(1) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(2) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
(3) His first hat-trick for the club, at a stadium where visiting players are not used to profiting, was emphatic proof of that.
(4) It was emphatically not, as the Tory right and the dismayed left have already concluded, evidence that Britain remains a fundamentally conservative country.
(5) Nevertheless, the usefulness of gut endocrinology in the clinical management of gastrointestinal diseases, following an emphatic start, is now restricted to gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours.
(6) People use it to buy things, but (as the firm emphatically proclaims) "Kickstarter is not a store" – so it doesn't have to offer the same protections.
(7) The composition of the different protein-containing food substrata exerts emphatic influence on the induction of these enzymes.
(8) Manuel Pellegrini was delighted by the style with which Manchester City knocked out Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League semi-finals and the manager was emphatic they can win the competition.
(9) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
(10) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
(11) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
(12) Two goals each from Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young and the debutant Reece James , plus Danny Welbeck’s opener, returned an emphatic victory in United’s opening game of their summer tour of the US.
(13) Most have emphatically rejected proposals that they be forced to apply for warrants to access metadata.
(14) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
(15) Indeed, the episode became part of a new escalation in hostilities between the two candidates which would later include King's charge -emphatically denied - that Respect activists were seeking to whip up Muslim antagonism against her by highlighting her Jewish background.
(16) Representing the German consensus, Schulz was much more emphatic about not isolating Russia and keeping the door open to negotiations.
(17) John Healey, shadow health secretary, emerging as a soberly effective and emphatic critic, this week exposed how new inflation figures show the NHS will suffer a real cut, alongside its most radically disruptive reorganisation.
(18) Most previous polls have found opinion leaning the same way, although the two-to-one margin revealed on Wednesday is particularly emphatic.
(19) There are clear majorities against unqualified teaching, especially emphatic among Labour voters (68%) and even more particularly Ukip supporters (73%).
(20) They were valid questions but Germany’s answer has been emphatic.
Obstruent
Definition:
(a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine.
(n.) Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low age-weighted scores on production of velars, liquids, and postvocalic singleton obstruents, along with elevated thresholds at 500 Hz and a history of early onset and late remission from OME, were the most important variables characterizing children who did not catch up phonologically by age 3.
(2) As expected, glottal vibration extended over a longer time in the obstruent interval for voiced fricatives than for voiceless fricatives, and there were more extensive transitions of the first formant adjacent to voiced fricatives than for the voiceless cognates.
(3) High correlations were evident between accelerometric and EAI values when a stimulus sentence contained obstruents, semivowels, and vowels.
(4) Fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), using a 20-ms Hamming window, were calculated every 10 ms from the onset of the obstruent through the third cycle of the following vowel.
(5) Also, both long and short vowels are lengthened by some 25 msec when followed by medial voiced obstruents.
(6) The present study investigated whether this vowel length cue influenced listeners when hearing stimuli with ambiguous vowel duration in an identical, neutralized consonantal context in which the underlying representation of the obstruent following the vowel differed in voicing.
(7) Third, the RMS intensities for obstruent sounds, particularly stop consonants, is greater in clear speech than in conversational speech.
(8) The Authors describe a test performed on 20 hospitalized patients aged between 22 and 80, suffering from obstruent chronic broncho-pneumopathy.
(9) At initial testing the two groups were found to differ significantly in scores on postvocalic singleton obstruent omission, velar deviation, and stridency deletion.
(10) A production study was conducted to investigate the effect of vowel lengthening before voiced obstruents, and the possible influence that the openness versus closedness of syllables have on the temporal structure of vowels in some languages.
(11) Thirdly, a fortis obstruent in second position heightens lenis perception in the preceding stop by auditory contrast, not by its phonological status.
(12) A statistical procedure for classifying word-initial voiceless obstruents is described.
(13) Acoustic analyses of Jenny's utterances following decannulation revealed a tenth of the canonical syllables which might be expected in normally developing infants, an extremely small inventory of consonant-like segments, and a marked preference for labial obstruents.
(14) The findings suggested a mixed form of angina pectoris with both vasospasm and obstruent prearterioles.
(15) Ischaemic cardiac disease is usually diagnosed in patients with obstruent coronary arteries.
(16) Dutch has underlying contrasts both in obstruent voicing and in vowel length.
(17) The data set to which the analysis was applied consisted of monosyllabic words starting with a voiceless obstruent.
(18) Simple aspiration through the needle may occasionally open the catheter by removing small obstruents, but in many instances, insertion of an another ventricular needle through the large hole and combined irrigation are indispensable.
(19) It has been commonly observed in the speech of English-speaking adults and children that vowels are longer when they precede voiced versus voiceless final obstruents.
(20) The Chinese subjects who were native speakers of a language that permits obstruents in word-final position seemed to benefit more from the training than those whose native language (L1) has no word-final obstruents.