Rural communities share a common dependence on the businesses and institutions that comprise the warp and woof of their social fabric.

I am the house from floor to roof, I deck the walls, the board I spread; I spin the curtains, warp and woof, And shake the down to be their bed.

Doubling the membership and seriously increasing the number of chapters is the warp and woof of NRLC's 2009 agenda.

This would be a wise move, not only for the pure pleasure the fiction affords, but also because familiarity with that fiction will enable readers to better appreciate Furlani's achievement in the chapters after the introduction where he unpacks the concepts earlier introduced and shows in detail how they form the warp and woof of Davenport's work.

The reader fluent in education argot and familiar with the warp and woof of high-school life can't help but wonder whether the alternative differs much from the status quo.

'The Thames', he writes, 'runs through the warp and woof of English history'.

Van Natta sees this Zelig-like omnipresence as a sign that golfing has deeply insinuated itself into the warp and woof of American history.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.

As it was, her performing style, as well as the warp and woof of her life, was one of passionate contrast.