Sentence examples for often noxious from inspiring English sources

Cities of ancient times were often noxious places, fouled by human wastes and debris.

Daring to face these often noxious, seemingly empty phenomena on aesthetic terms, and taking on a degree of their flatness and simplicity, Coppola renders them surprisingly substantial.

Prominent US and multinational companies such as Apple, Dell, Motorola, Nokia, and Hewlett-Packard are among the businesses pinpointed as culprits in an unflinching, new report released by Global Witness that details the often noxious connections between the illegal mining trade, widespread human rights abuses and tech and mining firms.

This boy ain't never seen nothing quite like it -- pulpy, perverse, pulsating with libido and bile and often a noxious combination of the two.

Sadly, it is rarely true of native species and often true of noxious invasives.

Tellingly, the one element she singled out was the occasionally noxious, often secretive bill-writing process that took place in Congress.

Those working in illegal grow houses, the report found, are often exposed to noxious fumes, constant heat and light, and the risk of fire and electrocution from shoddy wiring and energy supplies.

By contrast, one of the fundamental requirements for living systems is to be able to maintain homeostasis in the face of varied and ongoing environmental inputs, often of a noxious variety.

In many species, nociceptors are often stimulated by noxious extreme temperatures and by chemical agonists that do not damage tissue (e.g., capsaicin and isothiocyanate).

More commonly, sensitization is characterized as an increase in the response to a primary stimulus after priming by an extrinsic, often strong and noxious stimulus.

The air, it is certain, is often charged with noxious exhalations arising from the putrefaction of animal and vegetable matter... these exhalations exert a most important agency in the production of epidemic diseases".