Having it presented as a war correspondent's network television report is a fine, and very effective stroke.

In future, this research may yield more effective stroke treatments.

The play's anti-drug message is delivered unsentimentally in broad but effective strokes.

Swift crime - effective strokes - these were the policies with which Wolf Barlan expected to defy the law.

When she began again, she managed a series of effective strokes, knocking off chips much smaller than Cieri's, but not making any serious mistakes.

Her most effective stroke, her one-handed backhand, betrayed her.

The DP extends the effective stroke length.

Here and there a coney peeped out and fled, and a woodpecker toiled with sharp, effective stroke.

At the start, Sweden led with an energetic stroke of 36, while the Danes rowed a longer but very effective stroke, which they used to perfection.

The Guardian reviewer Dan Martin described the story as "slight and straightforward [but] told it in broad and effective strokes" with "gorgeous" visuals.

When it happens to encounter an obstacle, the "effective stroke" of its cilia is reversed and the organism swims backward for a brief time, before resuming its forward progress.

It was not a really effective stroke because Brother Paul had poor vision and poorer leverage, but the good sword gouged out a patch of scales and laid open the dark inner flesh.

These two faults, or rather, the fact that the Norwegian crew had not reached the same degree of perfection as the English, probably had been covered, rowing a quiet effective stroke of about 32 per minute.

The beat of each cilium has two phases: a fast "effective stroke," during which the cilium is relatively stiff, followed by a slow "recovery stroke," during which the cilium curls loosely to one side and sweeps forward in a counter-clockwise fashion.

When I went to Southold the day after the hurricane and walked up the street strewn with storm debris, she was out on her front walk, her small figure impeccable in a yellow-checked pantsuit, sweeping with neat effective strokes, against a background of enormous broken limbs piled high up and down the block.

One of the best ways to go faster is to push further in each stroke, but whereas traditionally this requires sitting lower (restricting blood flow and increasing lactic acid production in the muscles), in DP the same leg at a higher bend angle can achieve a longer effective stroke by pushing both inward and outwards.