Word Finder - endurance

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The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.

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He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.

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Ability to endure hardship.

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The length of time that a ship's rations will supply

I never saw such strength and endurance in a child.

His bay gelding had the sleek lines of a racehorse and the look of endurance as well.

Constructive pardon is obtained by endurance of the punishment.

Although he greatly enjoyed the outdoor business of the engineer's life it strained his physical endurance too much, and in 1871 was reluctantly exchanged for study at the Edinburgh bar, to which he was called in 1875.

The combination of ductility, which lessens the tendency to break when overstrained or distorted, with a very high limit of elasticity, gives it great value for shafting, the merit of which is measured by its endurance of the repeated stresses to which its rotation exposes it whenever its alignment is not mathematically straight.

No wonder then if in the earlier years of the war the Order recovered its lost ground, and the king, irritated beyond endurance by the suicidal parsimony of the estates, threatened to retire to the forests of Lithuania.

Grant's endurance and daring had won what was perhaps the greatest success of the war.

Here the " Endurance " was beset in the ice on Jan.

The second quality is endurance.

Against these the church is not to attempt to use physical force; its only weapon is to be passive endurance and loyalty to God.

The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness.

He was obviously at the end of his endurance.

But though his book brought him no profit it brought him reputation, so widely spread, and of such long endurance, as no other legal treatise has ever enjoyed.

Extraordinary skill and endurance were shown by the men who carried the norimono and the kago, but none the less these vehicles were both profoundly uncomfortable.

He wished for nothing and hoped for nothing, and deep in his heart experienced a gloomy and stern satisfaction in an uncomplaining endurance of his position.

Soccer takes an amazing amount of endurance, speed, agility, mental strength and physical strength.

She was eloquent of speech and endowed with endurance.

Fat is an abundant source of energy for the endurance athlete.

What, long-distance XC skiing requires different endurance than long-distance running?

Between 12 and 14 years an increase in aerobic and anaerobic endurance and speed can be added.

But his brilliantly white, strong teeth which showed in two unbroken semicircles when he laughed--as he often did--were all sound and good, there was not a gray hair in his beard or on his head, and his whole body gave an impression of suppleness and especially of firmness and endurance.

Although my right arm remained paralyzed, the rest of my body regained most of the strength and endurance I had before my illness.

If the mom had a difficult delivery, is especially fatigued, or needed to have a Caesarean section, the first seven days can literally be an endurance test.

Each season, Dempsey and his teammates compete in 14 endurance races, lasting for up to 24 hours at a time, with two drivers switching off at intervals.

This country has spared neither pains nor money in carrying out penal processes, and the Belgian prisons are examples of the cellular system prolonged to the utmost limits of human endurance.

The Turkoman horse of Khorasan and the Atak is a large, bony and clumsy-looking quadruped, with marvellous power and endurance.

In the Cuban campaign he won particular distinction, and the victory of the Americans in the action of El Caney was in large measure due to his careful personal reconnaissances of the ground to be attacked and to the endurance of his own brigade.

It will enhance the capability to predict and enhance the endurance of components and machinery.

However, aerobic endurance is not just acquired by steady running.

The objective of the exercise program for Class I muscles or limbs is to increase muscle strength and cardiovascular endurance.

Laverty also needed to work hard on increasing his physical endurance.

This series boasts more amazing tales of human endurance than you'll witness in a lifetime.

But each low-pressure correct repetition will contribute to increasing their muscle endurance.

Quick explosive bounds over distances of 30 to 60 meters are very beneficial toward speed endurance training.

In 1962 success was achieved again at the 24 hours endurance race at Le Mans.

For Sale - Horses 14.3 part bred arab gelding - fit and ready Novice level endurance.

Changes from endurance they can apply the road manes.

I wrote four teenage fiction novels before I wrote Divine Endurance which was my first adult SF novel.

Even the endurance runners expressed an improved feeling of ' strength ' .

Endurance sports such as marathon running can cause stress fractures, fatigue, and cause menstrual periods to stop in some women.

The now traditional races and endurance tests were held in the Theater at the end of the course.

The horse of Cambodia is only from 1 i to 1 2 hands in height, but is strong and capable of great endurance; the buffalo is the chief draught animal.

The small Magyar horse, once famous for its swiftness and endurance, was improved during the Turkish wars, so far as height and beauty were concerned, by being crossed with Arabs; but it degenerated after the 17th century as the result of injudicious crossbreeding.

Owing to its endurance of thirst the long desert journeys which separate the populous centres are made practicable, and in the spring months, when green forage is plentiful in the desert, the Bedouins pitch their camps for long periods far from any water, and not only men but horses subsist on camel's milk.

In connexion with this work it must be remembered that Vambery could write down but a few furtive notes while with the dervishes, and dared not take a single sketch; but the weird scenes, with their misery and suffering, were so strongly impressed on his memory that his, book is convincing by its simplicity, directness and evidence of heroic endurance.

The problem of the atonement is the means or condition of the restoration of man to God's favour; this has been variously found (a) in the endurance of punishment; (b) in the payment of compensation for the wrong done, the compensation consisting of sacrifices and other offerings; (c) in the performance of magical or other ritual, the efficacy of the ritual consisting in its being pleasing to or appointed by God, or even in its having a coercive power over the deity; (d) in repentance and amendment of life.

The spirit of courage and endurance which had enabled the Czechoslovaks to achieve their independence was now to inspire a further work of no mean significance - the consolidation of a free, democratic and enlightened republic in the heart of Europe, the most westerly outpost of the great Slavonic world stretching from the banks of the Elbe and the Danube to the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time a nation bound by ties of gratitude and common interest to the Anglo-Saxon and Latin races.

The leaf-like female figure has the air of a survivor; her sinewy frame suggests the capacity for endurance.

Strength Endurance -- can you sustain your power output right up to the finish line?

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