Sentence examples for contraction opened from inspiring English sources

The Lavi crisis and the country's late-1980s defense industry contraction opened the floodgates for the technology now pouring out of Israel.

These teeth absorb moisture, and their resultant swelling and contraction open spaces through which the spores are shed.

The sharper-than-forecast contraction has opened a funding gap of about 15 billion euros in the bailout package agreed last October to bring Greece's debt down to about 120percentt of gross domestic product from nearly 160percenttodayay.

A battery was attached to Corder's limbs to demonstrate the contraction of the muscles, the sternum was opened and the internal organs examined.

The 40-seat Noma — a contraction of the Danish words for Nordic food — opened in 2003.

Solun, a contraction of the Spanish sol and luna (sun and moon), opened in Woodbridge in March 2012, an offshoot of Tinto Bar and Tapas (formerly Meigas) in Norwalk.

The shell opens by contraction of diductor muscles that extend from near the centre of the ventral valve to the process under the dorsal beak.

The flap is closed during muscle relaxation and opens during contraction.

As the deposits are not fully cooled, it is plausible, however, that thermal contraction is continuing to open fractures and contribute to subsidence.

However, although Ca2+ transients in the valve increased upon intromission, the contractions that open the valve did not immediately occur.

During excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, membrane depolarization opens CaV1.2 channels in the sarcolemma of ventricular myocytes.