(1) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(2) However, cells grown in liquid medium swam normally and did not show any differences from wild-type cells in terms of swimming speed or tumbling frequency.
(3) The latest incident carries echoes of the case of another American, Evan Hunziker, who swam across the Yalu river from China to North Korea in 1996.
(4) Beppe Grillo , the former comedian who co-founded the M5S, made an impression on Sicilians when he swam the 3.5km (2.2-mile) stretch that divides the island from the mainland in 2012.
(5) However, when adapted to the dark for an hour or more, vis-à-vis pairs swam positively to the light.
(6) When rats swam in cold water for 10 min twice and were rewarmed by immersion in water at 38 degrees C during 20 min, embryo transport was accelerated despite that no changes occurred in the blood levels of sex steroids.
(7) The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr.
(8) He told the Guardian he swam across a river and borrowed a friend’s car to make it into Port Vila.
(9) After a 4-week conditioning period, the "Long" group underwent a 6-week period during which they swam up to 44,000 m.wk-1, while the "Short" group maintained their swimming at 22,000 m.wk-1.
(10) After four boats carrying nearly 600 people successfully landed in western Indonesia – some migrants jumped into the water and swam – a fifth carrying hundreds more was turned away early on Monday.
(11) Rats that swam for 3 h showed a 6-fold increase in serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) activity which declined to control values within 7 h after swimming.
(12) At all times, morphologically normal spermatozoa from donors and patients swam faster and had greater rolling frequency, flagellar beat frequency and amplitude than did abnormally shaped cells.
(13) The rats swam for 50 min in 34-35 degrees C water with a tail weight (5% of body wt).
(14) Before stimulation, glycogen was higher in rats that swam on the preceding day (supercompensated rats) compared with controls.
(15) After dilution in salt solution, some caput sperm exhibited circular motion, whereas most cauda sperm swam progressively.
(16) The cheers of 1,300 Norwegian teenagers carry far over the still grey waters where, on 22 July 2011, children swam for their lives .
(17) During observations the diver either stayed in one place for 30 min, swam transects or followed individual fish.
(18) Sperm recovered from the proximal region of the caudal epididymis, near the corpus, swam in either the helical or hyperactivated patterns, or a mixture of the two.
(19) Perhaps that whale swam up the Thames for a reason.
(20) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.
Sway
Definition:
(v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
(v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
(v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
(v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
(v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
(v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
(v. i.) To have weight or influence.
(v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
(n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
(n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
(n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
(n.) Rule; dominion; control.
(n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Example Sentences:
(1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(2) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(4) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(5) Few in Moscow are likely to be swayed by that explanation, however.
(6) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(8) Diane Abbott , part of Ed Miliband's senior team, has accused Labour of being swayed by populist Tory attacks on immigration instead of standing up for diversity.
(9) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(10) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
(11) If any donor held such sway over the Tories as Unite has over Labour, there would deservedly be an outcry.
(12) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(13) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
(14) However, an important relationship between sway and falls was revealed.
(15) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
(16) (c) Motion aftereffect had no direct and immediate influence on sway path, but rather a latent and long-term effect.
(17) The results showed unstable body sway in the condition with eyes closed until at least 4 months after the operation.
(18) On the other hand, information on the direction of the expected body sway given in the visual fixation condition resulted in a considerable and approximately equal decrease of the two components (by 70-80 percent).
(19) Neuropsychologic and postural sway test performance improved following Ca(++)-EDTA chelation in a bridge worker with persistent central nervous system (CNS) symptoms 2 years after an episode of subacute lead intoxication.
(20) Sway activity was found to be significantly higher in the CCI group as compared with that of the normal controls.