Sentences with phrase «shear of»

Based on recent research, Willoughby said, it is likely that «the strongest hurricanes will get stronger, because the oceanic heat source is stronger, but because of increased shear of the surrounding winds, the numbers will go down, and the locus of activity in the Atlantic is more likely to move to the open Atlantic from the Gulf [of Mexico].»

The typhoon took advantage of light wind shear of 5 - 10 knots and extremely warm ocean waters of 31 °C (88 °F) to fuel its rapid intensification.

And since the factors involved in churning up flows of air are the subject of serious academic debate, they had a lot of possibilities to consider and at least 20 different units of measurement to factor into their models — technicalities like the magnitude of vertical shear of horizontal wind, flow deformation and simple wind speed, and highly specialised meteorological considerations such as the negative Richardson number, and the Brown energy dissipation rate.

The environment conducive for severe tornadic storms requires many ingredients, not least of which is the vertical shear of the wind in the storms environment, especially in the region near the base of the cloud (Harold can give the specifics).

The book also includes 16 photographs by Jack Shear of Kelly's studio as he left it on his final day of painting — a poignant record of his seven - decade advancement of a singular artistic vision.

Unfortunately for anything in orbit, if they get too close, the tidal shear of the tiny star will literally shred anything that gets too close... much like a blender.

Building 3 - D models of bacterial communities could help explain how the microbes work together and evade drugs, says bioengineer Jason Shear of the University of Texas at Austin.

Ryan Shear of Property Markets Group builds expensive flats in Miami, which are often bought by Latin Americans.

Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

But Reilly also wants to place all this in a quasi-philosophical context shorn of explicitly Christian argument.

Even watersheds important to the lowland water supply were completely shorn of their protective forests.

There all of them, wearing similar white, seamless robes and shorn of class distinctions, assemble around a single center which inspires them with a strong sense of unity.

This, I should say, is the true meaning of secularism — living shorn of its ultimate dimension and sensibilities.

In existentialism the living situation is no mere center of practicality, shorn of ultimate concern.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Whether it is to derogate or to defend this advocacy, public discussion tends to be dominated by examples shorn of context.

If my analysis is fundamentally accurate, liberalism's endgame is unsustainable in every respect: It can not perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms, nor can it continually provide endless material growth in a world of limits.

In other words, he would cut the task of the student of religion down to a historical, psychological, and sociological size, shorn of all systematic concern.

On the one hand he combats dualism by presenting a view of human beings «shorn of its dependence of speaking of the soul», because he thinks that the soul brings in dualism.

They are also shorn of the false dichotomies that seem to trouble a much older generation of Catholics.

Deep down, do any of us really believe that shorn of our hard - won attributes, our «tribute,» we would, in our nakedness, be acceptable to or longed for by the yearning God?

The founders were not Habermas who views public debate as one where each and every individual and group puts their two cents into the discussion for a distortion free resolution shorn of all partisanship.

This concentration on the historical self, though later shorn of the emphasis on the self's relation to God, has been fundamental to Western philosophy, politics, literature and psychology.

What happens over the course of their session is an education in «pure fundamentalist ritual, shorn of almost all distractions.»

Religion looks more complicated today than it did some 50 years ago, when a tolerant liberal Protestantism shorn of the irrational and the pagan seemed to fit well with a liberal political regime.

Shorn of its trite cliches, the question «Is God a she?»

A «duro» has a much more generalized connotation, It is shorn of its attention focus and is globalized.

For we have more than enough reason to wonder whether a Bible shorn of its divine authority can continue to serve as a useful support for any moral message whatsoever.

His recommendations differed little from what had been taught for centuries, only they were shorn of the incentives provided by Indulgences and the earning of merit, and of the fulsome prayers to and reliance on Mary the Mother of Jesus, and the Saints, which had often almost submerged the biblical texts and Creed.

To the sophisticated European, America must appear as a desert, a desert shorn of the vegetation of history.

Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today).

I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

Can we really expect evangelical denominations to embrace Marian devotion, however shorn of Catholic «excesses» it may be?

Luther's New Testament of 1522 was answered by Hieronymus Emser of Dresden, who in a brief period of time was able to produce a counter-Bible in German shorn of Luther's evangelical marginalia.

The Bible has been shorn of language deemed to be sexist.

Certainly the loss was not intentional; it was more a matter of drifting away, or like the case of Samson who rose from sleep to go out against the Philistines not realizing that in the night he had been shorn of God's strength.

Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»

The government's measures, centred on the sugar tax announced by George Osborne in March, rely on voluntary action by the food and drink industry and are shorn of any restrictions on junk food marketing and advertising.

However, with Luis Enrique's side perhaps taking their foot off the gas, and Sevilla, maybe shorn of pressure, re-establishing themselves, steadily they got themselves back into the contest.

Really, at that kind of speed, there is nothing for the driver to do but relax in his bucket seat and enjoy the explosion of glass and the shearing of metal around him.

The powerhouse appears primed to be one of the stars of Euro 2016, where he will be charged with leading a French side shorn of the likes of Raphael Varane, Karim Benzema and Lassana Diarra to the title.

AS Saint - Etienne will be shorn of the effective midfielder Yohan Mollo when they welcome LOSC Lille to the Stade Geoffrey Guichard on Sunday afternoon.

However, it appears that the Blues squad may now be shorn of some quality, if Jose Mourinho's Internazionale get their way.

They were shorn of star men Andre Ayew and Andre - Pierre Gignac in the loss to the Bordelais, where they lacked attacking cohestion, but against the Canaries, there was little excuse as discipline and composure steadily deteriorated.

This is a team shorn of any confidence and playing scared.

The end came 156 seconds later, with Frias, his face and nose torn, shorn of his title but safe in the arms of Referee Richard Green.

Got ta love the eye rolls shared by Woods and Michelle Wie as Rory McIlroy and Jason Day — shorn of his facial hair — vie to drive the golf cart by trying to outdrive the other.

ox looked so lost & shorn of confidence.

I suppose that United winning moves them closer to Arsenal but they are still a massive 10 points behind and I do not think that this win will be the start of a serious assault on the EPl table's summit, as they still look shorn of confidence and fluency and they only managed to scrape a win against the spuds.

The Reds headed to St Mary's on Sunday shorn of several key men, with James Milner missing through suspension, Roberto Firmino out through injury and captain Jordan Henderson only fit for the bench.