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Examples of pulling

pulling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

How could they really be their own women, carped the press, when they had male songwriters and a male manager 'pulling the strings'?
The media are now pulling the strings even more than a decade earlier.
The effect of pulling rate on the distribution of force-unfolding values leads to rate constants for unfolding.
The performance begins with performers pulling each mike back like a swing and releasing them in unison.
There must be a larger set of previous decisions pulling in a certain direction, as it were, to make sense of 19.
In fact, however, the state was abandoning direct control in favour of a more indirect approach: talk of the state 'pulling out' was simplistic.
Each phase of the attachment procedure was simulated by a pulling model except the pivoting action of the cams for yaw and pitch alignments.
The result is a feeling of gravity pulling the sound towards a single point between the two spatial anchors.
Of the remaining third, one stopped pulling the chains altogether for 5 days and another for 12 days after witnessing the shock of the object.
Cars and more pick-vips started pulling off the main road into the carpark.
The troops systematically targeted altar rails, pulling them down and burning them and removing the communion table back into the body of the church.
The scarce seromuscular tunic of the vesical placental vessels often makes them go unnoticed during the pulling manoeuvres, since they collapse as veins.
Others were jostling for a chance of pulling the chariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.
Instead, our results suggest that convective drawdown plays a role by pulling lithosphere toward the zone of maximum shortening.
The examiner can test these by standing behind the patient and, after a warning, pulling suddenly against the shoulders.
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