re-absorbed

A lot of Crusader kingdoms went out that way, just one decision away from getting re-absorbed into the Muslim soup.

Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009

More than half of what is produced by humans is re-absorbed!!

Everybody stop breathing. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

It seems to me that well-intentioned outsiders (like the Puritans in New England, who were neither colorful or swashbuckling, but wow were they sure of their moral rectitude) either dwindle, get wiped out (the Alamo, Masada, Leonidas and his band), re-absorbed, or establish their own polity and gradually become respectable (various religious off-shoots).

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » That demmed elusive . . . Heroes as Villains, and Villains as Heroes 2010

She became re-absorbed in the work and life of her people, and she kept putting off her return to Laksis.

UMAI AND THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER Maggie Jochild 2007

Every ton of Co2 emitted naturally is also re-absorbed naturally.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Policy as Sausage Making: 2009

Naturally dopamine will be re-absorbed by the body and eventually the feeling of pleasure will wane.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Pot and Karate: No good together? 2009

Many laid-off workers may never be re-absorbed by the formal economy, as companies grow more accustomed to the flexibility of their informal counterparts.

The Rise of the Underground 2009

The extent of some of the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy.

Les Miserables 2008

I literally cannot stand riding my brakes through the downhill, though, and i slip off the front, only to be re-absorbed in a few minutes.

Archive 2008-04-01 Ryan 2008

Challenged militarily and isolated economically, they degenerated into bureaucratic tyrannies that eventually were re-absorbed by the global market system.

Great Transition~ History of the Future 2007