Sentences with phrase «by contractions of»

Instead, it is caused by contractions of the uterus that are pushing your baby down and out of the birth canal.

It's proven that muscles generate a stronger contraction when they're preceded by contractions of an opposing muscles group.

Scientists in Korea have designed a crablike robot that is smaller than the thickness of a fingernail and powered by contractions of cardiac tissue.

Some mothers find that they have no urge to push, the baby is simply pushed out by the contractions of the uterus.

These cramps are caused by contractions of your uterus as it shrinks back to its pre-pregnancy size and location after you have your baby.

But this is accomplished by a contraction of the domain of existence; it is too easy.

Baby hiccups are caused by a contraction of the diaphragm and the quick closing of the vocal cords.

Hiccups are caused by contraction of your baby's diaphragm, which is the muscle below her rib cage that controls her breathing, accompanied by closure of the vocal cords.

Stars are formed by the contraction of interstellar gas and dust.

However, this causes very little movement in the lower spine and this movement is mainly caused by contraction of the hip flexor muscles.

The strength is determined by contraction of the pelvic floor during the internal exam.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a physical activity it is «any bodily movement that is produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle and that substantially increases energy expenditure.»

The ability of a muscle to produce full motor - unit activation may be enhanced when preceded immediately by a contraction of the muscle's antagonist.

A pregnancy loss caused by the contraction of some bacterial infection may be completely treatable by an antibiotic.

And secondly, the challenges that have been brought on by the contraction of the Canadian business community, and their consolidation, and the resulting conflicts issues that have arisen — their impact on practice, business development, and so on.

Not exact matches

The extent of the contraction is especially apparent when compared to the United States: a study compiled by Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association found that from 2003 to 2008, venture capital investment as a share of GDP dropped 35 % in Canada; meanwhile, south of the border, it increased by 17 %.

The State essentially guarantees by its (mis) management and manipulation, the ensuing collapse will not be limited to certain sectors of the private economy but will cause massive contraction in the entire economy — including the State's share of the national income.

Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one of only two major Australian cities to experience a contraction in office rental values.

Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.

Typically, the description means a sharp contraction followed by a long period of slow or stagnant growth.

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

In July, when the Bank of Canada cut its policy to its current setting of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep contraction in business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity prices.

A bubble is an economic cycle characterized by the rapid escalation of asset prices followed by a contraction.

A tiny quiver in the joint followed immediately by an extension and contraction of the muscle being worked.

What's more, the number of active North American oil rigs fell by two in the week ended June 30, from 758 to 756 rigs, the first such contraction since January, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count.

Normally the contraction impact of much weaker iron ore export prices should be partially mitigated by the expansion impact of a weaker Australian dollar, as iron - related inflows drop sharply.

Greek budgets include tax hikes and spending cuts by more than $ 4.5 billion, a debt increase to more than 200 percent of GDP, an economic contraction of 1.3 percent and a new rise in unemployment by almost one percentage point to 25.4 percent.

«This would affect those on a lower income the most, with a significant devaluation of the new currency, by 65 percent, and financial contraction of 22 percent on top of the (GDP) reduction of 14 percent that occurred between 2009 and 2011.»

Much of this stagnation is supposed to have been caused by a monetary contraction leading to the resumption of specie payments in 1879.

Much of the improvement was driven by a recovery in greater China (PRC, Hong Kong and Macau), where demand appears to be normalizing following two - plus years of contraction after a government crackdown on gifting reduced demand for luxury watches.

The eurozone composite PMI compiled by Markit hit 53.9 in October, one of the strongest readings over the past four years and well above the dividing line between expansion and contraction.

The contraction in this margin partly reflected the growing popularity of loans secured by residential property, which have a lower indicator rate than other loans and in most cases no additional risk margin.

Ironically, over the long term, that was precisely the case that existed when the company was traded, but this truth was obscured by the expansion and contraction of trading multiples.

Unfortunately, average weekly hours fell by -0.58 %, resulting in a net contraction in labor input during the month of February.

Credit strategists are increasingly disturbed by a sudden and rare contraction of U.S. bank lending, fearing a synchronized slowdown in the U.S. and China this year that could catch euphoric markets badly off guard.

Just as an aside: Let's not even bother with the part of Wallison's argument where he cites a study by economists Michael Bordo and Joseph Haubrich claiming «deep contractions breed strong recoveries.»

As noted above, the contractionary impulse arising from the Asian crisis has occurred in two stages — an initial, rapid contraction in the economies first affected by the regional financial instability, and a more delayed slowing of other economies in the region.

However, U.S. - based module manufacturers will still not be able to supply more than a fraction of domestic demand, and even under the forecasts of contraction within the U.S. market published by analysts including GTM Research and IHS Markit, imports will still account for the large majority of modules installed, at least for the next few years.

Companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities trade at 10.2 times 2012 forecast earnings, compared with the average in economic contractions since 1957 of 13.7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.

Sagan's second alternative, the oscillating universe model has been discredited by a lack of sufficient matter to cause a contraction.1 It was further discredited by the discovery of dark energy, which shows that the universe is actually expanding at an ever increasing rate.2 So, Sagan's first alternative is the one that turned out to be true.

There these excitations release further excitations which — possibly mediated by fibers of associative regions — run to the motoric center of the right hand and from there to the muscles of the right hand, where they cause contractions, so that the hand moves towards the candlestick and grasps it.

Contraction permits material movement to be perceived by consciousness; it regulates external duration according to the needs of internal duration and thereby makes it possible for consciousness to act on matter.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

2) The nebula began a contraction that may have been triggered by the shock wave of a nearby supernova.

Is not this precisely the kind of spectacle to which we are now awakening (still without really believing in it); the spectacle of Mankind, suddenly shaken out of a deceptive inertia, being swept along ever more rapidly, by the current of its own proliferation and contraction, into the diminishing circles of a sort of maelstrom coiling irresistibly upon itself?

I suggested that the very excess of external compression to which we are subjected by the relative contraction of our planet may one day cause us to breach that mysterious wall of growing repulsion which, more often than not, sets the human molecules in opposition to one another, and enter the powerful, still unknown field of our basic affinities.

He seemed to me to be exactly like a man who should begin by saying that I, Socrates, do all I do by mind, but who, when he went on to assign a cause for each of my actions, should say, first that I am sitting here now because my body is composed of bones and muscles, and that the bones are hard and divided by joints, while the muscles can be tightened and relaxed and, together with the flesh and the skin which contains it, cover the bones; and that therefore when the bones are raised in their sockets by the contraction or relaxation of the muscles, I am now able to bend my limbs; — and that that is the cause of my sitting here un prison] all huddled up.

I would certainly agree, as Eric Voegelin put it in his lectures on Hitler and the Germans, that Aquinas» understanding of the corpus mysticum was subsequently, tragically, overshadowed by a «ghettoizing» conception of the Church among both Catholics and Protestants and that Pius XII's Mystici Corporis Christi represents «the most severe contraction of the membership of the Church that it had ever received.»

This again is achieved by a series of steps, each of which triggers off pre-set neural mechanisms, activates linguistic holons of a more and more automatised type; the canons of grammar and syntax exert their rule unconsciously, automatically; and the last step in articulating the sounds of speech is performed by entirely mechanised patterns of muscle contractions.