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The civil rights coalition was tearing itself apart in disputes over tactics, money, and who would get the most exposure in the press.
Failure mode III occurs at higher strain rates in which ligament tearing predominates over bone avulsion.
There are three failure mechanisms [ 1 2 ] . The first is midsubstance tearing in which the fibers of the ligament pull apart in the tissue, generally during a fast loading rate.
The murals and reliefs at Mayan cities tell gory tales of beheading and the tearing out of human hearts to appease the lords of the underworld.
Still, because these borrowed, aberrant words represent relatively rare infractions of the time-honored rules of grammar, I doubt that matters will ever reach the point where literate Greeks would be driven to gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair by Greek equivalents of barbarisms such as to you and I and Us teachers are ....