Sentence examples for contraction of their from inspiring English sources

THE Taiwanese have not seen a contraction of their economy since they began compiling records in 1952.

Rattlesnakes produce a sustained, high-frequency warning sound by extremely rapid contraction of their tailshaker muscles (20 90 Hz) (refs 4,5).

The structure, which Mr. Konhaus and Ms. Cassilly call Cassilhaus — a contraction of their last names — took three years to design, Ms. Cassilly said, and 11 months to build.

The following zone upwards is characterized by the lateral aggregation of the filaments into a compact network of filaments, by a contraction of their diameter (to 75 Å) and by the setting up of a long-range longitudinal ordering.

Most other developed economies have experienced a similar contraction of their industrial sectors, but even so we are well behind the developed economy average of 24%.

Worker bees eat this liquid gold and use the energy it provides to fuel rapid contraction of their wing muscles.

To track people's emotional responses to television pilots and advertisements, researchers homed in on their eyeballs, recording the dilations and contractions of their pupils.

Katia Vega, a beauty technology designer at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, has created a prototype whereby people wearing the electronic make-up can operate lights and control aerial drones using contractions of their eye muscles.

The three major Arctic Warbler lineages have apparently maintained their integrity through several successive glaciations, with little or no mixing, despite likely shifts and contractions of their breeding ranges and shared winter distributions.

Nine healthy volunteers performed low-level isometric knee extension contractions (20% of their maximum voluntary contraction) following a trapezoidal trajectory.

Each subject had maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of their right and left hand determined using a hand dynamometer (Medipan, Poland).