(a.) Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
(a.) Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.
Example Sentences:
(1) This behavioral evidence supports the previous notion that the underlying neural command is ballistic and does not use sensory information from the stimulus once the movement begins.
(2) His legal team includes three of South Africa's leading defence lawyers, a number of ballistics and forensic experts and, media reports say, an American crime scene reconstruction company.
(3) In order to examine the role of the basal ganglia (BG) in the regulation of basic movement parameters, we recorded extracellularly from pallidal neurons in conscious monkeys during the performance of a sequential wrist movement task which was composed of a series of holds and ballistic jumps.
(4) Hinton’s defense lawyer wrongly thought he had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
(5) On Monday, Nato declared: "Today, we have declared an interim ballistic missile defence capability as an initial step to establish Nato's missile defence system, which will protect all Nato European territories, populations and forces."
(6) In the present study a ballistic monitoring technique was employed to establish criteria for assessment of postural disorders.
(7) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
(8) The skill which is consolidated in the course of subsequent training sessions is accomplished by uniform movements of the ballistic type, and is characterized by independance from the acoustic indication of the final position.
(9) These results are interpreted as evidence for the involvement of the cerebellum in the initiation of some fast ballistic movements.
(10) In response to a following visual stimulus, they carried out a ballistic plantar flexion randomly with the right or left foot.
(11) The 15 council members unanimously approved a statement that stressed how any launch of ballistic missile technology, “even if characterised as a satellite launch or space launch vehicle”, contributes to North Korea’s development of systems to deliver nuclear weapons.
(12) On a ballistic rhythmical tapping test, no marked differences in speed were found, but ambilaterals made slightly fewer errors with the better hand.
(13) Good agreement was found between the interpretation of the ballistic features and the clinical diagnosis.
(14) North Korea claimed the rocket was carrying an observation satellite, but the launches are seen as an opportunity for the state to test ballistic missile technology.
(15) There is evidence of synaptic input systems that preferentially excite large, fast twitch MUs and inhibit small twitch MUs; however, the majority of evidence from human experiments indicates that the recruitment order is not reversed in ballistic contractions.
(16) The trial on Friday heard from defence ballistics expert Tom Wolmarans who testified that it was impossible to be certain how Steenkamp fell when she was hit by bullets, challenging the prosecution's implication that she might have been cowering in fear.
(17) The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.
(18) To clarify the rationale behind the selective management of penetrating neck wounds, current data on ballistics, ancillary diagnostic studies, and comparative costs are reviewed.
(19) A senior North Korean military figure was quoted on Friday as saying that troops had been mobilised and inter-continental ballistic missiles placed on standby.
(20) "We made that alternative very clear," Schmidt said at the end of the trip that the US state department had criticised as "unhelpful" as it attempts to pressure the regime into abandoning its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes.
Condor
Definition:
(n.) A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps when the election is over all parties might see that a joint approach to Britain’s future in Europe must be found by one and all – and the condor can fly on by.
(2) At the last count, in 2012, this park was home to 32 wild condors.
(3) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(4) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(5) Condors soared above the world’s southernmost forest.
(6) Neither are, “The brakes aren’t great,” nor: “If at any point you feel scared, just pick up your bike and run.” And yet I found myself in Lycra, looking out over the fields of Essex to Canary Wharf on the horizon, legs quivering, while Ben Spurrier of Vicious Velo attached my pedals to a Condor cyclocross bike.
(7) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
(8) The spectacular walls attract rock climbers as well as bats, falcons and one of the rarest birds in the world: the California condor .
(9) Notable fans are likely to include Colombia's Birdman, a law school dropout from Barranquilla on the Caribbean coast who dresses up in a red, yellow and blue condor outfit.
(10) ", says the admirable Dr Condor at one point in the novel, but it is the "hero" (and I had better start using inverted commas around that word, for reasons our "hero" would most certainly approve of) who keeps making wrong diagnoses.
(11) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(12) He suggested it last year in a contest to name a new boat for Condor Ferries operating between Poole and the Channel Islands.
(13) The Cordillera Condor between Peru and Ecuador is a shining example of achieving peace through conservation.
(14) The effect of ACTH on plasma corticosterone and cortisol was determined in 12 eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and in 6 Andean condors (Vultur gryphus).
(15) In the condor, a stress-related release of endogenous ACTH may have an effect similar to that induced by exogenously administered ACTH.
(16) Part of me thinks that Condor didn’t like it because it might have made them look a little bit silly,” Hands said.
(17) The German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion did the bombing at the request of General Francisco Franco, who led a military rebellion against Spain's democratically elected government.
(18) • Pinnacles links condors recovery programme , climbing , camping , caves Devils Postpile national monument Basalt columns at Mammoth Lake, Devil's Postpile national monument.
(19) On Saturday Doncaster beckons and the flat route will favour Groenewegen or Ewan again – or perhaps a local sprinter such as Russ Downing or Graham Briggs of JLT-Condor – and fortunately the weather is set to moderate a little.
(20) Six months later, the former dictator was one of 18 retired officers charged in connection with the Condor Plan, a joint intelligence operation by South American dictatorships to kidnap and murder their opponents whichever country they might be in.