| The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in late February. |
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| Former Age editor and prominent spin doctor Mike Smith has been spruiking for Steve Vizard for about ten years. |
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| The label is not alone in watching music sales spin uncontrollably into reverse. |
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| He spent some time in the media center's spin room, doing interviews with various national news outlets. |
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| The cavernous spin room is already crackling with narratives and counternarratives. |
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| The folktale of a wicked man who helps a woman spin thread or straw into skeins of gold is well-known with variations around the world. |
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| Before an atom's spin may be measured, however, it must be detected, and isolating an individual ultramicroscopic atom is a tricky endeavor. |
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| There is no worry of growing weary of having to steel oneself for still another spin on a play, a poem, or a short story. |
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| They were expected to spin and weave, pasture llamas and alpacas, work in the fields, gather firewood, make chicha, cook, and clean the house. |
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| Matt's momentum carried him forward, but he used the guys body to spin him in mid air. |
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| It is well able to deconstruct political spin and identify truths which are being concealed or denied. |
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| If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating. |
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| The walls of the glen loomed dark and heavy above and overhead the stars seemed to spin around him. |
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| The development of spin off technologies, such as the telegraph and semaphore flags, linked Civil War commanders on the first information net. |
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| As the clock ticks in the short interview, it becomes apparent that a new line of questioning is in order before things spin out of control. |
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| They went for a spin on the waltzer and the greasy funfair worker spun their car a bit too fast. |
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| The thunderstorms that spin out tornadoes are big clouds with lots of water and ice in them to block sunlight. |
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| By sticking an ear of dried corn on top, he lured squirrels to charge up the board and then spin around for a dizzying ride. |
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| When you spin the thaumatrope, the images appear to combine, putting the parrot inside the birdcage. |
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| In a test drive on simulated ice, the system did not allow the driver to veer off-course and spin the car. |
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| When they charge towards you and spin around barking bubbles, there is very little time to adjust and fiddle with a camera. |
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| He also pointed out that a further 300 spin off jobs from the Marino Point plant could be in jeopardy if it was closed. |
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| The modern era of golf ball covers was dominated by balata, a natural rubber that provided high spin rates and soft feel but lacked durability. |
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| Supporters have received financial backing and spin doctors' advice from America. |
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| This cookie is a spin on traditional pinwheels, in which plain and chocolate doughs are swirled together. |
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| A few sentences into his answer and he was looking rather puzzled despite himself, as I was now vibrating like a blancmange on a spin dryer. |
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| Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms. |
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| Opponents believe it's all a spin to provide more even-aged timber for the sawyers. |
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| I loved to watch the water spilling from the pipe in the spin dryer back into the main wash. |
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| The constant spin continues to cancel out the effect of gravity, and keeps the wheel upright. |
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| These critical items allow the wheel to spin freely without damaging the axle or the wheel. |
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| His spin doctors have been so assiduous in building images of him that the real man has remained invisible behind them. |
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| I guess it was an exaggeration of the collective myths all families spin around themselves. |
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| They spin out conservative versions of an already entrenched style, pointedly resisting the challenges presented by artists like Leonardo. |
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| In that model, pairs of electrons with opposite spin form so-called Cooper pairs with zero total spin. |
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| In the present crisis, the Tories should not be consulting spin doctors, but historians. |
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| I suppose if we put a positive spin on things, if the 3.73 was outperformed by the 3.46, we'd have some real problems. |
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| Still, a political dust-up ensued, as the White House, overreacting to the overreaction of the Democrats, went into full spin mode. |
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| I would take a flitch, lift the head up and go back, and before I started my next cut, I would take the flitch and spin it 90 degrees. |
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| We must fight through the fog of deception and spin and find new ways to help people understand the truth. |
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| Everything around him began to spin and all he could think of was the girl in his arms. |
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| A thumb switch near the right handlebar engages the motor to press a roller on the motor shaft, which helps spin the tire. |
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| When the field is turned back on, an initially parallel spin will end up antiparallel and vice versa. |
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| A petrol engine will spin happily, in some cases to 8,000 or 9,000 revs per minute. |
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| Two turntables on each side of the stage spin faster and faster until a circle of statues begin a tribal dance. |
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| Yet it seems eerily reminiscent of the empty politics of spin that we endure at home. |
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| As skaters pull their arms in, their radius decreases and they spin faster. |
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| Without this ideological coupling, our consumer behavior might spin wildly out of control. |
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| As a first-order approximation, spin densities and covalencies can be considered as complementary data to each other. |
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| This teaches them footwork, spin moves and getting used to using their bodies. |
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| If the spin and field are left antiparallel, the attractive force will slow the vibration. |
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| The difficulty of landing the power meter within the sweet spot AND putting spin on the ball is nice, but it can be difficult. |
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| If he's gotten the word to spin this their way, that dynamic will change forthwith. |
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| An investigation by The Sunday Times in 2003 revealed that the honours system was corrupted by spin and cronyism. |
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| This is because the cue ball can pick up top spin due to friction with the cloth. |
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| Calamity's an uncouth, sarsaparilla-swilling, gun-slinging frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales as well as any man alive. |
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| With a front loader, you'll save more on clothes drying, because they remove more water from your clothes during the spin cycle. |
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| If you you nearly scratch in the lower left pocket, you are not putting enough left spin on the cue ball. |
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| When you impart any spin on the cue ball, that spin is transferred to the object ball. |
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| Imagine a gang of funsters piling into your office for a spin on the old swivel chair. |
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| Your washing machine can be directed to soak and spin while you drink coffee in a cybercafe. |
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| Finally, one day, I gave my front tire a spin to see if the cyclometer still worked. |
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| At the bookstore, the hall was packed with children eagerly waiting to learn to spin a yarn. |
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| Kudos as well to Gordon whose pipes and gams were in fine form on opening night, giving a stellar spin on this seminal musical theatre role. |
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| Librarians from around the city gamely clamber up on the loading dock and spin tales. |
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| We'll just give it a spin now and the bell sounds on each revolution of the prayer wheel. |
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| When political hot air is turning into cold blood, when duplicitous spin is becoming lethal, somebody's got to speak up. |
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| Part of the problem is that journalists are evermore suspicious of government spin to manipulate the media. |
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| On returning to the starting point, the spin axis of the gyroscope would have turned 90 degrees from its original heading. |
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| He is indispensable, not just because of his captaincy skills, but also for his ability to play spin and send down medium pace deliveries. |
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| In this day of spin and PR consultants, it can be hard to decipher what lies beneath the gloss. |
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| They have destroyed any trust they had by engaging in obfuscations, spin doctoring and denials at every turn. |
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| The media spin these days would have us believe that the left is godless and the right is godly. |
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| All we can do is make a few educated guesses based on the usual post-game spin sessions. |
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| Although short pulses of radio waves briefly disturb this spin alignment, the spins promptly realign in the direction of the magnetic field. |
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| How does the seasonal cycle of fashion whispers spin itself into fact, broadcasted through the glossies as if it was absolute gospel? |
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| It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering. |
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| Lubricate a large stockpot with grapeseed oil and using a hand held blender with whisk attachment, spin the hot mixture. |
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| This allows electioneers to bypass the media and appeal directly to voters without journalists putting their spin on the issues. |
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| This wacky Canadian, who both wrote and directed this lurid spin on the Electra complex, cast his daughter in the lead role. |
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| The excitement was electric on that sunny evening as the students of Gallagher House got their spin in the 18 seater bus. |
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| For example, two electrons in an atom may differ in orbital angular momentum or in spin direction. |
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| The effects on lipid dynamics have been investigated by spin-label electron spin resonance spectroscopy. |
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| From radiocarbon to luminescence, uranium-series and electron spin resonance, the results were the same. |
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| Smith ain't the answer, and anyone who tells you he is is either hopelessly delusional or a spin doctor in disguise. |
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| Let me point out to the member a little fact that may have eluded him, because he is so tied up in the Labour spin machine. |
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| The computer showed my ball speed was 150 miles per hour, my launch angle 14 degrees and my spin rate 4,400 revolutions per minute. |
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| It is done by hand, using a lathe to spin the barrel and a skilled touch with fine emery paper to polish the barrel to fit the bushing. |
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| Amid the crumbling plaster and tattered curtains, they spin out a private little reality that emptily echoes a life without meaning. |
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| In fact, I re-holster it with an extra spin like a gunfighter, without even really thinking about it. |
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| A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed. |
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| With a revolver, simply give the cylinder a spin so that you do not know whether to expect a live or a dummy round. |
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| As the plebes looked around in confusion, I watched Michael spin Lindsay around and dance in the corniest style I had ever seen in my life. |
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| Hybrids work by using the braking power to spin a dynamo which charges a battery. |
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| He sat by while execs let costs spin out of control and failed to deliver on promises to customers. |
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| Hard disks have platters that spin at very high speeds these days, and optical drives like DVD and CD units generate noise too. |
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| The fun begins when the ECU disengages the electromagnetic locking unit and tells the electric motor to spin the planetary gear set's carrier. |
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| Along the way, you've got lots of pitiful attempts at push-back spin from administration officials who won't give their name. |
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| The forces that make a magnesium spin try to align with its closest neighbours and disalign with others lead to what physicists call frustration. |
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| Gareth Batty's off spin was somewhat marmalised by Kent in the 220-run hammering at Beckenham. |
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| This gives him momentum and sets him up for the moment of delivery, when his unusually supple wrists impart prodigious spin to the ball. |
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| Order some of their delicate cocktail infusions, while DJs spin ambient club sounds to suit the chilled setting. |
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| The trajectory was computationally unstable because, apparently, the spin label and its crowded binding site were not adequately equilibrated. |
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| The rifled portion of the tube imparts spin to the projectile increasing stability in flight. |
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| Because the ground ball's spin caused it to move away from Tejada, he dived after it. |
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| There is a persisting myth in Indian cricket that spin is more important than pace. |
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| One early tactic was to spin the story as a business failure rather than a political scandal. |
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| At one point I found myself riding the Ferris wheel in Dam Square trying to see how fast I could spin the bucket. |
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| By carefully measuring the spin of the outer electron, he says, it will be possible to infer the spin of the nucleus. |
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| However, it's still a bit surprising today to see Eolas trying to spin yesterday's story as good news for them. |
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| Trucks fly, speedsters explode, and tires spin as Max and his crew take to the desolate highway. |
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| Let's put the machine back on for one more spin cycle, and see what we come up with. |
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| The champions also executed a nice pair combination spin and back inside death spiral, receiving a score of 66.48 for a first place finish. |
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| Just enough intelligence to get you thinking, as your head begins to spin uncontrollable like a pre-wash cycle. |
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| In Nest 1, the oldest cells held mature larvae ready to spin cocoons and medium-sized larvae. |
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| His spin moves, particularly down low, have left defenders standing alone and goaltenders deked out of their skates. |
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| Many people think that monarchs spin their cocoon but they in fact just shed their skin to form the chrysalis. |
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| Then they spin into a cocoon and either emerge as a second generation the same year or hibernate and emerge the next summer. |
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| The Norse Eddas sing of the great ash tree Yggdrasil on whose trunk the heavens spin and whose roots clutch the netherworld. |
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| Still, there's no way to put a good spin on the situation in the lingerie department, where most of the cutest bras are B cup and bigger. |
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| This Government smarms all over the place with its little rules and regulations, and the spin that it keeps putting on people. |
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| An ordinary roll of green hay is placed on rollers which spin it round very slowly. |
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| Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. |
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| Its satirical swipes at hypocrisy and cant make it a topical work amid the political spin of today. |
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| He showed that in its own way spin can be as aggressive as bodyline bowling. |
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| Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents. |
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| Until you spin a yarn THAT good, I'm going to stick with the Japanese man crying, I'm afraid. |
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| And their designers sometimes find themselves cast as spin masters with a T-square. |
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| The perpetual spin of an electron is an important aspect of the covalent bond. |
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| There's a Thai pole dancer in and extremely short asymmetrical dress who is being taken for a spin across the floor by almost every man in the joint so far. |
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| And while Camilla has had the benefit of excellent spin doctors and a camp of loyal supporters, Wallis had little support in her corner of the ring. |
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| That is, if some of the Earth's energy were to be diverted into a slightly larger precessional wobble, the rate of spin should slow down slightly as a consequence. |
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| The director goes one step further with his contemporary spin by garbing actors with clothes that look like something out of The Importance of Being Earnest. |
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| Games of chance, whether it is a flutter on the gee-gees, a turn of the card or a spin of the roulette wheel, is a contest that is skewed in favour of the house. |
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| Under the pioneering strategies of the CIA's Maj. Gen. Edward G. Lansdale, psy-war was a new spin to the old game of breaking the will of a target population. |
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| Models for the helical structure have been developed based on NMR, electron spin resonance, infrared, and circular dichroism data, as well as computer simulations. |
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| The Prime Minister prevented himself from being dominated by the sheer intellectual grunt of his Chancellor by having Mandelson spin a delicate web to contain him. |
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| Not many science-fiction authors can spin off a great first chapter which is gives you a disquieting, grim gradual revelation of being in a completely alien environment. |
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| She would close her eyes and spin until she was too dizzy to stand. |
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| Companies reporting profits before extraordinaries for several continuing years can suddenly tail spin to wipe out its entire capital and accumulated profits. |
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| In addition to offering smoother starts and stops, the hydrostatic system minimizes wheel spin and causes less stress on the driveline components. |
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| This is because today's golf balls are designed to spin less off drivers. |
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| Canadians are not fooled by the Prime Minister and his spin doctors trying to get off the hook. |
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| Although not always directly addressed, these are underlying forces at work in the spin room Saturday night. |
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| Mention it to Tories, though, and they go into a spin of denial and talk of how to prevent Mr Cameron from cosying up to Mr Clegg. |
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| In the same right-hand bend, if the car is tending to go into a spin or is in oversteer, ESP then acts on the front left wheel. |
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| But the combination of political spin and media hype cost investors dear. |
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| A 1990s spin on The Monkees starring the real-life, three-piece girl band Cleopatra in fictional comedy adventures based upon their careers and family life. |
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| Madam Speaker, the member opposite can spin her misleading messages any which way she chooses, but the facts are consistent. |
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| The wind is up in the morning, eddies spin the kayaks around on spiralling columns of water, currents make us aquaplane. |
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| That Stamp has become the icon of British 60s cinema has a lot more to do with his ability to spin a yarn on Parkie than his patchy track record. |
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| He may spin a yarn about a general who, upon landing on the beach, ordered his boats burned to let his men know that there was no turning back. |
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| Get set for a vivid sensory rush as you spin and match explosive gems for shockwaves of fun. |
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| Data is contained in each electron's spin rather than the electrons themselves, making for a more efficient chip and lower energy consumption. |
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| Conservative spin doctors are already trying to explain away these cuts and to shift the blame away from themselves. |
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| Lauren Child has taken this hyperbolic, green fairy tale and invested it with new verve, spin and intelligence. |
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| So baldly clear is this realization that I might as well be acknowledging that I will never have eight legs and spin a web. |
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| Clever, funny and surprisingly replayable, The Yawhg provides a different spin on a well-trodden genre. |
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| Faster swings open up the racquet's spin potential and result in ample pace to finish off the point. |
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| Build the bouquet, following the spin technic, around the Papyrus, inserting Pittosporum. |
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| Harr's attempt to spin their search into a gripping thriller yields mixed results. |
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| Fighting nausea, they loaded their shared assets on one spin of the roulette wheel. |
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| But tomorrow they will be back, and who knows where the spin of the roulette wheel will take them? |
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| It is likely that the aircraft transitioned from a normal approach into an unrecoverable manoeuvre, such as a spin or stall. |
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| Everyone is jammed around the 800 tables, focused on the flip of cards, the spin of the roulette wheel or the roll of dice. |
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| The other players simply had to grin, bear it and watch the spin of the roulette wheel at Burswood Casino, where they sought refuge. |
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| If they like what they hear, they push a button to spin round and see the singer. |
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| He was coming off the centre-back to help link the play or spin round and mount an attack. |
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| It is still impossibly exciting to spin round on a horse or sit on a golden dragon. |
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| There are glances, stares, shouts and moments when the characters dash behind objects, spin round corners and leap over obstacles. |
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| Instead of generating power, the turbines would spin round trying to find the best source of wind. |
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| Astronomical observations first made in the 1930s show there is not nearly enough ordinary matter to hold galaxies together as they spin round. |
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| When I spin round on my desk chair to access my email I am entangled in a mess of wires. |
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| Do not sugarcoat or try to put a spin on failures or shortcomings, big or small. |
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| He wants the conglomerate to spin off its entertainment business to liberate what he views as locked-up financial value. |
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| As in the previous year, institutions continued to spin off certain difficult asset portfolios to defeasance structures. |
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| He could swerve suddenly, glance off the van on his inside, spin around, be hit by the approaching bus. |
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| Don't let it spin around the table. I just want Susan to know what we're doing here. |
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| Your ship is immobile at the centre of the screen and you can only spin around to aim your gun. |
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| After a spin around the Cape of ballads on his last album, Ailleurs, c'est toujours l'idéal, Philippe Lavil sets sail for the Caribbean. |
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| Connecting electricity from a battery or a power source to a motor results in making the shaft start to spin around. |
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| With your partner's canopy gripped firmly in your right hand, you spin around into a wrap or entanglement. |
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| If you were at the North Pole, you'd spin around but wouldn't go anywhere because the distance from the Earth's axis is zero. |
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| Each will spin around and point towards either the section with the sun icon or towards one of the bonus credit amounts. |
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| The masters of spin around Harper knew that right-wing leaders don't win federal elections in Canada. |
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| The machine is able to move up and down, left and right, forward and backward, and spin horizontally. |
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| This puts some welcome spin on his role as the rough ravisher of the elegant Mr Federer. |
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| The may actually spin out of control if we cannot put an immediate end to it through this Council. |
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| Trying to turn or brake on this surface could cause the vehicle to spin out of control. |
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| Thus was born a wonderful collaboration that would also spin out quantum teleportation, entanglement distillation and many other wonders. |
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| Hameed left the rebel group when the situation began to spin out of control. |
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| We share the concerns expressed by the United Nations Secretary-General about the danger that the situation might spin out of control. |
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| In contrast, we spin out biotech firms too quickly, which can be problematic. |
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| However, average drivers in a panic situation in which the vehicle begins to spin out would be unlikely to counter steer to regain control. |
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| So you can growl it down then let it spin up towards the screaming redline. |
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| Ring out your clothes first, either by hand or using your washer's spin cycle. |
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| Sometimes my helicopter blades spin twice as fast, trying to do the work of both parents. |
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| With their colourful yarn, needlecraft and laundry basket, the three inventive tree-fairies spin and dance and sing the story of life. |
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| How much equity and what proportion of the debt will be allocated to Axway at the time of the spin off? |
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| At age 10 she began putting her own unique spin on her clothing, customizing a school leotard to mimic one worn by singer Madonna. |
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| You got me in a spin but everything is a-okayyyyyyy, yup yup yup! |
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| Heads are one of the more expensive parts of the hard disk to enable areal densities and disk spin speeds to increase. |
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| Once all bets have been placed the roulette wheel will spin in one direction with a ball spinning in the opposite direction. |
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| With a few clicks on the phone pad, you can spin the virtual roulette wheel, place bets, and have credit automatically added to your account. |
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| On tonight's episode, Canada's top spin doctor performs plastic surgery on the Liberal Party in an attempt to give it a new face. |
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| Not only must these people have their replies checked by a spin doctor beforehand, they must also write a report after the interview. |
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| This is the age of the lobbyist, of the spin doctor and of the skillfully crafted and too often manipulative press line. |
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| A single performer on stage interacts with the fictional characters in the film like a sort of spin doctor of life. |
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| Chisholm Pothier, a very good reporter for the Daily Gleaner, now works for the Department of Health as a communications spin doctor. |
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| A spin doctor struggles to salvage an election campaign when the Prime Minister falls hopelessly in love and vanishes from view. |
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| If you spin it in one plane and tilt the gyro in another plane, forces are set up to produce a stronger stimulus that is very nauseating. |
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| Every would-be statesman with something to say has a tame spin doctor on hand, selling a particular story from a particular sweet stall. |
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| The access to spin is apparent on groundstrokes when taking a good cut at the ball with both topspin and slice. |
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| Tolstoy, to name one artist, managed to spin a decent yarn or two around the travails of the extravagantly wealthy. |
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| But both of these statements are factual, and Republicans will spin them hard today and tomorrow. |
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| It was campaign spin and gamesmanship and seemed to be understood by everyone as such. |
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| That is exactly what I was saying to you, Mr. Speaker: this government puts a spin on information in favour of a wrong-headed military approach. |
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| Not too many who were working as spin doctors three years ago have left the government. |
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| They can try to spin it every which way they like, but it does not change facts. |
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| Accompanied by a musician, students will learn to leap through the air, stretch every which way, spin on the ground and turn in the air! |
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| Why has a special spin committee been set up at Industry Canada to do damage control on the audit? |
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| It was a comeback by sleight of hand, and one that would be a feather in the hat of the most highly strategic spin doctor. |
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| The dramatic and suspense-filled television series 11 Somerset puts a modern spin on the classic teen sleuth scenario. |
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| Two or more motor nozzles canted from the line of flight can provide spin stabilization. |
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| More specifically, Gordon Brown, aided and abetted by his macho, posturing spin doctors, has now shown his true colours. |
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| The late 20th-century model – of speeches, spin and central diktats – is a dud. |
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| Theater actors might give an unintended interpretative spin to their lines of dialogue. |
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| Caterpillars spin a silken cocoon attached to the underside of a leaf, and the brown pupa forms within this structure. |
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| It's that world of intrigue, of plotting, spin and backbiting that he will be bringing to life in his new weekly column for the Evening Press that begins tomorrow. |
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| From the baseline, we found racquet head speed easy to generate so spin was easily on tap when needed. |
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| The larvae become full-grown about mid-July when they drop from the trees, crawl into the ground, and spin their cocoons. |
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| This curve allows the player to hit the ball harder and still rely on the spin of the ball to cause the ball to dive down onto the table. |
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| Besides putting an interesting new rock spin on his presentation, Xenophonia shows off Bojan Z's extraordinary talent as a composer. |
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| My mother washed them and had a spinning wheel made so she could spin the wool and I would knit so we had something to wear. |
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| The observed low speed indicated that the aircraft was in a spin and not a spiral dive. |
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| Only the possibility to send messages straight to the opponent and the functions to select spin are lacking. |
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| You can change the value by clicking on the spin buttons or typing in a specific value. |
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| Even with the amount of Neptunian deception, confusion and media spin increasing with Mars in Pisces, we need to stay aligned with an ultimate spiritual presence. |
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| My thin black boot beat on the treadle, urging the wheel to spin harder. |
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| This is an administration so wedded to spin and manipulation that it is seeking to blacken a decent man's reputation even as his body lies unburied. |
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| Of course, that relates to the other rotation of the spin herethat she was difficult and demanding. |
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| From Harrison Ford to Jack Nicholson, many actors have taken a spin in the Oval Office. |
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| I say this because the other day Logan took a spin at shoveling and our neighbor came over and cleared over half our concrete wonderland with his HUGE snowblower. |
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| All turbine products are similar in that they derive their energy from the action of blades or vanes that spin in response to a force applied upon them. |
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| Another way to fish for mackerel is to spin with lures or sandeels. |
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| To topple their rivals, Zhao dreams of launching Shen into mid-air with the spin to whirl an additional 360 degrees and still touch down in stride. |
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| Sans its right engine, the skimmer shot hard to the right, and the rider swerved left to avoid it as it whirled in a sickening spin and crashed to the ground. |
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| This spin on the ball causes it to travel in a straighter line. |
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| For me the star attraction of the team was the mystery spinner from Australia, Jack Iverson, who took to cricket after practising spin with a table tennis ball. |
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| In the field were a mass of tables and charts and diagrams, explanations of things people had done in years past, trying to put a new spin on old information. |
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| Much of the source material was from economic development agencies and while they may have presented a positive spin about its plans, each region was tested in the same way. |
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| The crystals are separated from the syrup in machines known as centrifugals which work like giant spin dryers and separate the crystals from the syrup. |
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| His hagiographers may spin in their graves, but the truth will be told. |
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| They spin on their heads, do back flips, handstands and capoiera moves. |
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| But 2002 was also a year in which careers suddenly moved backward and forward as if reputations were determined by a spin of the wheel in an old-time children's board game. |
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| It certainly puts a new spin on the traditional business lunch, as staff can now expect everything from sausage rolls to stotties to be hitting the boardroom table! |
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| Chunks of the Discovery's armour plating flake off and spin away. |
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| Whatever the two captains think, spin is the only answer on this pitch. |
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| For initialization on power-up when a tape is present, the method of pulse probing still can be used, but we must be careful not to spin the motors. |
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| They aimed beams of heavy ions at targets of selected elements to produce nuclei with 75 neutrons and 55, 57, 59, and 61 protons in a wide variety of spin states. |
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| That triumph of spin over substance has cost this administration dearly. |
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| But the ability to exploit the spin degree of freedom in semiconductors promises new logic devices with enhanced functionality, higher speeds and reduced power consumption. |
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| They spin a gossamery veil over the piano playing to enhance the imagery. |
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| If you hook the eel further back, the body of the eel will fold up along the shank of the hook causing it to spin and you can do without that hassle. |
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| This was absolutely consistent with the time it takes a human body to spin away from danger to it, and with the buckshot pattern entry wounds found on him. |
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| Long-term changes in the dates of the solstices and equinoxes are caused mainly by tugs imposed on the orientation of the Earth's spin axis by the Moon. |
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| Spun puts a spin on the world of druggies, drug makers, and drug dealers. |
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| Seventy thousand people, for ten consecutive minutes, on the 13th of October, 1917, saw the sun change colour many times, they saw it spin round three times and then hurl itself precipitously towards the earth. |
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| Under the action of the oven's electromagnetic field, the water molecules begin to spin round, hitting the neighbouring molecules and heating them. |
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| A female student who started to spin up and did nothing else. she was apparently spinning on her back when her CYPRES fired and she had a clean reserve deployment! so clock up another one for your books, Rodger. |
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| Similarly, it also does not make sense to call the spin states of ortho and para hydrogen entangled. |
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| This time round, Collin and Libaux put an ultra-hypnotic dub spin on The Police hit So Lonely and transform Soft Cell's Say Hello, Wave Goodbye into a 60s-style extravaganza fit for an American crooner. |
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| When the platters spin up, the heads rub along the surface of the platters until sufficient speed is gained for them to lift off and float on their cushion of air. |
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| You can open the spin dryer door safe in the knowledge that the drum has stopped rotating. |
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| As for a posy, bind the chrysanthemums in spin and insert the foliage. |
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| Mental mento man An Italian 'scientist' claims to have made a world record by putting a spin on the old Mentos in cola trick. |
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| Nevertheless, each time factional fighting has threatened to spin out of control, President Abbas and Prime Minister Haniyeh have managed to reach understandings to de-escalate the tensions, which is a positive development. |
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| Pitchers were forbidden to give the ball an artificial spin or trajectory by, for instance, nicking it or spitting on it and from discolouring the ball with dirt or tobacco juice or hair grease. |
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| With his fifties-style big band, Aznavour sings to a background of the smoothest swing imaginable, where unflaggingly energetic musicians spin out an elegant but easy jazz with him. |
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| It was common for families in various parts of the world to spin yarn, weave cloth and make their own clothing. |
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| The transmission mounting structure had been bent forward, which allowed the free-floating main input drive shaft to spin out of the forward coupling and eventually disengage from the engine and transmission. |
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| There is a very real danger that events may spin out of control with incalculable consequences for the people of Côte d'Ivoire and the subregion as a whole. |
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| I would say to the Commissioner that we are now in the 52nd month of this Parliament and more conferences and discussions simply intended to spin out time until the end of the Parliament are not good enough. |
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| The CAP can ensure market forces do not spin out of control. |
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| By late May or early June, the fat, fully-grown caterpillars fall to the ground, where they spin a cocoon and pupate for six months. |
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| The combat function enables up to three helicopters to fire infrared lasers at one another, when hit three times the opponent's helicopter will spin out of control. |
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| It was able to spin 128 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before. |
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| Tony Blair and William Hague have become as dependant on the push polls and the spin doctors as the democratic President. |
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| To add insult to injury, with the largest scandal in Canadian political history, the government's response is to take more taxpayers' money to do damage control and spin control. |
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| Give your theory a sexy spin one that combines ethnic stereotypes, engaging anecdotes and just enough conventional wisdom to seem both spicy and soothingly familiar. |
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| By doing so, the second vortex ring rolls under it and begins to spin faster. |
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| The yarn could be bulked out by pressing in short fibres that would have been consider too short to spin if cotton. |
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| It is an ode by a lover as she remembers her beloved with the sound of every spin of her Charkha. |
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| I say will be because not one red cent has passed from this greedy government's hands into the hands of those decimated communities, regardless of how the minister wants to spin it. |
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| I would ask that member to stop the spin and stop impugning motives to honest, hardworking members and especially an honest, hardworking public service. |
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| Three slot machine-like reels continually spin on the screen. |
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| Offshore royalties spin off billions every year. |
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| Entergy will first spin off the unit to its shareholders. |
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| Non-recurring pre-spin off items correspond to items taken into account for the computation of the theoretical financial debt at the time of the spin off. |
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| In the lanthanoids, for instance, the ligand field is weak and unable to uncouple the spin and orbital momentum, leaving the latter largely unreduced. |
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