Sentence examples for the protraction from inspiring English sources

In language, his hallmark is corrosive metaphor; in dialogue, the clash of wills; in action, the protraction of unconscionable agonies.

A mechanistic approach has developed, in which the protraction of dying has become a major by-product of modern technology.

And so on throughout the day, hour by hour, each elaborate in its own manner, into the protraction of evening, which is a genre all its own, a cotillion of every living thing, the deer slipping like shadows through the woods, bumblebees working well into dusk, hanging from blossoms like blossoms themselves.

Stanton took the extraordinary step of drafting a "remonstrance" (later softened by Attorney General Bates) to the president expressing the fear that "the destruction of our armies, the protraction of the war, the waste of our national resources, and the overthrow of the government... must be the inevitable consequence of George B. McClellan being continued in command".

Seven-holed curved miniplates successfully transferred the protraction force to the maxilla.

The protraction facemask generates an anteriorly directed force on the maxilla.

According to the wedge hypothesis, the extraction of four premolars or molars and the subsequent protraction of the posterior teeth lead to a counterclockwise rotation of the mandible, thus maintaining or increasing the overbite [8, 10, 11].

The maxillary protraction protocol partially utilized the dentition for the transmission of the forces to the underlying skeletal structures, including the maxilla and the mandible.

Notwithstanding, it was assumed that this behavior idealization was suitable to describe theoretically the initial stress distribution of the midpalatal suture in the maxillary protraction therapy.

The onset of these traces is termed the Anterior Extreme Position (AEP), which corresponds to the position where the leg first contacts the glass after touchdown at the end protraction (Cruse, 1976).

The aim of the present work was to evaluate the stress magnitudes and directions along the midpalatal suture in the maxillary protraction therapy.