Sentence examples for likely to rupture from inspiring English sources

are pooled from 20 unruptured and 27 ruptured patients; since aneurysms in the posterior circulation are more likely to rupture than those in the anterior circulation, it is likely that the ruptured patients did not contribute much to the number of anterior circulation aneurysms.

But the tests still cannot tell if plaques are likely to rupture, Dr. Smith and other cardiologists say.

In that case, the delicate lungs are likely to rupture as the gases within them expand.

Chronic inflammation inside an atherosclerotic plaque makes it more likely to rupture, causing a heart attack or stroke.

Vulnerable plaque — the type that is most likely to rupture and spew its contents into the bloodstream — contains little calcium.

With a deep and unresolved enmity towards the very groups the US had chosen as allies in Syria, the arrangement was always likely to rupture.

A system of formal reciprocity in the rules of war (each side has the same formal obligations), but also independence of obligation to the rules of war (each side's obligation is independent of what the other side does, including if the other side violates the rules) over time is likely either to rupture in crisis or else simply have less and less purchase as universal rules.

"The earthquake happened on the Japan Trench which runs roughly north-south and the fault dips shallowly westwards towards Japan at about 15-20 dexplainedexplaineDrDr John Elliott from the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics (Comet) at Oxford University, UK. "Given the size of the earthquake, the fault is likely to have ruptured for about 500km.

For example, the source area of the off-Ibaraki earthquake (M 7.0) on May 8, 2008, is likely to be ruptured again only about three years after the last event, where values of 22 years and 0.20 have been adopted as the BPT parameters.

This is partly because they fire their quadriceps to stabilize their knees, a habit that means they hit the ground with a straighter leg and makes it more likely for the ligament to rupture.

Widely varying eyewitness accounts of the 1965 festival differ over why and how much he was booed: perhaps because of a loud sound system or a short set, more likely because he dared to rupture folky purity with rock instruments and ambitions.