How To Use Yielding In A Sentence

  • The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
  • I shall have to hand Letty Dale to him at last!" he thought, yielding in bitter generosity to the conditions imposed on him by the ungenerousness of another. The Egoist
  • Relative to self-pollination, outcross pollination results in greater proportion of flowers setting fruit, and greater proportion of ovules yielding seeds per fruit.
  • V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance. Analytical Studies
  • From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination.
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • The drive she feels to achieve, Simone says, can be traced directly to the unyielding support she has felt from her family.
  • The long cruel winter came to an end at last, yielding to a gentle warm spring.
  • Sekt in Gemany and Austria is largely made from Riesling, yielding fruit-driven and light wines that are terrific aperitifs.
  • Mechanisms for overyielding in a sunflower/mustard intercrop. 26. 1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
  • What happens when we kneel in faith and claim the power to stop yielding to sin?
  • Even yielding is what a knight does on the field of battle when he accepts that he has lost. WE RULE THE WORLD; WE JUST LEAVE THEM THE DRY PARTS
  • Equipped with new detail on the operations of each individual factory, the company boss might feel more comfortable yielding greater discretion to each factory manager; any drop in production - or mysterious disappearance of yarn from the supply room - would raise red flags at the head office. In defense of middle management
  • Or whether mutually to reinforce their ability to perceive and understand this city - two viewpoints yielding a stereoscopic perspective.
  • Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius (our English Carew), with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire over East as well as West, and among more treasure-trove was a unique gold coin of Veric, ” the Bericus of Tacitus; as also the rare contents of a subterranean potter's oven, preserved to our day, and yielding several whole vases. My Life as an Author
  • On divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality, he was unyielding in his adherence to doctrine.
  • They borrow short-term funds and use these funds to purchase higher yielding assets, such as Treasury Bills and commercial bills.
  • The oldest is the Gehannam Formation (ca 40-41 million years old) consisting of white marly limestone and gypseous shale and yielding many skeletons of archaic whales (archaeocetes), sirenians (sea cows), shark teeth, turtles, and crocodilians. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
  • Cameron felt it was yielding to her, giving way beneath her heavy boots. MINUTES TO BURN
  • The renewed impetus is already yielding results. Times, Sunday Times
  • A ewe suckling two lambs growing at 0.3 kg per day is as productive as a dairy cow yielding 30 litres of milk per day.
  • The second Expedition failed to find gold, but brought back argentiferous galena in copper-stained quartz, and possibly in the ochraceous red veins seaming the Secondary gypsum; with silicates and carbonates of copper: select specimens of the latter yielding the enormous proportion of forty per cent. The Land of Midian
  • In most of his works, he expressed his feelings and unyieldingness through description of things, showing a stirring, majestic character in a sad, bleak tone.
  • The trees yielding common camphor and borneol are from genera of the lauraceæ family; also sassafras camphor is from the same family. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
  • The authorities proved unyielding on one crucial opposition demand.
  • The company, insisting on technology, innovation, unyieldingness and challenging, participate actively to international economy cycle, and contribute to the nation's development.
  • They stood there, bodies inclined to the storm in the manner of seamen on sloped decks, unyieldingly looking into each other's eyes. CHAPTER 3
  • But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • For digital photography, SoLux bulbs are perfect, yielding accurate rendition of difficult-to-photograph minerals such as dioptase and azurite.
  • It is the principle or requirement, of geometric base in interior design which, coupled with our natural delight in yielding or growing forms, has maintained through all the long history of decoration what is called conventionalised flower design. Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples
  • The clutch of one mother failed to produce hatchlings, thus yielding a data set of 22 viable clutches.
  • Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
  • The stress at which plastic deformation or yielding is observed to begin depends on the sensitivity of the strain measurements.
  • Known as the breadbasket of Scotland, on account of its fertile arable land, East Lothian is also yielding impressive profits for those lucky enough to own property there.
  • Increasingly, farm land is yielding to property development.
  • These 5 subjects were placed in the lightly exposed group, yielding a total of 11 subjects who were lightly exposed to tobacco smoke.
  • Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water.
  • The universe is slowly yielding up its secrets.
  • Scale and a wider array of familiar brands can give a supplier extra bargaining clout as well as yielding useful cost savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Known as the breadbasket of Scotland, on account of its fertile arable land, East Lothian is also yielding impressive profits for those lucky enough to own property there.
  • She was stiff, wooden, unyielding as if a stagehand was standing in for the leading lady. BLOOD IS DIRT
  • While I was writing that doomed journal article, I kept having to rerun analyses and rework some results, which ended up yielding some insights that got me unstuck from a totally different aspect of the project that I had given up as a dead end …. and is now a conference paper. 2009 September « This is what a computer scientist looks like
  • Yet, when put under pressure the apparent unyielding stiffness becomes a lovely springy curve, and it's that which puts pressure on the fish.
  • Cows are fed a total mixed ration and those yielding over 25 litres are fed concentrates in the parlour.
  • In fact, laws of kashrut are traditionally cited as yielding the most humane methods of slaughter.
  • Mechanisms for overyielding in a sunflower/mustard intercrop. 1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
  • The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character.
  • In my Art of Attention posts I will offer specific direction for your attention, which will help you "befriend" of all the ideas you hold dear that aren't serving you and let them go; yielding the most sought-after openings for your body, mind and heart. Elena Brower: Art of Attention: Your Invitation
  • A process streamlined into grim efficiency, yielding one more line on the scholar's vita.
  • He suggests "a really useful and minimal spelling reform" based on his rules "I met a traveller from an anteke land hu sed: Tue vast and trunkless legs of stone..." and ends with a section of unyielding oddities, the last of which is a word that's been discussed here:While we're at it, could we please fix the word ginkgo, which is not only difficult and irregular, but doesn't reflect any proper Japanese word? Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
  • There would be sweet talk, caresses and a long, soft yielding. YELLOW BIRD
  • She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • He warns Walsingham against yielding to the wishes of "townsmen" at such a critical juncture, for they would look for the like concession at other times. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • The surface is mushy in places, icy and unyielding in others, and higher up there are rock chutes and faces protruding through the snowpack.
  • Katherine first started therapy as a rigid, unyielding business person, with no sense of frivolity or joy.
  • There was the appetite for mortgages from investment banks wanting to package them up into complex products yielding fabulous profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are small and unyieldingly hard, not like normal pillows at all.
  • Last time I looked, GCH is trading at a small discount and yielding 6%. Straight Talk On Chinese Stocks
  • Thus, the influence of fertilizer application on insect abundance and plant damage should be considered in pest management strategies, particularly in improved/introduced high-yielding cultivars which are being tested in multilocational trials prior to their release to growers. 1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures.
  • Many wheat breeders were successful in breeding semi-dwarf, high-yielding varieties that were well adapted to intensive agriculture.
  • This question primarily hinges on whether the corneo-sclera is to be regarded as an unelastic capsule with a fixed volume, or as a yielding envelope with an ever changing capacity. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
  • But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and he likes it for its unyieldingness.
  • Two intercrop patterns and sole crops of mustard (Brassica hirta Moench) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) were planted in 1988 and 1989 on a silt loam soil to examine mechanisms for overyielding in this intercrop system. 1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
  • Walsh's expression was bland, yielding nothing, waiting for the catch. RIOT
  • When waves of despair which no language can express sweep over the suppliant, how few cling with unyielding faith to the promises of God.
  • The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material. Surgical Anatomy
  • The Rossland, the Boundary and the Kootenay districts are the chief centres of vein-mining, yielding auriferous and cupriferous sulphide ores, as well as large quantities of silver-bearing lead ores. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • These species are relatively low yielding, but produce nonbloating forage of high nutritive value that furnish excellent quality pasturage in late summer.
  • His investment approach is to seek out stocks that are relatively cheap, but are yielding a decent amount and this has produced steady returns. Times, Sunday Times
  • These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post, in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally, and rescue the standard of the constitution. Miscellany
  • Unlike the previous confrontation, however, his men were equally unyielding.
  • That's a huge spread to the one-year Treasury bill, which is currently yielding less than one-third of a percentage point.
  • She sank onto the yielding cushions of the couch.
  • He coached them in becoming proficient riders and huntsmen, skilled archers and unyielding wrestlers.
  • The man who was in the last degree amiable was to the last degree unyielding where conscience was concerned; the soul which was so tender had no weakness in it; his lenity was the divination of a finer justice. Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
  • But the Divine Feminine, sometimes known as Shekinah, sometimes as the Holy Spirit, sometimes as Quan Yin, sometimes, even in the darkest patriarchy, known as the Blessed Virgin Mary, that Divine Feminine is a yielding, accepting, forgiving aspect of God. Dr. Susan Corso: The Morality Police and the Divine Feminine
  • We remain in the heart of a major disintermediation out of low-yielding money fund deposits and into securities.
  • Or whether mutually to reinforce their ability to perceive and understand this city - two viewpoints yielding a stereoscopic perspective.
  • A compelling leader with brilliant intelligence, he was adamant and unyielding in his mission.
  • This position was necessary for it to pass through the glottic chink, and can be maintained because of the yielding of the posterior membranous wall of the trachea. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Nitrates are best detected and determined by their yielding nitric oxide when treated with sulphuric acid and a suitable reducing agent, such as ferrous sulphate, mercury, or copper. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • “J.R.G.,” as we loved to call him, took up my efforts with the warmest encouragement, tempered, indeed, by constant fears that I should become a hopeless bookworm and dryasdust, yielding day after day to the mere luxury of reading, and putting nothing into shape! Writer's Recollections
  • Well, I still have a cough, though it's much diminished, yielding ground day by day to a steady trickle of hot rum toddies served steaming at appropriate times.
  • This sounds well, makes a fair show, and there is, in some regard, truth in what is spoken; but "Latet anguis in herba," -- Let men explain themselves, and it is this: The receiving of Christ as a king, is the yielding obedience to him. The Sermons of John Owen
  • The policy of being less quiet and of leading by example seems to be yielding results. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the articulation with which we are dealing, however, these last two symptoms are not easily detected, for the surrounding structures -- namely, the lateral and other ligaments of the joint, the extensor pedis tendon in front, and the perforans behind, together with the dense and comparatively unyielding nature of the skin of the parts -- are such as to prevent distension and fluctuation becoming marked to a visible extent. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • The combines were operated in high-yielding corn using a wide combination of cylinder or rotor speeds, concave clearances, sieve settings, cleaning fan speeds and ground speeds.
  • All the while he uses his sword to clear his path of ghouls, skeletons and all sorts of unyielding dead things.
  • For in the last 30 years he has established that we have become dangerously overdependent on a few high-yielding varieties of plant.
  • New Yorkers are notorious for their high expectations and their unyielding quest for quality and inventiveness. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said under the new traffic system, motorists drive around the green as they would around a roundabout, yielding to traffic coming from the right and travelling in a clockwise direction.
  • Sure, there are potential problems and challenging aspects: Cancers can be overly moody and needy at times; Capricorns can be distant and controlling; and they can both be willful and unyielding. Virginia Bell: William and Kate: Star-Crossed Lovers or Soul Mates?
  • The malignant effects of chronic pain in children are multifactorial and relatively unyielding without treatment.
  • The cliffs are so solid and unyielding and yet, these beautiful, persistent plants are allowed to set their roots into that so seemingly impervious surface.
  • Those who have met him were impressed by the mixture of flexibility and unyieldingness in his personality.
  • He sat on the edge of an unyielding armchair, a cup of tea in his hand.
  • Put another, metaphorical way, American writers tend toward an expressive register commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent; Perec's magnitude is no less great, but his vastness is essentially urban, highly structured, and by necessity constrained, entailing complex negotiations and yielding delight in serendipity, surprise, and incongruity. Art and Culture
  • Motorists will be able to proceed through the intersection after yielding to circulating traffic on the left.
  • The main raw material that is a compound of polyester resin mixed with calcium carbonate is caste in silicone rubber which helps in giving it an unyielding structure.
  • So I butterflied it - yielding two pieces that were about 1/2 an inch thick.
  • Physical anthropology and palaeopathology are also yielding an increasing quantity of data.
  • Only 14 cases actually went to trial, ultimately yielding ten plea bargains, two acquittals, and only two guilty verdicts.
  • stipendiaries" as a "purely royal and liberal gift, which it would esteem as great and precious as if his Majesty had presented it an inestimable sum of silver or gold," other political motives prevented him from yielding to its entreaties. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
  • And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
  • Potentially " high - yielding " clones are likely to be the material which first come to hand.
  • The same Josephus tells us this of the tetrarchy of Philip: "Batanea, also, and Trachonitis, Auranitis, and some parts of Zeno's house, about Jamnia, yielding the profits of one hundred talents, were under Philip's government. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • an unyielding head support
  • Many have had good reason to use bank and money market deposits to purchase some of the inflating quantity of higher-yielding Treasury bills and notes.
  • All carbide blades can be resharpened professionally, yielding an extremely long working life.
  • Politician, historian and writer of many biographies, he was our immediate predecessor, yielding the Green Study to me.
  • So first the farmer must decide whether to plant a higher yielding, nonresistant variety or one that's resistant and that directs more of its energy into making thick stems.
  • Another big pharma company, which is currently yielding 4.9 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
  • This study optimized the conditions of yielding ester for ethyl caproate producing starter by orthogonal experiments.
  • Anthony spread himself over a yielding sofa and made an elbow-rest among the pillows. The Beautiful and Damned
  • They borrow short-term funds and use these funds to purchase higher yielding assets, such as Treasury Bills and commercial bills.
  • And the second moment gives way to a third, and so on, thus yielding the natural numbers.
  • The parabolic gear is characterized by a new-type tooth profile, which may ensure very great load rating and fairly good unyielding, anti-sticking and wear- resisting properties.
  • But it is a beguiling spectacle: super-fast, extremely skilful and unyieldingly bruising for a non-contact sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am only a simple girl," murmured one of the orphans, with a nervous blush; "but does not a recent statute give trustees power to invest the funds of their _cestui que_ trusts in securities yielding a larger return than 2¾ Goschens? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891
  • It is dangerous for youth to behold beauty in the pomp of all her charms, with every look bent upon conquest — more dangerous to see her in the hour of unaffected and unapprehensive ease and simplicity, yielding herself to the graceful whim of the moment, and as willing to be pleased as desirous of pleasing. Anne of Geierstein
  • But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir.
  • Just in time for the holiday season, the new Ultra Creamy is made with a pint of fresh cream and contains 83% butterfat, yielding flakier pastries, richer sauces and smoother frostings.
  • And, did it become popular to borrow in Euros to speculate in higher-yielding Mexican or Brazilian securities?
  • And as the chuckles subsided, they pondered over the prospect of their city yielding to the concrete bustle and losing its green sheen.
  • On a day when the higher-yielding euro was already under pressure from Portugal's mounting economic problems and jitters that European Union leaders would underwhelm markets with a proposal to address the euro-zone's sovereign-debt travails, the news boosted the dollar across the board. Dollar Advances On GDP, Fed Talk
  • Low-yielding currencies such as the yen tend to attract flows during periods of uncertainty as their low interest rates reflect the capital surplus of their respective countries.
  • Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?
  • To treasure your life, you should steer your own fortune's wheel without yielding to others.
  • Coproporphyrinogen III is transported to the interior of the mitochondrion, where 2 propionate residues are decarboxylated, yielding vinyl substituents on the 2 pyrrole rings.
  • The thought of riding the land with Hope had flowed deeply beneath his offer, like artesian water beneath a layer of unyielding slate. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
  • He is an inside centre who defends unyieldingly and carries uncomplicatedly. Times, Sunday Times
  • What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life? III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
  • The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions.
  • Such ritual in Teotitlán del Valle, an ancient tribal town about a half hour's drive from Oaxaca, has been played out continuously on a daily basis since about 1535, when Dominican bishop Juan López de Zárate arrived in the village and introduced borregos (caprine sheeplike animals yielding wool) and the first loom, shipped from Spain across the Atlantic. Casa Santiago: Zapotec rug weavers of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
  • There was the appetite for mortgages from investment banks wanting to package them up into complex products yielding fabulous profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sandwich was unremarkable, but so much else was unforgettable: boeuf bourguignon, for example, admirably yielding in an earthy, wine-dark sauce of bewitching intensity; and peppery grilled onglet (hanger steak), an appropriately virile partner for a posse of supermodel fries The Seattle Times
  • In both strains, haploid phenotypes from tetrads yielding four viable spores may be used to measure the strength of crossover interference.
  • The frequency shift is then converted to wind velocity, yielding a small region of rapidly changing wind direction, a characteristic rotational wind shear signature of the mesocyclone indicating a tornadic circulation.
  • As we scraped and dug around the house area, fire pits emerged from under the tough grass, yielding chert flakes, an occasional hammerstone or a scraper, and one melted green glass bead no larger than a pinhead. Bird Cloud
  • The data gold mine kept yielding nuggets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes, a layer of mortar and brick or flagstone can be placed on top of an old slab, yielding a very attractive and properly sloped surface.
  • Another fault among instructors is a tendency to be unyielding and dogmatic.
  • My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance. Letters of Two Brides
  • Many a saintlier pope than Alexander VI would have made the fatal mistake of yielding to brute force and surrendering unconditionally to the conqueror of Italy; the most heroic of the popes could not have sustained the stability of the Holy See at this crucial moment with greater firmness. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Like all self-made millionaires, there is an unyielding drive to Boyle, an urge to act, to be decisive, to control the reins of his life.
  • The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays.
  • The data gold mine kept yielding nuggets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here we report the screening of C. arietinum genotypes for nodulation and grain-yielding ability in a sodic field over two growing seasons in order to identify genotypes with superior nodulation ability under stress.
  • The long cruel winter came to an end at last, yielding to a gentle warm.
  • The viewer's experience now allows him/her to see a world which naïve eyes had believed to be stable, entrenched and unyielding, is actually in a state of constant flux. William Blake and the Study of Virtual Space: Adapting 'The Crystal Cabinet' to a New Medium
  • As unyielding as any of the cold war communist regimes, it is neither economically liberal nor politically democratic, but has ruled for all but one of the past 46 years.
  • There would be sweet talk, caresses and a long, soft yielding. YELLOW BIRD
  • Sometimes, a layer of mortar and brick or flagstone can be placed on top of an old slab, yielding a very attractive and properly sloped surface.
  • All the curves were represented quite well by two intersecting straight lines, thus yielding values of the initial slope and the position of the titration endpoint.
  • In all cases rapid tannage was observed yielding firm and soft leathers of light brown colour and varying degrees of swollenness. Synthetic Tannins
  • In 2004, his health began to fail, but given his strong unyielding spirit he continued his work as long as was practical.
  • If we made a habit of yielding to prejudice we would restore capital punishment, stone people to death and drown old crones in pointed hats.
  • Here is Prometheus, the rebel: nail him to the rock; secure him on this towering summit fast in the unyielding grip of adamantine chains.
  • Thor came to rescue Bill, and once again yielding Stormbreaker, Bill tricked the Skrulls and defeated them. Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality and justice. Benjamin Franklin
  • Otherwise, there were yielding green figs in winey, citrusy syrup, with a faultless vanilla ice-cream liquefying sensuously into it.
  • English version is as follows: -- 'The snow melted by the heat of the summer, other snow being faln within a little while after, and hardened into ice, which by little and little in a long tract of time depurating itself turns into a stone, not yielding in hardness and clearness to chrystall. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
  • As generalists become more different from one another, interorganizational complementarities likely increase, thereby yielding more opportunities for alliance formation.
  • Some investment managers may compensate by making a slight switch in emphasis towards capital growth investments and away from high yielding equities.
  • Only the fantastic touch about 'green ice' ranks it as 'metaphysical', for it is in fact an experiment in the manner of the Horatian ode, not the heroic ode, but the lighter Epicurean, meditative strain of 'Solvitur acris hiems' and 'Vides ut alta stet nive candidum', description yielding abruptly to reflection. Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
  • Most famous for his swashbuckling systems and successes at Foggia more than 10 years ago, he was an unyielding believer in attack as the best form of defence.
  • Further afield where camels browse, we found dried-up, and unyielding acacia trees, normally a reliable source of sustenance.
  • His conclusions are that a copper acetylide is always produced if impure acetylene is allowed to pass through neutral or ammoniacal solutions of copper; that dry acetylene containing all its natural impurities except ammonia acts to an equal extent on copper and its alloys, yielding the explosive compound; that pure and dry gas does not act upon copper or its alloys, although it is possible that an explosive compound may be produced after a great length of time. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
  • The activities of Slyloft have a potential to impair the reputation of Antigua and Barbuda, generally, and more specifically, it's reputation in allowing a company incorporated here to breach the country's international treaty obligations and its domestic laws while yielding, to the country, very little benefits," Armstrong added. Carrie Crotty: Antiguan Businessman charged with Breaching Copyright Laws.
  • Their fathers were absent or set in unyielding opposition to independent sons. The Times Literary Supplement
  • She is rarely yielding on such an issue.
  • He was ably abetted by the self-described "progressive pro-lifers" like Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, whose comparisons of abortion to torture gained resonance among those who are unyieldingly opposed to women's reproductive freedoms. Jon O'Brien: Truth Is Indeed One of the First Casualties of War
  • They borrow short-term funds and use these funds to purchase higher yielding assets, such as Treasury Bills and commercial bills.
  • Bruinhelde, his expression unyielding, glanced over at Andacanavar; and the ranger moved past Midalis, sweeping the Prince and Bruinhelde into his wake, heading quickly for the nearest fallen Alpinadorans. Mortalis
  • He was a steely fellow, a man with a gentle Southern accent and an unyielding faith in discipline.
  • Nitric oxide can react with superoxide yielding peroxynitrite, an oxidizing agent that induces lipid peroxidation, sulfhydryl oxidation of proteins, and nitration of aromatic amino acids.
  • These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally and rescue the standard of the constitution. The Anas
  • Bill refused to kill Thor, and thus was deemed worthy of yielding Asgardian weaponry, so Odin ordered a new hammer to be made especially for Bill. Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • In patent, the classic notion of the inventor is yielding to the inventor/operator/user amalgamation represented by the patent pool. Archive 2009-02-01
  • For where else should a man of sober sense look to receive great blessings if not from those who are able to help him most, and how else should he hope to obtain them save by seeking to please his helper, and how may he hope to please his helper better than by yielding him the amplest obedience? Memorabilia
  • The cathedral appears imposing and unyielding at first.
  • As both hobbing and end face milling are used for yielding offset faces, the commensurate milling tools are used, namely: 2. Types of milling tools used
  • Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge. The Land of Midian
  • This quantity will be well worth working, provided the lead is abundant: Probably one pound of silver in a ton of lead would more than repay the cost of extraction, as lead yielding only four ounces to the ton is said to be profitably cupelled in Great Britain.
  • The long cruel winter came to an end at last, yielding to a gentle warm spring.
  • Reports of great white shark encounters with humans have been abundant this summer, with a few harrowing incidents of sharks circling tourist and fishing boats yielding dramatic images.
  • And with 1.75 % short-term borrowing costs, high-yielding consumer receivables are simply irresistible.
  • As a result, I labeled the genre to be sterile and difficult; the album's beats are very mechanical, sometimes tiresomely so, and the solemn melodies are unyieldingly complex.
  • The roasted bola could also be left to ferment, yielding a mildly alcoholic drink known as mescal crudo.
  • Now, of course, now that she had been freed of the psychological chains, the confining restrictions, the imprisoning inhibitions of the free woman, I had little doubt that she, and perhaps even soon, would prove to be a helplessly arousable, helplessly yielding slave, a joy both to herself and her masters. Cinnamon Roll
  • Water capture, water loss, multifunctionality and temporal variation in aboveground biomass show evidence of transgressive overyielding ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Its best to get in reasonably early as it can be fiendishly difficult to get into, and the doorstaff can be unyielding and obdurate, despite your silver-tongued attempts to gain access.
  • This consists in a bulging forward of the cornea at a given point by the sacculate yielding and distention of its coats, and it may be either transparent or opaque and vascular. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • A diagnostic instrument, the NET evaluates student's academic and social skills and generates individual profiles in seven subtest areas yielding over thirty different scores.
  • Whereas the flowers of the labiate family are treated by the distillers as favorites are by the gods, and are cut off in their youth, those of the Umbelliferæ are allowed to mature and develop into the oil-yielding fruits. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
  • Football Manager 2017 will put an unyielding grip on your life that leads you to victory and allows you to live out your wildest footballing fantasies. The Sun
  • Callao barley was released by the Virginia Crop Improvement Association in 1994 as a high-yielding, high-test weight hulled barley for eastern seaboard growing conditions.
  • If the two fighters begin to converge while attacking a bandit, the yielding pilot must alter course to preserve the 500-foot bubble.
  • That mother plant rewarded me with a covey, each bloom yielding numerous seeds.
  • Crisp, sharp hurling, was complemented by an unyielding spirit and determination, with the players confidently marshalling their sectors with great gusto.
  • The objectives of this study were to verify the occurence of overyielding and to examine patterns of N and water use as possible mechanisms for over-yielding in sunflower/mustard intercrops. 1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy