(n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samson d’Souza and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious on the beach, where she subsequently drowned.
(2) This review by Herman Samson and Adron Harris covers these recent findings, with the intent of generating questions that will focus further research efforts.
(3) That latest ankle injury – witnessed by Capello – will deny Cole a chance to overtake Kenny Samson as England's most capped full-back.
(4) Two local men, Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza, have been charged in connection with the murder, which was seen as a watershed for Goa's tourism industry.
(5) We therefore conclude that the Laerdal resuscitator is superior to the Samson one in the management of infants with birth asphyxia.
(6) It was identified as Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson (IMI 213487) and shown to be pathogenic for the rabbit cornea.
(7) Son and another heir Murdoch family tree update ... the world's most successful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , has another grandchild to add to his swelling ranks of descendents after daughter Elisabeth gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, Samson.
(8) The method appears to be useful for mapping functional neural pathways on the basis of evoked metabolic responses (Plum, Gjedde and Samson, 1976).
(9) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(10) Fluorescence parameters were reported earlier to be reliable indicators in the determination of heavy metal toxicity in algal cultures (Samson and Popovic, 1988).
(11) Gilmour has "done a lead on at least one [track]," she said, and Samson, who co-wrote seven of The Division Bell's tracks, described herself on Twitter as one of The Endless River's lyricists.
(12) Two local men, Samson D'Souza, 28, and Placido Carvalho, 36, face a number of charges, including culpable homicide, sexual assault, outraging modesty and destroying evidence.
(13) Pete Samson from The Sun – who is always well informed – reported on 10 May under the headline America loves Cheryl Cole that "Cheryl Cole dazzled America with her US X Factor debut, with co-judge Paula Abdul declaring her 'lovely' and FOUR contestants asking for her phone number."
(14) Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson, a saphrophyte that has contaminated laboratory solutions, was cultured.
(15) A large ophthalmic artery aneurysm was ligated using a modification of the retrograde suction technique described by Batjer and Samson.
(16) A comparison of the life story of a psychotherapy patient to that of biblical Samson reveals that both men suffer from a behavioural disturbance, manifested in the compulsion to re-enact the experience of betrayal by women, followed by destructive attacks of rage against others, and ultimately against their own tormented selves.
(17) Its giant Samson and Goliath cranes will have to be moved out of their current positions along tracks to the end of the building dock for the estimated 50 days of work on the Blackford Dolphin rig.
(18) Gen. Genet, 157:1-9, 1977; L. Samson and J. Cairns, Nature (London) 267:281-283, 1977].
(19) No correlation was found between the prevalence of mites in foxes and Samson character.
(20) Updated at 9.14am GMT 5.56am GMT New Zealand Adrienne Samson, a senior lecturer at the Auckland University, told the Guardian about their event this morning.
Strength
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
(n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
(n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
(n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.
(n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.
(n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?
(n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.
(n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.
(n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.
(n.) A strong place; a stronghold.
(v. t.) To strengthen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(3) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(4) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(7) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(8) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(9) The RNA solutions showed a dielectric increment proportional to the strength of the applied field and to the RNA concentration.
(10) We show that it does apply under conditions of high ionic strength (0.3 M KCl), and under these conditions time courses may be analyzed to yield unbiased estimates of the initiation (Vi) and chain elongation (Vp) rates.
(11) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(12) Strength of the women ranged from 62 to 70 percent of that of the men, depending upon muscle group.
(13) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
(14) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(15) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
(16) Furthermore, even the action of Lys-5 on the Pseudomonas OM was abolished when the assays were performed in the presence of 150 mM NaCl instead of the low-ionic strength buffer earlier used by investigators studying the effect of polycations on the Pseudomonas OM.
(17) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(18) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(19) The influence of the solution ionic strength on the binding process was practically lacking.
(20) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.