The earliest sweeping system, devised to clear anchored contact mines, consisted of two ships steaming across a minefield towing a wire rope between them; mine mooring lines were cut by sawlike projections on the sweep wire or by cutting jaws.
Using their powerful cutting jaws, driver ants attack everything in their path, including snakes, birds, mammals, and even human beings.
Tomorrow and Sunday at 1 15 P.M., as part of a special preshow gala, children will be invited to take part in activities like riding a bus, sitting in a dragon's jaws, cutting hair (paper curls, of course) and blowing out the candles on a 40th-birthday cake that is no less impressive for being made of cardboard.
The 50-ton whale, named Churchill by researchers, drew attention in June when it was spotted off Cape Cod with a length of marine rope cutting into its jaw and a spreading infection.
In other individuals the ribs extend all the way across the jaw, making both the upper and the cutting edges of the jaw clearly denticulate (noticeably toothed in outline).
Examples include tank tracks, bulldozer blade edges and cutting blades on the jaws of life.
The men punched Mr. González and hit him with a scooter, breaking his jaw and cutting open his head, then stole his backpack, which contained an iPod and two cellphones, the police said.
Prosecutors said that Mr. Lafrem entered the women's restroom and punched the woman, 29, many times, fracturing her skull, eye socket, nose and jaw and cutting her forehead.
More typically for nodosaurids, leaf-shaped teeth lined both upper and lower jaws, used for cutting plant material.
Its long jaws and slender teeth are adapted for grasping rather than cutting, in contrast to the short jaws and saw-like lower teeth of other dogfish sharks that are suited for excising chunks of meat.
Double-jaw surgery — which was originally developed to repair facial deformities, and involves cutting and rearranging the upper and lower jaws — has become a favorite procedure for South Korean women who are no longer satisfied with mere nose jobs or with paring down cheekbones to achieve a smoother facial line.
