The median American senator is a bore, and within a standard deviation can be found senators who are downright tongue-tied.
All measurements were performed on a Bruker 9.4 T Avance-400 wide bore spectrometer, with a standard Bruker MAS 4 mm double resonance probe operating at 400.4 MHz, 100.6 MHz and 162.1 MHz for H, C and P, respectively.
All experiments were performed with a wide bore Bruker Avance I NMR spectrometer operating at a H Larmor frequency of 600 MHz (14.1 T), using either a standard bore 3.2 mm HFCN MAS probe or a 3.2 mm EFree HCN MAS probe from Bruker Biospin.
When pictures of the helicopter's tail emerged in the days after the Bin Laden raid, defense experts said it bore little resemblance to a standard Black Hawk helicopter.
But in Goltzius's hands a "Standard Bearer," ostensibly a depiction of an ensign in the Dutch army, becomes an extravagant spectacle, the lissome young officer tripping along on the balls of his feet like a dancer while the immense flag billows through the picture space and out into our own, enfolding us in its jubilation.
A standard bear canister can be purchased for about $80 from an outdoor gear store.
Nor can they bear the risk of even a standard loan if they could somehow obtain one.
A standard definition of a "bear market" is a drop of 20% or more.
As the ice retreats, so has the availability of seals, which constitute much of a polar bears' standard diet.
But the film, directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine, bears less resemblance to a standard-issue biopic (like, say, "La Vie en Rose," to take a recent French example) than to a novel by Émile Zola or Theodore Dreiser.
