Sentences with phrase «acts as a lever»

In that way, Google could also act as a lever for U.S. funding for the Lake Turkana wind farm.

Given Gibson's critique of the way «creativity» can be loosely defined and sometimes all things to all people, it's no wonder that Miliband's notion of creativity is one where the arts and culture act as a lever for tackling inequality.

When you deadlift, your arms, forearms and hands hold onto the barbell and ensure that the bar remains stable throughout the range of motion; your shoulders and traps hold the weight; your back and core musculature help keep the entire body tight and the spine secured; your posterior chain and legs help you lift the weight by acting as a lever.

These sessions focused on the Departments» joint policy statement, respective family engagement frameworks, and the ways in which systemic engagement practices can act as a lever for improving transition and alignment from cradle to career.

Since Citroen's mushroom - shaped brake button made heel - and - toe downshifting difficult, Maserati installed a conventional brake pedal that acted as a lever on the mushroom, which was hidden behind the pedal.

Its unusual placement, spinning the orientation of the space by 90 degrees, acting as a lever on the space prompting a sense of disequilibrium and suggesting that the stability of the world and therefore our orientation within it is relative.

Another is that anthropogentic emissions act as a lever to excite the natural state to a higher one.

I think someone seeing this as an automatic out for AGW causing problems, indicates a lack of appreciation of the effect of different rates and how a small input can act as a lever over a long period if it causes a change of state.

Note that the effect may well be to support the IPCC model of hundreds of years because the flux increase acts as a lever on our emissions wrt residence time.

Not exact matches

Nanoengineers can even carve out molecular gears and levers that act as microscopic machines; in theory, some materials could be self - repairing, and others could carry out tasks inside our bodies, like scraping plaque from artery walls.

If he can't remember a song, show him how to use his body to act out parts of the tune (for example, instead of just singing «I've been working on the railroad,» he can pump his arms as if he's pulling a lever).

Centuries of an independent civil service, acting as a bulwark to politicians and their advisers, have been subverted over the past decade, so with their hands directing the levers of power, Government becomes a dirty, grubby, ugly business.

Made of a biological component — such as a fluorescent protein — and a «detector» that responds to the presence of a specific chemical, biosensors act as the switches and levers that turn programmed functions on and off inside the engineered cells.

During «toe - off,» the foot acts like a lever, putting ankle muscles and ligaments under tremendous tension — as much as seven times the body's weight.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

The Live Stream will offer key insights and lessons learned at the state and district level, particularly on family engagement as a lever for better alignment between the early childhood education and K - 12 and implications for Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.

Naturally the clone's abilities are a tad limited in comparison to Styx's, but it can squeeze through certain doors that he can't, pull levers, poison food or drink and act as a decoy.

These remedies are not available in every case but they can act as important levers in getting your case settled or resolved.

Large law firms can use internal communication to encourage employees to act as marketing levers, and community involvement can boost your reputation and visibility.

Technical Service Representatives act as a remote service technician to support machines involving complex metal parts, small intricate moving parts, DC motors, gearboxes, cams, slides and rails, cutters, spring motion, arms, levers, wiring, controller boa...