Sentence examples for bent counter from inspiring English sources

The position was known as an arm bar, and it called for an arm (mine) to be gripped at the wrist by a pair of hands (the big guy's) and then pulled slowly down over a fulcrum (the big guy's pelvic bone) so the arm bent counter to nature much like the blade of a pocketknife bending too far back against its hinge.

"While Iran's officials express a shared interest in a stable government in Afghanistan, its security forces appear bent on countering American presence," Mr. Tenet said.

United States security was no longer threatened by a single foe apparently bent on countering America's every move; for a while it seemed that U.S. security was no longer threatened at all.

Instead, it should be appreciated that Tunisia could offer a completely different model for the Middle East, one that values pluralism and development and that is bent on countering extremism.

"The reports are believed to be part of the design by those bent on discrediting the counter-terrorist mission," its spokesman Chris Olukoladehe is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

First, closed-form solutions for an infinite plate containing a rigid inclusion under counter bending conditions are derived.

The closed-form analytical structural stress solutions for a rigid inclusion in a square plate under the combined opening and counter bending conditions are first reviewed.

The opposite outer edges of the square overlap parts of cross-tension specimens are under combined opening and counter bending conditions.

The results of three-dimensional finite element analyses for spot welds between square plates of different thicknesses and materials under the combined opening and counter bending conditions are then presented.

The development of the closed-form solutions is then used as a guide to develop approximate closed-form solutions for a finite square plate containing a rigid inclusion under counter bending conditions.

Then, the J integral and stress intensity factor solutions for spot welds between square plates of different thicknesses and materials under the combined opening and counter bending conditions are developed in terms of the closed-form structural stress solutions for a strip model.