Sentences with phrase «more fractures»

Falls cause more fractures than any other type of accident involving older adults.

Children who had received proton - pump inhibitors, either alone or in combination with a histamine H2 - blocker, had more fractures over the next five years than children who weren't prescribed that type of drug.

More and more nations could choose to defy Brussels and go their own way on immigration policy, fiscal targets, and business regulation, rendering the already troubled union even more fractured and dysfunctional.

If this is the lay of the land in the United States, how much more fractured is the theological terrain of the world church!

The Church is more divided, more polarized, there are more tribes, and more splattered, more fractured, than ever before.»

Ironically, while these Creeds were intended to promote unity, they really just caused the church to become ever - more fractured and disunified, for as the complexity of doctrinal statements increased, so also did the charge of «heretic.»

Your work on Machiavelli argues that this misrepresents the Florentine, and so implies that republicanism is a more fractured body of political thought than some would suggest.

Facing several well - funded primary challenges on Tuesday, some believe Zellner is concerned he could end up leading a party more fractured than ever before.

While the LRA have been responsible for 2,400 attacks and 3,400 abductions, at the moment, the LRA are reportedly smaller and more fractured now than in 15 years.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

The more fractured the vote, the better Woodcock's chances of slipping into the governor's mansion.

GRAIL's discoveries include the fact that the moon's crust is thinner and more fractured by meteorite impacts than scientists had suspected (SN Online: 12/6/12).

Using this formula would also improve the mechanical strength of concrete and give the material a glassier and less crystalline structure, which would make it more fracture - resistant.

«Our cement, which is significantly more fracture - resistant than anything that has been developed thus far, provides us with completely new construction possibilities,» Cölfen adds.

If we succeed in designing the structures of materials and reproduce nature's blueprints, we will also be able to produce much more fracture - resistant materials — high - performance materials inspired by nature.»

That doesn't mean a big breakthrough is imminent; the landscape is simply more fractured than before.

This new ones looks like more fractured fairy tale awesome!!]

So the gradual shift of publishing power away from large publishers and towards established name authors and less powerful more fractured publishers (whose individual power is weak but whose collective power is potentially strong) agents position would appear to be stronger.

Continuing his investigation of the artifice of image making and the processes of visual perception, Lochore's new work marks a radical departure from the earlier computer generated shadows of window grids which recently have become more fractured and distorted, placing...

Oiticica's works form a bridge between painting and sculpture; furthermore, they connect the Modernist utopia of the 1950s with the more fractured period of social and political tensions of the 1960s and»70s.

In the later 1960s, however, as the nation headed toward political turmoil, the art scene, too, grew more fractured.

As two of the original museum directors and many of the original curators moved on, the team pondered a strategy to use the medium of art to «make order out of chaos,» bringing perspective to a region smaller than the United States but «much more fractured,» as Queens Museum director Tom Finkelpearl puts it.

The piece can be read as a continuous narrative on the outside, but the interior is more fractured and random.

How can one construct an identity in a world that is becoming more fractured, fluid, and less coherent; where traditional notions of class belonging, sexual identity, or the role of the artist seem to be constantly changing?

Actual visual observations of sea ice recently made from aircraft during buoy deployment operations over the Arctic by the Naval Oceanographic Office and National Guard confirm that the ice cover is noticeably thinner and that it is more fractured than in previous years.

Formerly a solid mass that melted and refroze at its edges, it is now thinner, more fractured, and so more liable to melt.

Precipitation maps are even more fractured, because precipitation generally has sharp gradients and sharp boundaries and painful detail.

Most maps are more fractured than this.

As sea ice thins, and becomes more fractured and labile, it is likely to move more in response to winds and currents so that polar bears will need to walk or swim more and thus use greater amounts of energy to maintain contact with the remaining preferred habitats.

What is clear is that there is a lot less multi-year ice and therefore a lot more fracturing and other kinds of deterioration.

This is an increase of 1 million square kilometers from the July Outlook, reflecting the persistence of low sea level pressure (SLP) over the central Arctic that resulted in ice divergence and a more fractured ice cover.

Not exact matches

The primary cause has been competition from cleaner - burning natural gas, which has been made cheaper and more abundant by hydraulic fracturing.

In fact, the researchers found that for certain groups of people — such as those who started out with a certain minimum amount of vitamin D already in their blood — adding more vitamin D was actually tied with a slightly greater risk of hip fractures.

Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.

Where did we lose our way even though we feel more frazzled and fractured than ever?

What we are finding now is design's ability to tame more potent fractures (in large organizations)....

Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner said the new arrangement would leave the Canadian regulatory framework even more «fractured» and accused Ottawa of amending its original agreement to accommodate smaller provinces without informing him.

Nothing is more heart - wrenching than to realize that your savings for retirement and your golden years will be fractured because of divorce...

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

A 2014 study by Towson University's Regional Economic Studies Institute found hydraulic fracturing in that area of the state could generate more than 3,000 jobs and at least $ 5 million in tax revenue each year during peak drilling.

However, it wasn't until the 1970s that large - scale hydraulic fracture became profitable, and more importantly, was being done in areas where the rock wasn't porous enough for conventional drilling to work at all.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

It is just as safe to say that he would no more enjoy Cage's chance - determined and silence — fractured harmonies than he would trust any abundance that Cage might choose for him.

Won't criticizing some aspects of the church lead to more disunity, lack of love, and fracturing?

I just have a hard time with a man who says he's going to bring «In god we trust» back to america, I think that it is that kind of thinking that fractures this nation even more.

Likewise, our girls have befriended peers who have such fractured lives, for the reasons you mention and more.

It also disguises a more serious problem - the lack of obedience, which has resulted in the fracturing of Christendom and 30K different denominations.

Bible thumpers are so mentally brain fractured that their brains are nothing more then scrambled matter, believing in those fairy stories of magic and, talking snakes and talking burning bushes.

But I would claim the opposite... that it takes far more rigor, and more than just intellectual, to finally see, know, and experience the oneness of all things and to promote this oneness in our fractured world that so many Christians and theologians would like to perpetuate.