Sentence examples for highly contracted from inspiring English sources

If he were to maunder through an old churchyard idly rubbing the moss from any 18th-century headstones, he would soon encounter a slew of highly contracted forms: "Eliz Relict of Edwd"; "of much Honr"; "Feb ye 9 An Dom 1753"; "who depd this life".

At the time of observations the IMF was strongly northward and the polar cap was highly contracted.

The combined analysis by X-ray and electron diffraction revealed that the all three polyamides adopted the same crystal structure, which consists of a rhombic lattice with the chains in a highly contracted conformation capable of accommodating efficiently the sugar moiety in the space.

Because water molecules are highly contracted in the average conformer A3C, structural information on water has to be obtained from instantaneous structures.

TMS differed from the other two lines because it contained highly contracted cytoplasm within the MMC.

Reduced blood flow in hypertensive pregnancy may influence the production vasoconstrictors; subsequently the vessel remains in highly contracted state.

When firms and suppliers have to make large-scale, highly contract-specific investments, naive notions of market competition and competitive exchange get thrown out the window.

NASA, for example, uses a professional cadre of armed, highly trained contracted security personnel vested with arrest authority to protect its space centers, as does the State Department to guard embassies.

Species ranges are often highly plastic, contracting or expanding to match spatial shifts of their ecological niches (Sexton et al., 2009).

After weeks of declaring the country free of bird flu, the government confirmed on Friday that two boys, aged six and seven, had contracted the highly infectious virus.

In 2006 53 patients in a rural hospital in South Africa were found to have contracted a highly drug-resistant form of TB: 52 of them died.