Sentence examples for their holdup from inspiring English sources

As the film opens they are on some kind of mission for a drug lord (Bruce Willis, nicely odd) that lands them in a diner, where their holdup plans don't go so well.

Photographic determination of the small bubbles' diameters and knowledge of their holdup fraction allowed to estimate their potential contributions to the mass transfer rate at gas flow rates up to 0.2m/s.

Bonnie and Clyde and their partners in crime are comically bad bank robbers, and the backdrop of poverty makes their holdups seem pathetically tacky, yet they rob banks and kill people; Clyde and his good-natured brother are so shallow they never think much about anything, yet they suffer and die.

And sniffing the truck's payload could also provide criminals with intelligence they wouldn't otherwise be able to get very easily, thus helping them target their holdups or other heists, he says.

Their most popular holdups were their robberies of banks, where the wealthy could make money breed without doing a hand's turn.

The effect of the inhibitors on the minimum fluidization velocity can be predicted from their effect on gas holdup with an adaptation of the model from Zhang, Epstein, Grace and Zhu (Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 73 A, 1995, 347 353).

This result is in agreement with Kawase and Moo-Young [ 30] who also found increments in gas holdup in their CMC solution with antifoam addition.

Through their fatalism about holdups, Karachiites reveal how low public expectations of governance and law-enforcement have become.

The smaller bubbles had induced the gas holdup due to their low rise velocity and longer residence time in the system than the bigger bubbles [ 1, 29].

Their life before the holdups had its troubles Scott's wife died when their kids were still very young, and Scott struggled with alcohol abuse but nothing outlandish that might seem to explain the bank robberies.

Economic experts in South Carolina decreased their revenue projections because of the holdup, the Post and Courier reported.