(1) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
(2) Prompt recognition and treatment of blowout fractures exhibiting diplopia is usually successful.
(3) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(4) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(5) The Edinburgh-based company had two drilling units in place so one could go to the assistance of the other in the event of a "blowout" or other problem.
(6) The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , has no one to blame but himself for the cost blowout of the national broadband network (NBN), Labor’s communications spokesman, Jason Clare, has said.
(7) In summary, after a series of setbacks in the court, this is a positive outcome for BP.” The Macondo well blowout spread oil over the beaches of southern states in America, but also spread a cloud over the finances and reputation of the group.
(8) He is confident that all is being done to ensure that there can be no recurrence of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in freezing waters where oil would break down much more slowly than in the warm currents off Louisiana.
(9) Two patients with an extensive blowout injury to the duodenum and one with a crush injury to the pancreas underwent a pyloric exclusion and gastrojejunostomy.
(10) Nine patients had bypass for intestinal ischemia (five acute, four chronic), and one patient each had bypass for arcuate ligament syndrome, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, and an infected aortic stump "blowout."
(11) It was a rough break for the Golden State Warriors, particularly head coach Mark Jackson whose job probably won't survive the first round exit, as it looked like they were given new life in this series as the Clippers, reacting to the racist rants of their own Donald Sterling, played Game 4 under protest, which unsurprisingly lead to a blowout Warriors win.
(12) Coverage of the vein graft by a myocutaneous flap appears to protect against carotid artery blowout.
(13) Indiana doesn't come out with a big third quarter and this one has a blowout written all over it.
(14) The external carotid-external carotid crossover anastomosis may have application in the management of squamous cell carcinoma involving the common carotid or in the treatment of carotid artery blowout.
(15) Certainly he must be hoping that the Thunder's blowout win over the Heat on Wednesday was a fluke and not a sign of games to come .
(16) Engineers are also looking at a "top kill", installing a new stack of valves on top of the blowout preventer whose failure in the wake of the 20 April explosion gave way to the disaster.
(17) Halliburton noted the well had been left without a cap or blowout preventer for five months before the explosion.
(18) Ben Ayliffe, a Greenpeace International campaigner on board the Esperanza, said: "Our team stopped this rig from drilling for four days, which was four days in which a Deepwater Horizon-style blowout couldn't happen and this beautiful fragile environment was safe.
(19) After the most tightly contested round one in NBA playoffs history, of course its final game was the postseason's biggest blowout, a laugher where, for the first time in the series, it looked like this was a battle between a top-seeded team and an eighth-seeded one.
(20) Given its dual role, it's little wonder that the MMS was so keen to pass a BP drilling plan that failed to discuss how to prevent a deepwater blowout and which, bizarrely, listed walruses as a Gulf of Mexico marine mammal.
Pneumatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pneumatical
Example Sentences:
(1) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
(2) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(5) To control for the lower baseline BP that was present in rats with A-V fistula, a second series of studies was performed in which renal perfusion pressure was reduced in normal rats to 110 mm Hg with a servocontrolled pneumatic cuff.
(6) Long-term synchronized left ventricular bypass has been performed in calves using pneumatically powered pumps having a smooth lining fabricated of segmented polyurethane.
(7) We report what we believe to be the first patient in whom an esophagram immediately after a routine, uncomplicated pneumatic dilation revealed complete esophageal obstruction.
(8) Pneumatic retinopexy is a recent innovation in the treatment of uncomplicated retinal detachments due to a superior retinal break extending for 30 degrees or less.
(9) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(10) We quantified the variability in extent of sinus pneumatization (a measure of sinus development) in infants and young children.
(11) Around the time of puberty the pneumatization usually penetrates up to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis.
(12) Eight pneumatic vibrating power hand tools, representing tools commonly used in an automobile assembly plant, were studied.
(13) Intermittent pneumatic compression was used for edema treatment.
(14) Most devices were pneumatically ("breath") controlled.
(15) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
(16) Rhinoliquorrhoea is the leading symptome of an osteodural defect of the base of the skull, the pneumatic system of the rhinobasis being affected.
(17) We believe that pneumatic dilatation should be considered in patients with systemic sclerosis and severe dysphagia where reflux oesophagitis is not apparent.
(18) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
(19) Calibrated scleral suction cups pneumatically connected to a sensitive transducer are used to provide well reproducible ocular pulse recordings.
(20) The study does not answer the question of whether orbital contour will be maintained on a long-term basis adjacent to a pneumatized sinus following reconstruction with a bioabsorbable implant.