(1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(2) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(3) However, we have observed cracks on the Dacron fibers, fiber fracture, fiber protrusion, and poor attachment to the diaphragm, which can cause potentially disastrous complications.
(4) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(5) It is found that, in contrast to most metallic materials yet in keeping with many ceramics, there are no distinct fracture morphologies in pyro-carbons which are characteristic of a specific mode of loading; fracture surfaces appear to be identical for both catastrophic and subcritical crack growth under either sustained or cyclic loading.
(6) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(7) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(8) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
(9) 9.18pm: The Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich has a crack, and he's taking no prisoners: "We've heard Mr Toyoda say that Toyota grew to fast.
(10) Here come the Dodgers for another crack at it in the second.
(11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(12) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
(15) As subcritical crack velocities under cyclic loading were found to be many orders of magnitude faster than those measured under equivalent monotonic loads and to occur at typically 45% lower stress-intensity levels, cyclic fatigue in pyrolytic carbon-coated graphite is reasoned to be a vital consideration in the design and life-prediction procedures of prosthetic devices manufactured from this material.
(16) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
(17) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
(18) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(19) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
(20) Of 26 patients treated to date, 16 have been crack cocaine users.
Crackling
Definition:
(n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
(n.) The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
(n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
(2) Reasons for the discrepancies include the fact that there are no absolute criteria for crackles and that rapidly occurring crackles are difficult to count by ear.
(3) When end-expiratory Ptp was set constant between 15 and 20 cmH2O and end-expiratory Ptp was gradually reduced from 5 cmH2O to -15 or -20 cmH2O in a breath-by-breath manner, crackles were produced in the cycles in which end-expiratory Ptp fell below -1 to 1 cmH2O.
(4) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(5) With more echoes of Scotland, in both places, people on the ground say that local debate is crackling with energy.
(6) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
(7) In addition, this group of patients showed a significant correlation between the number of expiratory crackles and the reduction in predicted transfer factor, suggesting that expiratory crackles may be a clinical indicator of the severity of disease in fibrosing alveolitis.
(8) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(9) In workers exposed to asbestos, crackles correlated with exposure.
(10) The other passengers aren't much trouble, beyond the occasional loud phone call or crackling headphones.
(11) Presenting findings included crackles, haemoptysis, and hypotension.
(12) It was a phenomenal atmosphere, it was absolutely crackling.
(13) These cases involved elderly patients with progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough, bilateral dry crackling rales, bilateral interstitial infiltrates evident on a chest roentgenogram, and restrictive findings on pulmonary function testing.
(14) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
(15) This filter extracts an impulsive signal, which is a small-width wave, and its succeeding waves; such wave form is typical of that of crackles.
(16) The crowd threw their arms in the air as one, and drowned out the crackle of fireworks overhead with their screams of approval.
(17) Crackles are commonly used in clinical decision-making, and in certain diseases the number of crackles reflects the severity of the illness.
(18) Crackling lung sounds are associated with many pulmonary diseases.
(19) Never, ever overtly refer to the electricity crackling between the two of you.
(20) The method is validated by studying the crackles of 20 adult patients; 10 with fibrosing alveolitis (FA) and 10 with bronchiectasis (BE).