(1) Routes from London to Oxford and between Manchester, Preston, Blackpool and Liverpool will be electrified by 2016.
(2) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.
(3) An increasing barrier technique was used to measure how much of an average stimulus (cresssing an electrified grid) a female was willing to endure to gain contact with sexually active male.
(4) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(5) The Northern Hub will provide electrified track and new stretches of railway over the next five years, radiating out from Greater Manchester , to allow faster connections between stations from Chester and Liverpool to Bradford and Leeds, cutting out some of the gridlock around Manchester Piccadilly.
(6) His presence might not electrify the O2 Arena, and he's not that hot at soundbites, like Blair and Thatcher, but look where those two got us.
(7) A moment later he was teed up by Ruud van Nistelrooy and his electrifying shot was palmed over the bar by Arsenal's German keeper.
(8) In daily 10-minute sessions, water deprived rats were trained to drink from a tube that was occasionally electrified (0.25 mA), electrification being signalled by a tone.
(9) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(10) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(11) Ghani's transformation has electrified an election campaign that many had expected to be a two-way race between a Karzai-backed candidate and the president's main rival from 2009, Abdullah Abdullah.
(12) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(13) These are the equations of light, the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
(14) In a single session, naive female 250-g Wistar rats were trained to remain for 3 min on a platform located above an electrifiable grid.
(15) These works electrified France's art world, even if Calle had not originally conceived them as art.
(16) Tyrie said amendments tabled by the government on Monday to "electrify" the ringfence that banks are required to set up to keep high street operations separate from investment banking were "virtually useless".
(17) In 10 electrifying days that haul has been more than doubled.
(18) Thursday was in many ways the most electrifying of all Britain's golden days at Greenwich – a final tally of three golds, silver and bronze exceeds expectations.
(19) A similar display of democracy in Richmond Park would electrify the campaign.
(20) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
Startling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startle
Example Sentences:
(1) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(2) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(3) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(4) Both startle amplitude and onset latency showed significantly greater facilitation in the preschool children than in the 8-year-olds and adults.
(5) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(6) Three response patterns were scored: (1) no startle, (2) startle without response decrement, and (3) response decrement by 12 stimuli.
(7) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
(8) The startle-elicited increase in blood pressure was significantly elevated in SHRs and at the same time the acoustic startle response was depressed as compared to WKY rats.
(9) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
(10) In general, conditions that affect the amplitude of the acoustic startle reflex similarly influence the disruptive effect of a noise burst on motor performance, but the two measures are not correlated in the detail necessary to suggest a causative relationship.
(11) The results are compared to other drugs known to affect the startle reflex.
(12) In awake rats the latency of auditory startle recorded electromyographically in the neck is about 5 ms, suggesting that the primary component of this brainstem reflex is mediated by a neural circuit with only a few synapses.
(13) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(14) The acoustic startle response (ASR) of male rats was measured during several sessions over a 24-hr period in both a light-dark cycle and a constant-dark condition.
(15) That dramatically shifts the focus back to us, the programme makers, to come up with more, new, startling ideas, absolutely unmissable storylines and settings, the sharpest writing.
(16) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(17) Startle was indexed by the eyeblink, which was measured by vertical electro-oculography.
(18) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(19) The first attempted to determine a sonic boom level below which startle would not occurr.
(20) It is able to (1) sample startle responses from 5 animals simultaneously during a specific time band after the eliciting stimulus; (2) convert the analogue startle amplitudes into 2-digit numbers; (3) print the digital results of each startle in each animal; (4) add up the startle amplitudes for each rat over a preset number of stimuli and print the totals; (5) print the interstimulus interval and (6) code for up to six diferent types of trials.