(1) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(3) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(4) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(5) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(6) The longer the problem drags on, the less likely it is we get off lightly," he told the paper.
(7) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neighbor Olga Ennis: ‘I watched them drag his body out of the house.
(9) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
(10) People were holding on to him, trying to pull themselves up by his belt, but only succeeded in dragging him into the water.
(11) The poor trade data indicate that net trade was an appreciable drag on GDP growth in the third quarter and was a major factor why expansion did not come in as high as 1.0% quarter-on-quarter as had seemed possible at one point.
(12) In PT (a) large extracellular markers are dragged by water flow indicating extracellular solute-water interaction, (b) transepithelial Pos is much higher than transcellular Pos.
(13) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(14) Tractional water resistance (drag, D, N) was also measured in the same range of speeds.
(15) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(16) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(17) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
(18) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(19) Interactions among the important constituents of the fibrocartilage matrix cause meniscal tissue to behave as a fiber-reinforced, porous, permeable composite material similar to articular cartilage, in which frictional drag caused by fluid flow governs its response to dynamic loading.
(20) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
Scraping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrape
(n.) The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
(n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
(a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
Example Sentences:
(1) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(2) A microsomal preparation containing labeled endocytic vesicles was prepared by cell scraping, homogenization, and differential centrifugation.
(3) We compared two noninvasive methods of sampling exfoliated cervical cells--cervicovaginal lavage and scrape-Cytobrush.
(4) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(5) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.
(6) He was competing in his third Boston marathon, and he came away with a scraped knee and a feeling of shock.
(7) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(8) Psoriatic skin scales, non-sterile and sterile, were tested for stimulatory effect on PMNs and compared with the effect of normal skin scrapings.
(9) Our data provide the first evidence in humans that significant inflammatory changes in conjunctival scrapings are present long after allergen exposure has ended.
(10) This was partly because of its composition, scraped together from around the world but without the backing of Arab and Muslim leaders.
(11) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(12) Cellular abnormalities were demonstrated in 90.4% of women having scrapings of visible lesions and in 88.1% of women studied by 4-quadrant vaginal scrapings in the absence of clinical disease.
(13) These problems were met by introducing the indicator into the cells with the scrape-loading technique adapted for use with Dictyostelium and the construction of a new fura-2 derivative, fura-2-dextran.
(14) The overlying superficial and wing cells were removed by mechanical scraping to expose basal cells attached to their basal lamina.
(15) Scrapes detected more HPV 18 (10% vs. 2%, P = less than 0.05) and HPV 31 (7% vs. 3%, not significant) than did the biopsies, but biopsies detected more HPV 16 (42% vs. 33%, not significant).
(16) Epithelial cells were scraped from the tonsillar surfaces of 15 patients with current acute tonsillitis (AT) and of 15 individually matched healthy persons.
(17) We compared swab and scraping (Rhino-probe) technics in the nasal cytology obtention for eosinophils count in 36 patients with a range of 2-46 years old (mean age 18.6 years) with diagnosis of Allergic Rhinitis.
(18) Morphologically distinguishable differences in enamel at the occlusal site was examined as to whether the tooth is treated by acid solution, low-viscosity acid gel, or high-viscosity acid gel as well as the extent of involvement, using either a conventional or scraping method of application.
(19) Fifteen New Zealand white rabbits underwent laparotomy, with scrape and cut lesions created bilaterally on the uterine body and horns, respectively.
(20) The conjunctival sheets were cultured on epithelial-scraped corneal stromal carriers in vitro.