Tom works in a lumber yard.

That veneer of fragmented and incomprehensible normalcy.

Where can I buy lumber and nails?

We need lumber to build a barn.

Good lumber is hard to find these days.

And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

This is Brazilian lumber. One of the best kinds in the world.

Finally, the EU insists that Russia abolish planned prohibitive export tariffs on lumber.

And so this is framing lumber, composite materials and it's kind of hard to get the embodied energy out of that, but it can be a sustainable resource if you use FSC certified lumber.

Mr Ditta has betrayed this trust and attempted to hide behind the veneer of his profession.

The broad, laminated wood glue beams positioned at right angles to the glass facade, provide shade and absorb the majority of the sunlight.

That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.

Hectares of forest get converted into cubic meters of lumber or square meters of usable space.

It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.

The city was thenceforth an important hub for the transport of lumber from the Cadore through the Piave river.

Finally, the EU insists that Russia abolish planned prohibitive export tariffs on lumber. Only the Georgian issue is really serious.

Such power also serves as the moral veneer to the assertiveness often involved in the pursuit of any particular cause or interest.

This is one reason why London has experienced the other, darker side of the multicultural society the veneer of multiculturalism is thin.

Of course, it is not just oil prices that are high, but all commodity prices, from metals to food to lumber.

Beneath the veneer of integration into a multicultural environment, many people especially young men with an immigrant background are lost in the world of contradictions around them.

The veneer of liberal enlightenment worn those who hope to uncover Iran is in many ways more disturbing than the outright racist discourses seen in the past.

Noh Bec also lost its forestry certification from the Smart Wood organization, which allowed the community to export its lumber to the United States and Germany.

A current issue between the United States and Canada is the ongoing softwood lumber dispute, as the U.S. alleges that Canada unfairly subsidizes its forestry industry.

Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.

Then there are the seemingly endless giveaways of national resources from the free spectrum provided to broadcasters to the low royalties levied on mining companies to the subsidies to lumber companies.

For example, in the US, the Engineering News Record Building Cost Index (which is based on prices of labor, concrete, steel, and lumber) has actually fallen relative to consumer prices over the past 30 years.

What Papa says is perfectly true when we were brought up they went to one extreme, and kept us children in the attics while our parents lived on the first floor but now it's just the reverse the lumber room for the parents and the first floor for the children!

Whoever thought that NATO that most successful expression of transatlantic solidarity had found new cohesion after the divisive Iraq crisis should visit the alliance's headquarters. True, the Istanbul summit in late June produced a veneer of harmony, and NATO headquarters is, as usual, busying itself with frequent meetings of now 26 national delegations, innumerable committees, and the mountains of printed paper it churns out.