Sentence examples for instances of contact from inspiring English sources

But it's typical of Gunn that while he gives us a sense of all these elements, he's drawn to instances of contact: the point at which "the bare foot feels / The suck of shingle"; the moment in which "marbling bodies have become / Half wave, half men, / Grafted it seems by feet of foam".

According to Colin Campbell, the N.H.L. director of hockey operations, and Gary Meagher, a league spokesman, a study of 21 league games this season showed that the average game contained 22 instances of contact to the head, from a light brush with a glove to a heavy blow.

The more instances of contact, the more the line is reinforced.

The Central Intelligence Agency reasonably assessed that there were likely several instances of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda throughout the 1990's, but that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship.

A heavily redacted July 2004 committee report concluded (on page 346) that the CIA "reasonably assessed that there were likely several instances of contacts between Iraq and al-Qa'ida throughout the 1990s, but that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship".

The organization of health care in Blekinge focuses on the PHC as always being the first instance of contact with health care for the inhabitants, except in cases of acute and severe disease or trauma.

He pointed out that there had been over 30 instances of quiet contact between the DUP and Sinn Fein during the December 2004 negotiations.

There are so many memory-searing instances of aborted contact: of clumsy hugs and self-conscious handshakes, of drunken dancing and chases and races over furniture.

There were only three instances of brief contact between the Yankees and Cubs on Wednesday and Thursday, and in all three instances, it was Andy MacPhail, the Cubs' president, who made the call, reaching out to the Yankees.

The counterclaim filed by Mr. Monteverde and his firm is as sensational as the original complaint, describing in excruciating detail several instances of sexual contact between Mr. Monteverde and Ms. Marchuk, who has left the firm.

Directed with genius by Tamas Ascher, this inventively visceral interpretation is filled with instances of physical contact in which affection and anger, attraction and repulsion seem to exist in uneasy simultaneity.