(1) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(2) She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”.
(3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(4) The notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've moved on to other things, that's not who we are."
(5) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
(6) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
(7) The response to this horrific incident seems to be a growing trend where travellers understand the geography, distances and circumstances, and weigh up risks in a real way."
(8) The poor are often the people deeply rooted in place, whether they’re fisherfolk in the Mekong Delta (due to go underwater from rising seas) or farmers in desertifying Africa or India, where a horrific heatwave and drought killed at least 300 last month and left 330 million without enough water.
(9) Kevin Williamson in National Review wrote that there is “no non-horrific interpretation” of the episode with the stones.
(10) What happened to her was beyond horrific, she suffered that night, she suffered in prison and she is still suffering.” Ibrahim’s lawyer, Nigel Richardson, is preparing to submit her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which pursues miscarriages of justice.
(11) 'And, yes, it has horrifically backfired, but I think this could have backfired for any other family.'
(12) There was the man who did all those horrific things outside the home as part of his job.
(13) A majority believes that spending cuts and tax rises are necessary responses to a horrific budget deficit and many hold Labour rather than the coalition responsible for the Britain's ills.
(14) In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns.
(15) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(16) Perpetrators must never be allowed to think that their horrific acts will go overlooked or go unpunished ... Victims and survivors … deserve to be heard now, just as they should have been years ago, and they deserve justice, just as they did then,” she said.
(17) The horrific killing of Matthew Shepard in 1998 is widely seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in American history.
(18) He’s been the outstanding player.” Quick to tweet about Kane being on fire – complete with flame emojis – when the Tottenham Hotspur striker scored against Lithuania, Austin was taken to task on Twitter by Joey Barton, his QPR team-mate, the following morning for his “horrific” dress sense after he appeared on Soccer AM .
(19) Ebola is a horrific disease that kills more than half of people infected by it, though with specialist western treatment that death rate would likely fall a little.
(20) Tuesday’s horrific chemical attack was a war crime which requires urgent independent UN investigation and those responsible must be held to account.” Corbyn said there was a need to “urgently reconvene the Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict”.
Volatile
Definition:
(a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
(a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.
(a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.
(n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.
Example Sentences:
(1) No correlation between volatile make up and geography was found, but the profiling procedures are shown to be of use in the forensic problem of relating samples to a common source.
(2) Glucose, osmotic pressure, packed cell volume, PFC by combustion and volatilization were also measured in blood samples.
(3) Less volatile amino acids such as aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methionine, glutamic acid, tyrosine, arginine, and tryptophan can be resolved at a 100 ft x 0.02 in column.
(4) These results indicate that all three volatile anesthetics have direct effects on cardiac calcium channels, and that the magnitude of the effects depends on their anesthetic potencies.
(5) Business picked up in the fourth quarter of 2013 but the consumer goods giant said those markets had continued to slow and it expected "ongoing volatility in the external environment".
(6) George Osborne became the first British minister to visit the volatile Chinese region of Xinjiang on Wednesday amid reports that 40 people had been injured or killed in the latest episode of deadly violence to hit the country’s far west.
(7) A total of 194 beers (148 US and 46 Canadian) were analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines.
(8) Rumen pH decrease to below 5.0 in S2-, lasalocid-, and monensin-treated cattle was not due to lactic acid, but to increased production of volatile fatty acids.
(9) The microflora in strained rumen fluid did not methylate or volatilize 203Hg2+ at detectable rates.
(10) Protein-bound acyl groups were labilized by performic acid treatment indicating their attachment to protein at thiol residues; however, the product released was volatile, which is not characteristic of malonic acid.
(11) In an experiment with wethers we investigated the effect of complete pelleted feed ration on the concentration of volatile fatty acids in the rumen and intestinal tract.
(12) This was possible because the Ara test, for volatile compounds (such as vinyl bromide), did not require the use of special vaporization techniques, which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively for mutagenic activity.
(13) Furthermore, volatile sulfide and 2-ketobutyrate productions from methionine in a saliva putrefaction system were completely inhibited by the two-phase mouthwash; and consumption of methionine was decreased by 65 percent.
(14) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
(15) The volatilization of DBCP from soils, as affected by the soil characteristics and application techniques, was studied in a laboratory experiment.
(16) Further studies are needed to determine the identity and toxicological properties of the non-volatile N-nitroso compounds.
(17) The longer the international standoff over Iran’s suspect nuclear programme continues, the more dangerous and volatile the situation becomes.
(18) The N supplements had no significant effects on rumen pH, concentrations of volatile fatty acids, their molar proportions or the disappearance of DM or N from porous synthetic-fibre bags.
(19) Effects of noxious electrical tooth stimulations and intraarterial administration of bradykinin or inhalation of volatile anesthetics on substance P content in the diencephalon-mesencephalon, pons-medulla and the spinal cord were examined in the rat.
(20) The efficiency of the volatilization of heroin using this procedure was studied under laboratory conditions using thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography and high pressure liquid chromatography.