• When ignited in a test pit the rocket, called the B4, produced a thrust of about a quarter of a tonne and behaved exactly as predicted.

    BBC: Hybrid success for British rocket

  • While distracted driving has been a major thrust of research in recent years, there has been relatively little examination of the effect that talking on a cell phone has on walking, Neider says.

    CNN: Multitasking and crosswalks a risky mix for elderly

  • To do this, the computers on board the ISS ignite two of the freighter's four main engines, generating a total thrust of 1, 000 newtons.

    BBC: Freighter boosts altitude of ISS

  • Some forecasters such as Forrester Research project that online retail sales will become a major thrust of total sales by 2016.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Turkey's actions deprived the coalition with a mechanized thrust into the Sunni Triangle area of Iraq-a powerful thrust that could have done much to inhibit the development of the insurgency there.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Turkey's cozy business with Iran

  • What is clear, he says, is that when many students arrive at college, they are "all of a sudden thrust into the position of having to manage student loans and lifestyle expenditures, " and they may be unprepared for it.

    WSJ: Beware College Students Carrying Credit Cards

  • She settled instead on trying to thrust a bag of rolls and fruit into his hands, and reminded him several times not to leave his backpack sitting on the ground or on a subway seat in New York.

    NEWYORKER: Roulette Russian

  • Much was made of Bernanke's mention of the dollar a few weeks back, but the main thrust of his "dollar speech" was that rising commodity prices are not a result of monetary mismanagement, but instead a function of too much growth.

    FORBES: In 2008, Shades Of October 1987

  • "That was a group of people who had a good track record of payment and pretty low level of arrears, thrust into a position where they are now is significant arrears, " said Mr Forbes.

    BBC: Roofs

  • The stock retested resistance before backing off and extended the large descending coil, which was finally broken with a thrust at the end of November.

    FORBES: Six Sizzling Charts For Six Hot Stocks

  • Our adventure began at dawn with the sharp thrust of a trusty motor, aboard a small metal boat along the banks of Popran National Park.

    BBC: A wild river valley outside of Sydney

  • As a result, one thrust of the program will be to try to more quickly spot new trends in which drugs are being counterfeited, where the crime rings are based and where they are distributing fake medicines, Lechleiter said.

    NPR: Drugmakers, Interpol Ramp Up Fight Against Fakes

  • Otherwise, the emerging narrative of a down-to-earth man, thrust into power but mostly indifferent to the trappings of his position, driven by a special concern for the poor has proved especially encouraging to many frazzled Catholics, especially as, in a cynical time, it just may turn out to be the tale closest to the truth.

    CNN: Pope Francis: A conservative who sides with the poor

  • "This aircraft can take off within 125 meters because a portion of the engine thrust is deflected downwards, " said Dr. Iannelli.

    CNN: 'Flying taxi' of the future revealed

  • "It's not our natural tendency to thrust ourselves into a crowd of 20, 000 people, but for a Muse concert or a Radiohead concert we'll do it, " Levitin said.

    CNN: This is your brain on music

  • And he had only managed a couple of youth team outings before being thrust into Town's League Two opener against Burton Albion as a late stand-in when summer signing Kris Bright's international clearance came through too late.

    BBC: Hibbert makes sharp Shrews start

  • The thrusters on such probes use chemical fuels, which have a lot of mass for the thrust they produce.

    ECONOMIST: Galileo and Jupiter

  • After all, they argued, isn't leading an army or building a political empire a bit like guiding a company through the cut and thrust of modern business?

    FORBES

  • The Internet and its related technologies have made the process of outsourcing manufacturing so efficient that the effects on American jobs have overwhelmed the jiu-jitsu economic process of turning a negative thrust into a positive outcome.

    FORBES: What If Automation Overwhelms The Need For Employees?

  • The wildest stretch of U.S. shoreline south of Alaska is California's lost coast, a 25-mile-long burl of rock thrust into, and pounded by, the Pacific.

    FORBES: Paradise Lost

  • With all the thrust of 8 cylinders and a 6 litre engine they devour the road and the fuel.

    BBC: Climate chaos: Transcript

  • With a constant array of irresponsible behavior being thrust in their faces from the media, who can they possibly look up to?

    FORBES: Hot Role Models To Admire

  • The dresses, the shoes, the pinkish smell of perfume, the scratchy darkness, all pushed against me like the side of a big cat, thrust themselves into my mouth and nose like fur.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • The deal between Microsoft, the Justice Department and state attorneys general blunts what Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt may have feared could evolve into a thrust by Microsoft into its lucrative business of selling ads against online search results.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • What seems more than a bit disingenuous is to take a bullet point in a preamble, and make it seem that this was the main thrust of something that Michele Bachmann signed, when it reality, what she signed was a vow to defend the traditional notions of marriage and family in both the public and private sphere.

    FORBES: Trying to Recover From Slavery Furor, Bachmann Repeats the Error

  • Then, when the husband approaches 60 - the national retirement age in Japan - the wife gradually realises she is going to be thrust into the permanent company of a man who has grown to be a stranger.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | This World | Retired husband syndrome

  • The tragedy two years ago thrust her and her husband into a new kind of spotlight.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The chance whims of pop culture can unexpectedly thrust a heretofore obscure place into the spotlight.

    CNN: Top travel destinations for 2013

  • The public has a right to a proper answer, and that's the thrust of Sanchez's reaching out.

    FORBES: The Croesus Chronicles

  • But even these tiny amounts of thrust should be enough for a spacecraft that weighs only a few grams.

    ECONOMIST: Picosatellites

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