Sentence examples for back thrusts from inspiring English sources

Cowgill, E., Yin, A., Harrison, T. M. & Xiao-Feng, W. Reconstruction of the Altyn Tagh fault based on U-Pb geochronology: role of back thrusts, mantle sutures, and heterogeneous crustal strength in forming the Tibetan Plateau.

Redacted from a reportedly more explicit and even more unwieldy director's cut, Von Trier's latest arrives in UK cinemas in two volumes, divided into five and three chapters respectively, mirroring the number of front and back thrusts with which our heroine, Joe, abandons her virginity.

Instead, we need an emoticon that throws its shoulders back, thrusts its chest and chin forward, and declares, "We can get through this".

In contrast, the Middle Devonian Marcellus to Silurian Salina Formations are interpreted to be bisected by frequent steep dipping (60° to 90°) reverse faults, back thrusts, and compressional and/or salt-related features that terminate near the top of the Marcellus or in the lower units of the Mahantango Formation in Susquehanna County (Davis and Engelder 1985; Scanlin and Engelder 2003).

Repeat front compressions and back thrusts until the child coughs, breathes or falls unconscious.

Enloe flipped the baby over and delivered a back thrust.

The pattern suggests the growth sequence is not classical 'piggy back' thrusting.

One night on the dance floor he sank his wrist into the small of my back, thrust his buckle against my waist, and spun me.

Mr. Minor has said he held a knife to a steering wheel while Mr. Locker, hands tied behind his back, thrust his chest into the blade.

Ramp friction angles exhibit sharp probability changes at values that trigger the occurrence of shortcuts, thus yielding non-trivial bounds on the ramp friction values that are directly related to the observations of ramp and back thrust geometry.

Geomorphic landscape and late Quaternary geological attributes from the Raidak Manas interfluve in the Bhutan Himalayan foothills, Kokrajhar District, Assam led towards documenting the east west trending, south dipping, 30 km long active Frontal Back Thrust (FBT), well within the foredeep south of the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT).