across an already volatile region.

    With Libya's NTC in Place, Little Sign of Leading Margaret Coker 2011

  • But this is one of the NHL’s pourous defensive teams.

    Midseason report card 2008

  • Ive heared of pouring water over semi pourous tile type floors (today we could pour over cement too) that then the water slowly evaporates and cools the air in a room (not sure what culture that was from).

    The Longevity of the Victorian Architecture 2007

  • Illegal immigration is a problem, terrorists and drug traffickers do use a pourous border to infiltrate this country, Muslim extremists continue to seek ways to do everyone harm.

    Waldo Jaquith - A hypothetical. 2006

  • I like stale pugelese bread for the pourous quality of it..dressing and cheese lodge into it well.

    summer’s last hurrah panzanella | smitten kitchen 2008

  • It's there, it's pourous (in spite of 2 fences and thousands of INS agents), but the economies of both cities are very dependent upon each other.

    Newbie Question 2005

  • It's there, it's pourous (in spite of 2 fences and thousands of INS agents), but the economies of both cities are very dependent upon each other.

    Newbie Question 2005

  • It's there, it's pourous (in spite of 2 fences and thousands of INS agents), but the economies of both cities are very dependent upon each other.

    Newbie Question 2005

  • It's there, it's pourous (in spite of 2 fences and thousands of INS agents), but the economies of both cities are very dependent upon each other.

    Newbie Question 2005

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