salt lick English

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salt lick

— noun (= lick) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

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saltlick

alkaline soil

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Salt water came streaming into open subways.

Providing iron and iodized salt is another top investment.

Their true motivation is a question best left to future historians - who, I have no doubt, will take much of the contemporary media coverage with a grain of salt.

The extent of persistent unemployment, despite different labor-market structures and national institutions, suggests that theories that pinpoint one key failure should be taken with a grain of salt.

Since then, Congress has rejected the International Trade Organization (1948), the SALT II nuclear agreement (1979), and the Kyoto Protocol (1997), among others.

Those soaring minarets, those black headscarves, are threatening because they rub salt in the wounds of those who feel the loss of their own faith.

I could add more to this list, but that would merely be to rub salt into our wounds, which are my own as well.

Even schoolchildren can recite some projected outcomes: oceans will warm and glaciers will melt, causing sea levels to rise and salt water to inundate low-lying coastal areas.

Countries that have best weathered the economic storms of the past few years are those--like India, China and Japan--which took the IMF model with a large grain of salt.

In Iraq, a large agricultural sector operates on fairly marginal lands, where farmers fight a constant battle against salt intrusion and face severe water shortages.

It is one of dozens of similar operations - from the world's largest salt flats in the south, to Lake Titicaca in the west, to the eastern Pantanal wetlands - that combine economic growth with conservation.

The march was designed for communication, not the ostensible reason of resisting the colonial government's prohibition on the fabrication of salt.

Subsequent arms-control agreements - the SALT and START pacts - were negotiated and implemented in this context. Levels and types of nuclear weapons were permitted and limited so as not to challenge the fundamental reality of mutual vulnerability.

Psychologists and computer scientists like to talk about analysis and common sense as if they were salt and steel, or apples and oranges.

But, then again, one should take all economic forecasts about Argentina with a grain of salt.

In theory, we could simply supplement children's diets with vitamin A in capsules, or add it to some staple foodstuff, the way that we add iodine to table salt to prevent hypothyroidism and goiter.

This augments the natural process, where sea salt from the oceans provides water vapor with the cloud condensation nuclei.

First, as the energy campaigner Anne Korin puts it, we need to do to oil what was done to salt just over a century ago.

Salt had been a strategic commodity for millennia - countries fought wars over salt mines - because it was the only way to preserve meat.

But the advent of electricity, refrigeration, and freezing ended salt's monopoly relatively quickly.

It is still a useful commodity, but no one regards salt mines any more as instruments of national power and influence.

True, no European country worth its salt would ever allow its citizens to fall into such dire poverty that they literally could not escape from their homes in the face of a natural disaster.

Before a match, referees (who double as Shinto priests) purify the seaweed, salt, and sake.