(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(3) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(4) A training exercise from 2006 had created the scenario of a car bomb attack on government buildings but a recommendation to close the roads around the central district had been snarled up in bureaucracy for five years, said the report.
(5) Planning permission for the laboratory was rejected twice by South Cambridgeshire district council on the grounds that protests by animal rights campaigners outside the facility would snarl up traffic and could become a nuisance to local residents.
(6) The girl who did that is an intern, she’s working for free,” she snarled.
(7) "But we do not want to snarl up the government's legislative programme on Lords reform.
(8) Traffic in New York snarls up under the sheer weight of backed-up, blacked-out limousines transporting the stressed-out bankers.
(9) Documents released on Saturday appear to show that officials loyal to Christie went to elaborate lengths to obscure the true motivation for the snarl-up by trying to make it appear to be part of a traffic flow study.
(10) Whether villainous or heroic, romantic or sly, funny or frightening, he put that snarl to good use alongside his dark-brown voice and melancholy features in a wide range of parts.
(11) Lampard was booked for a lunge on Modric while sniping and snarling at the officials was a constant theme.
(12) The Spaniard wins a free-kick, prompting Schweinsteiger to snarl menacingly in his ear.
(13) According to those who have dealt with him, he is far from a snarling Rottweiler.
(14) The trolling on my Twitter account has been particularly heavy this week, with various instructions to “fuck myself” as well as the snarling insistence that I attend a gathering of the KKK.
(15) Even ignoring the rather pathetic complaint submitted by a steward for what seemed an innocuous incident in the mouth of the tunnel late on here, this was another display that demonstrated too much snarl and not enough bite.
(16) A solo soul set, with Prince at a piano emitting a seamless flow of yips, whoops, snarls and moans of finely turned ecstasy.
(17) RSL meanwhile left the field snarling — Beckerman picking up a yellow as he argued with the referee on the way to the tunnel.They only had themselves to blame after lacking urgency in the first half.
(18) As it's one of those cities where honking in traffic is recreation, I wait for a snarl of cars to pass before asking a food stall attendant how he thinks the place has changed.
(19) Duterte called Pope Francis a “son of a whore” for snarling up Manila traffic earlier this year when he visited the country.
(20) False.” 2 Legitimate news organisations that regurgitate stories without checking, such as the $200 Bill Clinton haircut on Air Force One which supposedly snarled air traffic at LAX in 1993.
Starling
Definition:
(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
(n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Example Sentences:
(1) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(2) For the purpose of an experimental study in which the three different types of pressure catheters most commonly used in anorectal manometry were compared, a Starling-resistance could be established.
(3) Properly timed atrial systole may alter systolic performance by the mechanism of Starling's law of the heart, which states that the extent of systolic myocardial fiber shortening is dependent on the degree of diastolic fiber stretch, or preload.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Even within the ACE inhibitor group their effects vary--improving, impairing, or not changing the Frank-Starling relationships following reduction in left ventricular mass.
(6) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(7) We used single-unit vagal recordings to study the average discharge pattern during a respiratory cycle from 57 intrapulmonary CO2 receptors in 6 ducks artificially ventilated with a Starling pump.
(8) Thus the Frank-Starling mechanism has a very significant role in an intact organism with normal hemodynamics.
(9) Possible mechanisms causing the observed biphasic lymph flow response to capillary pressure elevation are: 1) changes in Starling forces oppose an increase in capillary pressure; 2) the rate of change in tissue fluid pressure affects lymph flow to a greater extent than does the absolute change in tissue fluid pressure; or, 3) the lymphatics empty upon elevation and refill as the capillaries filter.
(10) Pre- and postoperative hemodynamic workup with construction of Starling curves were used to answer this question.
(11) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(12) This study is the first to demonstrate that an intestinal helminth previously reported to be of little or no histopathological consequence, Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus, has a significant detrimental impact upon the flow of food energy through a definitive host, the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris.
(13) An addition to Starling's hypothesis is therefore suggested to adapt it to dependent tissues.
(14) These temperatures are 2-4 degrees C higher than the resting temperature in starlings, and are among the highest steady-state temperatures observed in any animal.
(15) These three parameters can be related to the ventricular filling time, supporting the opinion that the fetal heart follows the rules of the Frank Starling relationship.
(17) This altered cardiac response to venous filling, also observed in patients with essential hypertension, is suggested to be caused by an altered Frank-Starling relationship of the hypertrophied heart in hypertensive individuals.
(18) Endurance athletes have greater ventricular diastolic chamber compliance and distensibility than nonathletes and thus operate on the steep portion of their Starling curve.
(19) Within the heart the Frank-Starling mechanism, adrenergic stimulation causing increase of heart rate and contractility, and during the chronic course also myocardial hypertrophy are operating.
(20) Metabolic imbalance (hypoxia) can be linked with diabetic macular edema through hemodynamic principles according to Starlings law.