The surface of the calcaneum is smoothed to minimise sharp prominences, and roughened to expose the cancellous bone using a rasp.
Charges could complicate the presidential campaign of Mr. Kerik's friend, patron and former business partner, Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, whose mentorship was partly responsible for Mr. Kerik's sharp ascent into prominence.
Hook writes with conversational glee about the scams and pranks that accompanied his band's sharp-elbowed rise to prominence.
WHERE there was once a tendency to temper Prokofiev's steeliness -- to tone down his use of bright timbres and sharp rhythms by giving equal prominence to the Romanticism within so many of his scores -- the goal today, particularly among Russian conductors, is to celebrate that steeliness in all its gleaming power.
In particular, in the MdP expression of Cdh15 (GeneID: 12555), a gene associated with muscle differentiation [42], showed a sharp increase compared to the other prominences.
The final days of the campaign were also punctuated by a sharp swing in pro-Beijing local media organizations, which began giving prominence to Mr. Leung.
American officials said that this was not the first time Europeans had withheld evidence because of the death penalty but that the prominence of Mr. Moussaoui made the issue appear sharper.
Fortunately, a few novel techniques for model selection, representing a sharp departure from previous ones in statistics, have been proposed and gained prominence for microarray data analysis.
The "new order" suffered a sharp downturn in the 1950s, when conventional views about the social roles appropriate for women regained prominence and women's participation in the sciences declined, as in paid jobs and the professional workforce generally, in the post-war years.
Any minor prominence on the bottom determines the position of alternate vortices on either side, and a sharp ridge with symmetrical slopes eventually forms.
