(1) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(2) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
(3) The hypophysis was ablated by catching its rostral end with a pincer.
(4) This was consistently shown in all modalities of assessments which included patients' assessments (P < 0.001) and investigator's assessments (P < 0.001) of the percentage change in nodule size, and gross measurements of nodule volumes using a pincer (P < 0.001).
(5) To our knowledge, this is the first report of a method of stretching the interdigital skin of syndactyly by means of a pincer.
(6) Opposition factions north of Aleppo have been increasingly stuck “between the pincers” of YPG forces on one side and pro-government fighters on the other, a military source said.
(7) "News Corp always worked a double pincer, offering fear and favour.
(8) In two patients with total loss of all digits, pincer pinch was restored by the transfer of two separate toes, one to each side of the stump.
(9) Murphy said Scotland could be “caught in a pincer movement between the leader of the SNP and new leader of the Tory party”.
(10) In the heat of battle, Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters turn on one another, fighting their age-old war, though both are supposed to be fighting a common enemy, Islamic State (Isis), advancing on the battered, tortured civilians of Aleppo and other Syrian and Kurdish communities in a murderous pincer movement.
(11) With GCSE English, we're still at the draft stage, but we can already see that there is a pincer movement going on.
(12) Nine patients who had suffered mutilating injuries of the hand with preservation of only one digit and loss of the others at metacarpal level have been treated by transfer of the second toe onto a metacarpal stump to restore pincer grip.
(13) The use of titanium alloys is recommended for making bone-joining members, retracting medical instruments, of the spatula and speculum types, some kinds of non-magnetic pincers and ultrasonic medical instruments.
(14) PINCERS may also be used to assist in planning the synthesis of mixed-probe DNA sequences for cross-hybridization experiments.
(15) Scores of reporters have been killed – often tortured and decapitated – in what is now seen as a pincer-movement against their work by drug cartels and the state.
(16) The greater the extent of pyramidal tract destruction, the longer the time necessary for recovery of both discrete finger movement and pincer grasp, the greater the effort needed to attain recovery of hand function, and the weaker the affected musculature.
(17) Dentin thickness was measured using a pincer caliper.
(18) In the inflammatory mycoses the author recommends an oral treatment consisting in griseofulvin, and, in case of severe inflammation, prednisone per os at the same time with a local treatment (painting with alcohol iodate 1%, followed by the application of a cream with cortisone associated with an antimicrobial antibiotic and pincer epilation).
(19) A goalless first half had been a triumph, not as it turned out, for Argentina’s golden flea, but for Queiroz’s pincer-like squeeze.
(20) A problem needing investigation is the principle of cardiomyoplasty (CMP) itself, as the muscle acts more as a lift than as pincers.
Pliers
Definition:
(n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(2) A cyclical load of 500 N was applied to the handles of the pliers, while a 0.9 mm (0.036 inch) round, stainless steel wire was held between the tips of the beaks.
(3) Orthodontists sterilized their instruments 66% of the time and pliers 49% of the time.
(4) In addition, transcutaneous adjustments of the spring now can be made without an incision using clasp-adjusting dental pliers.
(5) The major changes represented are greater use of protective barrier wear by doctor and staff members; increased heat sterilization methods for instruments, pliers, and handpieces; and increased disinfection of alginate impressions.
(6) He says they were removed with pliers while he was being questioned about his associates in Pakistan, the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London, and an alleged plot against the United States.
(7) A plier passed within an Amplatz jacket (previously introduced through the anus) assists the laparoscopic ureterosigmoidostomy "in elephant trunk" which is performed by sero-muscle suture using 3-zero reabsorbable single-strand material.
(8) The tractor driver told of regular interrogations, of forced confessions (for crimes he never knew he had committed); he spoke of knives and other people's severed fingers, of pliers and ropes and wires, of boiling water, cigarette burns and finger nails extracted – and worse: electric drills.
(9) A polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) solution is applied to one side of the film forming a flat disc when frozen with a pair of pliers precooled in liquid nitrogen.
(10) In the present study this technique was used to determine the hardening effect of ion implantation on the beaks of stainless steel orthodontic pliers.
(11) There were only three techniques described that do not require drilling a hole, cutting a notch or slot, clamping with claws or jaws, prying with instruments, or grasping with forceps and pliers.
(12) Then, the choice of the instrumentation (needle-holders, pliers and scissors) will be discussed.
(13) The few minutes required to alter one of these instruments will be more than repaid in time saved while attempting to place amalgam with a conventional carrier or cotton pliers.
(14) (2) Bond failure at the bracket-adhesive interface occurred with significantly greater frequency for the Starfire brackets when debonding was performed with the electrothermal instrument and with significantly less frequency when the debonding pliers were used.
(15) Ahmed said one of the ISI interrogators sat on the floor beside him and pushed the jaws of the pliers under the left side of his small fingernail before slowly prising the side of the nail upwards.
(16) Before examination the exterior part of the spring at the orbital edge was cut off with cutting pliers.
(17) The connector failures occurred early in the series before the development of connector pliers; there have been no connector failures in the last 202 consecutive implantations.
(18) Changes observed in the group made by orthodontic pliers lacked in the group bended by the machine.
(19) Removal of ceramic orthodontic brackets, utilizing orthodontic pliers, has resulted in significant patient discomfort, enamel trauma and bracket shattering.
(20) Ten orthodontic pliers (Dentarum 003 094) were divided into two equal groups, designated control and experimental.