What's the difference between imploded and inwards?
Imploded
Definition:
(a.) Formed by implosion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(2) For a brief blink after Soviet collapse, the co-dependency between church and state appeared to have imploded, much like the country itself.
(3) Her attacks on the president are scathing and she sees him as a busted flush, placing herself at the heart of drives to rebuild the French right after Sarkozy "implodes" at the election.
(4) It's a channel that's become notorious in the US for its shows about unusual families, largely because these families tend to become tabloid sensations and then quickly implode under the strain of it all.
(5) He also claimed that an anger was building up in the country that surpassed the era of the poll tax demonstrations and claimed there was "a very, very real possibility" that the Liberal Democrats would implode as a party.
(6) If this fury is unchecked, then Labour will implode as a political force.
(7) "In the event that Syria imploded, for instance, or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of al-Nusra or someone else, and it was clearly in the interests of our allies, all of us, the British, the French and others, to prevent those weapons of mass destruction [falling into their hands]," Kerry said, "I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to the president."
(8) Headteachers tell of school system ‘that could implode’ Read more The squeeze on budgets has been noticeable in my school over the past two years.
(9) But Agang SA failed to gain traction and in February this year Ramphele stunned her by agreeing to be the presidential candidate of the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), only for the pact to implode in days .
(10) That would come later, after the Wild Bunch imploded in the wake of one too many petty feuds.
(11) The consequences of it imploding would be disastrous for the UK economy.
(12) Racial disparities are simultaneously so brazenly displayed and denied that the country risks imploding under the burden of its history, even as it trumpets its achievements in overcoming that same burden.
(13) Rosberg, it seems, has resigned himself to the more phlegmatic tactic of doing his considerable best while hoping that Hamilton implodes.
(14) So the Middle East continues to implode – but amid the chaos emerges a further force, perhaps incredibly, a poetic and literary one.
(15) As the commission continues to implode from the Heydon scandal, that effort has failed.
(16) The actual disintegration is caused later by the enormous violence of imploding cavitation bubbles within these small split lines.
(17) He predicted: "There is a real, real danger that the Liberal Democrats could implode – their role has been a sleight of hand."
(18) Corbyn has a savvy game plan: wait for the Tories to implode over Brexit | Tae Hoon Kim Read more This would give time for your government to enter new negotiations with the EU on a wide-ranging programme of economic, employment, social and democratic reforms across the EU.
(19) Policymakers' failure to stem the crisis at an early stage has brought us to this pass: up to and including the possibility of the euro area imploding.
(20) But the costs are worth it if you’re going to preserve your democratic right to govern yourself, and be a free and prosperous country.” All this, he assures me, is better than being “being inflicted by an unstable and imploding Europe that doesn’t work.
Inwards
Definition:
(a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
(a.) Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.
(adv.) See Inward.
Example Sentences:
(1) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
(2) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
(3) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(4) This response seemed to be triggered mainly by the influx of Ca2+ through L-type Ca2+ channel activated by membrane depolarization, which was caused by the ATP-induced inward current.
(5) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(6) From this, and previous studies indicating a dependency of contraction frequency on the inward verapamil-sensitive Na influx, it is suggested that the drugs modify the automaticity of this preparation by a primary influence on membrane Na exchange.
(7) We used two experimental techniques to study the effect of lidocaine hydrochloride on the early inward transient (sodium) current as it is reflected by the maximum rate of change of action potential phase 0 (Vmax).
(8) Ca2+ inward currents evoked by membrane depolarization have been studied by the intracellular dialysis technique in the somatic membrane of isolated dorsal root ganglion neurones of new-born rats.
(9) Furthermore, clonidine can abolish, in reversible fashion, the acetylcholine-activated inward current determined with patch-clamp.
(10) In the type II response kainate caused prominent inward currents at -60 mV in Na(+)-free, 10 mM-Ca2+ solution.
(11) The kinetics of the membrane current during the anomalous or inward-going rectification of the K current in the egg cell membrane of the starfish Mediaster aequalis were analyzed by voltage clamp.
(12) L-type ICa, an inward-going sustained current, was activated with depolarization more positive than -25 mV.
(13) Displacements of the hair bundle towards the taller stereocilia generated inward-going m-e.t.
(14) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
(15) Divalent cations (2 mM-Ni2+, 1 mM-Ba2+ or 2 mM-Ca2+) reduced only the outward current in the Tris Na(+)-free solution, while in the 150 mM-Na+ solution, they reduced both the inward and outward components of the current which had a reversal potential of around -10 mV.
(16) Large negative-going pulses elicited proportionally larger inward currents that decayed during the pulse with voltage-dependent kinetics.
(17) In the absence of Ca2+ (but with Mg2+ present) the inward current disappeared but a large, inactivating outward current appeared when V greater than 0 mV.
(18) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
(19) In most cells superfused with 10 mM-Ca2+, a transient inward Ca2+ current was evoked by a step depolarization to potentials more positive than -65 mV from a holding potential of -100 mV.
(20) In the affective realm, the Rorschach scores reflected the predicted decrease in uncontrolled expression of affect, increase in controlled expression of affect, and increase in inwardness.