Sentence examples for shortening one from inspiring English sources

In "Icky Thump," the title track from the group's most recent album, which was released last month, she occasionally warped the rhythm by shortening one of the beats, perfectly in unison with Mr. White's guitar.

By 1935, Zweig's concerns about Roth's alcoholism were growing louder and Roth's assurances less convincing: "I mean to say, yes, alcohol has the effect of shortening one's life, but it staves off immediate death," he writes.

For further shortening, one option is to eliminate the transmission scan by applying an emission-based attenuation correction.

For the purpose of optimizing the spatial arrangement of the four principal pharmacophores on the lead agonists (1 4), we have modified the distances in the parent C-region, 3-acyloxy-2-benzylpropyl groups, by lengthening or shortening one carbon to vary the distances between the pharmacophores.

ABC is already shortening one of their new comedy series.

This delineation is attractive, because divergent and unidirectional overlaps can potentially be resolved by shortening one or both genes to remove the overlap.

Because a prisoner's time on the project was counted as part of his sentence, and because serving on the project could shorten one's sentence, the project must be seen as simultaneously serving the functions of research and punishment.

We are dogmatically trained to assume that the desire to shorten one's life must be associated with mental illness.

Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises, said the company shortened one Caribbean cruise and gave passengers the choice of canceling with a full refund or future cruise credit.

They were reduced - shortened, one might even say - but they clung to pleasure.

To date, there have been no consistent reports corroborating that lasting exposure to EMF shortens one's life span or induces adverse health conditions.