(1) The erstwhile envoy caused ructions earlier this week when he declared in an interview with the New York Times that Greece's IMF-dicated fiscal adjustment program was doomed to failure.
(2) It will also target other sports, having already signed a £152m club rugby deal that has caused major ructions within the game.
(3) Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said in a note to clients: “The reasons for this new jitteriness are not hard to find with the global economic outlook turning darker, and growth downgrades coming thick and fast from all angles, while concerns about the spread of Ebola are inducing fears about travel bans prompting changes in consumer behaviour across the US.” The catalyst for Wednesday’s market ructions was data indicating the US economy was feeling the effects of a global fall in demand.
(4) David Cameron doesn't seem to be a sweary type; he doesn't blowtorch underlings or kick the copying machines in the style of Gordon Brown – but there will have been ructions on receipt of those latest migration figures from the Office for National Statistics .
(5) "It is causing major ructions in sport and we are going to have discussions amongst our fellow British associations.
(6) The savage market ructions of recent weeks and days are disconcerting.
(7) I can still dimly remember the ructions over the introduction of the sex discrimination bill in 1983 but, even so, reading back now, the debate is astonishing.
(8) Foreign minister Julie Bishop has rebuked Coalition MPs for making public statements on the prime minister’s chief of staff, but downplayed ructions within the government as the teething problems of a young government.
(9) A brace of polls this week suggested that Labour ructions could hand the SNP such a raft of seats that they could potentially hold the balance of power at Westminster.
(10) In the wake of yesterday's fireworks, the Cannes film festival , running scared from the ructions, released a statement saying that it had been "disturbed" by his behaviour.
(11) If BAE and EADS overcome Monday's ructions and bring France, Germany and the UK together, more difficulties certainly lie ahead.
(12) Credlin has been by the prime minister’s side from almost the moment he took over the leadership of a Coalition split asunder and demoralised after its internal ructions over support for the Rudd government’s carbon price.
(13) Dammers caused further ructions when he insisted on widening 2 Tone's musical palette.
(14) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
(15) But not enough to risk the internal destabilisation and possible upheaval and "off-message" ructions of doing anything about it.
(16) In the debut Vine, two sisters clash over their family’s history, while its successor explores the ructions among a group of smug young successful professionals when the corpses of a woman and a child are dug up in the ground of a house where they spent a hedonistic time as students.
(17) Australia, with one of the highest rate of emissions per capita in the world , has all the natural resources to transition to solar and wind energy, only for political ructions to regularly hamstring the renewable energy industry.
(18) It reflects the fact that the government is a coalition that wants, for domestic political reasons, to avoid internal ructions over Europe and to draw a line under Labour's wars.
(19) Ructions over the future of the eurozone bewilder Hague and business people he meets in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.
(20) While the agreement may satisfy the leadership of the two coalition parties, it is likely to cause major ructions on the Tory backbenches.
Suction
Definition:
(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(3) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(4) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
(5) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(6) Suction blisters were raised on psoriatic lesions and normal appearing skin.
(7) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(8) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(9) Survival analysis demonstrated that the probability of survival without developing nosocomial pneumonia was greater among closed-suctioning patients vs. open-suctioned patients (p less than .03).
(10) In vitro experiments with hydrogel discs of 56%, 65%, 69.5% and 75% water content were subjected to swelling pressures ranging from 55 to 150 mmHg in a suction chamber.
(11) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
(12) Concomitant bilateral myringotomy with suction aspiration of the middle ear contents also should be done, with or without placement of tympanostomy tubes at the discretion of the surgeon.
(13) Having made the above observations and comparison, it must be concluded that the suction method is clearly the more advantageous.
(14) Thirty four per cent of the patients had no peritoneal drainage and an abscess rate of 1.8%, 18% had only closed suction drainage and 0% abscess rate, 15% had only open sump drainage and a rate of 8.3%, 14% had only open Penrose drainage with a rate of 8.7%, and 19% had a combination of both open Penrose and sump drainage with a rate of 22.5%.
(15) These complications could not be seen when extracardiac suction blood was eliminated or filtrated.
(16) The time course of appearance and the dynamic changes of immunocompetent cells were assessed in human skin following sterile suction blister would healing.
(17) Active filling (-10 mmHg) inside inner blood sacs was produced by the suction effects of the outer sacs attached to a moving actuator.
(18) The PTB-suction prosthesis has been studied by a roentgenological technique.
(19) Whole-cell ICa free of other overlapping currents was recorded with a suction pipette.
(20) Baroreflex responsiveness was determined from the R-R interval responses to neck suction and pressure (repeated trials of 5-s stimuli of -20, -40, and 35 mmHg).