(1) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(3) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(5) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
(6) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(7) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(8) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(9) Then Belt, belts one to center that is scorched but lands safely in the glove of Jay.
(10) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
(11) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
(12) City had to grind out this latest success, initially scorched by the pace of Yannick Bolasie, Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako and grateful to Joe Hart’s flying save to deny Jason Puncheon after the interval.
(13) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
(14) Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex, including "a scorching lovemaking scene on a hay bale".
(15) And unlike beach sand, the sands here, made up of eroded gypsum crystals, do not get scorching hot in the sun and can usually be walked on in bare feet, even on the hottest days.
(16) Ground crews and water-dropping helicopters tamed the biggest blaze in Los Padres national forest, north of Los Angeles, by Wednesday after it scorched 1,858 acres.
(17) We shall pursue our own scorched earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground..." His elders shut him up.
(18) Martin's clothing was scorched by gunpowder while the bullet hole in his chest was not, he said, proving that there was "at least an inch, or two or three" separating his clothing from his skin.
(19) I said: ‘This is the game-changer.’ Sharapova didn’t win a game.” Earlier in the Open, after Williams had struggled through a match, she left the stadium and headed to a practice court where she spent the next hour with Mouratoglou hitting in the scorching afternoon sun trying to find the right feeling on her swing.
(20) When police later searched the scorched apartment, they found newspaper clippings about the murders of the Turkish-German businessmen, copies of the Pink Panther DVD, and the Česká pistol.
Sunlight
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lighting regimen was 14 h light: 10 h dark, supplied by natural diffused sunlight and incandescent bulbs.
(2) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
(3) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(4) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
(5) The result, you would have to say, is pretty much exactly that: bordered on one side by the library and town hall, and on the other by the tourist office, the 600 sq ms of Rjukan's market square, to be comprehensively remodelled next year in celebration, now bathes in a focused beam of bright sunlight fully 80-90% as intense as the original.
(6) Certain ultraviolet wavelengths (UVB, 290-320 nm) are thought to be responsible for most of the immediate and long-term pathological consequences of excessive exposure to sunlight.
(7) No association was observed between history of sunlight exposure and senile cataract.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) On the inner surface of what would be rotating habitats, strips of land would alternate with windows to let in sunlight.
(10) People living in the Far East are exposed to bright sunlight all year round so photoageing of exposed skin is inevitable.
(11) I postulate that people near the equator are exposed to more sunlight and that the ultraviolet light from the sunlight aids in the induction of suppressor cells specific for melanocyte associated antigens.
(12) Data for the incidence of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the skin, registered for six regions of Norway during 10 years (1976-1985), were used to evaluate the biological amplification factor Ab for induction of these cancers by sunlight.
(13) In an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Deckard is tasked with taking out a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony.
(14) Our field tests had supported the utility of this dosimeter as a reproducible and reliable sunlight dosimeter.
(15) The possibility of insufficient exposure to sunlight could not be determined.
(16) Other triggers included hunger and prolonged exposure to excessive heat or sunlight.
(17) The lips are composed of striated muscle and connective tissue and are anatomically positioned to be maximally exposed to sunlight, environment, food, and tobacco.
(18) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(19) The disorder first set on after an episode of intensive exposure to sunlight and persisted for 6 years.
(20) When exposed to sunlight creatine kinase was unstable in all the investigated control and patient sera.