Sentence examples for the letup from inspiring English sources

This may be due to his iconoclastic compositional practices: the decentralized action, the letup on will, on here's-what-this-means.

The shift in approach came after a tumultuous 10 days in which the government seemed to waver between a new policy aimed at a presenting Iraq in a gentler guise and fears that the letup may get out of control.

Greenhouse theorists appear to be on the defensive as they offer different explanations for the letup — that deep ocean water may be draining some warmth from the atmosphere, that increases in high-altitude water vapor may be responsible or that numerous small volcanic eruptions are the cause.

We are now three years removed from the Nasdaq peak and the letup has not let up.

Miami Vice is composed in a language of pure action; there is no psychological back-story, no calm-before-the-storm letup in which Crockett and Tubbs's private selves can be unrolled.

The phrase resounded no fewer than 18 times alone in the first half of the show, with no letup until the close when Mr. Lieberman confided to whatever part of the public that might have been listening, "Al Gore and I agree on almost everything".

With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict showing no sign of a letup, the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is growing at its lowest rate in a decade, Israeli government figures show.

With Islamists and other opponents boycotting the talks, and no letup in the daily violence, analysts see achieving peace as a tall order in a country awash with guns.

Working without letup, the team members watched the floodwalls and levees that they had worked for three years to harden against storms.

In parts of the Northeast, the month's average rainfall fell in a single day, disbelief rising like water in the storm drains as hour after hour passed with no letup, the runoff gouging out driveways and washing out fields, stunting already stunted corn.

The escalating partisanship, which lawmakers called disturbingly reminiscent of the impeachment case two years ago, left members of both parties warning that without some letup in the battle, the contested presidential election could become the first business facing the 107th Congress.