Skier's maneuver

Usage examples of stemming.

Apprehensively, he watched the speedometer mete out his remaining freedom in diminishing seconds of arc, stemming the urge to brake to a stop and bolt headlong up the tunnel on foot.

There he directed the operations, quickly organizing and sorting out the problems of the most affected divisions: Rajshahi, Dhaka itself, Barisal, and finally Chittagong, which had its own special problems stemming from Kaptai Lake.

When the gamma rays finally strike Banner the Younger, they activate mutated genetic material that has been passed down to him from his father, and they further serve to amplify a rage born of childhood trauma, this stemming from a terrible domestic event involving his mother that Bruce has blacked out and is fragmentarily revealed during the course of the film.

But these were just kinesthesis and touch, primitive notions stemming from the premise of a body.

De geur daarvan bereikte Marcs neus toen het zingen net begon en hoewel hem was verteld dat het kunstenaars waren, riep het geheel voor hem de stemming en het ontzag van een godsdienstige plechtigheid op.

She struck me as the sort of woman who, a hundred years ago, might have spent long years in a sanitarium with a series of misdiagnoses stemming from anxiety, un-happiness, laudanum addiction, or an aversion to sex.

The Treatise analyzes this contradiction as stemming from Harry's middle-class upbringing, from which he has never been able to escape.

Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese?

Cat tried to stop the memory of the hateful day before her banishment, like stemming flood tides.

And yet she had brought him and his cell vital information, intelligence that would go a long way to stemming the tide of death among them.

The pair was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Little Rock on murder, racketeering and conspiracy charges, stemming from the Mueller murder.

The user is left with a feeling of disorientation (to say nothing of annoyance) stemming from a kind of metaphor shear--you realize that you've been living and thinking inside of a metaphor that is essentially bogus.

The small human genetic pool, itself stemming from variations of the original metagenome according to a mathematical formula provided by Original Man, needed the constant creation of new genotypes from unexploited alleles.

Indeed, the dominant idea in all the major religions stemming from this area — Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — is that there is but one people on earth that has received the Word, one holy people of one tradition, and that its members, then, are the members of one historic body — not such a natural, cosmic body as that of the earlier (and now Eastern) mythologies, but a supernaturally sanctified, altogether exceptional social body with its own often harshly unnatural laws.

There was a cultural price too, stemming from the fact that we couldn't open up the hood and mess around with it.