(v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
(n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
(n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
(16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
(20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
Sledgehammer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(3) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(4) On one occasion you broke her arm, on another you dislocated her knee with a sledgehammer.
(5) But coming down with a sledgehammer on anything that moves makes the government look more like a raging bull than a confident operator playing by the rules.
(6) After failing to stall its release altogether, the country's government has set about attacking it with its customary sledgehammer diplomacy.
(7) The former Daily Mirror crime reporter, Jeff Edwards, said at the time that Filkin’s report appeared to “have taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut”.
(8) My understanding is that more than one person, each with a sledgehammer, were involved.
(9) 12.01pm GMT Funding for flood defences were battered by "sledgehammer" cuts to Defra's budget, according to Andrew Parkes, the Labour candidate for Milton Keynes South.
(10) The sledgehammers and stilettos of a gendered society impact upon, and are wielded by, every man, woman and child.
(11) And last October, a man disguised as a construction worker took a sledgehammer to it.
(12) Despite a French military intervention that began in 2013, and the deployment of 10,000 UN peacekeepers across northern Mali, armed fundamentalists continue to be active, and Timbuktu’s mosques prime targets for their sledgehammers.
(13) Morrison said he and “the prime minister and the treasurer and others have been sending a very clear and consistent message to those who are saving for their retirement that we don’t think that Labor’s tax sledgehammer on your retirement income earnings is the right thing to do”.
(14) A technocrat who offered fine-tuning when the country wanted to take a sledgehammer to the machine.
(15) Directed energy and other weapons of the “future” As for the weaponry, Sledgehammer has used military advisors to ensure its authenticity.
(16) Conservationists described the tactic as "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut" and fear that applying the insecticide indiscriminately will kill off other insects including other species of moths and butterflies.
(17) Dave Rowntree, an FAC board member and the drummer in Blur, says Mandelson's proposals are akin to trying to "crack a nut with a sledgehammer" .
(18) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
(19) "We feel as if we have been hit with a sledgehammer," he said.
(20) If it's not Miley Cyrus licking a sledgehammer , it's Robin Thicke cavorting with naked women or Lily Allen having liposuction and getting dancers to twerk for her.