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This is fed from the southeast by cold waters from the Humboldt Current and from the northeast, by the moderately warm sub-tropical waters from the North Equatorial counter-current via the Peru Flow.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

But now, that free-spirited, costume approach is up against a traditionalist counter-current that has influenced everyone from the more conservative Oscars crowd to neo-dandies like Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo and Kanye West.

Men In Black Darrell Hartman 2011

The author with close friend and collaborator Toshio Goto (right) in 1956, shortly after crystallizing Cypridina luciferin, behind a counter-current distribution apparatus.

Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography 2009

The dominant currents are the North Equatorial counter-current bringing moderately warm sub-tropical waters from the north via the south-flowing Panama current; and the north-flowing Columbia current reinforced by the Panamanian Cyclonic counter-current bringing cooler low salinity water from the southwest.

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama 2009

Trager assured Schary that he had already started a "counter-current" throughout the "entire B'nai B'rith membership of several hundred thousand persons as well as with some of the Jewish Community Councils."

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

In "02 and" 03 they received building permits valued at $89,500 to renovate the 1860s house., including new roofing and a counter-current basement pool.

FDIC's Bair Cancels Listing After Cutting Home Price 2009

But unlike the natural rhythms, there is in the political sphere a counter-current in play: the drive to compress as much as possible into the time that is available.

Time for Philosophers, Physicists, Psychologists, and Politicians 2008

We'll have to settle for the 197-foot Alfa Four with its counter-current Jacuzzi swimming pool and aft panoramic gym ($69,000,000).

David Bledin: The HuffPost Guide To Blowing Your $500 Million Fortune 2008

The process still takes a lot of fresh water, which flows counter-current through the mill from the drying end to the front end.

The world's first zero-effluent pulp mill Edward Willett 2006

CEMF is the counter-current that is produced by the rotation of a motor in a magnetic field, and is what has, up until now anyway, stopped motors from being truly efficient.

Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement 2008