When he pulled the trigger his bullet thumped into the log and the crow flew lazily away unscathed. |
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The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger. |
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Its action on the dopamine-receptors in the chemo-emetic trigger zone produces an anti-emetic effect. |
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He pulled the trigger back and the sound of the gunshot reverberated through the walls. |
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Just loosen the screw near the top of the trigger and slide it in the desired direction, then retighten the screw. |
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Rebuilding those inventories will trigger a combination of increased U.S. production and a resurgence in imports in coming months. |
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Unfortunately, right before he pulled the trigger, Nathan shot the gun out of his hand. |
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As well as bringing milder winters and hotter summers, warmer weather could trigger more rain, fiercer winds and more frequent storms. |
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In extreme cases, they could trigger a life-threatening anaphylactic shock, a commission spokesman added. |
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Permanent pain relief with anesthesia can be achieved with injections of phenol into the pain trigger point. |
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First, they stimulated the T-cells strongly enough to prompt the cell to express latent virus but not to trigger other cellular functions. |
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Even the announcements of the currency repatriations can trigger short covering rallies. |
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The agent made it to his feet and tried to straighten up, fumbling with the trigger on his laser gun. |
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The light is activated with an ambidextrous pressure switch just under the trigger guard, wrapped around the front area of the grips. |
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The ten round magazine is released with an ambidextrous lever mounted on the bottom of the trigger guard. |
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The concept of the device is to activate a remote sensor that will trigger the device on the vehicle that will bring it to a stop. |
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A soil expert claims that human activity such as road-building, construction vibration and loading on top slopes can all trigger landslips. |
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Here is an event that is sure to trigger the youngsters to hop on to the dance floor for a jig. |
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Some people who have food allergies find that certain foods will trigger eczema. |
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Avoid things that trigger your child's asthma, such as allergies and breathing in cold air. |
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Research from Southampton hospital indicates that the house dust mite is the biggest allergenic trigger of asthma. |
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If allergens in the air are an asthma trigger, pollutants can make the lungs even more sensitive to them. |
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Substances that are normally harmless could act as allergens and trigger a reaction in certain people. |
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It consists of a tube filled with xenon gas, with electrodes on either end and a metal trigger plate at the middle of the tube. |
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The statement of claim alleges that the gun was unregistered and had no trigger lock. |
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The trigger level for this exchange is 246 and currently seven households have registered their interest. |
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Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States. |
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Two refinements I would like to see are an improved, wider trigger bar, and a somewhat longer stem. |
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Palpation of these trigger points may cause referred pain to the lateral aspect of the affected knee. |
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Financial worries, a stressful job, redundancy or fear of unemployment, even moving house, can trigger depression in vulnerable people. |
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Without their knowledge, innocent computer users may trigger the virus by simply browsing a website. |
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During a stopover in London, she's fixed up with a nameless salesman who tries to trigger her secret kink. |
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The tannins in witch hazel tighten the weak veins that trigger painful hemorrhoids. |
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Anti-depressants are not always recommendable because though they may alleviate depression they may trigger a manic high in the process. |
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In recoil, one of the mortally wounded soldiers pulled the trigger of his gun, causing a single bullet to strike his attacker. |
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Without thinking, Shelley squeezed the gun's trigger and took a step back to compensate for the surprise amount of recoil. |
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He had conditioned himself to ignore the kick and the sharp report, and to hold the sights steady and press the trigger smoothly. |
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To check proper adjustment hold the trigger back with the grip safety released and work the hammer back and forth. |
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Then recock the barrel correctly to its original position, take aim and squeeze the trigger. |
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His finger convulsed on the trigger, even as he leveled the weapon for aim. |
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On the right side of the frame, just above the trigger, is a keyhole where a special key can be inserted to lock the trigger. |
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Backlash, the rearward movement of the trigger after sear release, was horrendous. |
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This is a surprisingly beneficial addition that prevents excessive rearward trigger movement after the shot breaks. |
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This acted as the trigger for a series of civil wars, as reactionaries and progressives battled both with the French and each other. |
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Because of new electro-static sensors, a gentle stroke on AIBO's head or back will trigger a response without needing to push or click. |
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Now athletes are using more familiar smells, such as their favourite aftershave or perfume to trigger memories of their strict training regimes. |
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A sniff of perfume, aftershave, air freshener or deodorant can trigger a potentially deadly reaction because of a rare allergy she has developed. |
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Second, there is a midbrain trigger, perhaps in serotonergic neurons of the dorsal raphe. |
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A dark room will trigger less light, whereas a bright room will drive more light output. |
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The targeting of adrenocorticotropic hormone suggests that stress may trigger the auto-immune response. |
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As I squeezed the trigger, the sound was deafening, the gun jumped uncontrollably in my hands. |
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The sight was nicely radiused to match the trigger group and the two holes aligned just so. |
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You want to be able to get the distal joint of your trigger finger onto the trigger. |
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When walking through tight cover, the shooting hand can cup the trigger guard for extra safety. |
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Drug use was pandemic at these shows because drugs act to trigger the transformation into the private self. |
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Agate generates the acoustic signature of any ship in order to trigger acoustic mines. |
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He helped trigger the October demos with radio broadcasts on a channel that has since been jammed. |
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According to this idea, loss of Uox activity might result in a quantum jump in intellectual capability and thus trigger emergence of man. |
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Each musician uses a fibre-optic wand to trigger samples of the space sounds. |
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You should keep records of absences and introduce a trigger mechanism that alerts you to look into regular absenteeism and the reasons for it. |
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It was also possible that drugs used to stimulate ovaries could trigger chromosomal abnormalities. |
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Reactive oxygen species are generated under various biotic and abiotic stresses, and trigger cell death. |
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A single case of noise-induced hearing loss might be the trigger for intensified noise abatement. |
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Removing them rapidly from a diet can trigger the same intensity of cravings. |
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Whoever pulled the trigger on this acquisition may have just been caught up in the moment. |
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And in general, most people have an aversion to topics which are likely to trigger a personal grudge in a coworker. |
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And an inherent contradiction within the Sunni coalition could well trigger a breakup in the longer term. |
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If things start to go wrong for him in Florida it could trigger a chain reaction. |
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But my finger was tight on the trigger, and it hurt as I relaxed it. |
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George Zimmerman pulled the trigger, but a larger ethos of devaluing life and the stereotypes of criminality loaded the gun. |
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You load the weapon, you aim the weapon and you pull the trigger. |
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It will be like aiming a gun when the intent is not to pull the trigger. |
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This removable component not only provides full-length rails on which the slide reciprocates, but also contains the trigger mechanism, safety and sear. |
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The front trigger is articulated to move forward a little when the gun recoils and then you move your finger forward for the right modified barrel. |
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Basically they're bogus entities that trigger an alarm when accessed. |
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Irritants in the air such as tobacco or woodsmoke, perfumes, aerosol sprays, cleaning products, and fumes from paint or cooking gas can all trigger asthma flare-ups. |
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I was the one to trigger the detonator, and for that I take full responsibility. |
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For children on the brink of severe malnutrition, diarrhea can be the trigger that pushes them over the edge. |
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Continued growth increases the risk of partial dome collapse, which could trigger moderate explosions and possibly significant lahars from the crater. |
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They reckon that the Greeks will use their votes to demand a return to the drachma and trigger a stampede on the banks. |
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Such a renouncement would not trigger the Electoral Act and would not require a by-election to allow the electorate to review the MP's mandate to represent him or her. |
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Finally, egged on by an evil spirit, a destitute J.R. resolves to commit suicide, and gun to his head, pulls the trigger. |
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The trigger return spring is an optional part, and the frame provided a short, crisp, responsive pull without it, so it was not used for this review. |
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The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field. |
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Fat cells produce leptin, a protein known to help trigger puberty. |
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This means that any cyber attack on NATO members can trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. |
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Globalization can trigger a state of emergency for the preservation of musical heritage. |
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She argued that the play is about traditional rites of passage, which trigger development within the individual and society. |
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In Drosophila melanogaster, the Y chromosome does not trigger male development. |
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However, small herbivores rather than macrograzers or simulated herbivory are expected to trigger the induction of anti-herbivory defences. |
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Intense feelings of resentment trigger the initial retribution, which causes the other party to feel equally aggrieved and vengeful. |
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For example, type 2 ribosome-inactivating proteins trigger the catalytic inactivation of ribosomes. |
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For another trigger, the Department of Homeland Security must create a new, fraudproof system to verify the legal status of all job applicants. |
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I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun. |
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As the argument got more heated, Reggie Kray pointed a handgun at McVitie's head and pulled the trigger twice, but the gun failed to discharge. |
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These are trigger foods, which studies have shown to be physiologically addictive and often lead to bingeing. |
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It seems that Frost and other local leaders were expecting to seize the town and trigger a national uprising. |
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A study of samples of the King's hair published in 2005 revealed high levels of arsenic, a possible trigger for the disease. |
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Before your jottering finger could find the trigger, the hilt would dirl on your breast-bane. |
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Each Zone within a Stage Setting on the PX-5S can choose to use an Arpeggiator or trigger a Phrase. |
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Hot Shot Manufacturing's Infinity release features a new Lever-Link trigger that replaces traditional roller bearings. |
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The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was the final trigger for secession. |
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Exposure to hay can also trigger Allergic rhinitis for people who are hypersensitive to airborne allergens. |
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Scientists believe that dropping temperatures trigger their bodies to breakdown bones and tissues and absorb them. |
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It may also trigger intraplate earthquakes near the ice margins of Greenland and Antarctica. |
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There are very few habitats stressful enough to make investing biomass and energy in trigger hairs and enzymes worthwhile. |
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Sherlock deduces a chemical weapon designed to trigger violent hallucinations was responsible. |
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I hear a rustling in the bushes off to my right, and my trigger finger spasms. |
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Some traders are too afraid to pull the trigger and just watch the market without ever getting involved. |
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The gun jiggled in a slack-handed grip, but the trigger finger looked tight. |
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He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber. |
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The anticrisis measures in the form of the trigger prices were only one element of the government's program for steel. |
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Travel at night was forbidden and frankly, none of us seemed upset about this as we all knew how the U.S. Army troops had itchy trigger fingers. |
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The torpedo boat would back away to a safe distance and detonate the torpedo, usually by means of a long cord attached to a trigger. |
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In effect, it was a case of mass technocide, with humanity itself pulling the trigger. |
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To thumb a single-action revolve, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer. |
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Some scientists suggest that sonar may trigger whale beachings, and they point to signs that such whales have experienced decompression sickness. |
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Food is the most commonly-identified anaphylaxis trigger and accounts for 30 percent of all anaphylaxis fatalities. |
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Look at Afghanistan and Iraq, it's plain to see that our current President has an itchy trigger finger. |
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Internal waves may mix nutrients into surface water and trigger plankton blooms. |
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Any appearance of double leverage at ABG would very likely trigger a negative rating action. |
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As the police made their way to the upper levels, they did so with guns drawn and itchy trigger fingers at the ready. |
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For animals that eat silage, a bale wrapper may be used to seal a round bale completely and trigger the fermentation process. |
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Some categories that commonly trigger grammatical agreement are noted below. |
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Climate change can reportedly trigger volcanic activity in sensitive areas by changing pressure of ice or seawater and extreme weather. |
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The sled dogs' barking is speculated to have sounded enough like seal calls to trigger the killer whale's hunting curiosity. |
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For instance, it currently lacks the critical mass of researchers needed to trigger innovation. |
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The specific nature of which consonants trigger back umlaut and which block them varies from dialect to dialect. |
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Alopecia areata can follow physical trauma, notably head injuries, and emotional stress alone may be a trigger. |
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It will also identify any logic bombs hidden in the malware waiting for a trigger to cause damage at a later time. |
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Remote bird releasers catapult a live bird into the air when you trigger it. |
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This underground arena features switches that trigger lasers, and a carpet bomb of the entire lower and upper levels. |
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Rains also trigger attack by Jassid traditionally called 'Sabz Taila' and growers should apply suitable pesticides after consulting experts. |
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He said the accident was caused by a faulty trigger, but I think it was the nut behind the bolt. |
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I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost. |
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In some cases, researchers suggest, these cellular mementos of Mom trigger autoimmune diseases in the child. |
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Southerners feared that Napoleon would free all the slaves in Louisiana, which could trigger slave uprisings elsewhere. |
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The trigger for this event was the brouhaha over raising the debt limit. |
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Due to its similarity to LH, urine-derived hCG has been used to trigger ovulation and luteinization and to support the corpus luteum. |
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Between the long sight radius and good trigger, it was easy to shoot up to the pistol's potential. |
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Besides, Antwerp will offer additional cycle facilities, such as rainwear and douches, to trigger sustainable mobility. |
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A matchlock mechanism was added around 1475 and it became the first firearm with a trigger. |
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As jittery as everyone was, there were bound to be some itchy trigger fingers, American and Kuwaiti. |
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Yet when consumed in large quantities for just 2 or 3 months, the untreated seeds can trigger a disabling spasticity known as lathyrism. |
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Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger. |
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To trigger neoblast proliferation and differentation, two days head and tail regenerating animals were used for the preparation of the libraries. |
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Disturbance of these sensitive sites may trigger the mother to abandon her den prematurely, or abandon her litter altogether. |
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To fan a single action revolver, hold down the trigger and strike the hammer repeatedly with the free hand. |
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For countries in the Eurozone, the euro is the local currency, although no single state can trigger inflation by creating more currency. |
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This would in turn trigger questions about the amount of power the Lords should have and there would be pressure for it to increase. |
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An electronic kanban trigger mathematically is sized and put into the MRP system. |
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And that, we can show, did trigger steps in the direction of having more welfare programs and a rudimentary safety net in response to fear of communism. |
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If you hold down the Alt key while pressing a keyboard letter corresponding to one of the underlined letters in the toolbar, it will trigger that command in the menu. |
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Moreover, blood or secretion or any foreign body in the airway in a lightly anaesthetised patient may also trigger laryngospasm which may result in catastrophic circumstances. |
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Furthermore, preliminary decisions will generally not trigger the duty to act fairly, but decisions of a more final nature may have such an effect. |
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Then standing before a closet mirror, he put the automatic to his head, at the point of the pterion, and pressed the comfortably concaved trigger. |
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Several antiar rhythmic, anti-infective, anti-psychotic and other agents, might trigger TdP by blocking specific potassium channels in the myocyte membrane. |
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Around 1470 a shoulder stock was added to the arquebus and in 1475 the matchlock mechanism was added, making the arquebus the first firearm to use a trigger. |
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By the later 16th century, gunsmiths in most countries had begun to introduce the short trigger perpendicular to the stock that is familiar to modern shooters. |
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In late Tang period, there were ineffective and corrupt rulers and officials in the imperial court allowing regional warlords to trigger widespread revolts. |
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Mk I fitted with degaussing coils to trigger magnetic mines. |
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Hyperarousal after a traumatic experience is normal. It occurs when a person's brain believes that person is at risk again because it misreads an external signal or trigger. |
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The monostable multivibrator, or one-shot, is designed to generate controllable-duration pulses when triggered by the rising or falling edge of a trigger clock. |
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Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom, yet only some species' venom cause an adverse reaction in humans. |
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The study revealed that some cats, like many humans, experience audiogenic reflex seizures when high-pitched sounds trigger a reaction in the brain. |
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Heavy rainfall, snowmelt, or high levels of ground water may trigger a movement of soil or sediments, possibly causing mudslides, landslides, avalanches, or sinkholes. |
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Although this species' population now appears to be declining, the decrease is not rapid or large enough to trigger conservation vulnerability criteria. |
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The trigger vote was held in the Assembly on Tuesday 9 February 2010, and was approved unanimously across all parties, with 53 out of the 60 AMs voting for it. |
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The report suggested that the Assembly needed to decide before June 2010 whether to trigger a referendum if the vote was to be held before the next Assembly elections. |
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The reach from the backstrap of the XD to the face of the trigger was shorter on the XD than on other pistols of similar design, and that contributed to Valerie choosing it. |
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Some believe that the strength of the orbital forcing is too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO2 may explain this mismatch. |
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In short, their paper concluded that less than a single molecule of antibody could trigger an immune response in human basophils, defying the physical law of mass action. |
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But to have a reasonable safety factor built into the system, even one photon from an electron's track had to be sufficient to trigger a response. |
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And it was a dazzling experience as I discovered the underwater jewels of Egypt in the shape of stingrays, moray eels, puffer fish, trigger fish and lion fish. |
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The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers! |
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Belief in witchcraft continues to be present today in some societies and accusations of witchcraft are the trigger of serious forms of violence, including murder. |
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Although Bede's account makes Laurence's miraculous flogging the trigger for Eadbald's baptism, this completely ignores the political and diplomatic problems facing Eadbald. |
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Each wagon has a fire detection and extinguishing system, with sensing of ions or ultraviolet radiation, smoke and gases that can trigger halon gas to quench a fire. |
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With the exception of the trigger mechanism and spring, the pistol was made entirely out of flat black plastic and looked very much like a small buttless sawed-off shotgun. |
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They all have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to advertising. |
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In aquatic species, the door has a pair of long trigger hairs. |
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Later, this may have become active by the evolution of a partial vacuum inside the bladder, tripped by prey brushing against trigger hairs on the door of the bladder. |
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Useful for mild depression but may trigger coronary problems. A positive side effect is that it may actually help with degenerative joint disease symptoms. |
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There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger. |
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Under these kinds of circumstances, players with significant exposure, tight stops, and itchy trigger fingers can end up overreacting to what is essentially noise. |
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The superficial sexual trigger, honed in the forest and out on the savanna, is why men still duck out of chat rooms and keep going back to the superbabes and vixens. |
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Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking. |
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The royal family is understandably reluctant to cause excessive friction with the Wahhabists in view of the serious instability that this would trigger. |
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Notably, Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia did not trigger a Georgian insurgency against the Russians, or even against the Abkhazians or South Ossetians. |
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