Brittle Britain

It's got a brittle star hitching a ride.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

Classic. Hip fracture often leads to institutionalization of a senior.

They are quite brittle. So you've only got a part of one there.

E. Resource assessment and geologic model for the Clarion Clipperton fracture zone

And there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms.

I'm about to snap like a brittle twig, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder.

The application pertains to the Clipperton Clarion Fracture Zone of the north east Pacific Ocean.

If they have a hip fracture we go with them and we study their entire discharge experience.

Whenever you see anything linear on a planet, it means there's been a fracture, like a fault.

They said to my parents, the neck break was a stable fracture, but the back was completely crushed.

The abalone shell here and if you fracture it, you can look at the fact that it's nano structured.

And it was really interesting there were articles correlating if you have a bone fracture, and then bone cancer arises.

On the left, this is a brittle star it's covered with lenses that the people at Lucent Technologies have found have no distortion whatsoever.

It is understood that the five injured workers all suffer from scalding, some of whom are accompanied with injuries such as fracture.

According to professional estimates of the Ministry of Health, 40 of the women over 55 shall undergo at least one osteoporosis fracture.

Xiao Han was sent to a hospital after her mother Mrs. Wu arrived, and was diagnosed with tibial fracture on her left leg.

You set the fracture, you drew the blood, you spun the blood, looked at it under the microscope, you plated the culture, you injected the antiserum.

Mr. Lin said Xiao Han told the security guard that her foot was sprained two days ago, and he didn't know how she had bone fracture.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

Cuprates are notoriously difficult materials to work with, because they are very brittle. This is exacerbated by their strong anisotropy the materials have a quasi two dimensional structure consisting of a weakly coupled stack of conducting sheets.

Meanwhile, in Syria, the people rose up, were fired upon, took up arms, were manipulated, and began a cycle of sectarian killing and revenge that can only fracture them further. Neither Iran nor Turkey has reached that point.

(e) Establishment of a geological model of polymetallic nodule deposits in the Clarion Clipperton fracture zone of the equatorial north Pacific Ocean proceedings of the workshop of the International Seabed Authority, 13 to 20 May 2003, Nadi, Fiji.

Empires can impose order and stability for a long time but imperialists rather like many Americans today become tired, and their subjects grow restless. The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.

In view of this, lawyer Chen Liang from Hubei Dianheng Law Firm said that the park should be held responsible for the accident in terms of management no matter whether Xiao Han developed bone fracture after running into other people.

But now the conflict has spread across the Middle East, destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan and threatening to fracture Iraq. The UN Security Council is charged with addressing breaches or threats to international peace, a criterion that is now clearly met.

What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility and government propaganda is rarely credible. For all of China s efforts to position the Xinhua news agency and China Central Television as competitors of CNN and the BBC, the international audience for brittle propaganda is vanishingly small.

Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a Sultanistic regime a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the leader s personal authority. But, though such leaders perhaps have more personal authority than even medieval monarchs, their authority is brittle.

Ukraine s fate has become Europe s fate. Indeed, Putin not only wants to stop European political, civic, and social norms from taking root within Ukraine he wants to roll them back in the Baltics, the Balkans, and anywhere else in Europe made politically brittle by economic crisis and or demagogic populism.

In fact, I have another version at my office and I ask people, Why are there mountains here, on this area here, but there are none over here? And they go, Well, gee, I don't know, saying, Is it a fracture zone? Is it a hot spot?

HOUSTON Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there. But they would be wise not to overlook another unfolding struggle one that will have profound long term consequences for Europe and for Putin's ability to exert pressure on the continent.

The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese option to combine political suppression at home with economic reform and greater openness to the outside world because its structures are too weak and brittle for this. The ruling ideology, moreover, is unlikely to survive such a step unharmed.

Now, those little barbs obviously stick to the insects well, but there is something else that we can tell from this photograph, and that is that you might be able to see a fracture line across what would be the equator of this, if it was the Earth.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Following the Secretary General's report to the tenth session of the Assembly on the work of the Authority, a number of positive developments have taken place with regard to the project to establish a geological model and prospectors guide of polymetallic nodule deposits in the Clarion Clipperton fracture zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean.

The youth revolt that began in Tunis and Cairo in 2010 2011 has come to an end (at least for the time being), though the region has been changed fundamentally by it. The victory of counter revolution and power politics, as in Egypt, has only seemed to restore the old order the current regime s political foundations are simply too brittle.

If Russia does veto the Ahtisaari plan, the EU s united facade will likely fracture, with many European countries refusing either to join the US in recognizing an independent Kosovo without the UN s blessing or to send a supervisory mission there. That would open a new and tumultuous era in the Balkans, with more than Kosovo at stake.

Of course, the people are never truly one fickle in their loyalties and subject to demagoguery, they often unite in opposition but fracture once in command. Nonetheless, the willingness of large numbers of people to stand up (or sit in) for their right to be heard, despite the imminent possibility of violent repression, announces to their fellow citizens and the world that something has gone very wrong.

This ancient fracture, papered over by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges Picot 97 years ago in their secret agreement, has now swallowed Syria, with Assad portrayed as some sort of Alawite ogre. Many Western diplomats appear to be of the same superficial cast of mind as Sykes and Picot, believing that Assad s fall from power would remove Syria from the Iran Hezbollah Hamas axis.

Just as Democrats have long championed more government spending, and more benefits for more people, either on ideological grounds or as a political coalition building strategy, so Republicans have regarded the goal of lowering taxes. So, not surprisingly, Republicans are using the vote on the debt ceiling to force cuts in entitlement spending, while Obama and Congressional Democrats are using it to force higher taxes, in part to fracture their opponents coalition.

Large parts of the northern hemisphere continue to struggle with the legacies of the great European empires Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman that collapsed in WWI s wake, or whose decline, like that of the British Empire, was initiated by the war and sealed by its even bloodier sequel a generation later. The resulting fracture zones in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example are the source of some of today s gravest risks to regional and even world peace.