Sentence examples for form of barrel from inspiring English sources

The most recent gas attacks in Aleppo are said to have come in the form of barrel bombs dropped from a helicopter.

"Over the last four years, we have seen horrific and indiscriminate violence against civilians, in the form of barrel bombs, missile strikes, shelling and more," Tennari told the committee.

His parents were initially supportive, hiring a tutor, buying an orchestrion (a form of barrel organ that could imitate elaborate orchestral effects), and encouraging his study of the piano for both aesthetic and practical reasons.

Taiko, any of various Japanese forms of barrel-shaped drums with lashed or tacked heads, usually played with sticks (bachi).

The ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) utilises 4088 silicon modules with binary readout mounted on carbon fibre composite structures arranged in the forms of barrels in the central region and discs in the forward region.

He has mostly lobbied for biotechnology companies and for colleges seeking Congressional earmarks, which many critics consider a form of pork-barrel politics.

Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.

He used his clout as a member of the Senate majority party to provide goodies to his district, in the forms of pork barrel programs and personal political favors.

The β-barrel domain of Omp85/BamA might increase the kinetics of strand insertion by providing some local distortions in the lipid population, assisting intermediate forms of a barrel to gradually assemble and enter the membrane (3).

The hydrolases and transferases that constitute the α-amylase family are multidomain proteins, but each has a catalytic domain in the form of a 8-barrel, with the active site being at the C-terminal end of the barrel β-strands.

Hmp35, which is a unique form of a β-barrel protein that is localized to the outer hydrogenosomal membrane, was significantly upregulated under +Fe conditions.