Sentences with phrase «system shock by»

Peace Walker takes a disturbing turn away from this, sort of like when Irrational «improved» System Shock by adding stats... taking a richly simulated world and reducing it to a mere RPG (albeit a good one).

Not exact matches

By investing big in yourself (and you are, without question, your greatest asset) you shock your subconscious system.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

In particular, Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have the highest degree of outward spillovers as measured by the average percentage of capital loss of other banking systems due to banking sector shock in the source country...

But Munger, who says he is «not a normal Republican,» shocked people by endorsing a «single - payer» medical system similar to what operates in all of Europe and Canada.

It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey.

Thus Ferdinand Mount, in an otherwise astute essay on America's bicentennial, comments on the shock effect of Watergate: What Europeans are bewildered by is the American's affectation of pained surprise on receiving a specific proof of the corruption he knows to be endemic to his political system.

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

Ever since Aum Shinrikyo, another new religion, shocked the nation by releasing deadly sarin gas in Tokyo's subway system in 1995, many Japanese have eyed religion in general with great suspicion.

While, therefore, under the early Hebrew system a shocking absence of regard for womanhood is revealed in some narratives, so that Professor J. M. Powis Smith can even say that in the early traditions of Israel, «Chivalry is conspicuous by its almost total absence,» (The Moral Life of the Hebrews, p. 41.)

While the addition of this spread range filter substantially increased the return on investment for our moneyline system, we were shocked by the results for the spread system.

Sometimes I'm shocked by the level of desperation and panic that creaps into our system whenever there's any little mishap in our great imaginations.

Where as our players should be used to the cycle of the weekend followed by the midweek game, it might come as a shock to the system for Everton, particularly in the dying quarter of the game.

Baby cereals are also made to be easily processed by your babe's still - developing digestive system, and the smooth texture isn't too much of a shock for them as a first food after their first 6 months of a completely liquid diet.

This BOB stroller incorporates an innovative and adjustable suspension system to absorb the shock experienced by the riders in the stroller.

Shocked by all the sugary treats that he was getting in class, I consulted a couple of health - conscious moms whose children were further along in the school system.

In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

We were shocked to learn of workarounds of the tax system that were considered normal behaviour by big corporations but which appalled the individual taxpayer.

While this research is specifically about the impact of the Independence Referendum on the British party system, and more generally part of a narrative to be published next year in the British Election Study book (to be published by Oxford University Press) about the role of political events and shocks in explaining electoral change, it is interesting to speculate about possible lessons for the EU referendum.

According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System's formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova.

While her research did not find a «smoking gun,» definitively proving that the radioactive isotopes were injected by a shock wave, Telus did show that the amount of Fe - 60 present in the early Solar System is consistent with a supernova origin.

Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by «harvesting» the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air conditioning has become a major goal in automotive engineering.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

«We think the nickel - phosphorus - iron grains formed pre-solar, because they are inside the matrix, and are unlikely to have been modified by shock such as collision with the Earth's atmosphere or surface, and also because their composition is so alien to our solar system,» he adds.

Recent synchrotron advances and the development of dynamic compression platforms have created the ability to investigate extreme states of matter on short timescales at X-ray beamlines using shock waves generated by impact systems.

Counterintuitively, it is not the bacteria or its toxins that make toxic shock fatal, but rather the overzealous inflammatory response triggered and perpetuated by the immune system.

Shocks to the grid But that pace of growth has placed a severe strain on the country's vertically integrated utilities, according to Japanese energy experts, who say the surge in solar power threatens to overwhelm the country's transmission and distribution systems, which since the 1950s have been organized to serve each of the 10 distinct distribution areas and are not bound together by a robust transmission system.

Washington, DC — According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System's formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova.

The project may involve the following topics: — Interaction of the solar wind with magnetised and unmagnetised planets — Space weather forecasts — Numerical (HPC) and analytical modelling of MHD wave processes and jets in solar and astrophysical plasma — MHD wave observations and solar magneto - seismology — Application of advanced data analysis to solar system science — Physics of collisionless shocks (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)-- Analysis of multi-point measurements made by space missions, e.g Cluster (ESA), THEMIS (NASA), MMS (NASA)

«This resonates with the cautionary message of the landmark 2015 study by Lloyd's of London, which showed that the global food system is actually under significant pressure from potential, coinciding shocks, such as bad weather combined with crop disease outbreaks,» Braun said.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

Ive had many family members go through the health - care system, and it just shocks me that we leave so many people by the wayside in this country.

«Not only will this make the entire process more enjoyable by avoiding shocking your system (and the detox headaches and fatigue that go with that), but it will also make it sustainable.

For example, when you're moving from bulking to cutting, you don't want a sudden shock to your system by going down in calorie consumption.

Its cumulative effects are slow however, and I was by now very ill, and could not withstand further shocks to my system.

Dr Rolf Issels, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Munich, notes that the heat produced in an infrared sauna can create «heat shock» proteins on the surfaces of cancer cells, causing them to be more vulnerable to attack by the immune system.

It won't be a dramatic shock to your system, then, to see that «Invincible,» the tale of an average Joe... or, in this case, an average Vince... who becomes an unlikely football hero, was produced by the same folks who were behind «The Rookie» (Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray).

While the story is not exactly something that offers a fresh perspective on science fiction horror, it is executed brilliantly and together with the gameplay, provides an experience that shouldn't be missed by those who enjoyed some of the cult classics like Bioshock and System Shock.

On collegiate turf, doltish Michael would be no competition for Laney's feelings against the quick - witted Troy, whose aloofness is easily romanticized, but in the «real world» (ever too bounce - lit by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to seem a shock to the system), Michael's stable career and emotional availability even the score.

Exuding genuine menace even while going for the melodrama, Russell is like a shock to the system as he revs up the action by giving an innocent bystander (Rose McGowan in prissy blonde mode) the ride of her life, as it were, as a prelude to the evening's main event.

«Slavery by Another Name»: As slavery came to an end with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force, brutalizing, terrorizing and ultimately circumscribing the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans well into the 20th century.

There's a 1990 Jan Egleson film called A Shock to the System that sees a Howard Wakefield type played by Michael Caine mordantly, hilariously deciding to take control of his life through a series of carefully - planned murders.

The pattern of test scores in Texas and the nation suggest that consequential accountability — adopted early by Texas, then by more states, and finally by the nation as a whole — was a shock to the U.S. school system that altered the ecosystem and led to a different outcome than had existed before.

Not only the teachers but also frequently the parents of disruptive students are shocked by the laxity of the school system.

Using student - level data from Florida State the authors measure the degree to which schools and teachers were «surprised» by the change in Florida's school grading system (A + Plan for Education) in the summer of 2002 — what they refer to as an «accountability shock.»

Beneath the Velar's pretty skin is a modified version of the Jaguar F - Pace's mostly aluminum chassis that's been reinforced for off - road competence and is further bolstered by Land Rover's Terrain Response 2 system, which orchestrates goodies like an active rear locking differential, low traction launch system, hill descent control, and an available air suspension with adaptive shocks (standard on V - 6 models)-- all of which work in conjunction with stability control.

The system uses valve - adjustable shocks interconnected with hydraulic lines for greater body control, and the system pays off by feeling poised and responsive.

Mazda engineers changed the MPV's suspension system for 1996 by upgrading the shocks and improving the stabilizer bars, so the MPV rides and handles almost as well as a sports sedan.

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