Sentence examples for cannot shorten from inspiring English sources

Therefore, the pennate muscle can exert a greater force but cannot shorten a great deal; the parallel-fibred muscle can exert only a relatively small force but can shorten significantly.

Although experimental measurements of telomere length are significantly longer, they include a threshold length below which telomeres cannot shorten.

The length of the infundibula, when once formed cannot shorten except of being worn from the occlusal side.

You might think the name Iain cannot be shortened, but this is not so.

These are closed curves whose length cannot be shortened by deforming them.

Smallweed's own mother, when teaching primary children, was told by one mother: "We called our boy Ian because it's a name that cannot be shortened".

The reason is that there is an assumption that the free-flow travel time at cell k cannot be shortened.

The tibia cannot be shortened by more than 10% due to the risk of a compartment syndrome.

But that hypothesis doesn't hold water because Comey was appointed by Obama in 2013 for a term of ten years that cannot be shortened.

Thus, there would always remain a residual non-compliance that cannot be shortened for situations where even consensually adopted local agreements may be collectively criticised.

While the tendering process cannot be shortened to accommodate the training institution expansion, this bottleneck could be addressed by hiring additional staff at the Ministry of Works and Supply.