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Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.
As impeachment draws nearer, the White House and congressional Democrats have been escalating their rhetoric along these lines.
Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.
Further east, and nearer to Spain, is the mighty frontier fortress town of Elvas.
In 1917 self-determination in India seemed nearer when London announced its plan for “the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the (British) Empire. ”