Sentence examples for as a thrust from inspiring English sources

His statement was seen as a thrust at Mr. Chirac's greatest weakness, the corruption scandals swirling around him.

Like the Cottesloe, the new building would permit many different audience configurations, including the classic proscenium stage as well as a thrust stage and a theater in the round.

We interpret the M3.1 earthquake as a thrust earthquake.

The contact between the Skellefte volcanic rocks and the Bothnian Basin has been interpreted as a thrust fault.

Based on the focal mechanism solution, the largest earthquake (M3.1) is interpreted as a thrust earthquake along the upper surface of the PHS Plate.

Reference mechanism B is a focal mechanism having a nodal plane dipping to the WNW-ESE direction, which is classified as a thrust type mechanism according to the definition of Frohlich (1992).

When, in 1965, the party needed a leader to take on Labour's Harold Wilson, presented as a thrusting technocrat, capable Ted Heath won in a three-cornered election.

One characteristic of Barenboim's conversation which may surprise those who think of him as a thrusting, overambitious newcomer is his generosity in talking of fellow-artists.

Peralta added another moments into the second half as a thrusting move split the defence wide open for a simple poke home.

Surprisingly, Dromgoole makes no reference to any major professional productions in the 1990s - his own generational moment as a thrusting practitioner - though he spends a chapter on an outdoor amateur Midsummer Night's Dream directed by his mother.

VS Naipaul - soft-focused on the cover of this book as a thrusting young Trinidadian gun, late of Oxford and the BBC - is now well on his way to carving out a reputation as the grumpy old man of English letters.