Sentence examples for in a backwash from inspiring English sources

But with Hollywood now caught in a backwash, the question becomes: Where is the next big thing?

It was the tiles Sue and I brought back from our honeymoon in Portugal, which we put in as a backwash to the kitchen sink.

Instead of making that case, the conservative response to Obama's policies was largely to ignore his obvious liberalism in favor of a backwash of pointless vapidity.

Evidence from transmembrane pressure (TMP) monitoring suggests that the sudden decrease in backwash efficiency occurs when the pressure on the permeate side of the membrane at the end of a backwash cycle does not reach the atmospheric pressure maintained on the feed side.

But soaring salaries in the corporate world – led, naturally, by big finance, with a third of the top 0.1% of earners employed in financial services – has a backwash effect.

During this mode, an elevated high instantaneous flux (60 L m−2 h−1) is initially applied for a short time (120 s), followed by a longer filtration (290 s) at lower flux (10.3 L m−2 h−1) and a backwash in each filtration cycle.

Most chalked Davis's silly, mindless act up to a bad case of one person's insensitivity or just plain stupidity, and that it could only happen in a small, backwash town as Coushatta.

It turned out to be a tower block in the backwash of a motorway in the heart of what was once the teeming bustle of the London docks.

As the practice of communication skills often results in a more positive backwash effect on learning and teaching a second or foreign language (Hughes 2003), it is important to raise parents' awareness of the value of two-way interactive listening and of the potential benefits of engaging students in more authentic learning activities.

The plane shudders in the backwash of a launching wide-body, then it's our turn, and we are effortlessly airborne.

No matter how much lip service we pay to the larger sweep of biology and history and to the thought that we no more control our fates than does plankton caught in the backwash of a cruise ship, few of us will avoid entirely those long and lonesome nights in which we blame ourselves for falling out of love or not taking it when it was offered or failing to find any at all.