Sentence examples for purposeful hand from inspiring English sources

And yet, as he and Elio lounge on sun-warmed grass, it's Oliver who seems unmanned, and it's Elio who lays a purposeful hand directly on Oliver's crotch.

Playful activities integrate purposeful hand skills of pinch, grasp and manipulation, while encouraging the child to fully participate in therapy and home programs.

In the regressive phase, purposeful hand movements and any acquired speech are lost, brain growth decelerates, and ataxia, seizures, autonomic dysfunction and autistic features develop.

Symptoms include decelerating head growth, resulting in autistic features, loss of skills such as speech and purposeful hand use, irregular breathing patterns, and in many cases seizures.

RTT patients develop normally up to 6 18 months of age, when they start to develop symptoms including loss of speech and purposeful hand movements, seizures, respiratory abnormalities, anxiety and autism [1].

Symptoms of this syndrome are mental retardation, loss of speech and purposeful hand use, autism, ataxia, and stereotypic hand movements.

But for all that the company's Hammersmith office is a hive of purposeful activity – with all hands to the pump Russell Wolff, the head of all its operations outside the US, is hunkered down with his laptop in a small glass cubicle – some in the sports broadcasting world remain sceptical about whether ESPN can succeed where Setanta failed.

The decisions themselves reflected our detail orientated system in their careful distinctions, & they also reflected a capacity for ideological inconsistency, as in their protection of flag-burning & pornography, on the one hand, & their purposeful dismantling of mechanisms for promoting racial justice, on the other.

Fifteen subjects (group A) were trained with goal-directed motor sequences, and 16 (group B) with non purposeful motor actions of the right hand.

According to the classic "argument from design," observations of complex functionality in nature can be taken to imply the action of a supernatural designer, just as the purposeful construction of human artifacts reveals the hand of the artificer.

However, they did not take any action and may have assumed that Climbié's appearance was a purposeful attempt to "persuade the authorities to hand out money".