Sentences with phrase «act as a wedge»

My clients love it because it has a unique curve design that acts as a wedge and helps keep baby facing Mom in the tummy - to - tummy position.

Then, the water's surface tension can cause it to act as a wedge, separating film from glass.

Attached to the end of the strap is a dowel that acts as a wedge between the dumbbells (or any weight that you're lifting) and your hands.

Basically, UAC is meant to act as a wedge between you and installing applications or making system changes.

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When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

«Harm» tests act as a thin end of the wedge for a liberal drug policy, because once you show that a drug is essentially harmless, as laughing gas is, you have to accept its legitimate use.

In her speech, she called the Federal Marriage Amendment that failed the Senate last year to strictly define marriage as an act between a man and a woman «wedge politics at its worst.»

Throughout the 2014 campaign, the Senate Democrats have been using women's issues — particularly abortion rights — as a wedge issue, repeatedly slamming incumbent Senate Republicans and their first - time candidates alike for opposing the governor's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act.

Some ants defend their nests simply by wedging their specially evolved heads in the entrances, where they act as an impenetrable door

Wedge shoes can come in the form of boot, heels, sandals... it's any shoe that has one piece of material (raffia, leather, rubber) that acts as both the sole and the heel.

Guide to cutting paper structures that act as models for the 4 main tactics of the roman army - the wedge, orb, repel - cavalry and tortoise.

However, now we can see the wedge structure (consolidation) that acted as a technical catalyst to the ensuing rally.

Holyhead's freely brushed, intensely coloured paintings contain a set of elements — such as blocks, ovals and rectangles — that act as pins, wedges, slots, slits and focal points.

Against this ground we see those familiar wristy looping marks, with pink, blue and pale green dominant; the earth remains, but is now relegated to a single ochre wedge just off - centre, with the canvas hue acting as the key colour.

The A.R.T. (Anti-Resonance Technology) Wedge in the center of the bottom cover acts as an additional vibration countermeasure.

Just the very act of initiating a divorce can drive a wedge in the parent - child relationship, and that wedge can grow as the child spends more time away from his or her custodial parent.