(1) The Stratolauncher won’t be fully operational for several years, and it may take decades before anyone designs a system that can propel man-made objects through space fast enough to reach a star over a human being’s lifespan, if it happens at all.
(2) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(3) Carpeting of the type commonly used in hospitals imposed a burden upon normal and patient wheelchair users propelling a wheelchair as reflected in increased energy cost per unit of distance traveled.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) Some of the main protesters who have propelled the organization movement forward, particularly Deray McKesson , Netta Elzie and Stephen Houldsworth , have expressed no interest in backing down tonight.
(6) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(7) The video filmed by a witness , which propelled the case into the global spotlight, showed Scott was running away with his back turned when Slager, then an officer with the North Charleston police department, opened fire.
(8) Right now most are in for small repairs, propellers that sort of thing.
(9) The Texas senator Ted Cruz says the rise of Donald Trump makes him “very optimistic” the next occupant of the White House will be a conservative – perhaps himself – propelled there by the “volcanic rage” of voters.
(10) Beating and coordination of these short cilia were compared with those of cilia propelling water.
(11) His pioneering efforts helped propel Barbados to a leader in solar water heater use in the western hemisphere.
(12) Second, if two self-propelled objects are related in a special way--a relation called the BDR sequence--the infant perceives not only intentional movement but also one object as having the goal of affecting the other object.
(13) Wednesday’s attack during dawn prayers is the first attack on Maiduguri since 28 December, when Boko Haram killed at least 50 people in an operation involving rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers.
(14) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(15) Allergic contact eczema from the use of deodorant sprays is sometimes caused by sensitization to the propellants.
(16) Interestingly, the thymine.adenine pair favours negative buckling for propellers mostly observed in DNA crystals while positive buckling is preferred by the cytosine.guanine pair.
(17) Republican guards used anti-aircraft guns, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against the opposition camp and intensified the shelling of the streets surrounding the square.
(18) Bill Shorten pushes integrity inquiry but says political corruption isn't widespread Read more If politics is about people, and about connections, Shorten’s challenge for 2017 is not only validating the concerns of voters angry enough to propel Donald Trump to the White House, to Brexit and to vote for Pauline Hanson – but to persuade them to make a durable connection with him.
(19) He begins describing the crumbling wall of mud that enveloped him, the image of his young daughter propelling him to fight to the surface and take his first breath of air.
(20) Lloyd scored three times in just 16 minutes to propel the Americans to a 5-2 win and their first World Cup in 16 years, their third overall.
Ramrod
Definition:
(n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following pesticides (herbicides) were studied--afalon, dimid, Lasso, patoran, propanide and Ramrod.
(2) According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November.
(3) Tang sat strangely rigid throughout our meeting, with his back ramrod straight and hands clasped tightly together.
(4) The intoxication with Ramrod during four months decreases that activity, whereas through prolongation of the intoxicating period the effect is reverse.
(5) Wearing a dark suit, Pistorius rose in the dock and stood ramrod straight, his hands folded in front of him, and showed little emotion as the judge read her final verdict.
(6) Instead, Golovkin was patient and methodical from the opening bell, controlling the action with his ramrod jab.
(7) In 1983 he was magnificent, both at Chichester and the Haymarket, as Alfred Redl in Osborne's A Patriot For Me: as a model soldier in Franz-Josef's Austro-Hungarian army blackmailed because of his homosexuality, Bates brought out the hero's ramrod-backed discipline and vulnerability.
(8) Ramrod proved to have the highest toxicity, followed by propanide, Lasso and afalon.
(9) The authors follow up the changes of the ATP-ase activity in the testes of albino rats under the influence of Ramrod and low-frequency vibrations, applied separately or in combination.
(10) He was taller than I expected - he was ramrod straight.
(11) The Fusarium solani acylamidase exhibited an optimum at pH 7.5 to 9.0 and was inactivated in 10 min at 50 C. The enzyme was not sensitive to methyl-carbamate or organophosphate insecticides, but the herbicide, Ramrod (N-isopropyl-2-chloroacetanilide), acted as a competitive inhibitor of acetanilide hydrolysis (K(i) = 0.167 mm).
(12) Two new selective media were prepared for the isolation of P. aeruginosa cultures from clinical material: RChZh medium with ramrod inhibitor and Zh medium including a selective complex (hydrazine sulfate, gramurin, ethonium, N-cetylpyridine chloride).
(13) Centuries of subjugating nature by draining marshes, felling forests and turning meandering rivers into ramrod-straight concrete tubes appears to be reaching its limit, as the population rises and the climate worsens.
(14) He stood ramrod with his hands folded in front of him.