Sentences with phrase «at slow wind»

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Slow growth is a painful process, but one that usually winds up in at a very successful end.

In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of her slow trudge through the far - spreading and ever - uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind... [The shoes] are pervaded by uncomplaining worry as to the certainty of bread, the wordless joy of having once more withstood want, the trembling before the impending childbed and shivering at the surrounding menace of death.

It is estimated that at least one in every four ducks shot will escape wounded — only to suffer from untreated injuries and to potentially die a slow and cruel death.

Not only does it look so much faster than traditional onboards (even at these slow speeds) but watching it, you can almost feel the wind and the rain and the cold coming right out of the computer screen at you.

At least 17 people were killed and 90 wounded in the shelling of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School early on Wednesday, but instead of slowing the pace of the military offensive it appears to have encouraged it, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling up another 16,000 Israeli army reservists.

In Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 - 2010 (Profile, # 20.00) Mullin documents the slow wind down to leaving the Commons and while perceptive, and at times funny, it has a sad endgame feel to it.

New research from an international group led by Min Zhao, professor of ophthalmology and of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, shows that, in animal models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds.

Other labeled parts of the heliosphere are its outer edge (heliopause), the point at which the solar wind slows in speed (termination shock) and the region between those two boundaries (heliosheath).

«I am very interested in these wind speed increases and whether they may have also played some role in slowing down the warming at the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Sherwood.

Computers in the soundproof motor room at the top of the shaft can sense sway caused by earthquakes or high winds and can slow or stop the elevator cab if necessary.

This upper wind speed is slow compared to winds on Earth because the Sun's effect on the atmosphere is much smaller at Titan's distance.

At the same time, poleward shifts of westerly winds in the Southern Ocean reduced the region's ability to suck up CO2 as have mid-latitude droughts, which slowed the growth rate of forests and plants that capture carbon.

In gymnosperms, wind deposits a pollen grain on an exposed egg cell, and then the pollen tube — growing at the slow rate of 20 micrometers an hour — releases an enzyme that destroys any tissue blocking the sperm's entrance into the egg cell.

This could be because like wind turbines, the blades rotate at relatively slow speeds.

«Sand falls out where the wind slows down,» explains the study's corresponding author, Matthew Bampton, a geographer at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.

At the same time another shock wave rebounds off the slow wind, back through the fast wind, toward the star.

A lizard's stripes may make them look like they're moving slower than they really are, confusing predators that tend to aim at the head but may wind up with the tail.

Steroids have been effective at suppressing inflammation, but if used for long - term treatment they can cause serious side effects such as increased risk of infections, liver damage, fluid retention, increased blood pressure, weight gain, easy bruising and slower wound healing.

Interestingly, those same winds are thought to be part of the mechanism burying heat in the Pacific Ocean, leading to the slower pace of rising temperatures at the planet's surface in recent decades.

«The stars that form in the wind close to the galaxy centre might slow down and even start heading back inwards, but the stars that form further out in the flow experience less deceleration and can even fly off out of the galaxy altogether,» said co-author Helen Russell, from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

This would slow, but not stop our transition to wind and solar power — because their cost is at last low enough to out - compete fossil fuel energy in many states.

Once Ulysses was in its scheduled orbit, it began observing the solar wind and magnetic field strength at high solar latitudes, finding that the solar wind from high latitudes was moving at about 750 km / s (slower than expected), and that there were large magnetic waves emerging from high latitudes which scattered galactic cosmic rays.

My dad is diabetic and had a slow healing wound, and finally he was given pads with sliver in them (usually saved for burn victims at our local health care facility), and the infection cleared up in two weeks.

When you move at this pace without slowing down you are adding more strain onto the muscle groups which keeps the elliptical in motion thus recreating an environment similar to running against the wind or uphill if you were outdoors.

When essential oils are used topically, they are absorbed into the blood stream and wind up being processed by the liver but at a much slower pace.

«Stress can also slow wound healing, contribute to the reactivation of latent viruses and increase vulnerability to viral infections,» says Keri Tuit, clinical psychologist at Yale University.

When an elderly woman flashes a piece at a one of the gunmen, she's blown away in graphic fashion, fitted with a slow - mo blast and exit wound.

I felt as though I was watching the slow decline of Kate's character — Her bike is stolen, relationships didn't work out for her, she was downsizing to a smaller apartment, she was messy and sloppy in her living conditions and relationships (she didn't rush her friend to the hospital when he hurt himself helping her move), she was about to lose her best friend to marriage (where she would have no place), she was starting to sleep around with the guys at work, her job was going nowhere, she was shallow, and if she continued to drink at the same rate she'd most likely incur health problems, lose her job and wind up living under a freeway overpass.

, Draw a Plant or Tree, The Sky, The Wind, Pet Rock, Decorate A Small Space, Garden In A Box, Simple Exercise, Clean Mind and Heart, Mini-Campfire, Tiny World, Travel At Home, Do Nothing On Purpose, Slow Down, Enjoy Your Food, Bird - watching, A Simple Poem

The steering itself has a variable ratio; it's slower just around straight ahead, quickening as you wind lock on, a common and neat trick to combine high - speed stability with a feeling of agility at lower speeds.

Now at speeds over 25 mph the AIRCAP system deploys automatically, and at speeds less than 10 mph the wind deflector in the windshield frame is automatically retracted again to present the E-Class Cabriolet in its purest and most beautiful form during slow driving and at a stop.

So I shifted into four - wheel drive and tested the Pathfinder at slow speeds in an area with thick sand and on a bumpy, winding dirt road in Longwood.

Top down, there is more wind buffeting at slower speeds than at freeway speeds, oddly enough.

Variable - ratio steering uses a slower ratio around the center position for improved precision at speed, and a faster ratio when additional steering lock is applied to increase agility on winding roads.

The breaks at Cape Naturaliste, such as the Farm and Boneyards, are protected from the winds and have a slow take - off so they're great for beginners.

When we arrived at the Ritz, the edge of Typhoon Mujigae was whipping the city with rain and wind, which meant the hotel had to slow down the elevators, so an ascent that should have taken quick 53 seconds took 2 - 3 minutes.

It's slow in Nias at present with little people around so everyone is casual and enjoying the surfing fun Onshore during the middle of the day with the wind and... [Read more...]

I don't know that Wind Waker changed me in any identifiable way, but that slow float between islands is something I've come back to in my head over and over again in the years since, as a metaphor for where my life was at the time.

First, at the risk of sounding ageist, because of the hierarchical nature of Japanese companies, it winds up being that the most senior executives at the company cut their teeth during NES and Super NES days and do not really understand modern gaming, so adopting things like online gaming, account systems, friends lists, as well as understanding the rise of PC gaming has been very slow.

Yet the game also came in for its fair share of criticism for its slow and inconsequential opening, largely empty world, bland colour palette, litany of rupee - related annoyances, relative lack of difficulty and slavish devotion to aping Ocarina at the expense of the freshness offered by predecessors Majora's Mask and the aforementioned Wind Waker.

My own view is, (a) if we wind up at the lower end of the IPCC expected warming, maybe we shouldn't be spending large sums to avert it, whereas if we are likely to land at the high end, the costs miht start to get fairly grave (b) nobody has a very good idea how much it would really cost to avert, or slow, global warming (hope this doesn't contradict (a)-RRB-.

Also it works in reverse, any cooling effect gets a slowdown in convective feedback — eg at night there tends to be a very quiet no wind time at 3 am — ie the convection feedback has slowed the winds down below normal.

Wind in Oklahoma is expected to continue to grow, although at a slower pace than in previous years, according to Teague.

Experiments at a site in Indiana in 2012 showed that feathering turbines when winds were slow reduced bat deaths by 30 percent on average.

Bravo to the new Victorian government for slowing the wind farm nonsense, at least.

For example, if wind supplied 15 % of the electricity, it would save less than 15 % of fuel because other generators backing up the wind must often run at idle even when the wind is blowing and because their fuel economy suffers when they have to ramp up and slow down to compensate for variability in wind.

But the question remains, just looking at [E] «During the El Niño phase, the trade winds first slow, then reverse.

Much of it is forced down and it flows back to the east at 200 metres depth and when the warm water surfaces at the Galapogos Islands in 9 months (replaceing the water which is flowing east - west at the surface), it starts to slow down the Trade Winds because of the convection effect.

If the wind is more than a slow drift, it might not be very much at all.

What we get instead are winds at the equator that are slower than the earths rotation.