Sentence examples for minute currents from inspiring English sources

The relativities that interest Reta Winters - and the author - are mostly the minute currents of tension and release that flow within families, and among friends and lovers.

The greatest chroniclers of the city – Pepys, Samuel Johnson, Hogarth, Dickens, Iain Sinclair – have always been picked up and swept along on its myriad minute currents, been open to its accidental variety.

The minute currents of tension that change a conversation and a life are so crucial to McEwan's method that it would be unfair to give away every last turn in his narrative.

But Josephson-junction chips are big and hard to make; most problematic of all, they use such minute currents that the results of their computations are difficult to detect.

Because for many years the frog leg was the most sensitive detector of differences in electrical potential, final acceptance of the view that currents can be generated by living tissues had to await the construction of galvanometers sensitive enough to measure the minute currents generated in muscles and the small potential differences across nerve membranes.

This enables a minute current to be conducted by the ionized air.

When the device is activated by a beam of ultrasound, voltage runs between the electrodes, and this minute current is affected by the electrical activity of the tissue.

Within minutes, current and former government officials were  on television discussing and condemning the decision, which the Obama administration said was based on an evaluation that included a $2 trillion error.

A reporter for the 60 Minutes current affairs magazine will claim that pages of the inspirational book Three Cups of Tea, published in 2006 by Penguin, are threaded through with distortions, and that its author, Greg Mortenson, has claimed credit for some schools that appear either to have been built by someone else entirely or don't exist at all.

Technology allows us to stay almost up-to-the-minute current with others.

But it was only when the photos of the ill-treatment of prisoners were supplied to the 60 Minutes current affairs programme and to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that the abuse turned into a full-blown military scandal.