To my considerable pain, my argumentative agility and my competitive fire — qualities I thought I possessed in abundance — were not strong enough to place me at the top.
Forsch was known for his savvy, tenacity and competitive fire, qualities that made him the kind of pitcher that is always in short supply: a reliable starter.
Like the format, the tournament has a quick-fire quality.
Their assessments have more of a liar-liar-pantaloons-on-fire quality.
Twenty-one members strong, this ensemble was a tonic antidote to the bloated choruses "Messiah" so often encourages: a precision instrument with smooth, gentle sopranos soaring through the high notes, altos with a rapid-fire quality to their coloratura.
Jesse Green, Vulture [Knightley] is compelling and articulate, especially when silent, and brings to the morose tale the banked-fire quality that seems to illuminate such material from within.
There is one less set of hands to carry hose into the building, which can leave a company short when it comes to aggressively pushing into a fire, a quality that has distinguished the city's department nationally.
The purpose of this study was to describe the home fire safety quality improvement model designed to aid organizations in achieving institutional program goals.
There are many applications of WSNs, which are intended to monitor physical and environmental phenomena, such as earthquake, pollution, wild fire, water quality and to gather information regarding human activities in health care, manufacturing machinery performance, building safety, military surveillance and reconnaissance, highway traffic, etc. [1].
After Malaysia helped Indonesian authorities extinguish the fires, air quality reached an acceptable level, and on August 13 the state of emergency was lifted.
Empirical studies from 1 to 15 years after fires demonstrate most burned sites occupied by pairs remained occupied and reproductive at the same rates as long-unburned sites, regardless of the amount of severe fire; lower-quality sites (often vacant or nonreproductive) had higher extinction rates with more severe fire.
