When the pressure gradient is steep due to a strong subtropical high and a deep Icelandic low (positive phase), northern Europe and northern Asia experience warm, wet winters with frequent strong winter storms.
The curves depicted in Figs. 4 and 5 have similar trends with a slope that starts very steep due to minimum design strength requirements and then progressively decreases until it nearly becomes flat.
In Africa, prices are especially steep due to the continent's dependence on imports as well as trade restrictions between nations, hoarding, civil unrest and bad weather.
A single road connects Gibraltar with Spain, and within the territory most roads are narrow and often steep due to the restricted land area.
When using shock waves for therapy, effects that make the pressure pulse even steeper due to nonlinearities in the propagation medium as well as phenomena such as refraction and diffraction at acoustic interfaces have to be taken into consideration.
When only one pair of primers was present (thin lines), increasing Taq concentration from 1 (red) to 2 (blue) or 3 (black) units per assay had the effect of making the slope of the signals steeper, due to increased amplification efficiency.
For a girl to debut at the River Oaks ball, her parents must be members of the country club (which means paying a sky-high initiation fee and steep annual dues) and be able to afford the proper clothes.
Syed's lawyers are arguing that his original lawyer, the late Christina Gutierrez, was in a period of steep decline due to health and financial issues.
With increasing temperature, the diffraction intensity decreased gradually and then increased distinctly before a steep decrease due to the final melting.
There has been speculation on blogs and in news articles that Ms. Leibovitz's financial problems arose because Ms. Sontag left her a large inheritance, with steep taxes due because the two women were unable to be legally wed.
