(n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(2) Kafala sponsorship system At the crux of the debate over how Qatar and its Gulf neighbours treat migrant workers, human rights groups have long called for the kafala system that ties workers to their employers to be abolished.
(3) The crux of the trisection strategy is to restrict attention to the smallest block of ordered loci among which the new locus can fall and to divide this block into thirds for the next comparison.
(4) Bidirectional continuous turbulent Doppler signals were detected in the proximal portions of the dilated right and left coronary arteries, in the distal portions of the fistulas around the crux and in the right atrium.
(5) The crux is that the culling proposed by the government is very different to that in the earlier £50m RBCT.
(6) But the crux of the rift among Republicans is what to do about the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US.
(7) That said, yeah, I think both public and private perception that big powerful game consoles are still somehow the crux or core focus of videogames will go away over the next few years, but even with the Vita TV and iPad Whatever and Steamboxes, I don't see these cannibalising enough of the existing console audience to actually make these things go away.
(8) These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique projection; structures which in the conventional projections are often superimposed on one another or are foreshortened.
(9) The Mistake Creek Massacre, an indigenous painting at the crux of Australia’s culture wars.
(10) The septum which separated it from the main chamber was directed to the crux of the heart.
(11) I would say take it out, but it forms the crux of the call and is VERY funny.
(12) "We've won it," came the crux of Tenenbaum's translation.
(13) The crux of Muñoz Marín’s ridiculously illogical argument – one cannot achieve “political freedom” and be “deadset against colonialism” when one is not “demanding independence” or “asking for statehood” – illustrates how the island’s mostly white, male and affluent political class never had a real vision for Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico , even from the outset of Muñoz Marín’s failed “commonwealth” experiment that he sold his fellow boricuas .
(14) In other words, the crux of this tale isn't Toronto city council's softness, it's Toronto voters' wildcard craziness.
(15) Cynics may ask: “If it is that simple, why can it not happen all the time?” That for me is the crux of the matter.
(16) The mass media campaign was important, but the party says the crux of its strategy was face-to-face meetings, conversation-by-conversation.
(17) The crux of the matter is whether the virus recovered from or detected in the cornea is 1) truly latent in cell populations that are nonneuronal; 2) resident in the cornea, replicating at a slow rate; or 3) newly arrived in the cornea following ganglionic reactivation.
(18) ", the memo said: "In typical fashion, while the government of Libya's public criticism has comprised pseudo-populist rhetoric against "the forces of Zionism", the crux of the matter is in fact about personal relations and politics."
(19) Because estimates of recombination are different in each set of data, the crux of the problem is to present scores that provide a close approximation to the true likelihood away from maximum likelihood (ML).
(20) Finally, the distribution of blood vessels within the retina formed a watershed pattern with its crux centered on the ridge of this horizontally oriented high-density zone.
Winter
Definition:
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(2) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(3) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(4) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
(7) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(8) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(10) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
(11) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
(12) Seasonal fluctuations in IOP were observed (P = 0.0007), with higher IOP occurring in the winter.
(13) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(14) It may be winter but all of you together are generating some serious street heat," he said.
(15) It's not going to be all right, winter is upon us and people need to take action now."
(16) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(17) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
(18) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(19) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(20) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.