Sentence examples for shortest portion from inspiring English sources

During tripping in, the column is under compression and thus suffers buckling, displacing itself angularly inside the well to either form a sinusoid or a helix; meanwhile, during tripping out, the column is under tension and thus there is no buckling, meaning that the column will remain in contact with the shortest portion of the well the whole time.

Besides, the values of S greater than the value of D are discarded and obtain N (the user can choose the value of N) feature regions with decreasing orders of S. The image resolution is fixed as m×n and m represents the longest portion and n indicates the shortest portion of the image.

He "did a spectacular job" of laying out the stakes for Israel if Iran were to attain nuclear weapons, Sherman said, but noted that the shortest portion of his speech was how to "insist on a better deal".

I-81, which like all mainline Interstate highways is a part of the National Highway System, is the shortest mainline Interstate in Maryland and contains the shortest portion of I-81 of all six states through which the Interstate highway passes.

In addition, stage IV CRC survivors also had the shortest portion of remaining life in good health (47 % for men and 40%% for women).

He was the de facto head coach when Payton missed a short portion of last season with a knee injury.

The hearing was closed to the media except short portion at the beginning in which the prisoner's representative reads a prepared statement.

Ms. Tomlin said the impetus came after she and Ms. Wagner showed a short portion of "Search" to students in a workshop at the University of Southern California.

The New Testament is by far the shorter portion of the Christian Bible, but, through its associations with the spread of Christianity, it has wielded an influence far out of proportion to its modest size.

President Bush did not initially watch the television coverage of Mr. Hussein's court appearance, but at around midday he stepped out of the Oval Office into an adjoining room to watch a short portion of the tape that was being replayed by one of the news networks, Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said.

And on an upper floor there is a short portion of the exhibition devoted to Chinese Marxism, referring to the Long March led by Mao in the 1930's as a "mythologized" event and speaking of the massacre of thousands of students and others during the violent suppression of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China in 1989.