(1) The Lakers snapped a six-game skid in their final outing, but their demanding fans could forget about the awful season for one night.
(2) Housing First simply can’t tackle the problem – especially not in Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles area synonymous with destitution.
(3) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(4) Sam, on for Jansen, sends a low shot skidding across the turf and Howard can only push it into the path of the wide open Draxler who slots home.
(5) Years later, a visiting Pakistani reporter recounted how Mehsud took him on a terrifying ride in which the militant raced his jeep towards the edge of a cliff, skidding to a stop a few feet from the edge.
(6) The number 38 bus from Bury had skidded out of control on an icy pothole and crushed her against the wall of the Job Centre.
(7) In explaining the alcoholic process to the public, this fiction contributed to the general belief that the typical alcoholic was a Skid Row-like derelict.
(8) Taye Taiwo was allowed to encroach into their penalty box unhindered before his skidding shot went just wide, Yakubu Aiyegbeni's 25-yard pile-driver was fisted unconvincingly by Sergio Romero, and — not long before the end — the substitute Kalu Uche was able to exchange passes with Yakubu before looping his shot over from 12 yards.
(9) Part-timers, meanwhile, are envied for having one foot in the playground and one in the office, but worry secretly about failing to keep up with either of them: skidding late into the school pick-up, still furtively sending emails on our phones.
(10) Then just before half-time, Benzema's first-time shot skidded wide.
(11) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(12) Jerome Boateng bails out his team-mate by skidding in to poke the ball out for a corner.
(13) In the Conference finals Sporting went down an early goal against Houston — a goal marked by Oscar Boniek Garcia cutting back to shoot, as Seth Sinovic skidded helplessly past him on the freezing wet surface.
(14) Officially he skidded trying to avoid two boys in the road, but some believe he killed himself.
(15) Kris Meeke of Northern Ireland had looked set for a challenge but skidded into a ditch on Sunday morning, which damaged the tyres on his Citroën DS3 and he slipped to sixth place.
(16) Inhibitory strains were less common (32%) in residents from "skid row" areas (see D.J.
(17) Gerrit Cole pitched seven strong innings to end a personal three-game losing skid and added an RBI single to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win over the Washington Nationals .
(18) One witness said the plane skidded for several hundred metres along the riverbank after it crashed.
(19) Average exposure levels for loggers engaged only in felling are twice those for cutters who also perform limbing, bucking and manual skidding of the timber, since these latter operations involve considerably lower exposure.
(20) In commodities trading, US crude oil futures kept falling after skidding more than 2% on Monday to three-week lows.
Sorting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sort
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
(2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
(6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
(8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
(12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
(14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
(18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
(19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.