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Scientists soon realized that the water strider's hydrophobic legs and undersides, coupled with its small size, are what keep it from drowning.
They said the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.
The manual explicitly prohibits threats, coercion, physical abuse, and waterboarding, which creates the sensation of drowning.
But the voices lifted, and hands gestured for me to start, drowning out my own movements.
Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind.
She was wobbly from her near drowning, but managed to stand after a few attempts.
Rae snarled wordlessly and kick-started the bike, the engine noise drowning out her rantings.
The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
She was awkward as all get out, relentlessly drowning in unimportant details and entranced by the most ordinary of things.
When a mother yapok dives underwater, her baby is saved from drowning by a waterproof pouch.
Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him.
What makes people risk their lives to rescue someone trapped in a burning house or drowning in a river?
Al snatched at a fleeting memory like a drowning sailor grabbing a lifeline.
There are situations so serious that the rescue of the drowning person cannot be accomplished with a rope, a life preserver, or a boat.
Combined efforts by lifesavers helped save a British tourist from drowning at Nielson Park on Wednesday.
A life vest, such as this one, can reduce the risk of drowning in a boating related incident by 85 percent.
Last November, 400 villagers were at risk of drowning as the waters rose around them.
The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair.
We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.
In old times it used to be given as an injection for such conditions as cerebral concussion and asphyxia from drowning.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But first of all, there was to be a meeting of the chiefs with Niblack, and a drowning of all enmities in quass.
When she appeared he caught her in his arms as if she were a spar and he a drowning sailor.
I was told that occasionally it led to suicide by drowning or strangulation.
I fingered with an odd reluctance the little roll of bills he handed me, though it was like a life buoy to a drowning sailor.
Her lips were unclosed, she seemed to be gasping for breath like one drowning.
Frank pushed on, his eyes on the lookout for the upcoming of the drowning lad.
The pakeha was drowning the Maori for Utu for himself, in case he should be drowned.
But, in nepenthes, there is also a distinct secretion which digests 345 the bodies of the drowning insects.
In Holderness and north lincolnshire, a caul is said to prevent the owner from drowning.
The price of beer was fixed by law and an overcharge was punishable by drowning.
I recommend those who have cats with philoprogenitive proclivities, instead of drowning the kittens, to eat them.
Also throw a scraggily top of some kind into the water over the ring-pole to hide the catch after drowning.
And I don't mind your drowning sorrow in the flowing bowl, either.
No death for months, except by accidental drowning in floodwater.
But they were drifting around in the Mediterranean sea and we have all heard the stories about migrants drowning but we don't know yet.
Norris simpered to Tubs that a true friend doesn't push a drowning man under water, he helps him.
Jurgis stood in the doorway and listened to her scolding, half drowning out the horrible moans and screams of Ona.
I'd see it move, and the little drowning bubbles on the watter.
Proceed to restore breathing by artificial respiration as in drowning.
The man rescued from drowning or from asphyxiation has felt no pain.
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