By enabling managers and blue-collar workers to work at peak efficiency in this torrid period, air conditioning has at most boosted annual production by about one-third.
Measurement of electrolyte leakage has been used to quantify damages to cell membranes in several abiotic stresses such as drought, chilling and torrid conditions, air pollution, salt stress, acid conditions, and heavy metal exposure [ 39].
The desiccated earth scattered down the hillside easily beneath my steps, and the air felt torrid and listless.
CBA has faced a torrid time over revelations aired by the royal commission, the anti-money laundering agency, Austrac, and the corporate regulator, Asic.
Episodes that might take a week to shoot in Hollywood are wrapped up in a day so that its torrid telenovelas, or soap operas, can air on time.
On a day like Monday, when temperatures are expected to be so torrid, the Woodland Hills Urgent Care Center starts running the air conditioning early in the morning, said Boris Vaisman, 40, a family-practice doctor who, together with his mother, Sofia Vaisman, staffs the clinic.
The warm nights lead to torrid daytime temperatures because heating already warm air doesn't take long, he said.
It might have been one of those torrid days in August when the heavy iridescent air presses down on the spirit and all seems hopeless.
Some other teams will be waiting anxiously today to learn their fate: AIR FORCE has lost 4 straight after a torrid start.
The altered jet-stream behavior is important because when it takes deep excursions to the south in the summer, it sets up a collision between cool air from the north and the summer's torrid heat, often spurring excessive rain.
