Rock bolts applied in the United States can be divided into many types: rock bolts with pretension and without pretension; point-anchored bolts and fully-grouted bolts; headed bolts and threaded bolts.
Doon Mackichan as the mayor's wife offers a wonderfully funny portrait of social pretension carried to the point of dementia so that, even when the truth is revealed, she is still locked into her ecstatic dream.
For example, Samsung's smartwatch, Gear, certainly boasts a more grandiose air, with pretensions and a price point to match: $300.
The advanced design of the regular equatorial port flange with proper pretension is acceptable in the structural design point of view.
Indeed, its point of focus - academia and its pretensions - is so far removed from McIlvanney's usual milieu of west central Scotland working-class masculinity that it sometimes feels as if that's exactly what it is.
The object is to perform a pretension design of this cable reflector with high beam pointing accuracy under the circular polarization.
POLITICS At some point in the relationship, despite her bohemian pretensions and transgressive art project, you'll realise that she is a Tory.
POLITICS At some point in the relationship, despite her bohemian pretensions and transgressive art project, you'll realize that she is a Republican.
Thus, there rises a problem that is it possible to provide a pretension structural design considering electromagnetic performance to obtain high beam pointing accuracy for circularly polarized feeds?
Perhaps more than any other public intellectual of his age, Christopher Hitchens consciously invoked the quality of what he called (quoting Swift) saeva indignatio, that "combination of cheek and anger to point out how the world falls short of its pretensions".
When a polling story presents data down to tenths of a percentage point, what the pollster almost always demonstrates is not precision but pretension.
