(a.) Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) As a person, she was always kind and courteous and as a leader she was steely and determined.
(3) The Observer of the mid-1950s resembled nothing so much as a giant seminar conducted by the soft-spoken and diffident, yet steely, figure of David Astor.
(4) Behind the mild-mannered, laid-back exterior, the extraordinary calm, is a man of great steeliness and backbone," said one adviser.
(5) Archie Norman , ITV's chairman, said Crozier, who is the former head of the Football Association, had the "steely resolve we need at ITV", which was looking for a "great leader".
(6) Steely hair disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by slow growth, progressive cerebral dysfunction, kinky friable hair, x-linked inheritance, and death before three years of age.
(7) There's a steely determination amongst charity workers, a feeling that we won't let down the people that we're here to help.
(8) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
(9) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
(10) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(11) She must have been traumatised, yet seemed calm and steely.
(12) Salim Amin, who now runs the African picture agency Camerapix set up by his father, said Mohamed and Buerk shared a similarly steely determination.
(13) He has been right too often in this tournament for it to be down to random chance, to the whims of the gods and to be about anything but cold logic, a huge ego and a steely, steely nerve.
(14) Add them up and the picture you get is not of the steely man at the Treasury, purposefully executing a detailed plan – but a first-timer on a unicycle, veering about all over the shop.
(15) The steely exchange came as Gove reluctantly released details of 517 applications made for the first three waves of free schools after losing a tribunal ruling last month.
(16) Cate Blanchett gave one of these addresses just a week ago and you’re stuck with me.” Thorpe went on to congratulate the graduates on their achievement, adding the transition from student to working life would take a “steely determination”.
(17) Karen pauses and when she speaks again her voice is less steely and more vulnerable.
(18) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
(19) She told Radio Times that her final scenes were not "beautiful" and were "necessarily agonising, because of her steely determination to end her own life".
(20) We find it troubling that one of the police commissioner’s apparent priorities is to ticket pedestrians,” said Paul Steely-White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives , which campaigns for better conditions for cyclists, walkers and public transport users.
Steeply
Definition:
(adv.) In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Levels of alpha 1-antitrypsin (A 1-AT) showed marked season-related fluctuation patterns in Co children, the curves in E group children turned steeply upward from the third examination series on.
(2) Critical features of the model include a non-monotonic relationship between recovery time during rhythmic stimulation and the state of membrane properties, and a steeply sloped recovery of membrane properties over certain ranges of recovery times.
(3) Female fertility drops steeply above the age of 35 and the risk of miscarriage increases: at the age of 40 and above, 40% of pregnancies will be miscarried.
(4) Flu cases rose steeply last week, up 44.9%, according to doctors reporting a surge of visits to their practices.
(5) Rates are still rising in these provinces, though much less steeply than in the past.
(6) Cholesteryl ester content of the hyperlipidemic cells rose steeply for about two days, with a slower rise thereafter.
(7) When the low-Ca2+, 0-Na+ solution was presented in darkness, responses to subsequent illumination were affected in a characteristic manner: (i) the response-intensity relation was steepened and shifted to lower intensities, (ii) the response to a step of light could be predicted by integration and compression of the flash response, and (iii) the flash sensitivity declined steeply as a function of background intensity.
(8) In the absence of Ca2+, substitution of nonpolymerizable TM for TM reduced significantly the slope of the steeply rising phase of the sigmoidal S-1.ADP binding curve.
(9) When the electrode was advanced in steps, the amplitudes of both delta[K+]o and the action potential declined steeply to about 10% over a distance of 20 microns: K+ from oxytocin cells appears to be prevented from dispersing freely through the extracellular space of the SON.
(10) (2) Under non-ischaemic conditions the decay of force, turns and amplitude is about the same, whereas during ischaemia force and to a lesser extent amplitude pulses, decline steeply towards zero, while turns, representing the number of impulses, remain in the non-ischaemic range.
(11) In Pteronotus the greater part of the basilar membrane, 7.5 mm or approximately 58%, lies within the enormous basal turn and within this turn there are steeply banked curves and one small 0.5-mm region where the membrane is straight.
(12) From 30 to 60 min, plasma adrenaline and NA levels rose steeply as seen with control animals.
(13) (7) After allowing for differences in treatment parameters, especially for heterogeneity in overall treatment times, tumor control probability increased steeply with increase in total dose.
(14) Small-bore airways were more sensitive, flow was reduced to zero and resistance rose very steeply due to mucosal folding while in large-bore airways maximum flow reduction was 50% and resistance increased sigmoidly.
(15) However, if during the hypoxic exposure, hypocapnia is allowed to develop, the subsequently determined CO2 ventilatory response curve will shift to the left, rise steeply, particularly in the early phase, and demonstrate a positive hypoxic hypercapnic interaction.
(16) During the first few weeks after weaning, this number rose steeply and continued to rise until the mice were about 48 weeks old, when a maximum of more than 25 x 10(6) Ig-SC per SI was found.
(17) The lower limits of autoregulation for CBF beyond which blood flow was decreased steeply were 72% of the resting blood pressure level in the control, 56% in the PBZ treated group, and 80% in the PPL group.
(18) The value of k(obs) for reactivation increased steeply with [Na+], with the sodium dependence being about the same at pH 8.0 as at pH 7.4.
(19) Above 250 ppm yields increased steeply up to about 1% oxygen and then more gradually to a maximum at 100% oxygen.
(20) The rise is happening in every country, the IHME paper says, although more steeply in some places than in others.