(1) Believe it or not, I still bump into people who have a good word to say about George Osborne .
(2) He, along with the world's policymakers, will be hoping that the waves in emerging markets created by his final act will prove to be a bump on the road to global recovery, and not the beginning of a fresh crisis.
(3) Shot noise analysis indicated that a combination of intense light and La3+ caused a large (down to zero) reduction in the rate of occurrence of the quantal responses to single photons (quantum bumps) which sum to produce the photoreceptor potential.
(4) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(5) The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, headed to Papua New Guinea on Friday to discuss Manus Island violence and refugee resettlement and to iron out what the PNG foreign minister, Rimbink Pato, describes as “bumps” in an asylum policy partnership that is still intact.
(6) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(7) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
(8) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(9) Earlier that year he appeared to bump into the same opponent after losing to him.
(10) By using a temperature-sensitive allele, we have found that that norpA mutation has little or no effect on either the rhodopsin-metarhodopsin transition or the machinery of quantum bump production.
(11) It is now surely José Mourinho’s Premier League title to lose after Loïc Rémy ironed out a bump on the road for Chelsea with the late winner.
(12) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
(13) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(14) If anionic production of quantum bumps in Limulus photoreceptors is mediated by changes in cyclic nucleotides, then the electrophysiological response of Limulus photoreceptors to tungstate may indicate a role for phosphodiesterase rather than adenylate cyclase in mediating light-induced cyclic nucleotide alterations in this cell.
(15) I have weekly massages to iron out all the bumps and grumbles in my legs.
(16) "There will always be bumps in the road … It's a relationship that can withstand those," the US official said.
(17) Mardi Gras is one of the best, friendliest, loveliest events that we have in our city A big smile for greeting people that you know, because you’ll bump into them everywhere.
(18) Similarly, the Ernst & Young Item Club forecasting group recently warned that Britain faces a painful and prolonged "VW-shaped recovery" as the economy "bumps along the bottom", held back by weaker consumer spending and government cost-cutting.
(19) The usual Monday lineup of Australian Story, Four Corners, Media Watch and Q&A were either shunted to ABC2 or bumped to next week as Canberra’s broadcasting team took over.
(20) The cellular mechanism for reducing the rate of spontaneous quantum bumps is not known.
Collide
Definition:
(v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
(v. t.) To strike or dash against.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(2) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
(3) Two regions of the dimer were surface loops that collided when built as a tetramer: a large loop (residues 203-207, KNOBI) and a small loop (residues 264-269, KNOBII), and these were candidates to explain the dimeric character of malate dehydrogenase.
(4) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
(5) Other phenomena expected of an excitable medium, such as wave propagation of undiminished amplitude and annihilation of colliding wavefronts, were observed.
(6) On Tuesday 16 August at 4.30pm, he'll talk to his younger fans about his books for kids; at 3pm the day after, he appears with Audrey Niffenegger to discuss the point where comics, fantasy and sci-fi collide; and at 3pm on Sunday 21, he will meet the Guardian Book Club to discuss American Gods.
(7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(8) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
(9) In another incident, five cars and a bus collided on the Felling bypass in Gateshead, with drivers suffering minor injuries and shock.
(10) China's official Xinhua news agency countered that the Vietnamese vessel capsized after "harassing and colliding" with the Chinese boat.
(11) It was the first time our opponent has been much better than us.” Mané’s duel with Gomes continued into the second half when they collided again while vying for a deflected Targett cross.
(12) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
(13) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(14) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
(15) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(16) A predecessor to the LHC, a machine called the Large Electron Positron collider at Cern , the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson up to a mass of 114GeV, but saw what might have been hints of the particle before it shut down in 2000 to make way for the LHC.
(17) The paper carried a Gulf-English dictionary which gave this definition of deconfliction as “trying not to have so many planes in the air that they collide”.
(18) The unique occurrence of the histological combination as gastric colliding neoplasms is discussed.
(19) We describe a direct way of measuring contact inhibition of locomotion by analysing the changes in motion of pairs of colliding cells.
(20) Relations reached their lowest point in years in 2010, when a Chinese trawler collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels near the islands .