(n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
Example Sentences:
(1) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(2) As Les Bleus returned to Paris after crashing out of the tournament in the first round , the French leader also called a crisis meeting of ministers over the debacle in South Africa.
(3) "For example, making use of more rigorous testing methodologies pre-launch to improve game quality and prevent SimCity-style launch debacles; engaging with, listening to and rewarding its games' communities more readily; learning from, rather than dismissing, the successful practices of competitors such as Steam, etc."
(4) Tesco's ignominious exit from the US will grab all the headlines but the truth is that even without the Fresh & Easy debacle the supermarket would probably still have seen its profits fall for the first time in 20 years.
(5) As well as discussing the flotilla debacle, Obama is expected to press for further action to allow imports, exports and people to move more freely to and from Gaza.
(6) Ben Olsen brought several young players through at the end of that debacle and it seems to have paid dividends as they are only a point behind Sporting at the top of the East, with a game in hand.
(7) The public mood clearly indicates they want the facts of the RHI debacle exposed.
(8) What has gotten lost in this whole foot washing debacle and the subsequent debate about tradition and breaking with it, however, is the fact that something lovely might be happening at the church's seat of power.
(9) My own area of interest has always been how we got into the debacle, not the debacle itself.
(10) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.
(11) BBC insiders suggested that in the wake of the Digital Media Initiative debacle – an IT project that wasted nearly £100m of licence-fee money before being scrapped – and to simplify management reporting lines, the technology division could be restructured and more control over digital output handed back to programme-makers.
(12) Instead, he found himself embroiled in an embarrassing debacle when a fight broke out during an event with tribal elders between Naseem Sharifi, his head of protocol, and Haji Sayed Jan Khakrezwal, the respected head of the Kandahar provincial council.
(13) It was at this point that Lord Puttnam introduced the first of a series of wrecking amendments that led to last Monday's debacle.
(14) The summit will conduct a post-mortem on the Greek debacle, which climaxed at the weekend with agreement on the first ever bailout of a euro country, costing €110bn over three years for the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
(15) The trauma of this national debacle, where everyone fought everyone in a rolling matrix of revenge and arms-fuelled madness, remains strong and places a brake on the tribal reflexes that could react disproportionately to events.
(16) His commentary brings to mind GM’s Chevrolet Nova naming debacle in Latin America (where “no va” means “no go”) decades ago.
(17) Unfortunately, comfort is the last thing the party needs following the election debacle.
(18) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
(19) In the aftermath of the Savile debacle, the Crown Prosecution Service cannot be risk-averse when it comes to prosecuting high-profile sex crimes, no matter how complex they are ( Tories and CPS at war as Evans cleared of rape , 11 April).
(20) She's learned from the Born This Way debacle Lady Gaga's head crudely plonked on the front of a motorbike was not what the world needed, and yet that's exactly what we got with 2011's Born This Way cover – an image so appallingly 80s-hair-metal and wildly out of step with the rest of the campaign's artwork that even her fans assumed it was some elaborate hoax sent to test them.
Dissolution
Definition:
(n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
(n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
(n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
(n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
(n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
(n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
(n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
(n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
(n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(2) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
(5) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
(6) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
(8) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
(9) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
(10) Reductions in dissolution rates in a continuous-flow system could best be interpreted by assuming that they reflected changes in the area of the hydrophilic solid exposed to the solvent.
(11) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(12) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(13) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
(14) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(15) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
(16) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
(17) Areas suggestive of cellular dissolution and disorganization were also reported in experimental parathyroids
(18) Speaking in Adelaide on Thursday as the government struggles to turn around its polling in South Australia before a possible double dissolution election, the prime minister went on the attack and said Labor was making major policy announcements on the fly.
(19) Although all three formulations were shown to have similar dissolution profiles, dissolution of chlorpropamide was pH-dependent in vitro.
(20) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.