(1) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
(2) On the back was a photograph of Tony Blair, his hands outstretched in the vicarish pose that he habitually uses to convey passionate belief.
(3) Monteggia fractures can occur during a fall on an outstretched arm, for example in motor or bicycle sport injuries, but also when falling from gymnastic equipment.
(4) Depoitre should have had a second just after the half-hour mark when a stray back pass from Luis Neto fell perfectly for the centre forward to run on to but as he bore down on the goalkeeper an outstretched leg from Yuri Lodygin rescued Zenit.
(5) Fracture of the carpal scaphoid usually results from a fall on an outstretched dorsiflexed wrist.
(6) The injury is produced by striking of the outstretched index against a resistant object, usually in a fall on the hand.
(7) It appears that nobody thought to give officers from either agency any advice about the Geneva Conventions, and nor were they warned that in 1972 the British government had banned five techniques of mistreatment that had been employed by the British army in Northern Ireland - hooding, being forced to stand in a stressful position with arms outstretched against a wall, being subjected to loud noise, sleep deprivation, food and drink deprivation.
(8) Carodoz clipoped the ball into the box and a Benfica player headed it on to bizarrely outstretched arm of Azpilicueta.
(9) When he examined the body, a black yarmulke was present near the outstretched hand of the burglar.
(10) A brief downward, stepwise displacement applied to the outstretched finger gives rise to a train of approximately sinusoidal movements of it, lasting often more than 1 sec.
(11) One he blocked from David Silva with his shoulder, another from Sergio Agüero with his outstretched right hand.
(12) The radii of the same forearms were then broken in a failure test to simulate a fall on the outstretched arm.
(13) Their energy rattled Everton, who felt that Leon Osman, replacing Ross Barkley at half-time, should have had a penalty when he tumbled over Dejan Lovren's outstretched leg.
(14) The thaw in relations with Cuba comes as a vindication of his initial policy of the outstretched hand towards hostile regimes or rogue states.
(15) If you want to do a pheasant with wings outstretched, that's how the plastic part comes.
(16) Instantly, the photograph of Sediqullah with his arms outstretched, his eyes defiant yet somehow innocent, jumps out at me.
(17) The Manchester City goalkeeper apologised to his team-mates at half-time after Gareth Bale’s swerving 35-yard free-kick found the bottom corner via his outstretched left hand.
(18) Jubilee 2000, whose task is the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000, has proved to be one of the biggest global campaigns ever; it is compared to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and its reach has far outstretched campaigns for nuclear disarmament.
(19) Mechanism of injury was a twisting of the arm into forced abduction and external rotation, a fall on the outstretched arm, or a direct blow to the shoulder.
(20) He said it was up to people to choose whether to act as good neighbours or let their children "play with kids who attend a different church", before making one last plea: "And whether you reach your own outstretched hand across dividing lines, across peace walls, to build trust in a spirit of respect – that's up to you."
Stretch
Definition:
(v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
(v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
(v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
(v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
(v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
(v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
(v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
(v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
(v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
(n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(2) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(3) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
(4) Endothelial release of the arachidonate derivative PGI2 may be increased in response to cyclic lung stretching.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) The maximum force level reached during the stretch was affected very little.
(7) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(8) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(9) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(10) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(11) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(12) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(13) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(14) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(15) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(16) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(17) The presence of a form of stretch reflex, previously described in the arm by other authors, has been confirmed in the gastrocnemius muscle of the human leg.
(18) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
(20) This figure suggests that, unless there are substantial stretches of free DNA, the polyoma nucleoprotein complex contains about 26 nucleosomes.