Sentence examples for thrusts on from inspiring English sources

The adult, using only the middle and ring fingers, then gives five quick downward thrusts on the infant's breastbone.

The Economist in the same month denounced such control as fascistic: "Authoritarianism or stagnation -- that is the choice which dirigisme thrusts on us".

Fedorowicz's plan, a good one, in developing with 15... Qb6, was to attack the enemy king with pawns thrusts on the queenside.

While Shape and Fitness magazines may try to convince you that it is possible to get in some exercise in your office or in line at the airport, I'm not about to start practicing my squat thrusts on the Midtown Direct.

The technique requires a rescuer to carry out abdominal thrusts on a choke victim to dislodge the blockage.

Note also that the lack of a 1934 surface rupture here was not inescapably demonstrated: thin deposits capping the near emergent thrusts on the 4-m-high riverbank exposure were not dated.

Most focal mechanisms derived in previous investigations indicate thrusting on faults trending east-west; some indicate strike-slip mechanisms.

The stronger layers of sedimentary rock are then folded into linear, regularly spaced folds alternating anticlines and synclines and thrust on top of one another.

By all accounts, the shock resulted from blind-thrust on a local fault that no one knew was there.

On 11 March 1829, one of his towering masterpieces, the St Matthew Passion, was thrust on an unsuspecting world.

The plane's two CF6 engines, one under each wing, would have been at or near maximum thrust on departure.