(n.) A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
(n.) Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The theory is sound, but the problems arise when you face up to the challenge in individual trusts, where in many cases the storage system for patient records consists of rooms of filing cabinets rather than a sophisticated IT system capable of coping with a fast-growing maelstrom of digital information.
(2) In Paris, where he lived from 1961 until 1963, he became acquainted with the proponents of négritude, the belief in a common black identity, though rejected its exoticism, feeling that South Africa's urban maelstrom left it looking redundant.
(3) The maelstrom began only a few minutes into the televised debate at Hofstra University, on Long Island, on Wednesday night, when McCain seized on an impromptu encounter between Obama and a resident in Holland, Ohio, last weekend.
(4) • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more • Follow the Guardian's Fans' Network now Amid a maelstrom of emotion and patriotic fervour, the coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, must steer his side to victory against a Uruguay team who looked solid in their opening match against France.
(5) He expressed sympathy for the street protesters – whom he did not join – but gave little sign of a man entering a political maelstrom in search of victory.
(6) But in this maelstrom of comment, passion was buried beneath a constant layer of abuse.
(7) Britain made the modern world in the sense that the forces it helped to originate – technology, economic organisation and science – formed a maelstrom that is still overwhelming millions of lives.
(8) Saudi will not pass through this maelstrom.” In Shia majority Iraq, Haidar al-Abadi, the prime minister, expressed “intense shock” at the execution, which he said would “lead to nothing but more destruction”.
(9) They also don't get bailed out when the value of their home suddenly plummets, or when they lose their job or retirement funds in an economic maelstrom they did not cause.
(10) Equally, nobody would gaily sling their child into the maelstrom of sexual objectification and leave them to eat or be eaten.
(11) It is not hard for us to see how Einstein's work – his first paper on special relativity was submitted to a journal in 1905 – fits into the maelstrom of change at the start of the 20th century.
(12) You always try to support the younger players and help them to improve.” Pochettino’s rhetoric before the north London derby, though, was heavier on the theme of confrontation and he has the knowledge of how to cope in the maelstrom.
(13) In the university sector, we like to scare each other with stories of how we were right there in the maelstrom of Thatcher's cuts.
(14) He said while he thought there “would be some controversy” over the school issues, he did not expect the maelstrom of dissent it set off, or the national media attention it garnered.
(15) If that maelstrom of confusion is to be avoided, diagnoses by histopathologists must be made in the language of clinical medicine.
(16) But the maelstrom they engendered continued for many decades and ultimately transformed the nature of the modern state as we know it.
(17) The region has been a maelstrom of religious strife for decades with militant Deobandi groups such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi waging a bloody sectarian campaign against the Shia minority even as hardline seminaries proliferated.
(18) Took a mental step back to try to work out what was upsetting, realising I had been bargaining with God in my half-sleep and in a maelstrom of conflicting emotion.
(19) But in the maelstrom of the past few days he also appears to have recognised that he will have to sacrifice himself for the sake of Greece moving forward.
(20) Still reeling from the crushing defeat at the ballot box in May, we rushed headlong into the most divisive leadership election in living memory and, from there, straight into a maelstrom of in-fighting, factionalism and acrimony.
Turbulent
Definition:
(a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
(a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
(a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(2) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
(3) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
(4) When there is turbulence in the vein lumen the volume of reflux becomes excessive and causes so much adjustment that constrictor tone is abolished.
(5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(6) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
(7) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(8) Doppler and color flow Doppler examinations demonstrated nonpulsatile and turbulent blood flow within the lesion, consistent with a diagnosis of umbilical artery aneurysm.
(9) On the other hand, the device is more sensitive to the turbulences induced by the subject's own breathing.
(10) In 1 patient the clinical diagnosis of arteriovenous fistulae was confirmed by color Doppler which demonstrated a continuous turbulent flow within the femoral vein.
(11) We conclude that flow disturbance or turbulence is a major factor in the development of venous intimal-medial hyperplasia in arteriovenous loop grafts.
(12) "The external environment provides a testing backdrop for these results, and all our industries face some degree of turbulence," Scardino said.
(13) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(14) The Brontes lived in stirring times and in a turbulent region.
(15) With the sample volume in the right ventricle a continuous turbulent flow was observed.
(16) Pathologic regurgitant jets were seen as high-velocity, systolic-retrograde turbulent flow across the prosthesis.
(17) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(18) Clinical applications of this index suggest the possibility of using it further as a detection tool for diseases that generate turbulent noises.
(19) The usual high pressure injections also result in turbulent flow conditions.
(20) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .