(1) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(2) Just recently a complaint has been filed against two intellectuals – Robert Koptas, the editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose previous editor Hrant Dink was assassinated, and Ümit Kivanç, leftist-liberal journalist – because one citizen complained that the words they uttered on TV were "insulting", adding "clearly they must be Armenians".
(3) When the French government proposed applying a similar law to the Armenian genocide as it does to the Shoah, Dink said he would fly to Paris in order to break the law, believing, as I do, that strict regulation about what people can and cannot say eventually diminishes us all.
(4) In between, Andrea Pirlo had dinked the most extraordinary pitch-wedge of a shot into Hart's goal and that moment really encapsulated the difference in class between the teams.
(5) It didn't though and the alert Lungu got to the ball and dinked it back across goal from the right.
(6) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(7) That or he's annoyed because his team-mates aren't getting into decent positions so he can dink the ball their way.
(8) Some sharp interplay on the left of the penalty area leads to a dinked ball into the box from Henry towards Hoilett.
(9) He plays the ball wide to Gonzalo Higuain, whose attempted dink into the six-yard box is headed clear by Thiago Silva.
(10) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
(11) Dink's murder provoked an angry statement from the Federation of French-Armenians, that "Turkey has killed Hrant Dink".
(12) Chelsea went to sleep and allowed Liverpool to take it quickly to Henderson, who dinked a lovely ball into the box, where Sakho looped a header towards goal from 12 yards out.
(13) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
(14) 51 min: Claudio Morel dinks a through ball towards the corner-flag for Nelson Valdez to chase.
(15) Ronaldo and Simao break quickly and it ends up with Deco dinking a lovely cross from the left that Leidson heads right at the keeper.
(16) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(17) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
(18) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
(19) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
(20) 66 min: Jinking down the inside right channel, Arjen Robben skips past two defenders, prods the ball past Pepe and dances around the full-back to try to dink the ball over the onrushing Casillas.
Kink
Definition:
(n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
(n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
(v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
(n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In seven patients surgical correction of kinking with stenosis of the extracranial part of the carotid artery was performed.
(2) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(3) A simple and effective surgical procedure as a routine method for correction of carotid kinking is described.
(4) It was concluded that photodimerization of the dTpdT unit to give the cis-syn product causes little perturbation of the DNA whereas dimerization to give the trans-syn product causes much greater perturbation, possibly in the form of a kink or dislocation at the 5'-side of the dimer.
(5) There is little chance of kinking the graft, since its angle of attachment is ideal, and due to the anatomical configuration of the transverse sinus, there is more room for the graft and compression is unlikely.
(6) On the aortogram, stenosis of the left common carotid artery, kinking and aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta were revealed.
(7) However, no reactivity is observed at the sites of the 40 degrees kinks described in the cocrystal structure (Steitz, 1990).
(8) However, there is enough evidence to warrant careful consideration of surgical correction in patients who have features of the carotid artery syndrome and kinking of the ICA as shown on angiography.
(9) The spin-echo technique with a short time to echo (TE = 40 msec) and a short time to recover (TR = 1000 msec) provided optimum imaging of tonsillar position, hydromyelia cavities, and cervicomedullary "kinking."
(10) Kinking, contractures, transverse splitting and disintegration were seen in muscle fibres from post mortem muscle.
(11) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
(12) The obstruction failed to resolve; careful longitudinal serotomy allowed the kinking in the bowel to be straightened and, at 1 year follow-up, there were no symptoms of recurrence.
(13) The most important contribution of this procedure is the decrease in manipulation of the ureter, resulting in minimal disturbance of the blood supply and in a straight course of the ureter without the risk of kinking or obstruction.
(14) Detection of venous backflow or obstruction, arterial stenosis, aneurysm formation, or graft kinking facilitated correction and thus salvage of the grafts.
(15) Proton and deuterium order parameters measured for the liquid crystalline phase of unsonicated lipid bilayer membranes are interpreted in terms of two motions: (i) chain reorientation and (ii) chain isomerization via kink diffusion.
(16) Twenty-three patients had slight stenosis, and bending and kinking were observed in 17.
(17) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
(18) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.
(19) During neo-pulmonary reconstruction, distal pulmonary orifice was shifted towards right to avoid kinking and compression on the coronary arteries.
(20) The large hyperchroism of the complex is consistent with loss of base stacking, as required by a kinked structure.