Sentence examples for determined to absorb from inspiring English sources

It seemed as if he was determined to absorb everything all at once, magazines, newspapers, a book on slavery by the black historian John Hope Franklin, War and Peace, The New Yorker, Playboy and Aristotle's Poetics.

With profit from credit cards likely to diminish because of the new laws, they are determined not to absorb another major hit.

He apparently realizes that attempting to absorb large populations determined to resist Moscow's rule would certainly be a losing game and likely be a disaster.

In this case photoactivity was governed by the crystal structure, with observed decreasing activity in the order TiO2>Na2Ti6O13>H2Ti3O7∼Na1.48H0.52Ti3O7, and by the band gap of the semiconductor which determined its capacity to absorb photons in producing electron/hole pairs.

Tenilsetam was absorbed reasonably fast, showing peak plasma concentrations at 2 hours, which were determined to be dose-dependent.

The nation's 19 biggest banks are undergoing a new round of stress tests to determine their ability to absorb losses during a protracted downturn.

The number of main light-harvesting pigments (Chl a and Car) in Hypnea determines the ability to absorb light and further affects the growth rate of the algae.

The leaf chlorophyll content of plants determines their capacity to absorb energy from sunlight and is therefore considered a measure of photosynthetic potential [ 1].

WALL STREET JOURNAL Different Approaches to Greek Debt Causes Concern  |  There is much hand-wringing among investors trying to determine European banks' ability to absorb losses on Greek debt and other dubious assets, The Wall Street Journal writes.

In addition, the model of a pool-coupled air conditioning system was used to develop a design tool for determining the pool size needed to absorb realistic heat rejection from air conditioners in various California climate zones.

The ability of the CSGHs to absorb fat was determined as described by Shahidi et al. [ 19] with a slight modification.