How To Use Short-lived In A Sentence

  • Unfortunately, the anger was short-lived and a teensy bit of paranoia set in.
  • He thought the highs and lows of the business cycle would be far more extreme and short-lived than in the past, with sharp spikes up and down.
  • From that album she sang "The Mad Hatter," an uptempo swinger from the short-lived Broadway musical "Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure"; "No Finer Man," a worshipful ballad from "Cyrano de Bergerac: the Musical," which had a brief run two years ago in Tokyo; and the album's title song with lyrics by Maury Yeston. NYT > Home Page
  • The rapid electrical pulse induces very short-lived micropores in the plasma membrane, allowing DNA to enter the cell.
  • However, its ability to boost alertness is short-lived. CTV News RSS Feed
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  • Then the fad proved short-lived, as many traders suffered substantial losses when the internet bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
  • The term excimer is derived from excited dimer, a term coined by physical chemists in the 1960s to describe short-lived energized molecules with two identical components.
  • Last year he was asked to leave a short-lived campus newspaper for essentially the same reasons.
  • The rapidity with which organic carbon can build up in soils is also indicated by examples of buried steppe soils formed during short-lived interstadial phases in Russia and Ukraine. The Future of Power Generation: Nuclear Fusion
  • Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
  • This increased strength, termed long-term potentiation, can be, despite its name, relatively short-lived.
  • The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence.
  • Her interest in tennis was very short-lived.
  • One of the best loved is the old-fashioned Johnny-jump-up (V. tricolor), a viola with dark purple upper petals and lower petals in shades of lavender-blue, yellow or white, often with dark purple markings, Plants are short-lived but readily self-seed, providing pleasurable discoveries of new plants in unexpected places each year. DailyHerald.com > News
  • The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise. How To Avoid Housework
  • The lead was short-lived, Ovenden, in their first attack of the half, broke free on the right.
  • Call me Marxist if you must, but since when does blowing away money on overpriced, inessential and short-lived goods constitute a subversive act?
  • Well, calm down my fellow Americans, their victory and their elation is short-lived because President Obama has many things to learn as President, as every new President does, but he has shown the ability to learn from a mistake, or learn from an experience in this case. James Boyce: Smug Stupid Republicans
  • The American titled aristocracy was short-lived, though there is still an association of descendents of landgraves and cassiques in South Carolina today.
  • Then, when England batted, the closest the home side came to a breakthrough was Ben Hilfenhaus's short-lived "lbw" against Alastair Cook. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits. Representative Men
  • Religions are large, ponderous collections of memes, while a fad is a light, fast-moving (but short-lived) meme. Un-meme
  • The visitors' lead was short-lived, with Tony Quinn netting an equaliser six minutes later.
  • In fact the BBC main news said next to nothing about such casualties until a flood of complaints from our readers appeared to contribute to a short-lived change in reporting.
  • The illusion was short-lived, however, and her father soon learned just how deep was the cesspool she had fallen into. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Then the fad proved short-lived, and traders suffered big losses when the bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
  • Calling Japan's recent string of short-lived prime ministers as "chatty" but weak, she said: "We will have a real [prime minister] soon. Japan's Kingmaker Bids to Seize the Crown
  • The sharp improvement in exports could prove short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a short-lived fad the first time around, mainly because the ankles and feet were locked in place. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tactically, bear market rallies reward buyers of low quality stocks, which tend to be highly geared and react sharply to such short-lived momentum.
  • Passion is essential for this strong commitment, without passion there is no real direction and vision is short-lived.
  • Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
  • Answer: It's only short-lived, used to blind the eyes of the secular, there is nothing more beautiful than a pure loving heart, I give it to every woman, but some ones' dust-covered.
  • There are two stages to alpenglow, a first surge that waxes and wanes, fooling amateur photographers into stowing away their cameras, and then a sudden short-lived second rush of colors. The Wall
  • Coriander, garden cress, and dill are short-lived annuals that, when cut for harvest, do not regrow.
  • Pollan in Ireland are a relatively short-lived fish, with most authors (e.g. Twomey 1956; Wilson and Pitcher 1983) encountering fish of up to five years old.
  • Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Fred Stoller Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr. Stoller, 52, has worked his gift into a career, first as a deadpan stand-up comic and then as a nebbishy actor in countless short-lived sitcom roles: Elaine's annoying date in an episode of "Seinfeld," a mopey cousin on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a jerky waiter on "Friends. Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
  • Rheumatism in childhood is not manifested by acute and short-lived attacks of great severity so much as by a long-continued succession of symptoms of a subacute nature, a transient arthritis, perhaps, succeeding an attack of sore throat with torticollis, to be followed by carditis, to be followed again by another attack of tonsillitis. The Nervous Child
  • So brilliant," said she, "so short-lived, as my friend Lady Emmeline K---- once said, 'London wit is like gas, which lights at a touch, and at a touch can be extinguished;'" and Lady Davenant concluded with a compliment to him who was known to have this "_touch and go_" of good conversation to perfection. Tales and Novels — Volume 10
  • Lastly, using antibodies that we raised against ubiquitin with the help of Arthur Haas, we found that the ubiquitin system is involved in degradation of abnormal, short-lived proteins in hepatoma cells, demonstrating that the system is not limited to the terminally differentiating reticulocyte, but is probably distributed "universally" in nucleated mammalian cells, playing an important role in maintaining the cell's quality control, by removing abnormal proteins. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
  • He suggests that the excess tracks may be explained by the decay of short-lived fissioning nuclides, such as super-heavy nuclei.
  • I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures.
  • Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
  • But the moment was short-lived and she slipped back into a deep slumber. The Sun
  • During his adult career he held positions, often short-lived and variously as choirmaster or succentor, at churches or cathedrals in Bergen op Zoom, Cambrai, Bruges, and Antwerp. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Short-lived saline lakes or playas are particularly common at the margins of many deserts, where waters from flash floods become ponded up, but evaporate away in time.
  • It's an intense but short-lived career. Times, Sunday Times
  • Respite is short-lived however, as you find yourself dragged back onto the floor, pogoing like your life depends on it.
  • The nature of the poem is similar to other material on his short-lived blog.
  • He ordered that short-lived meeting of the states-general about which we have no information left us, save that it voted the principle that "no talliage could be imposed on the people if urgent necessity or evident utility should not require it, and unless by concession of the Estates. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
  • The reason is that the victory was relatively short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was even a short-lived and not too objectionable TV series that punned on her name and used her "voices" as an inspiration. May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
  • If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.
  • The composition starts with a very short-lived whiff of something freshly floral the "night-blooming wildflowers from the Greek isles" perhaps. Archive 2008-08-01
  • The cheap labor was short-lived[Sentence dictionary], however.
  • His departure from public life has proved short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • You may think that the retail upturn will prove to be short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • By fabricating stories and manipulating Roxie's meek husband Amos (Kevin Chamberlain), as well as the press, Flynn turns the murderous adulterer in to a local, yet short-lived celebrity criminal.
  • There are no shortage of people who are saying that today's 3.5 percent GDP number is all because of U.S. government stimulus and it won't last -- this might be a fugacious recovery -- here today, gone tomorrow, very short-lived. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
  • The short-lived practice of closing pubs during the afternoons could be brought back.
  • When the Constitution was submitted to referendum, short-lived federation leagues were formed in many centres to campaign for a ‘yes’ vote.
  • All willows are fast growing and short-lived, and their wood is notably weak and prone to breaking.
  • It was a short-lived fad the first time around, mainly because the ankles and feet were locked in place. Times, Sunday Times
  • The utility of compact expression is short-lived.
  • What we have now is a short-lived amassment of goods and spectacular high living for the obscenely wealthy, who must be thinking 'Après nous le déluge' [1] if they are thinking at all, which is doubtful. Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion?
  • Claire was content just driving with her husband and daughter together in their separate thoughts, but the silence was short-lived, because Alice began to sing Woody Guthrie songs. So Much Pretty
  • Unlike the greenhouse gases, which spread evenly across the globe, sulphur dioxide's effects are short-lived and regional.
  • At this stage, we expect the economic impact of this disaster on the East Asian region to be fairly short-lived.
  • Parmentier was chiefly known for his participation in the short-lived but influential BMPT group of painters.
  • But their joy may be short-lived with the points likely to be deducted next week. The Sun
  • Her short-lived marriage had ended in divorce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Short-lived shrubs (such as cistus, rosemary, ceanothus) are better replaced with fresh specimens. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've removed the short-lived dropdown menus, anyway.
  • This will prove a short-lived cold snap with the winds becoming more westerly and drawing in Atlantic frontal systems once again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Victory for the status quo will prove short-lived. THE STRATEGY MACHINE
  • Any sense of accomplishment you'll get from taking down the mech is short-lived as you're directed deeper into the space station. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • Attempts at dieting were short-lived and Joe, ‘a good eater’ according to his mother, had reverted to his diet of oversized meals topped up with regular snacks of crisps and sweets.
  • She obtained an education in computer security on the fly and left Excite to run security for a short-lived start-up. In the Plex
  • Entire epochs of capitalist development exist when a number of cycles is characterized by sharply delineated booms and weak, short-lived crises.
  • In Britain, short-lived and intermediate wastes are safely contained in trenches of glacial clay compacted, containerized, and capped with water-resistant clay.
  • With pulse durations in the femtoseconds, scientists essentially could take the equivalent of a still photograph of extremely short-lived events, illuminating chemical interactions as they happened and creating a new understanding of how materials are formed from molecular constituents.
  • Some may prove to be annuals, others short-lived perennials.
  • It is a short-lived hardy herbaceous perennial. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
  • The coalition's focus on so-called short-lived pollutants won't replace efforts to slash carbon emissions, for which "the world has not yet done enough," Ms. Clinton said. U.S. Joins Effort to Fight Climate Change
  • The Literary Examiner, founded in 1823, was short-lived, and in the same year John's long collaboration with his unbusinesslike brother, who owed him large sums, ended in unhappy litigation.
  • Mr Greenspan is keen to portray the current slowdown as mild and short-lived.
  • The fact that they probably will is to be a short-lived glory.
  • In the event it was a short-lived and unhappy venture, which ended in acrimony after only two years following a boardroom clash.
  • Then the fad proved short-lived, as many traders suffered substantial losses when the internet bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, this feeling is actually an illusion, a short-lived escape from reality.
  • During his adult career he held positions, often short-lived and variously as choirmaster or succentor, at churches or cathedrals in Bergen op Zoom, Cambrai, Bruges, and Antwerp.
  • During these days, or forty at Medina, or a few more at Babylon and Byblos, the stars of the Husbandman successively sank out of sight, during the _crepusculum_ or short-lived morning twilight of those Southern climes. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Their joy was short-lived however as a lapse in defence saw St Peter's take the lead for the third time.
  • No amount of soapy lather could squeeze those thighs into that molded rubber seat, and my carefree days of certain cleanliness were short-lived. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
  • After a short-lived relationship with a man she meets at a bar, she has another baby.
  • Outgassing is a short-lived process, and only presents a major problem in situations where there are a lot of building materials that are outgassing into a tightly enclosed, poorly ventilated space.
  • I have never been regular, so it is not disturbing to find them light, blotchy and short-lived.
  • Although his solo series was fairly short-lived, the Blue Beetle probably became best known as a wisecracking member of Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis's lighthearted, five-year run on Justice League International, where he was memorably partnered with fellow hero Booster Gold, and the two quickly became best friends. Archive 2010-01-01
  • Her sense of triumph was short-lived.
  • Hopefully man leggings will be a similarly short-lived fad. The Sun
  • Miss Kitt should never have been subjected to the abuse of their powers by the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., who, under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, wasted much public money by trying to gather into the relevant files grossly stupid tittle-tattle, in a sinister, surprisingly effective, but fortunately short-lived effort to destroy her career; long enough, however, to do Miss Kitt much damage. Archive 2009-01-01
  • His joy on giving it all up to run the market stall was short-lived, however.
  • Their energy of motion rapidly dissipates in the form of heat, light, and ionization, creating short-lived streaks of light.
  • Around 1950 S. Winstein in the USA found a short-lived carbocation that contained penta-coordinated carbon. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994
  • Dorothy Provine, a stunningly beautiful actress who starred as the title outlaw in "The Bonnie Parker Story" (1958) and then as a flapper showgirl in the short-lived TV drama "The Roaring Twenties," died April 25. Dorothy Provine, Flapper and Outlaw, Dies
  • These included the first real daily papers, and most were short-lived.
  • Other staples of the cottage garden include rosemary and lavender, pale pink peonies (short-lived but gorgeous), tall hollyhocks and foxgloves which like acid soil and do well in shade.
  • The illusion was short-lived, however, and her father soon learned just how deep was the cesspool she had fallen into. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • But, like football managers, his honeymoon period will be short-lived unless he delivers.
  • The calamary and the cuttle-fish are short-lived, as, with few exceptions, they never see the year out; and the same statement is applicable to the octopus. The History of Animals
  • This liberty was short-lived however. parliament, deeply suspicious of the King's intentions, proclaimed his Declaration illegal in February.
  • Tapes are the worst of every world - cracklier than vinyl, short-lived and very easily destroyed (the brown tape ravels and tears at every opportunity), neither crisp nor full.
  • He was as famous for his volatile temper as for his food writing, leading to tempestuous and often short-lived relationships with friends and editors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the fad proved short-lived, and traders suffered big losses when the bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the area was unfamiliar to me yesterday and I felt the human memory is short-lived and life is transient.
  • There may have been instances of monopsony or oligopsony in the 19th century, but they were short-lived.
  • But the triumph would be short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • The good news is that tackling black carbon, and other so-called "short-lived climate forcers" such as methane, could be a quick win in terms of tackling climate change. Wood fires fuel climate change – UN
  • Researchers from Imperial College London said the images reveal the physical changes that occur inside cancer cells while they are dying as a result of Photodynamic Therapy -- a cancer treatment that uses light to activate a drug that creates a short-lived toxic type of oxygen, called singlet oxygen, which kills cancerous cells. Latest News - UPI.com
  • It is a short-lived hardy herbaceous perennial. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
  • It is really quite wonderful, and I truly hope it is the beginning of a trend, not a short-lived fad.
  • Instead of planning lessons, arranging field trips and invigilating exams, her short-lived teaching career lies in tatters after she foolishly became attracted to one of her pupils.
  • A yogi is someone who realizes that all the actions of both the bhogi and rogi are ultimately fruitless, that satisfying cravings and indulgences is only short-lived. Ed and Deb Shapiro: Are You a Yogi, a Bhogi or a Rogi?
  • Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
  • Recovery is not yet broadly based and may prove short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their tenure there proved short-lived as the company got into difficulty soon after they joined. Times, Sunday Times
  • Reminds me of the intro from a short-lived TV series called New Amsterdam (which is on Hulu), where the guy takes a shot of Times Square every year for the hundreds of years he has lived. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This image is completely filled with awesome.
  • The Treaty framers might have hoped that these tensions would be short-lived.
  • Neo-tribes are predicted to coalesce over single issues, and to be short-lived, not outliving the lifespan of its members, this latter point being the opposite of that which occurs in anthropological tribes.
  • Hall-of-Famer "The Blaze" was a three-time All-American for Montclair State College and played professionally in the short-lived Women's Pro Basketball League in 1980.
  • A double-dip recession refers to a short-lived recovery from one recession and then a new plunge back into economic contraction. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Although my own short-lived nu metal days were finished by the time I turned 16, it was obvious to anyone in attendance that these guys would stand out in a field of sound-alike headbangers.
  • He was as famous for his volatile temper as for his food writing, leading to tempestuous and often short-lived relationships with friends and editors. Times, Sunday Times
  • UDF leaders have had to cope with a transition to operating in conditions of clandestinity, which have often enough in history been so stressful and short-lived that individuals bring their own exposure either by paranoia or by an over-optimistic carelessness. Children of Resistence
  • In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses.
  • The populist politics of discontent were later to be identified as Poujadism, a term attached to a short-lived revolt of the petite bourgeoisie against the stifling bureaucracy of France's Fourth Republic, and led by shopkeeper Pierre Poujade in 1953. Whisky Galore – review
  • She is poorly off for hands, and has never fairly grasped the notion of tacking on other limbs to the limbs of her own body and so, being short-lived to boot, she remains from century to century to human eyes in statu quo. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
  • He rejoined Newsday in 1979, left to work as a news editor on the Daily News' short-lived Tonight edition.
  • In an era of short-lived electronic music careers, the duo stayed relevant a decade later through reinvention and self-examination, challenging the changing climes in electronic music.
  • The boom period ensured that every prairie city had two and sometimes three stations, some of them very short-lived indeed.
  • There may have been instances of monopsony or oligopsony in the 19th century, but they were short-lived.
  • I was a contradiction, a quasi-immortal masquerading as one of the ephemera who had saved me from their own short-lived lot.
  • In 1912, a small economic boom was fueled by drilling for oil, but it was short-lived.
  • Her relief at the end of that short-lived marriage was palpable. Times, Sunday Times
  • TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto President Roberto Micheletti met on Friday with a delegation of U.S. lawmakers who have called on the Obama administration to stop supporting the return of ousted The blaze of jingoism is short-lived. WN.com - Articles related to Trading to start on China's new small stock index
  • This new eatery occupies the swank Mile-End space vacated last year by the short-lived Restaurant Bernard.
  • Some perennials are relatively short-lived; lupines and primroses, for example, may live for only 2 to 5 years, though the seed they drop often produces new plants.
  • The joy of walking through dewy streets was short-lived but memorable.
  • Sceptics fear the crackdown will be short-lived and once the meeting is over it will be business as usual.
  • There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
  • The celebration was short-lived however as the Islanders roared back to sweep the series.
  • The short-lived rebellion, which called for an end to colonial rule and a return of the local feudal monarchy, was brutally crushed by British forces.
  • With reports of a big seller, Vodafone suffered a short-lived dip to 351p.
  • The fact that this trend will almost certainly be short-lived is borne out by the fact that most of the florals are seen on "trend pieces"—big pants, romper suits, maxi dresses—all of which are fleeting rather than classic shapes with integrity. Spring's Prints Charming?
  • However, most studies of plant defense genes have been performed on annual or short-lived perennial weeds or crop species.
  • The news of a fuel duty freeze is positive, but it may be short-lived. The Sun
  • That finish was a thankfully short-lived experience that reminded us of the taste you get left in your mouth after spitting out that pink drink at the dentist.
  • His studies in lodgepole forests in Utah and Idaho found that there is a relatively short-lived increase in the potential for surface fires when dying needles that have not yet lost all their resins pile up on the ground. Study: Beetle invasions dampen, not intensify, wildfire risk
  • The term deflation, which is more appropriately used to describe a period of sustained price decline, may be too strong a word" for China, said Moody's Economy. com analyst Sherman Chan, because the "contraction in prices is expected to be short-lived. China's Price Rises Slow, but Deflation Risk Is Low
  • The new two-wheeler, which is said to take the form of a plug-in scooter, is being developed as part of a new broad-based mobility strategy aimed at taking Smart into market segments beyond that occupied by its newly facelifted Fortwo and an upcoming rear-engined, - rear-wheel-drive successor to its short-lived Forfour that's due to be launched in 2013. WWW.EVWORLD.COM : Smart Explores Concept Electric Scooter
  • While the BlackBerry was a perfect example of a tech spade that is a spade—an obvious lasting trend—the Segway is an example of a hyped, short-lived tech fad. Ahead of the Curve
  • Electrons and positrons collide at unequal energies inside a sophisticated, 1,200-ton particle detector called BABAR, creating millions of short-lived subatomic particles know as B mesons.
  • During Champlain's short-lived career as a teacher, her pupils learned to paint by copying her own versions of floral wreaths, Fancy, and Cupid.
  • In just half a decade, Dubliner Marc has put his stamp on music through two short-lived bands.
  • The short-lived high means addicts can soon develop habits costing hundreds of pounds a day.
  • Even in the wild state the lynx is short-lived, and is said rarely to reach the age of fifteen years. Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
  • This was disingenuous, for he knew well that popular enthusiasm is no less sincere for being relatively short-lived. REBELS AND REDCOATS: The American Revolutionary War
  • The marriage was short-lived and he returned to a willing Dorothy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Often the exposure is short-lived and very harmful but black hat techniques can show up * very* successfully early on, that's the way these tricksters are poised. Penny C. Sansevieri: Everything Is Your Resume
  • Ultimately, he says, people can't rely on short-lived salaries, promotions and raises to keep them happy but rather the contributions they make in the long run.
  • A common attribute of many of these single-stranded RNA viruses is the creation of a short-lived replicative intermediate, double-stranded RNA during the process of intracellular replication.
  • Bisecting Budapest and Belgrade Streets, a wide boulevard lined by bedraggled trees commemorates Béla Kun, the Hungarian revolutionary who in 1919 founded the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and was later executed by Stalin for his pains. The Return
  • A few of the smaller burghal forts were short-lived and have remained largely undisturbed by subsequent development since their abandonment.
  • Sometimes a change of altitude helps, although usually this type of turbulence is short-lived, and we prepare by having everyone, including our flight attendants, sit down and buckle up.
  • The two Asian neighbours resumed trade relations officially in 1978 after the 1954 trade agreement lapsed in 1962, due to a short-lived border conflict.
  • An agricultural commune was established at Lindfield but seems to have been short-lived, and Lord Chichester helped 300 people to emigrate.
  • Years ago there was a short-lived craze over the game of pachinko in the United States.
  • With reports of a big seller, Vodafone suffered a short-lived dip to 351p.
  • Short-lived rallies followed by drift and decline are likely to be the order of the day for 2003.
  • The dog spent the rest of the flight roaming the aircraft, but his liberty was short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Under orders from the mayor, the police academy must open its doors to all types of dingbats and outcasts and, hence, the comedy troupe that (for the most part) marches on through six sequels and even a short-lived cartoon series.
  • Additional contamination via percolation of radioactive material through the soil is not expected due to many of the radionuclides being short-lived, while the longer-lived radiocesium and radiostrontium were adsorbed to surface soils before they could transfer to groundwaters. Environmental effects of the Chernobyl accident
  • 'shorties' is very unclear: If we assume that the whole trend in short-lived TCs is due to observational changes, the undercount bias before 1920 would be about two TCs per year on average compared to the 1975-2000 period (see Fig. 2 in L09; about 0.5 vs. 2.5 TCs per year). RealClimate
  • The American experiment with the prohibition of alcohol was a failure and short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • His sadistic pleasure is short-lived. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the moment was short-lived and she slipped back into a deep slumber. The Sun
  • She is also alive to the reality that a career in acting would be short-lived.
  • Not always very quickly - there is merit in taking one's time to build up a picture of usage and so avoid being misled by temporary enthusiasms and short-lived fashion.
  • The malaise about a shared intellectual and literary culture was short-lived, the product of passing confrontation.
  • If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • There is often a link between racism against other sections of the Australian community and antisemitism, as reports of physical manifestations of antisemitism have increased at times of harassment of Asian Australians after Professor Geoffrey Blainey's claim of the imminent Asianisation of Australia in 1984, when Indigenous organisations and individuals were facing intimidation in 1988 and when the anti-immigration One Nation Party enjoyed short-lived electoral success in the late 1990s There is no evidence to suggest that Australians in general think of Jews in negative terms. Undefined
  • I enjoy the short-lived flush of enthusiasm that it brings to my cheeks.
  • If you are feeling "down," you are suffering from depression that is usually short-lived and readily treatable (called dysthymia). Depression -- There is a Way Out
  • Governments in the faction period were usually short-lived; a ministry which lasted 12 months had done well.
  • The craze was short-lived when it was discovered it was illegal to smoke on the premises while the oxygen was being sold.
  • The marriage was short-lived and he subsequently remarried. Times, Sunday Times
  • The revelry is short-lived, however, for the monster Grendel (Crispin Glover) shows up and kills people in graphic fashion. Archive 2007-11-01
  • He said there would be a period of leniency but insisted that this would be short-lived.
  • There was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon that I remember vividly, and a load of merchandising.
  • Ever since JAG signed off nearly six years ago, one of the most frequent topics in my mailbag is the hope that David James Elliott last seen in ABC's short-lived Scoundrels last summer will find his way back to CBS. Matt's Weekend Picks: January 7-9

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