(1) If that is the case, the US is heading for a bumpy, perhaps even a hard, landing.
(2) As midnight approached we set off across the bumpy tarmac roads to the outskirts of Mariupol, and soon came across a parked car by the side of the road that the men found suspicious.
(3) "The 2011 ad market will be a bit of a bumpy ride."
(4) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
(5) He was so excited about seeing his mother again,” says Emily Veltus, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) health worker who had accompanied him on the bumpy drive along forest tracks to his home.
(6) It’s inevitably going to be bumpy so might as well keep both ends of my body on track.
(7) Paddington It’s been a bumpy ride for the big-screen version of everyone’s favourite bear.
(8) A spectrum of ultrastructural features, from the typical "humpy bumpy" subepithelial deposits to the apparent disappearance of the deposits within the epithelial cells, is presented.
(9) Loyalists and rivals tipped for powerful roles in Trump's cabinet Read more The departure offered the latest clue that the transition is going to be every bit as bumpy as feared.
(10) Bumpy flight for Mr Airfix as he encounters blue-on-blue flak Read more Fallon was also warned by the senior Tory backbencher Alan Duncan that he needed to do more to inform parliament of his intentions, implicitly suggesting Fallon should not have tried to circumvent parliament.
(11) Morgan said that the regional newspaper division, which has borne the brunt of the 500 job cuts DMGT said it made between September and 4 April, experienced a "bumpy April".
(12) By SEM, the external surfaces of the basement membranes were covered by immune complexes that appeared as a network of "lumpy-bumpy" deposits.
(13) Facebook's transition into a publicly traded company has been extremely bumpy .
(14) As with the Lib Dems at Westminster, it has been a bumpy transition for the Nats from being a party of perpetual protest into becoming a party of power.
(15) The structure of oocysts is described; a peculiar bumpy surface and a calyx-like thickening around the micropyle are illustrated by scanning electron microscopy.
(16) When U2 had a bumpy time of it over 1997's Pop, they had enough albums under their belt not to panic.
(17) Carpetright revealed that its new financial year had got off to a bumpy start with like-for-like sales down 7.6% in the UK in May but swinging back to growth of 6.3% in June.
(18) For if Iraq – with its size, capabilities, resources and its history – is able to move to the path of representative democracy, however bumpy the road, then the impact in the region and the world could be dramatic.
(19) She had a nodular, lumpy-bumpy, cauliflower-like asymmetric edema of the nerve head, which suggested direct optic nerve head invasion with foreign tissue.
(20) The top of it was bumpy where the varnish had worn away.
Steady
Definition:
(n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
(n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
(n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
(v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
(v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(4) At the steady state the intracellular concentration of PteGlu was 120-fold higher from that of the medium.
(5) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(6) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(9) The changes in muscle activity had the same pattern and similar phase-frequency properties to those observed under analogous vestibular stimulation during the maintenance of steady posture.
(10) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(11) In all cases studied, the presence of a translation termination codon correlates with a decrease in the steady-state level of mRNA.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(14) For these augmented breaths, tidal volume, inspiratory time, and expiratory time were not different from the next augmented breath occurring in the same run in the steady state.
(15) Carotid nerves block provoked transient ventilatory depression, decreasing VT by 46% and fR by 26%, followed by recovery to steady-state values in VT, fR and PETCO2.
(16) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(19) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(20) The possibility that S. mutans was capable of aciduric adaptation during a biologically-generated pH reduction was examined by mixing cultures of both organisms after each had been grown to steady state at pH 5.5 in separate chemostats.