Sentence examples for immobilizing from inspiring English sources

North American short-tailed shrews (genus Blarina) and Old World water shrews (genus Neomys) produce toxic saliva for immobilizing prey.

Jujitsu was a general name for many systems of fighting involving techniques of hitting, kicking, kneeing, throwing, choking, immobilizing holds, and use of certain weapons.

Introduction of tranquilizer drugs made it possible to replace older methods of immobilizing large animals before applying marks and brands.

Adaptations for a carnivorous diet include a variety of hunting behaviours and the development of methods for grasping or otherwise immobilizing the prey.

Inside the courtyard of his rented house here, Mr. Emir set the birds free, though not before immobilizing their wings with Scotch tape.

The two countries should instead jointly lead a global effort to reduce existing stocks of separated plutonium by discouraging reprocessing and encouraging safe disposal of already separated stocks, which could be done, for example, by immobilizing the plutonium and placing it in three-mile-deep boreholes.

A frontal attack would immobilize the enemy while forces on the flanks would execute a double envelopment, forming a pocket called a Kessel ("cauldron") around the enemy.

Working the range alone, a hand often had to catch and immobilize an animal weighing 400 to 600 pounds (about 180 to 270 kg) by himself.

When a rock cools from the molten to the solid state, its radioactive isotopes are immobilized in mineral crystal lattices and then decay in place.

Much larger amounts of water are mechanically immobilized between the elongated peptide chains of fibrous proteins; for example, one gram of gelatin can immobilize at room temperature 25 to 30 grams of water.

For four years, the Shining Path made steady gains as its bombing campaigns and assassinations immobilized the capital, and the country was brought close to anarchy.