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  • The burial history of the sediments can be ascertained by the study of their varying thickness; and the petrography of the sediments reveals their diagenetic history and the movement of meteoric and pore waters through the basin.
  • Some scientists lump ocean water with meteoric, whereas others regard it as a separate type of water in hydrothermal systems.
  • Is it a challenge to stay level headed given you've had a meteoric rise in terms of your acting career?
  • After a meteoric rise comes the inevitable fall.
  • Her meteoric ascent began young. Times, Sunday Times
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  • His meteoric rise through the ranks was capped with the U.S. Senate's unanimous confirmation of his nomination as Secretary of State.
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  • It is clear that the meteoric growth in its membership was due to official coercion and patronage. Fascists and Conservatives
  • In the 1980s, a series of Rottweiler attacks squelched that breed's popularity, after what had been a meteoric rise.
  • We are not, it appears to me, more justified in applying the term telluric to the nickel and iron, the olivine and pyroxene (augite), found in meteoric stones, than in indicating the COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • In many modern examples, diagenetic reactions in the meteoric zones are minimal.
  • The club are in constant contact with the youngster's advisors to make sure he is settled at the club after his meteoric rise. The Sun
  • It is thus apparent that the upper oolitic shoals were temporarily subaerially exposed, receiving meteoric water and probably allowing the formation of a lens of fresh water in the subsurface.
  • The sudden flash of light in the night sky was caused by a meteoric fireball.
  • The meteoric origin of geothermal water in study area is evidenced by its environmental isotope composition.
  • This quarter's results were the first set which showed some material revenue booking from wireless markets and this market is expected to continue growing at meteoric rates.
  • If he keeps being cast as such one-dimensional, charisma-free characters, his fall may be as quick as his meteoric rise.
  • a meteoric rise to fame
  • America's working neophytes' unrestrained optimism stems from having come of age in a flush economy and a tight labor market, with lots of highly visible examples of meteoric corporate career arcs.
  • He has a boyish enthusiasm for his meteoric trajectory. Times, Sunday Times
  • This dramatised resumé of Wilde's life and loves, his meteoric rise and catastrophic fall, is cleverly conceived and, in the main, well executed.
  • These views must not, therefore, be confounded with what is commonly termed the telluric or atmospheric origin of meteoric stones, nor yet with the singular opinion of Aristotle, which supposed the enormous mass of ®gos COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • Meteoric water, derived from the atmosphere, originates and falls to the Earth as precipitation.
  • In the meteoric incandescence of his beautiful youth, these qualities were in exquisite equipoise.
  • Three years and 8m albums into a meteoric career, a lot rests on his slender shoulders. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company has experienced meteoric growth.
  • In this competition she won the highly coveted Rosenblatt Recital prize and since then her career has enjoyed what can only be described as a meteoric rise.
  • Once again the carbonates came into contact with meteoric water and this was responsible for yet another episode of leaching.
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  • That is what happens when a young sportsman is enjoying what may be termed a meteoric rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's the truth behind his reputation as the great crime suppressor, his meteoric rise to the position of Commissioner of Police?
  • His has been a phenomenal and meteoric success. Times, Sunday Times
  • The origin of the vein-forming fluids - whether magmatic, meteoric, or connate - may also be determined from a study of the oxygen isotopes of the inclusions.
  • I just hoped he had left a memory behind that would help me get a tag on his meteoric career and give a hint about what lies in store for bad guys and ne'er-do-wells of North Yorkshire.
  • I have duly received your letter of the 8th instant, on the subject of the stone in your possession, supposed meteoric.
  • Heavy metal is siderion, something made of meteoric iron.
  • These bones may have been reworked from previous depositional settings in contact with meteoric ground waters.
  • Yet it will be a thousand years more, in all probability, before the last thunderbolt ceases to be shown as a curiosity here and there to marvelling visitors, and takes its proper place in some village museum as a belemnite, a meteoric stone, or a polished axe-head of our neolithic ancestors. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
  • That meteoric rise has not been without controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The decline came despite the meteoric rise of tablet computers for younger generations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Listening to the discussion of this question prompted a poignant reminder that, belying the stories of meteoric rise to success, there's the often-forgotten story of sweat and toil. Erdin Beshimov: Meeting The Right People: How I Was Inspired And What I Learned
  • The isotopic composition of condensed fumarolic steam is consistent with these temperatures and implies that the source water is derived primarily from either lowland meteoric waters or fossil Red Sea water, or both. Geothermics Abstract
  • A couple of years ago we'd be blasé about it because, it was taken for granted that you could raise dollops of cash and break into the meteoric world of the industry.
  • Much of the buying can be explained by China's growing appetite for oil after ten years of meteoric economic growth. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reasons for the formation of these types of clouds is still something of a mystery, but has been suggested that the nuclei that helps them to form is actually meteoric dust.
  • The optical component market has few scale efficiencies and this could limit the growth and profitability of the sector particularly as the industry is growing at meteoric rates to satisfy demand due to increased network traffic.
  • Doyle, 49, had a meteoric rise in the film industry.
  • His career faded as meteorically as it grew.
  • His meteoric rise did encounter a few setbacks and some bad investment decisions, but he has managed to bounce back with his latest creation in the soft toy line: a stuffed deer.
  • And despite his meteoric rise through the ranks, the teenager flies economy class and remains a long way from a world ranking that would command appearance fees from tournament promoters.
  • meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena
  • What isn't so typical, though, is the meteoric rise and subsequent slow decline of a man much imitated, never duplicated and unrivaled at his instrument.
  • I just hoped he had left a memory behind that would help me get a tag on his meteoric career and give a hint about what lies in store for bad guys and ne'er-do-wells of North Yorkshire.
  • Many bodybuilders today have short meteoric careers.
  • Ogilvy, who was some ten years older than I, and who belonged to one of our old families, had embarked on a career then becoming common, but which at first was regarded as somewhat meteoric: gradually abandoning the practice of law, and perceiving the possibilities of the city of his birth, he had "gambled" in real estate and other enterprises, such as our local water company, until he had quadrupled his inheritance. A Far Country — Volume 2
  • These low 880 values represent precipitation from meteoric waters depleted in 180, or elevated temperatures during formation in burial settings.
  • The meteoric rise in the popularity of Modern Art left my position at Sotheby's much undermined.
  • The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the Ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed.
  • But with their meteoric rise to fame, we'd better get used to being this week's Williamsburg, despite the rumour that they've already moved to New York.
  • The sudden flash of light in the night sky was caused by a meteoric fireball.
  • Hence olivine occurs in basalt, lava, obsidian, artificial scoriae in meteoric stones, in the syenite of Elfdale, and (as hyalosiderite) in the wacke of the Kaiserstuhl. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • The group had a meteoric rise to fame in the 70s.
  • In general, the Earth encounters richer meteoric activity during the second half of the year.
  • The appointment to the board was intended by the President to be phase one of a meteoric promotion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Provincial sources said yesterday that Northern Province had achieved another meteoric improvement in results, from 51,4 percent last year to close to 60 percent this year.
  • The by-election result was not a terrific surprise, but it was certainly a meteoric rise for an unknown outsider. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sudden flash of light in the night sky was caused by a meteoric fireball.
  • Few would be as grounded and seemingly unchanged after such a meteoric rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon he was embarking upon his meteoric rise to an immensely powerful position in French musical life.
  • The scandal ended his meteoric political career .
  • The company has experienced meteoric growth.
  • In addition, he determined that the Na / K ratios of the included fluids were low, suggesting that the minerals were deposited from hydrothermal solutions of meteoric rather than connate origin.
  • In deposits that have been uplifted and exposed on land, the upper sulphides and oxides are invariably oxidized and weathered to a variety of secondary minerals (‘gossan’) by circulating meteoric water.
  • The meteoric rise of Jack Vettriano is nothing short of phenomenal.
  • A note of caution needs to be added concerning cementation in the meteoric vadose zone.
  • The appointment to the board was intended by the President to be phase one of a meteoric promotion. Times, Sunday Times
  • With that performance, her meteoric rise from ballet dancer to actress was complete.
  • Other compounds detected in volcanic gases are oxygen (meteoric), hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur hexafluoride, carbonyl sulfide, and organic compounds. The BBC and global warming
  • Before the meteoric spread of Islam outwards from the Arabian peninsula towards the end of the seventh century many of the tribes of North Africa had been converted to Judaism or Christianity.
  • Since he's come back to five furlongs he's made a meteoric rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth. P2pnet World Headlines – April 9, 2009
  • She is very modest about her meteoric success, is not daunted by it and is happy to enjoy the game.
  • She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it. Fennel and Rue
  • The spectrum of the gegenschein is similar to that of the Sun, and it is generally believed that it is the result of the reflection of sunlight from meteoric material or other dust in the Earth's orbital plane.
  • In mitigation his lawyer told of the 35-year-old's meteoric rise from a supermarket worker to a multi-millionaire restaurant owner.
  • The rise of an automobile culture in the West, and its meteoric boom after World War II, eventually led to self-guided driving tours along nineteen miles of road in 1966.
  • The by-election result was not a terrific surprise, but it was certainly a meteoric rise for an unknown outsider. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anderson's inclusion in the 15-man squad climaxes a meteoric rise to fame.
  • Whether Hughes enjoyed the joke is doubtful; expectation was meteoric and he stood to lose a fortune if the film bombed.
  • But his meteoric rise in the drug world inevitably set him up for a fall.
  • It began, inauspiciously, as a summer league team, but its dizzying ascent to prominence since then has been nothing short of meteoric.
  • The sudden flash of light in the night sky was caused by a meteoric fireball.
  • Other compounds detected in volcanic gases are oxygen (meteoric), hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur hexafluoride, carbonyl sulfide, and organic compounds. The BBC and global warming
  • The sudden flash of light in the night sky was caused by a meteoric fireball.
  • The company has experienced meteoric growth.
  • His meteoric rise has been cited as one of the catalysts for Swedish techno's current influence.
  • It's been somewhat of a meteoric rise for the Irish band, who are now based in Los Angeles with their studio just a 20-minute walk from Hollywood Boulevard.
  • Yet it exists, as anyone who has watched the meteoric rise of Vetements will attest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although his rise seems meteoric, it has not been without trauma. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are kids with pure talent, meteoric energy, unbelievable charisma and refreshingly unpretentious intelligence.
  • It is thus apparent that the upper oolitic shoals were temporarily subaerially exposed, receiving meteoric water and probably allowing the formation of a lens of fresh water in the subsurface.
  • Chladni on meteoric stones, etc., 118, 135; on the selenic origin of aerolites, 121; on the supposed phenomenon of ascending shooting stars, 122; on the obscuration of the Sun's disk, 133; sound-figures, 135; pulsations in the tails of comets, 143. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • Perhaps the next leader of Facebook has "friended" the current CEO -- and he or she is just one click away from better navigating the company's meteoric but challenging rise. Facebook's leadership: Time for an update?
  • At this point the sky falls in and the editor, crying “Enough!” crouches submissively to the swaying floor, sobbing and crying like a baby pulverised by meteoric infall … The Odds Against Science Fiction « Write Anything
  • During his meteoric rise there (he made colonel within four months), he worked on building the Pentagon and led the biggest housing project in history, constructing camps and cantonments for our troops.
  • He had made a deliberate effort to put the entire meteoric episode out of mind — reminiscing about past passions ill behooved a married man, after all. Archive 2010-02-01
  • A note of caution needs to be added concerning cementation in the meteoric vadose zone.
  • Most tornado companies go through at least one cash crisis where despite meteoric success they come within inches of missing payroll. INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
  • Until Napoleon's luck changed and his health declined, his meteoric rush to empire building can be charted in the chairs that could be found in his various residences and portraits.
  • To him also is due the isolation of the elements yttrium, beryllium, and titanium, the observation that silicium can be obtained in crystals, and that some meteoric stones contain organic matter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
  • The 22-year-old pilot who had never flown a plane before his 18th birthday was about to begin his meteoric rise to the top of the Luftwaffe's list of living aces.
  • Once magmas erupt or cool beneath the surface, they are subjected to weathering and interaction with descending meteoric waters.
  • Frequent breakup and erosion of cometary nuclei provides not only vast quantities of meteoric dust, but also occasional larger fragments.
  • At that time, Coleridge was the radical begetter of the Lyrical Ballads; and had he expired, he would, Holmes suggested, have been recalled as a meteoric talent, that - like that of Keats or Shelley - had burned all the brighter for its very brevity. Jura Duty
  • At this early point in the history of the Solar System, meteoric bombardment was intense, and it would have continually opened new holes in the crust, immediately filled by magma.
  • If anything its enormous decline has beaten its meteoric rise back in the halcyon days.
  • Another and different kind of cosmical, or, rather, material mode of contact is, however, opened to us, if we admit falling stars and meteoric stones to be planetary asteroids. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • Five years earlier, along with veteran education think-tanker and business solutionist, Denis Doyle see scary sample of ideas here, Harber became the co-founder of a school management software company that, since then, has shown meteoric growth. How Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan Helped to Make SchoolNet, Inc. # 1
  • The show was a meteoric success, becoming the most popular show on the network, and before long was made into a moderately successful film and helped set up two spin off shows.
  • And part of that meteoric rise from the ninth tier has been powered by music. The Sun

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