Sentences with phrase «acting upon surfaces»

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This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

Buschatzke, the state water official, acknowledges that none of this is wise: the continued overuse of groundwater and the refusal to note and act upon the fact that surface water and groundwater are connected.

Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public - private partnership, or any other legal entity.

(Sec. 1002) Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to reduce the amount apportioned for a surface transportation program, project, or activity for FY2016 by amounts apportioned or allocated under any extension of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) for the period beginning October 1, 2015, and ending upon enactment of this Act.

Although cat fur acts as a shield towards environmental allergens, contact dermatitis occurs when the body reacts upon contact with surfaces or substances.

There are no traditional canvases in Gomes's work: painting instead becomes sculpture, object, an act of mark making upon a surface, or an arrangement on a wall.

His paintings evoke an awareness of the act of painting, namely by drawing attention to brushstrokes, surfaces, and materials, as well as to the edges of the image and the relationship between the painting and the wall it hangs upon.

If I am wrong about this, then the only possible conclusion left is that they do indeed impinge upon one another, but like a bicycle wheel, the «back radiation» would necessarily have to act to cool the outbound surface radiation since the back radiation can not be of an energetic state greater than the outbound surface radiation.

And since it has, the surface radiation and the «back radiation» can not even see each other nor can they act upon one another.

According to law, acts that cause «unnecessary rapid acceleration, unnecessary tire squeal, skid, smoke or slide upon acceleration or stopping including the casting of tread, gravel, dirt or other road surface materials from the tires» is illegal.

When we are constantly encouraged to attend to the shiny surface of things and to move on when we get a little bored, making our life a meditation upon the person we love is a revolutionary act.