Sentences with phrase «narrow portion of»

This surgery works best in male cats that have a very narrow portion of urethra near the tip of their penis but in which the remainder of the urethra is adequately wide.

What happens when all of these variants, with a now small gene pool, are bred together to «perfect» this narrow portion of the standard?

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

Continuing the pseudostatistical arguments, a god that can exist only within a narrow portion of the spectrum of possible gods is less likely than a god that can exist over a larger portion of the spectrum.

«The luxury market is targeting a much narrower portion of the buyer pool, and those buyers aren't panicking or overpaying for these properties, so they tend to sit,» said Jonathan Miller, founder and CEO of Miller Samuel.

This involves shortening and widening the urethra to allow urethral plugs and other potentially obstructing materials to be eliminated without travelling through the narrowed portion of the urethra in the penis.

Not exact matches

The woman's profile is invisible during the Q&A portion and narrows down a field of four to the one guy they want to chat with.

It is the narrowing of the arteries of the heart due to the buildup of plaques causing less oxygen to reach portions of the heart.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

Last month, the final three site possibilities were narrowed to the northern portion of Knoch Park west of the tennis courts, the southern half of Knoch Park near the baseball fields and the Garden Plots.

The organizers of the 43North business plan competition said they have narrowed their pool of 502 applicants down to 134 semifinalists that have cleared the first hurdle for a shot at winning a portion of the $ 5 million in prizes that will be handed out to eight winning companies in early October.

Last fall, the New York state Department of Transportation appeared to narrow down its options for renovations to a portion of I - 81 in Syracuse to two: removing the elevated portion of the highway and making it a community grid, or simply widening that portion of the highway.

This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

The new sensor consists of a 1 - millimeter long portion of the end of an optical fiber that narrows and is bent into a configuration called an S taper.

Physically she belongs to what one observer has called «the fair - skinned, fair - haired, gray - to - blue - eyed, long - limbed, relatively narrow - faced individuals that constitute a substantial portion of the population of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, western Finland.»

«A narrower range suggests that socioeconomic factors could explain a substantial portion of the observed differences in hospital readmission rates,» said Nagasako, an instructor of medicine.

Certainly, one possible reason there is so little variance among those in the full sample and those in different, narrower groupings of scientists is that those in the narrower groups make up a significant portion of the full sample.

(Copyright Ted Stryk) MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.

For example: A narrow grip will build the outside portion of the biceps making them appear thicker from the front and a wide grip will stress the inside of the biceps making the front double biceps pose that much more impressive.

The bodice is supported by two, narrow spaghetti straps that cross over the shoulders, then crisscross over the upper portion of the wearer's back.

The menu shows clips in a narrow opening left by the repositioned, resized version of the cover art's actor shots while a portion of the opening rap «Life in the City» and police sirens are looped.

In many states, one not only has to resign, but also must ask for a rebate of the political portion of their dues every year during a specified — and frequently very narrow — window of time.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

The next day, Kaczorek was able to narrow the repetitive portion of his lesson down to the two questions he knew would deliver the most bang.

Chris Svensson, British - born design leader for the new GT (and all North American Ford products), attributes the impression of it being much smaller to the body's very narrow central portion, which includes the nearly vertical exterior cabin walls.

A good portion of the route was twisting and narrow mountain roads, with a steady rain falling.

since I swear the woman looked exactly like her, with woolly braids, blue - black skin, narrow eyes, and most of her concentrated in her lower portion, like an eggplant.

After a night of fierce competition, the contestants were narrowed down to the Top 5 for the interview portion of the pageant.

The Pichi Richi Railway is narrow gauge and is the last remaining operating portion of the famous Ghan railway.

They run on the last remaining operating portion of the historic narrow - gauge Ghan railway line.

There's an odd narrow lump of plastic just beneath the headband cushion (likely where the wiring runs from ear to ear) that creates a very focused pressure point wherever the headband portion is sitting.

«In our study, we predicted that about half of the species on the Barva Transect have such narrow ranges that, with the 3 °C of warming predicted by the IPPC over the current century, their predicted range will no longer include any portion of their current range.»

First visible is a very narrow band so its portion of the solar spectrum is rather small.

All or portions of the reports of the financial expert also can be used if both parties agree, which can help to narrow the future issues.

From afar, many agents are not aware of the narrow margins that exist in the ownership of a real estate company, a reason for the constant pressure to pay higher and higher portions of the company dollar out to agents.

Traditionally used in hallways, dado height wall panelling adds the illusion of width to a narrow hallway as well as protecting the lower portion of the wall from the wear and tear of normal family life.

Now the next step is picking the paint color for the upper portion of the wall above it... I'm really drawn to a mushroom gray color so I've narrowed it down to these.

Narrow - plank beaded board is used on the lower portion of these walls.