How To Use Under In A Sentence

Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)

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The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
With no warning signs on either side and under poor lighting, the road is a death trap for motorists.
All four men continue to deny any wrongdoing under the criminal and sporting proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
Beetles undergo a complete metamorphosis in their life cycle.
Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
Under the "fly-in fly-out" roster system, workers can be moved to a different self-contained unit, or "donga", rather than having their own rooms, as they have had in the past. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
The argument behind x is not quantitative, and we do not have an expression for its expected value under a null isolation model.
Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
Under the agreement the Vietnamese can opt out at any time.
'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]). A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
The time it takes to start or stop a stopwatch is the same amount of time it would take for someone driving under the influence to lose control of their vehicle, about seven tenths of a second. News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story. Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You
They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
Another group of supervisors from light manufacturing industry are undertaking a conversion course to catering supervisor.
It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him. His Disposition
To avoid fattening, unhealthful fats, you need to understand what types of foods they are concealed in.
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
The pylon is to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum featuring relics uncovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
Put a plate under your chin to catch the crumbs.
His work underscores the aeriality embedded in the rational geometric order of the regions settlement.
A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
In more traditional settings, people wear boubous, loose-fitting cotton tunics with large openings under the arms.
Adolescence causes the four girls to understand their apartness and question their identities.
Instead they have further undermined the economy by driving capital and foreign investors out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
The braai was an oil drum cut in half lengthways, with cut-down pipes soldered to its underneath as legs. Rainbow’s End
Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
I learned to depend on him for practical advice under fire.
Bachofen was the first to discuss under the name of gyneocracy and mother-right. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
In Chinas modernization drive, the misunderstanding on "Middlebrow" is not beneficial to the understanding and the promotion of the core ideology of Chinas traditional culture.
Many of them had not undertaken even the leaving certificate or the academic entry qualifications necessary to enter university.
At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746. Introductory Note
Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
The money is commonly laundered via cash deposits to friends or family members' bank accounts and is quickly withdrawn to be paid to the gang leaders. Times, Sunday Times
No, just stylish, insists G.O.D. founder and chief executive Douglas Young.
Each person makes his or her own decision according to personal perception and understanding.
(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
The following day the capital was under shellfire. Reluctant revolutionary: the rocky road of Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920)
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon. Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
In other cases panting is caused, i.e. the mechanism most often seen in the dog under natural conditions, when it is hot. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
Other specialties have undergone relative declines such as orthopedics safer cars and fewer smashed bones. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Another Idea
And the defensive midfielder hopes to fly under the radar. The Sun
But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
Young barristers undertaking publicly funded work frequently earn very little in their first years. Times, Sunday Times
They soon added a try when one of their strong running centres burst through some ineffectual tackling to score under the posts.
Perhaps the tomatoes were underripe to start with. Times, Sunday Times
To avoid having sodium react with oxygen or water vapor in the air, it is usually stored under kerosene, naphtha, or some other organic liquid with which it does not react.
Place under cold running water for 20 minutes.
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
Reconditioned radiator or cooling system refilling ( possibly under filled or air trapped in system ).
Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
There was thunder too and lightning and in places rain. Bomber
By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
At the bottom of the trunk she found a set of white undergarments including lacy petticoats and a full corseted bodice.
Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2.
The work of regulatory agencies was also undermined by budget cuts and a concerted unwillingness to enforce existing regulations.
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.
It is critical to an understanding of deixis to recall that even very ‘local’ elements of context, such as a speaker's own corporeal experience and perceptual field, are susceptible of schematisation.
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pathogens in Harm’s Way:
They understood, as his son-in-law and daughter fled with their son from the city.
The Indian monsoon is now under way. Times, Sunday Times
Christie knows that the continuity in playing personnel is a major strength and it's not one he plans to undermine with a cut-price garage sale.
This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
They are happening in a system that's constantly working to full capacity, massively understaffed and unable to cope with the impact of cuts to social care. Times, Sunday Times
The currency fund can be leveraged up to five times the value of its underlying assets.
They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
The Minister was asked particularly whether the Tauranga Harbour Bridge could be tolled under this proposal.
A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
He writes for some trendy magazine for the under-30s.
I am also told that many of the perch were undersized and released.
They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
Rain flowing from the roof is collected in an underground cistern and reused.
I looked up and saw that the trees I was standing under were eucalypts, which had released their oily, pungent aroma into the wet air.
This led rebel leaders to agree to combine their forces in one division under a unified command structure.
You have to understand the scale of the problem. The Sun
About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
A conical rhyton from the cemetery at Kameiros on Rhodes is even less easily understood.
The church that holds the undisputable proof as the first authentical apostolic establishment with founder the apostle of the Gentiles himself. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
As each of them look under the table, he screams and bangs his head, creating enough commotion to bring the whole café to his attention.
This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
But researchers have had mixed success in recreating the original experiments showing both that sirtuins can extend life, and that they can be "activated" by a substance called resveratrol, which is currently found in anti-aging creams and under investigation for ailments associated with old age. Reuters: Press Release
There is no question about it; the police force was undercapitalised.
The amount of strain that measuring the heights of all admitted children puts on the medical and nursing staff should not be underestimated.
That's the forecast for the forecastable future -- showers and thundershowers as the warm and sun suck moisture out of our sodden lebensraum and turn it back into clouds. Showers
Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute.
RUD. (_in an undertone to MIMI_) Mimi, what would you like? La Boheme
There were times in my life when I didn't feel known or understood. The Sun
Machines soon wear out under rough usage.
In 1867 he patented this material under the name dynamite.
Memories are to be prized but not relied upon for they are always undermined by the imagination.
Petrifications, where no organic material remains, are usually prepared as thin sections or polished and studied under reflected light.
Democratic individuals, who in any case are likely to have similar beliefs and opinions because they are similarly situated, easily fall under the hegemonic sway of public opinion.
The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
Knowing and understanding our limitation is very crucial and a significant part of emancipating ourselves from its control.
Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries. David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
Leo Nocentelli, co-founder of the Meters and New Orleans guitar legend, may not have turned Blues Alley into the steamiest place in Georgetown on Wednesday night when he re-ignited "Fire On The Bayou. In concert: The Meters Experience at Blues Alley
If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
Like a lacertine Vicar of Bray, he varies incontinently from buff to blue, and from blue back to orange again, under stress of circumstances. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
The lack of a back-and-forth "us-verus-Nasdaq" makes it hard to imagine what the exchanges, and the fees, will look like, said Neil Catania , co-founder of agency-only brokerage firm MND Partners, located on the NYSE floor. Stock Traders Fear Fee Hit
And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
If you will undertake the affair, I shall be very grateful.
Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
So their reluctance to underwrite credit risk ought to affect the pricing and availability of loans.
In Iowa, he didn't just win over the Democrats, the college-educated over $55K under 60 crowd, he won overjust about everybody that wasn't a die-hard Republican. Hillary's NH Lead In Suffolk Tracking Poll Cut By Nearly Half
Welding craft: The DC handwork, the argon arc and moving to under welding.
In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance. CSO
This will give your small group a more complete understanding of what the original language depicted. Christianity Today
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
Some rooms were once first-floor barns and feature original timber and stone in very modern but understated designs.
A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge — equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts. John Caldigate
He founded his own business in the mid 1970s, and by 2004, at least fifteen master artists currently heading their own studios had apprenticed under him.
He had a good scientific understanding and quickly dismissed the beast.
The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well. Times, Sunday Times
For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry.
Chest hair, pubic hair, leg hair all fine with me, but underarm hair, well, no.
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
Muttering under his breath, the soldier extended the spyglass, increasing the magnification of the instrument.
They proposed a modest change to the presentation of the accounts to improve transparency but not disclosing the exact payment to Dr Saunders. Times, Sunday Times
Fingerprint recognition, which falls under a technology called biometrics, has been used for years in the corporate environment.
Just ahead, the Democratic ticket is official, and the game is underway.
And so it remains reasonably fresh in 2003, if only as a result of its continuing underexposure. Globe and Mail
If any are found, a biopsy then takes place, where small samples of body tissue are examined under the microscope for abnormal cells. The Sun
She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
Online bookstores can undercut retailers by up to 30%.
The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
Children under fourteen should be accompanied by a parent.
Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
I don't think anybody that is associated with the Labor Council today under my leadership would believe that it runs factionally.
Such bottom-land as borders the Pamunkey river, for example, might be called undulating, compared to the general greater flatness of the whole great region under consideration. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
‘No Clymer, I want you to try serving underhand,’ Mrs. Toth said, sounding exasperated.
The film was a difficult undertaking, though. Times, Sunday Times
Probably under the most dire orders of jamadar Narayan. Dreams of Steel
He had previously undergone insertion of a gold weight into the left upper eyelid.
Beware of a crafty person who undermines your achievement at work.
At least the physical agonies that students undergo will be restricted or minimised.
That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
Paul Williams is a master of talking horseshit, but even a guffer like him finds it hard to fill pages every week with shite sensationalism about the Irish criminal underworld. Irish Blogs
The "smart" in "smart underwear" refers to the fact that the printed sensors will be incorporated into logic-based biocomputing systems that will monitor biomarkers found in human sweat and tears, make autonomous diagnoses, and administer drugs. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
High vehicles must take an alternative route because of low clearance under the bridge.
The issuing firm can make sure that underwriters compete for its business. Principles of Corporate Finance
The national park is under renewed threat from road-building schemes.
See, for example, the comments set out as notes under the entries for Thoosuchus and Yarengia.
Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
Under the betting ordinance, Hong Kong punters can bet on overseas races, but they must be part of a local racing programme.
Exciting and surprisingly short matches for the undercard.
Under the current health care system, when children with type 1 diabetes become young adults, and go off their parents health insurance, they become "uninsurable". GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
Causes of hemoptysis in children with congenital cardiopathies, whether they undergo surgery or not, are many: extracorporeal circulation, pulmonary infections, coagulopathies, vascular disorders.
The story is not available online, and since it is still under copywrite by Asimov's estate, it won't be appearing online anytime soon. The flame next time
The city emerged from trusteeship under a new mayor, but he too cooked the books and monkeyed with zoning for his own ends.
He had put their objective on a whiteboard: to understand concise writing. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
But there was understandable outrage when sundry fund managers and regional stockbrokers were confronted with the hat. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
But the underlying cause of last week's yo-yo-ing on the markets was the long-awaited shake-out of the over-valued internet companies.
Elsewhere during the Hangover technology beanfeast, we understand that HP's own demo of Bluetooth was similarly rotten.
And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
The delicate cycle, which uses a slower and gentler spin intensity, is for laundering lingerie, stockings and other garments that are normally handwashed.
Companies make use of sokaiya to settle many kinds of trouble, to collect underground information, and to suppress common shareholders.
Object Relational Mapping was created to abstract details of the underlying database from the Java object model.
Sadly, I must concede, that it was an understandable response in that milieu.
At this time of year, plants are tucked up for the winter under a thick blanket of winter mulch.
During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
He left with few regrets, happy that his game on clay had never been better, although disappointed that, yet again, his best was not good enough to beat a slightly underdone Nadal. Rafael Nadal boxed clever to beat Roger Federer in French Open | Kevin Mitchell
A cat was sleeping underneath the table.
The broadband Internet Service Provider is under fire for its poor customer service with punters up in arms at being left without phone and broadband.

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