| The blue is criss-crossed with a lattice of delicate, dissipating vapour trails from the transatlantic jets passing overhead. |
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| Linear equations can't easily capture magnetic field helicity, a property that prevents much of the field's energy from dissipating as heat. |
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| I turned my head and could just see the flames licking the sky, and clouds of fuliginous, black smoke dissipating into the warm summer air. |
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| Why, in such difficult times, are they dissipating their resources in this manner? |
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| The most negative rendering is that the steward is justly charged with intentionally dissipating the owner's resources. |
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| Since the intervention of the special unit, the stink at the school had been slowly dissipating, sources said. |
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| A dendritic creek pattern may develop which is the most efficient in terms of dissipating incoming wave and tidal energy by friction. |
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| An important truth is that we need full and active participation in liturgy and you don't get that by dissipating your resources. |
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| Unfortunately, however, the modern puritans are dissipating and wasting this inspiring moral tradition. |
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| She sighed heavily, a plume of grey smoke and breath condensation dissipating in the air before her. |
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| She blew a smoke ring and contemplated it as it hovered in the still air like a misty halo before dissipating. |
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| He laughed out loud, and the wind carried his voice away, like a string of smoke dissipating. |
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| The darkness shrank back before the light of the flames, dissipating like shredded gossamer in the wind. |
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| Bureaucracy frustrates desire, channeling it into horizontal loops lacking hierarchy and consequence, dissipating energy and interest. |
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| An anisotropic dissipating energy measurement a was introduced in the triaxial space. |
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| A great many of them soon find their starry-eyed enthusiasm dissipating as they realise what a tough place the UK can be. |
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| These were conscious decisions taken to strengthen our country's party system and prevent it from dissipating. |
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| With its own power stations in various different countries, isn't Atel dissipating its strength? |
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| And if we say wait until May 2005 then we're dissipating all that anger. |
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| My anger was slowly dissipating, but in its place was another emotion. |
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| She disappeared in a flash of smoke, dissipating like a shaken cloud. |
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| The optimism that we all felt after the meeting in Annapolis and the Paris pledging conference is unfortunately dissipating. |
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| Overall these papers reinforce the idea that the evidence for a correlation between income inequality and the health of the population is slowly dissipating. |
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| My hands already numb, I held them to my mouth and blew slowly, watching as the puffs of white escaped my lips and warmed my hands before dissipating into the cold. |
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| And people on the streets outside the immediate blast zone would be exposed to a very small dose of dissipating radiation, made even more diffuse by the explosion itself. |
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| The extra bar-it starts with a 5-bar phrase-allows the turmoil to die down, before dissipating into improvisatory arabesques. |
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| The American approach is out-and-out reckless. With the superstorm now dissipating, estimates of its economic impact are beginning to emerge. |
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| Unfortunately, the strength of sterling against the dollar is partly dissipating the windfall gain. |
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| Their earlier worry, that the EU was moving the goalposts before they had even got on to the playing-field, is dissipating. |
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| He wants to focus on the school rather than dissipating energy on risky foreign ventures. |
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| Perhaps the person answering would also try to be brief, because we have other people to hear and our time is dissipating rapidly. |
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| Leaving the machine on will keep the fan running to aid in dissipating the condensation. |
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| The Yen may continue to decline if there are more signs in the coming week that the global economic slump is dissipating. |
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| Appropriate electrical bonding and grounding of processing and handling equipment may help in safely dissipating accumulated electrical charges. |
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| Rightly he appeared as an apostle in the world, and sowed the seed of My Word with much truth and light, dissipating darkness and giving light. |
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| He says he needed to start his life over, learn new ways of doing things, like controlling his anger and dissipating his emotions. |
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| Severe weather events, particularly severe summer storms, can be small-scale and highly localized, appearing and dissipating quickly. |
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| If this were just about Planned Parenthood or yet another battle over abortion, the outrage would be dissipating. |
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| The momentum that both sides had developed for peace was dissipating rapidly. |
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| Emmerich's reign at the top of the mega-movie empire doesn't show any signs of dissipating with this unmissable treat, which is every bit as entertaining as was hoped. |
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| They can create a more homogenous, finer matrix of air voids which are more effective at dissipating tyre contact pressures and the resultant air pumping. |
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| On a previous flight, the pilot of the accident aircraft made several low passes at what initially appeared to be smoke, but was found to have been dissipating cloud. |
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| As a number of Member States remark, this is not only a quantitative or practical problem, but also a qualitative one, since draft resolutions often have a dissipating effect on discussions. |
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| Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation. |
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| Asymmetry can also occur if adjacent channel walls are isothermal but at different temperatures or isoflux but dissipating different heat fluxes. |
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| The establishment of a contribution limit is the usual means of dissipating appearances of control and influence exerted on a political party by a natural or legal person. |
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| During the Essen and Dublin European Councils, 14 priority projects were identified and, without waiting for these objectives to be achieved, the White Paper has added others, clearly dissipating resources. |
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| The main finding is that unexpected policy actions by the Bank have a significant effect on market rates at the shorter end of the yield curve, with the effect dissipating as the maturity increases. |
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| This fear, while still evident in some areas, appears to be dissipating. |
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| For some time, traditional, outdated cultural concepts have been dissipating in the wake of a plurality of lifestyles that no longer submits to any binding canon of high art as a matter of course. |
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| This was despite fears that demand for the black gold was dissipating. |
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| In applying this provision, and being mindful of the need to avoid dissipating its efforts, the Commission decided to give priority to investment in waste-water treatment, drinking-water supply and waste management. |
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| As with living organisms, or a polluted ecosystem, the process of dissipating the accumulated poison of hatred between the two peoples will take time, great care and special measures. |
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| A dielectric is a nonconducting substance which can support an electrostatic field without dissipating much heat. |
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| Thus, carotenoids are unable to sensitize singlet molecular oxygen and actually quench it, dissipating the energy safely as heat and leaving harmless ground-state molecular oxygen. |
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| In terms of programme content, the aim has been to avoid dissipating Tacis's efforts by spreading them too thinly over too wide a range of projects. |
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| With a vibrating, gurglingly groan, a huge jet of boiling steam rocketed skywards dissipating their brief encounter. |
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| Bob Herz and Sir David Tweedie, former heads of America's Financial Accounting Standards Board and the IASB respectively, left their jobs in 2010 and 2011, further dissipating momentum. |
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| Larvae stay in the water column for the next four to seven weeks before dissipating to the ocean floor, where they attach themselves to objects through byssus threads. |
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| This tragedy of the commons provokes a capitalization process that leads them to increase their costs until they are equal to their revenue, dissipating their rent completely. |
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| This is due to storm systems which move across western areas, building up in mountainous regions, and dissipating before reaching the coast where the land has leveled out. |
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