1.   In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality.

2.   As they constrict, they innervate, or notify, the dura, the thin membrane that covers the brain.

3.   A black hole is not a bottomless pit so much as a trash compactor, compressing everything it encounters into a thin membrane of eternity.

4.   But its huge egg sacs, which come in pairs held together by a thin membrane, are the real attraction.

5.   In severe cases, the spinal cord bulges through the back and may be covered by skin or a thin membrane.

6.   Proposed as a top layer is a thin thermoplastic membrane to waterproof the roof.

7.   Seprafilm, a thin membrane that is absorbed by the body and looks like clear plastic wrap, is placed around stitched-up organs.

8.   Some of these are air-supported structures in which a pressurized interior supports a thin membrane.

9.   The blood-brain barrier, a thin membrane, is effective at keeping out most foreign bodies.

10.   The footing is surer now, here on the thin membranes of refuge where we pick our way through a world of yawning pitfalls.