It provides a cushion.

I borrowed your pin cushion.

The great majority of cases occur in the lowest of the lumbar vertebrae (L5), but spondylolysis may also occur in the other lumbar vertebrae, as well as in the thoracic vertebrae.

Do you have the air cushion?

It's gone down behind the cushion.

Because it provides a cushion on acidity.

This cushion, this frame it's all her.

Meg had a cushion, Jo a book,

The peak of this convexity is at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3).

With a pedestal type cushion at her feet,

Last time, a dog came and ripped my cushion.

Leave him. I don't want him bleeding over my cushion.

Galvani showed that a frog's legs twitched when he connected the lumbar nerve to a source of electrical current.

Because people used to sew and they needed a pin cushion.

It may not heal your grief, but it will cushion it.

Now you will learn, I told you to put a cushion there.

Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.

Malawi could therefore hardly sustain or cushion this kind of massive damage to its economy.

It wasn't right. When I made the promise, I didn't say anything about a cushion.

He had to sit on a cushion, stand still, not move, because it was very painful.

Fortunately, China s relatively strong fiscal and foreign exchange positions can cushion the economy against short term shocks.

This process requires a lot of cushion space between the point she starts falling and the ground.

Moreover, the European welfare state will cushion the impact of the economic crash, at least for some time.

This amount would allow UNITAR to create a working reserve fund to cushion itself against irregular voluntary contributions.

And I put 100 million cells in his cisterna magna, in his lumbar cord, and filled out the IRBs and did all this work, and I never really knew.

And I put 100 million cells in his cisterna magna, in his lumbar cord, and filled out the IRBs and did all this work, and I never really knew.

Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.

Emerging market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows.

At the time the French government favoured new technology, exploring the production of hovercraft and the Aérotrain air cushion vehicle.

In the countries of sub Saharan Africa, State budgetary allocations were not enough to cushion the negative effects of adjustments.

That's what a buffer is, and it's called a buffer because it provides you this kind of cushion of pH.

Mother has so many keys she cannot wear them at her belt so a maid carries them on a cushion

The quality of cut can be inferior if the grass is pushed away from the blade by the cushion of air.

However, to the extent that public investment grows, aggregate demand increases correspondingly, generating some growth and creating a cushion against recession.

The Committee was pleased that the Government had recognized the need to cushion the impact on women of its structural adjustments

It is incumbent upon the Government to cushion the negative side effects of transition without altering the essential direction of reform.

Usually the hip (head of the femur), lower back (lumbar spine) or heel (calcaneum) are imaged, and the bone density (amount of calcium) is determined and given a number (a T score).

We therefore call for fairer rules to govern international business and trade, in particular measures to cushion the impacts of adverse changes.

It funded the investment imperatives of economic development and boosted the cushion of foreign exchange reserves that has shielded China from external shocks.

From a side view, the cervical (neck) region of the spine (C1 C7) is bent inward, the thoracic (upper back) region (T1 T12) bends outward, and the lumbar (lower back) region (L1 L5) bends inward.

In particular, if the firm s equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.

This breakdown suggests that the 8 trillion cushion would be sufficient to offset potential losses arising from higher risk credit in China s commercial banking sector.

Such an arrangement would provide a cushion to protect investors from potential or unanticipated declines in the expected flow of revenue available for debt servicing.

In a few weeks, we will put in place a social safety net that will cushion the impact of high oil prices on the poor.

In recognition of these concerns, negotiating partners needed to seek to extend adequate transitory adjustment support measures to cushion developing countries from anticipated trade shocks.