Small state between hostile nations

Usage examples of buffer.

There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red-faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.

Chente was relieved of his hardware and he and Martha were hustled into an olive-drab car that performed much more efficiently than the buffer Mayor Flaggon drove.

That slam of the closet door had given Napper a buffer against the explosion, but it was possible that the scrawny bomber would have trouble extricating himself from the wreckage.

From the edge of the ruins, he watched the stragglers arriving by air and land, and studied the wide sterile buffer zone surrounding the natatorium grounds, the energy barrier, and the security drones hovering in the airspace above.

Since Suad had given him 100 ccs of buffered nikethamide, that was very fast indeed.

The virus did not respond to antibiotics, and to her surprise she found that an ape could sweat, manifestly at night, through both the buffer of his pelage and the icy acetate of his pajamas.

Parlabane had soon learned, one bloke getting busy with the buffer did not constitute a legitimate, quorate polishing sesh.

Long ago, he had created the Seraphim to act as a buffer between the Priestess and inconvenient reality.

The patent team figured out a way to reduce the manufacturing costs on buckytubes somewhat by fabricating them in a buffered aqueous solution, which turned out to mean in saltwater, using some very special salt and precise temperature controls.

The hydronium ions came in a sudden wave, catching the dividing cells off-guard Buffer systems were mobilized to neutralize some of the initial reactive particles, but there were too many to combat.

I will turn the retransmission command over to you, and ask you to risk suicide by broadcasting yourself out of my communication buffer and back to your embassy.

Rodent left the park buffered with thousands of unspoiled acres, to keep the charmless roadside schlock at bay.

Serena Butler advocated, we must make every effort to secure the cooperation of the Unallied Planets, thus strengthening our defensive framework and adding a buffer zone to our protected territory.

So I reached for the undelete command, but instead of pushing those keys, I reflexively gave the kill command, completely wiping out the delete buffer, and then I saved the file right over the old one.

In the spacious anteroom are three-way floor-length mirrors, a long vanity with tissues and cotton balls and individual mirrors, dispensers for lotions and astringent cleansers, little squirt bottles of antistatic and hairspray, nail buffers, a vending machine dispensing individual vials of various scents at a cost per ounce as exorbitant as if it were Parisian perfume.