Sentences with phrase «with abortive»

It is a composite of two El Ninos with an abortive La Nina in between that was wiped out except for a symbolic dip in its center.

The twenty - first century high itself is composed of two El Nino peaks with an abortive La Nina dip in between.The super El Nino brought so much warm water across that it lingered and blocked the expression of that La Nina.

Think of the incident with the work The Liberator Simón Bolívar at the Hayward Gallery in 1994 and the diplomatic incident it unleashed with Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, but also back then at the 4th Sydney Biennale (1982), with the abortive arrest of the work Stupid as a Painter (1982), and even more recent with the Documenta in 2007.

by Walter Chaw Leaden with mock gravitas and embarrassing aspirations to the Shakespearean, Michael Caton - Jones's aggressively uninteresting City by the Sea is a purported true story (based on an article by Michael McAlary) that proves to be just another by - the - numbers police procedural crunched with an abortive middle - age romance and a stultifying Oedipal complication.

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

Cecil is only himself when privately and ineptly attempting to woo Lucy, in which his mock - confident stance falls and he shows a more nervous, halting manner, with his abortive kiss of Lucy serving as his most human moment in the film.

However, soon after arriving things began to go wrong for her with an abortive attempt to cast her in Message To Garcia with Wallace Beery, during the filming of which she was hospitalized.

The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

Not exact matches

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

9 - 20 is continued and concluded in I Kings 1 - 2, with an account of David's last days, Adonijah's abortive attempt to take the throne, and Solomon's accession.

Psychopathology and the neurotic anxiety that fuels it are abortive attempts to cope with existential anxiety.

The arc of the show, over six seasons, has traced their attempts to leave their sins behind — Tony's dialogues with his therapist and halting steps toward self - knowledge; Carmela's religious forays, adulterous fantasies, and abortive quest for a divorce.

He made an abortive NFL comeback attempt in 2006, never getting beyond workouts with the Redskins, and then navigated the reality - TV circuit (Pros vs. Joes, Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge).

Attempt to reach anyone that could possibly identify with her proved abortive as none of her relatives could be traced prior to the arrival of the medical personnel.

Effort by our correspondent to speak with the deceased brother, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, a former police affairs minister, proved abortive.

After an abortive attempt with his friend Stephen Crabb to mount a bid for the leadership, where he would have been chancellor, he took the communities brief under Theresa May.

Attempts to speak with the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi, proved abortive as his phone kept ringing.

He maintained that every effort made by sympathisers, including warming his feet with fire to see if he could be revived, proved abortive.

In a curious twist resembling cellular alchemy, when blood T cells are cultured with lymphoid tissue from the tonsils or spleen, the blood T cells begin acting like lymphoid tissue T cells, becoming more activated and more susceptible to abortive infection and death by pyroptosis.

Also covered is Hitler's abortive romance with his half - niece Geli Raubal (Jena Malone) and his longer relationship with the estimable Eva Braun (Zoe Telford).

Less abortive is a burgeoning friendship with Iris (Jodie Foster), a 12 - year - old runaway prostitute conducting business pretty much out in the open.

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.

Pisha took a predictably roundabout route to Harvard: stints at rubber and bleach factories, community college, an abortive attempt at law school, and some very rewarding public school teaching and work with learning - disabled students.

So after two abortive attempts to make up a terrible score on a unit quiz, she finally passed the quiz with flying colors - because she had a study method that worked!

Commenting on the deal, another senior publisher said: «If I were Waterstones, I'd rather tie up with a ruthless devil than an also - ran,» a reference to the abortive deal with Nook.

With Jelly Bean, building on the solid groundwork of Ice Cream Sandwich, Google's platform is finally feeling up to speed for tablets; our experience with the Nexus 7, which runs Android 4.1, suggests that Android has — after the abortive mess of Honeycomb — eventually come of age on larger displWith Jelly Bean, building on the solid groundwork of Ice Cream Sandwich, Google's platform is finally feeling up to speed for tablets; our experience with the Nexus 7, which runs Android 4.1, suggests that Android has — after the abortive mess of Honeycomb — eventually come of age on larger displwith the Nexus 7, which runs Android 4.1, suggests that Android has — after the abortive mess of Honeycomb — eventually come of age on larger displays.

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Continued from here... Before we look at Uniq, there's two other acquisitions to tackle: First is the abortive (recommended) merger with Northern Foods.

Between 1990 and 1999, Sega was a veritable production line of abortive hardware ideas, with the likes of the Neptune (combined Mega Drive and 32X) and the Jupiter (a Saturn with a cartridge port) failing to make it beyond the planning stages.

Each has an abortive love affair with cities and towns, big and small.

Here they talk about what it's like to install art in this unique space, and how responding to the museum's history touched on experiences that are painfully close to home — from Emin's abortive pregnancies to Rego's relationship with her mother

Abortive responses and rapid chattering between modes are common problems in nonlinear systems with not quite enough oomph, the reason why old fluorescent lights flicker.

These were: the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reports.

I have been using Ubuntu Linux exclusively for nearly a year now, with one abortive attempt to return to Windows.

The chief issue raised by the judiciary in the so - far abortive negotiations with the government concerned the relative powers of the minister, HM Courts Service (HMCS) and the judges in regard to the funding and the running of the courts.