(n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) All these looked likely to be achieved in the final days of the talks, and still may be – if the hosts can pull the talks out of the quagmire on Saturday.
(2) Episodic changes in cognition unrelated to epilepsy or syncope remain a quagmire.
(3) Aimless wandering in the quagmire of imaging techniques is very expensive and nonproductive.
(4) The funding quagmire extends to Pakistan itself, where the US cables detail sharp criticism of the government's ambivalence towards funding of militant groups that enjoy covert military support.
(5) A Both the United States and the UK have consistently ruled this out, and it seems highly unlikely at present that either would risk a return to a high-casualty military quagmire from which they have only just extricated themselves.
(6) In a speech in Manchester, Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will warn against the country "sleep-walking" into a "New Orleans-style" quagmire of "fully fledged ghettoes".
(7) The economic quagmire has provided the perfect breeding ground for general merchandise discounters, who have expanded aggressively – more than filling the void created by the collapse of Woolworths in 2008.
(8) When American politicians consider solutions to the threat posed by Isis, they tend to favor abstractions over policy detail because, although Americans want to do more to root out Isis, we’re afraid of getting involved in another quagmire in the Middle East.
(9) Economic sanctions have combined with falling oil prices to deal a serious blow to the Russian economy in recent months, leading many to suspect that Putin might be looking for a way out of the east Ukraine quagmire.
(10) And Brennan knows that any questions left unanswered will only drag the department further into a quagmire.
(11) The British government’s appetite for being sucked back into the kind of tortuous negotiations and legal quagmire that lay behind the release of Shaker Aamer is likely to be limited.
(12) He was accused of being more interested in party politics than a way out of the quagmire.
(13) Asked if he needed to make a pragmatic deal with Assad in the face of the greater Isis threat he said: "In the past, simply saying, 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' has led to all sorts of moral quagmires and difficulties.
(14) Still, the early agreement on forests has boosted confidence in the UN process at a time when the main strand of talks on a global deal appear stuck in an 80-page long quagmire of a text.
(15) It has only provoked an insatiable demand from the public for more "free" services, with the result that the system has become a quagmire of cost overruns and unfulfilled and unrealizable promises.
(16) The perils of both objectives – a bloody quagmire – are the sources of Obama’s hesitation in Syria.
(17) Moscow remains wary of the Afghan quagmire, with memories still fresh of the disastrous 1979-89 war that cost the lives of 15,000 Russian soldiers and uncounted Afghan civilians, and ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(18) The present debate on capital punishment cannot be detached from the “Kurdish question”, which is stuck in a quagmire.
(19) People have tried and tried for many years and it always seems to be a quagmire."
(20) deals with the quagmire that awaits people caught in the welfare system.
Tangle
Definition:
(n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
(n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
(v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
(n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
(v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
(v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(2) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(3) Although a trend was observed for TMA-DPH mobility to parallel histopathologic severity in hippocampal specimens, the biophysical changes did not appear to reflect a loss of neuronal membranes relative to glial membranes or the presence of senile plaques or neurofibrillary tangles.
(4) Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are observed in very high densities in the brains of former professional boxers suffering from dementia pugilistica.
(5) Elevated brain Al concentrations, especially in cortical regions, were associated with behavioral changes and the development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).
(6) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(7) Changes were more severe in white matter close to cortical areas with a great density of neurofibrillary tangles.
(8) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
(9) Whereas cortical senile plaque count did not distinguish well between demented and nondemented subjects, every subject with numerous cortical neurofibrillary tangles was demented.
(10) Clinical symptoms of amnesia appear when amyloid induces neighbouring neuritic alterations: paired helical filaments and distant neuronal body lesions: neurofibrillary tangles.
(11) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
(12) Tangle-free neurons in both diseased and control brains showed weak to absent intracytoplasmic immunoreactivity.
(13) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
(14) The capacity for protein synthesis in tangled cells appears, therefore, to be progressively decreased with accumulation of tangle, whereas that for oxidative metabolism is maintained and lysosomal activity, perhaps, increased.
(15) On electron microscopy the normal lamellar pattern made up of orientated collagen fibrils all about 80 nm diameter is replaced by a random tangled pattern of much thinner irregularly curved fibrils, some as thin as 5nm.
(16) Eight brains failed to reveal considerable numbers of neuritic plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuropil threads, but these brains showed the presence of abnormal and intensely argyrophilic grains loosely scattered throughout the neuropil.
(17) N-Terminal and C-terminal domains of tau were found to be present in tangles in situ.
(18) The neuropathological lesions were assessed using a fluorescent stain for neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
(19) However, increased knowledge concerning macromolecular abnormalities in amyloid containing plaques and neurofibrillary tangles makes the outlook for a diagnostic test for AD on CSF promising.
(20) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .