| In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry. |
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| He's got that furtive manner of someone always on the make, someone looking for an angle, probing for a weakness. |
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| They bob and teeter while feeding, and move nervously and quickly over rocks, probing for active prey on the surface. |
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| Plants with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots make a good test bed for probing the give-and-take of biological partnerships. |
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| The ICC's anti-corruption officials have also been probing allegations of fixing during some international matches, cricket chiefs have said. |
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| His Marlowe is always pushing buttons, probing people for weakness, wresting control of the situation. |
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| Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants. |
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| Besides probing fermium further, the team plans next to study element number 101, mendelevium, Backe says. |
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| Their interrogation was demeaning and humiliating, probing the most intimate details of my personal and family life. |
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| In previous experiments probing stress relaxation, red cells or resealed ghosts were aspirated into micropipettes. |
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| His technique was always testing and interrogatory, probing our logic and beliefs and the validity of our observations. |
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| The responses of roots of both cultivars to mechanical probing and to exoenzymes, used to mimic nematode chemical secretions, were also examined. |
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| The department stumbled upon information pointing to such possibilities while probing into a case of misdeclaration of scrap import cargo. |
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| We must not weaken as we strike again and again, probing and pushing to exploit the enemy's vulnerabilities. |
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| When behaviourism became the dominant paradigm, there were still psychoanalysts probing the depths of the psyche. |
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| Where was the pain of probing the pressure points, the exquisite agony of muscular crystals breaking up under relentless fingers? |
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| I've done some fairly harsh probing on this subject and, to be honest, it turns out to be a really good deal. |
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| Officers believe it glorifies football violence and it is understood that they are probing the legality of the video. |
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| Also the U.S. military is probing a killing of an unarmed insurgent by Marines. |
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| He exposes his characters to an unblinking scrutiny, probing their yearning, desire, and heart-break with eyes wide open. |
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| Fruit cell turgors were obtained by probing the mesocarp cells directly under the fruit epidermis. |
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| I place another wand and ski across, probing with my ski pole so I don't blunder down a hidden orifice. |
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| Fix the enemy in place using skirmishes, artillery, feints, and demonstrations while probing his lines. |
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| A probing, in-depth survey has found that consumer Internet usage is rising. |
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| I know from personal experience when to stop probing, both as the prober and the probee. |
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| She felt his probing gaze on her, felt the intenseness burning in those raven eyes. |
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| In this phase, using higher frequency radio waves, the instrument will continue shallow probing of the subsurface and start atmospheric sounding. |
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| A probing torch beam reveals distant rock faces, giving the impression of great spaciousness, of room to swim and explore. |
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| In that effort her approach was weighty and dark, probing and technically assured. |
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| Later, when he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he gave Anthony Kiedis some serious tonsil probing in the fetishy music video "Warped." |
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| Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones. |
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| Police are also probing whether icy roads contributed to a crash in which a man died. |
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| He shows such critical and probing intensity that he might well push the film beyond the genre of romantic comedy. |
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| The third section focuses on organizational behavior in Chinese firms, probing issues from guanxi to teamwork. |
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| Doctors have been prodding and probing women for centuries to help produce healthy babies. |
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| For what group does not secretly harbor the desire to shield its truths, which it hopes are expressions of Truth itself, from a probing critique? |
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| We sexed each snake by probing its cloaca to detect the presence of hemipenes. |
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| The ibisbill feeds by probing among the cobble and pebbles of the cold streams that it inhabits. |
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| Just as Kato's team was making probing forays over the icefall successive avalanches forced a French expedition to switch its climbing route. |
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| Even here, in the first chapter, the reader is treated to probing analysis and illuminating discussion. |
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| Presidents come and Presidents go, but pestilent enemies of America will always be lurking, probing for cracks in our foundation. |
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| After a moment, she poked at the memory of what had happened, probing it like she probed her sternum. |
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| Feeding quietly, a hoopoe can be surprisingly difficult to detect on the ground especially when probing with long decurved bill. |
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| They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food. |
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| Detectives are probing links between two smash-and-grab robberies on Bolton banks and a ram raid on a Bury bank. |
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| The police spent an hour combing the residence, probing the floor and compound and ransacking the wardrobes. |
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| Instead he plays it for laughs, as perky one-liners replace probing dialogue. |
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| Rescuers are probing the snow for an unknown number of people swept up in the massive avalanche. |
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| When you get an answer, acknowledge it before asking additional probing questions. |
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| Four stately Whimbrels rested quietly amid the dowitchers, which moved quickly and kept probing the mud with their rod-like bills. |
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| Our new sensor-less motor driver uses current pulse probing to initialize the motor after power-up. |
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| When they attacked, Parks was invariably the fulcrum, prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield. |
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| Old crusty reporters know that when an official denies anything, it's a good time to begin probing it. |
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| He courteously includes any stray whim that floats through his mind, however original or trite, and lets it dart away without probing further. |
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| Marine investigators probing the mysterious loss of a Scottish trawler with all hands 27 years ago have obtained crucial new evidence that the boat was unseaworthy. |
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| But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show. |
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| The show coasted on sheer mastery of compas, the rhythmic measure that defines all flamenco, and on the charisma of the artists probing the art's dark and light moods. |
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| Like these bats, honey possums feed by probing flowers with their tongues. |
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| Air accident investigators are probing the cause of the incident. |
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| Thirlwell uses a probing and unique narrative voice which, although jarring at times in its smug omniscience, takes us to the very centre of his characters' anxieties. |
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| Whether all this scanning and probing and patting down is enhancing our collective security is very much in doubt. |
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| In hospital, he was given a blue toy truck to hold before his operation, his small hands touching, probing, exploring the size of it, the shape of it. |
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| A hand slapped up against his face, the thumb probing for his eye socket. |
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| It was the nuggety Troncon who spurred on his forwards, and whose probing runs around the base of the scrum, ruck and maul did so much to unsettle Scotland. |
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| The film is academic and probing about its subject rather than bent on eye-popping thrills that the general audience has been conditioned to expect come showtime. |
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| That his new novel uses photography as a postscript for a moment in history which will forever be indelibly inscribed upon our souls is a gesture both probing and poignant. |
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| For initialization on power-up when a tape is present, the method of pulse probing still can be used, but we must be careful not to spin the motors. |
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| They may conduct reconnaissance by visual observation, by probing, by making ambushes, and by raiding tactical command posts, dumps, and other targets. |
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| There are artful and probing passages about the process of writing that could be used verbatim in M.F.A. classes. |
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| Kauffman scripts tend to have a sharp, off-kilter sense of humor, a probing willingness to deal with outlandish concepts, and a solid grounding in the human heart. |
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| Stephen Hawking looks like a shrunken pile of bones, yet in his scientific investigations he is probing the secrets of the origin of the universe. |
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| Huron Township police say they are probing a second, similar complaint against him. |
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| Police probing the death of a man who drove the wrong way up a motorway slip road, today said he could have been driving erratically just moments before the crash. |
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| His songs are catchy, his lyrics poetic and probing, and he is handsome. |
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| But, as you would expect, the Inspector is no mug and played our fumbling probing with the skill of an experienced fly fisherman, which in fact he is. |
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| Again both players were attacking and probing for possible weak points. |
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| Amazingly KIDS was filmed entirely on a hand-held camera, the probing lens exploring a day in the life of young drop-outs in New York. |
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| Another Scotland opportunity went a-begging when John Barclay failed to grasp an offload at the end of some probing phases. |
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| In tasks probing the interruptibility of speech, speakers can interrupt themselves between movements associated with the same segment. |
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| Exploratory probing took place in the service tunnel, in the form of extensive forward probing, vertical downward probes and sideways probing. |
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| Reinforcements for the Russians gave them the courage to send out probing attacks. |
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| He was a nonmalicious hacker, probing the security of systems without damaging any data. |
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| Their snouts, which are used for digging and probing, are muscular and flexible. |
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| Nothing can beat the simple pleasure of paddling a pram around on a foggy dawn, probing pad flats, stumps and fallen logs for lurking bass. |
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| Mr. Mahanthappa, an alto saxophonist, combines razorlike articulation with a probing style. |
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| Then in early November, Maven will start probing the upper atmosphere of Mars. |
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| One way to avoid this problem is to use microprobes and design the surface pads for probing. |
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| Enter microwave spectroscopy, one of the most sensitive techniques for probing the structure of atoms. |
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| Second, the lack of offsides show Spain's patience when it comes to probing at the opposition. |
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| That's spawned a rash of magazines probing previously untalked about 'men's things' which let's face it, can't be bad. |
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| Police are probing criminal negligence claims after daughter Diane Grimoldby alleged a catalogue of neglect. |
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| Mahr Federal has also introduced a new version of its MMQ 200 Formtester Cylindricity machine with an automated T7W probing system. |
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| International Montoro Resources is using geophysics technology to conduct downhole probing at its Serpent River property. |
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| I hope against hope for some probing questions from Schieffer, too. |
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| Rochberg emblematizes this, advancing probing questions, but always with the support and backup of the texts themselves. |
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| Designed to address the increasing demand for probing of ultra thin and diced wafers, the system can also be used as a standard wafer prober. |
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| British scientists made the discovery while probing deaths of patients with iatrogenic Creuzfeldt Jakob disease. |
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| The Pubic Prosecution has begun probing the incident and the cause of the fight. |
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| Dinnerstein brings her own pianistic expressivity to the Goldberg Variations, probing each variation as if it were something completely new. |
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| Howes begins by probing the psychological development of his subject from childhood to young adulthood, following Erik Erikson's model of psychobiography. |
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| The same column arrived at the outskirts of Boulogne that evening and began shelling and probing the Irish Guards positions in the south of the town. |
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| But every time she went to an interview the employer would bring up her nonmusicality, and ask probing questions that had nothing to do with the job or her skills. |
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| We have shown that fast sampling is possible using noncontacting laser probing, and we have presented a working preliminary configuration for the sensor. |
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| Later, after several days of probing American defences at White Marsh, Howe inexplicably ordered a retreat to Philadelphia, astonishing both sides. |
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| Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders. |
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| Isothermally probing the mechanical response of each of these glasses, we infer a correspondence with viscosity along the equilibrium line, up to exapoise values. |
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| It can take you to faraway places, probing the ice caps of Antarctica, studying the tribesmen of Amazonia or diving to the depths of the oceanic abyss. |
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| With LOFAR we will achieve a much better sensitivity at lower energies, also probing for new physics, like the decays of cosmic strings predicted by supersymmetric theories. |
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| Among his topics are variables and expressions, macro functions, a review of subprograms, complex motion generation, probing, and programmable data input. |
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| Neal Wilkins, the man who issues the starting prices for most of Britain's top race meetings, was arrested by officers probing allegations of a betting fraud. |
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| Mr Williams, who lived with his girlfriend, was into bondage and mummification and police probing his death had found drugs, a gas mask and ties in his rucksack. |
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| Never lapsing into mere pastiche, Tin Hat Trio fuses the structural incisiveness of classical with the sensual fluidity of jazz, offset by probing, avant-garde atonalities. |
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| Astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral galaxy. |
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| Because of the modulation produced by cracks, the resulting ultrasonic signals contain newly generated frequencies, or sideband signals to the original probing frequency. |
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| Other treatment modalities include use of sialogogues to increase salivary flow, encouragement of fluid intake, massage, and duct probing and dilation. |
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| While following a mixed-species flock foraging in pine-oak forest, we observed a strong-billed woodcreeper probing a bromeliad on a branch of an oak tree ca. |
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| For example, the analysis of shadowgraphs produced by infrared lasers probing animal tissue could produce images of the tissue's internal structure. |
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| Though red-winged blackbirds have returned and cardinals are finally singing loudly, earthworm-dependent woodcock are still far south probing softer grounds. |
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| A second ad-hoc committee tasked with probing the activities of the former Bulgarian President and Vice President, Parvanov and Marin, was set up Wednesday in Parliament. |
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| The Canadian scientists claim that their new method of probing molecular structure has yielded the most revealing image so far of an electron's wave function. |
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| They forage in soft mud, probing or picking up food by sight. |
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| Rooney was the subject of some mischievous probing from the Russia media before the game as they suggested his retreat into midfield was a measure of his declining powers. |
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| The Panzer Army was probing for a weakness, but without success. |
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| Probing the topsy-turvy jumble of wreckage, I spotted the parallel lines of tank tracks. |
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| Probing questions are exactly what DoD needs, no matter how unpolitic they may be. |
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| Probing the images by which we construct our world, he has managed to make the multitudinous and chaotic, if not completely comprehensible, then at least approachable. |
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| Probing atomic motion in proteins is difficult, however, both theoretically as well as experimentally, and we know very little quantitively about this problem. |
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| Probing the dimeric structure of porcine aminoacylase 1 by mass spectrometric and modeling procedures. |
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| Probing of the receptor-binding sites of the H1 and H3 influenza A and influenza B virus hemagglutinins by synthetic and natural sialosides. |
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