The spasms usually spare the facial muscles.

My sister says i have heart spasms.

But these spasms will not revive the corpse.

It's called an epilepse because of the arching caused by muscular spasms the contortions.

The spasms are painful and progressive and their frequency varies from 1 or 2 to 100 per day, each lasting a few minutes.

The irony is that, even in that slogan s heyday, Sino Russian relations were deteriorating fast, culminating in spasms of combat along the Amur River in Siberia less than a decade later.

With the drip feed of QE induced liquidity now at risk, the recent spasms in financial markets leave little doubt about the growing dangers of speculative excesses that had been building.

One might object to comparing America s desire to export democracy at the barrel of a gun to Russia s imperial death spasms under Yeltsin and Putin. But, whether we like it or not, there is a strong parallel between them both countries are perceived to be dictating to Muslims.

The rain pattered and swished in the garden a water pipe (it must have had a hole in it) performed just outside the window a parody of blubbering woe with funny sobs and gurgling lamentations, interrupted by jerky spasms of silence.... A bit of shelter, he mumbled and ceased.

This is the extent of my experience, and I ve had a much better outcome than many others, one that got me to this moment, where I m able to write and finish this. It was a better end despite needing months of treatment for a pulmonary infection, nervous spasms and chronic hypertension.

If Israel refused to leave the occupied territories in the past, how can it be expected to do so now, when the Islamic State is creeping toward the border? Doing so would raise massive new risks, in stark contrast to the brief spasms of violence that now punctuate Israel s otherwise stable security situation.