Likewise, chokes are usually not applied to the point where they cut off the oxygen supply to the opponent's brain.

Stage one has the rider applying the brake just to the point where there is the slightest friction between the brake pads and disc.

A portable stimulator is being developed, he said, and some use a wrist band with a lump that applies pressure to the point.

A glass cover slip is held at an angle and the mono-suspension applied to the point of contact between the coverslip and the slide.

The bride will have her make-up applied by a professional artist to the point where she looks almost like a completely different individual.

"So if my calculations are correct, from the time the ligature was applied to the point of death might have been anywhere from nine to eleven minutes?"

Biscoe Point was the name applied to the rocky point found in the approximate location in 1955.

Then an upward (positive) reaction is applied to the point where the support was.

The term is applied to the triple point of a chemical substance, at which the solid, liquid and gaseous states can coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

Acupressure wrist bands apply pressure to the Nei-kuan point, which traditional Chinese medicine says controls nausea.