The news reported from the abortive rocket launch. From LearnThat.org.
An abortive revolt. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term abortive organ has been thus applied to above structure (as. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
James, cut off in the prime of life, may almost be called the abortive. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
There is another grand class of facts relating to what are called abortive organs. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
He vetoed it because, he believes, EC is an "abortive" drug. From Wordnik.com. [Cristina Page: Republican Presidential Candidates Announce a Bold New Plan for American Women: Do-it-Yourself Abortion] Reference
Mitt Romney, as Governor of Massachussetts, vetoed a contraception bill claiming the emergency contraception was an "abortive" drug. From Wordnik.com. [Cristina Page: What the Huck?] Reference
The "abortive" reference, though, was to an interesting little fight within the Clinton campaign in which Verdi was on the losing side. From Wordnik.com. [Freddy's Third Guru] Reference
This case of "abortive" human rabies appears to be a first, the researchers said. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
FitzGerald himself had dreamed up several abortive schemes. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Cover-Up] Reference
All necessary steps were at once taken to render such an attempt abortive. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I am inclined to regard the body rather as an abortive axis than an undeveloped fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
"It's amazing," says Paul Goldman, who ran Douglas Wilder's abortive presidential campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Stepping It Up] Reference
Potential targets for new abortive therapies include nitric oxide and glutamine inhibitors. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Live Healthier] Reference
There was not the slightest appearance of placentæ or anything indicating an abortive fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The U.S. Embassy in Bishkek said it was not informed of the abortive plan to remove the mayor. From Wordnik.com. [In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy] Reference
In the aftermath of the abortive Moscow coup, the Soviet Union in its present form is all but defunct. From Wordnik.com. [A Multinational Empire] Reference
In 1988, when Gramm ran an abortive campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, McCain was at his side. From Wordnik.com. [Gaffe Alert!] Reference
Is it to be supposed that the divine government is based on any possibility of good efforts being abortive?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The second row also consists of three stamens, all of which are usually abortive and inseparable from the column. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Some favored Greenwald, who left the company two years ago to head an abortive leveraged buyout of United Airlines. From Wordnik.com. [At Chrysler's Wheel: A 'Car Guy'] Reference
So far, the picture is not as gloomy as it was in 1990-91, but the risks of an abortive recovery (page 30) are real. From Wordnik.com. [A Dynasty's Dilemma] Reference
It collapsed when he refused to denounce an abortive raid on an Israeli beach by one of the more radical PLO factions. From Wordnik.com. [Can Arafat Survive His Latest Blunder?] Reference
How many times have I followed in the darkness the pale and vacillating gleams of a spark flickering in abortive life!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The cup in question would thus seem to have been formed from the connation of two stipules which are ordinarily abortive. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
They may be mere outgrowths from one or other of the customary whorls, or they may represent abortive stamens or petals, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The column is considered to be made up of one perfect and three abortive stamens, in inseparable connection with three styles. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The abortive coup, in my view, was directed above all against the forces that were trying to undo 74 years of Communist history. From Wordnik.com. [Dealing With A New Russia] Reference
And it was there that he kept close contact with the leaders of Venezuela's abortive coup against President Hugo Chavez in April. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomatic Diary: Missing In Action] Reference
During the War the Idrisi, who had long been in revolt against the Turks in northern Yamen, kept making half-hearted and abortive dabs at. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
The Spanish expedition having thus proved abortive, the Flamborough man of war, commanded by Captain Hildesley, returned to her station at. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
There are a number of medications that are really helpful, and in the book I divide them up into preventive, abortive and rescue medicines. From Wordnik.com. [Headaches From Hell] Reference
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