Sentence examples for over stiff from inspiring English sources

In the 1950s, full Doris Day skirts over stiff nylon petticoats ran parallel to Cristóbal Balenciaga's architectural chic.

She prevailed over stiff competition from the critics' favorite, Mike Skinner, a 23-year-old who calls himself the Streets, and the veteran rapper Roots Manuva.

Mr Bush is expected to approve later this year, over stiff local opposition, a plan to store radioactive waste in an underground site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.Yet the nuclear industry's best friend is global warming.

The measure, approved by the upper house of Parliament over stiff resistance from labor unions, extends the strictly regulated Saturday retail closing time to 8 p.m., from 4 p.m., but keeps in effect a retail ban on Sundays.

Yang Mu, a Beijing-born economist who moved here in 1992 and became a citizen three years later, acknowledges a host of superficial differences, saying he finds locals somewhat aloof, more likely to work late and less likely to spend the night commiserating over stiff drinks.

Astrophysicists in general, it's safe to say, could lose a little sleep over stiff sheets.

The edge-based smoothing technique is applied in the standard FEM to soften the over-stiff behavior of Reissner Mindlin plate system, aiming to improve the accuracy of predictions for deterministic response.

In a handful of the pictures -- an elderly bespectacled man and his wife, both looking as if they've forgotten their dentures; two men whose fat jowls spill over their stiff shirt collars; a woman wearing a tiny hat and a vanquished stare -- there is something of the loneliness and emotional nakedness that Diane Arbus would later find in her subjects.

In other words, this indicates that when imaging the H. walsbyi surface in tapping mode, we are probably dealing with a soft surface moulding itself over stiffer internal bodies, thus allowing for inspection of harder rounded intracellular vesicles or granules.

Darling was predictably strong on the figures but came over as stiff and occasionally intransigent.

The then 60-year-old Bavarian Catholic, with his rasping, schoolmasterish speech, came over as stiff and old-fashioned.