Sentences with phrase «as a brake on»

If Trump follows through with campaign promises to take a tougher line on global trade, that could act as a brake on U.S. growth, said O'Neil.

And the most elegant prose stylist of the Victorian era had no time for lofty language if it was used as a brake on popular devotion.

«It is false to argue that environmental conservation acts as a brake on economic development.

Just as Peter was not the dazzling originator of new teaching, his successors have more often served as a brake on innovation than as its impetus.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

People who think this way will naturally also regard contraception as a brake on man's activities that damage the environment.

Before birth, progesterone acts as a brake on milk production.

His careful attempts to position the party as a brake on the more right - wing instincts of the Conservatives have been blown off course by having to deal with serious allegations about Liberal Democrat conduct and defend arcane aspects of party rules and culture.

He stood to put the left's policies on the agenda, serve as a brake on the other candidates marching off to the right and to build up a grassroots movement.

Precisely how young depends on the mass density of the Universe, because the gravitational attraction of this mass acts as a brake on the Universe's expansion.

With imperious aplomb, our US correspondent wrote, «I trust it is not too much to expect the British people to act, as they have in other instances in the past, as a brake on an over-impetuous Moon race that could easily become a losing bet for free men everywhere.»

During times of chronic stress, foods laden with sugar and calories act as a brake on the body's overworked emergency response system.

The gut is also loaded with cannabinoid receptors that can act as brakes on the urge to eat.

XIAP acts as a brake on caspase activity and must be removed for degeneration to proceed» added Dr. Barker.

Moreover, he says, there's evidence that certain histamine receptors cluster in the basal ganglia and that histamine signaling can act as a brake on dopamine signaling.

Instead, he has tried activating the body's natural mechanisms for shutting down inflammation, such as the vagus nerve, which serves as a brake on the immune system.

For example, a gene called p53, which normally acts as a brake on cell division, turns out to be mutated or lost in about half of all tumours.

Until now, we have thought of Parkin as a brake on cell death within nerve cells, helping to delay their death.

The gene Gas5Â acts as a brake on steroid hormone receptors, making it a key player in diseases such as hormone - sensitive prostate and breast cancer.

These drugs work by targeting molecules that serve as brakes on the immune response.

This is because we wanted to focus on how learning is organised and might be organised in new situations, not on how schooling is currently organised when many blame its bureaucratic structures as a brake on innovation.

As we braked on the approach to a turn, it quickly downshifted, holding the lower gear as we accelerated out of the turn and up the following straight - away.

Many indies see DRM as a brake on visibility, because if a book is DRM protected, it is less likely to be shared and many indies are more about visibility than income in order to build a brand / audience.

Such a bank is significantly shielded from investor and market influences that might otherwise act as a brake on risky financial strategies.

Elaine Tin Nyo is a conceptual / performance / food artist, and in July she shared freshly baked sour cherry pies with friends and colleagues as a brake on the bustle of everyday life as well as a meditation on the passage of time.

The standards focus on better well construction to minimize water contamination, but many see them as a brake on the oil and gas boom fueling the economy and energy security.

The three are Garth Paltridge, Albert Arking and Michael Pook, and they have found that, contrary to climate model predictions, water vapour in the upper atmosphere is acting as a brake on global warming.

The author speculates that since it is liquid the outer core is also affected by gravitational tidal forces, in a similar manner to the oceans, but also it can be assumed that the magnetic field generating would act as a brake on its movement.

This positive buoyancy of the descending air acts as a brake on circulation.

It serves as a brake on the pace of glaciers on their journey down to the sea — and the combined impact of warmer atmospheres and warmer seas in the Southern Ocean are rapidly thinning much of the ice shelf.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long served as a brake on progress when it comes to creating a new economy that is fueled by renewable energy.

But the speculation has been one - sided, with talk of human influences on tornadoes following disasters, but little about whether human influences have acted as a brake on their numbers after anomalously low activity.

The magnetic field in the solar wind and the Sun were [and are] strongly coupled and acted as a brake on solar rotation [from 1 day to now 25 days period].

As Daly notes, section 96 is important doctrinally because it acts as a brake on provinces creating new decision - making bodies or conferring new powers on existing bodies.

If however human rights are given a heightened position within civil society, acting as a brake on any one interest dominating and destroying the interests of others, then Indigenous people will enjoy their unique culture while still participating in the broader society.

Former chief justice of the Family Court of Australia, Alastair Nicholson, said yesterday that the NT Government should play no part in the Royal Commission because it was «part of the problem,» and will «act as a brake on the freedom of the commission to inquire into what it ought to be inquiring into».

Not exact matches

The trial involved an experimental checkpoint inhibitor from Bristol - Myers Squibb called ipilimumab (now marketed as Yervoy)-- whose aim was to release the molecular brakes on her own army of T cells.

It zoomed into hydrogen, only to put on the brakes in the mid-2000s after regulators found that Shell vastly overbooked oil reserves, a scandal that prompted Shell to refocus on what it saw as the part of its business that really counted.

Instead, he predicted they would serve more as a «tap on the brake» that would lead to a «slight, additional slowing of a market that's already slowing.»

Higher interest rates would put the brakes on the economy as financing expansion would become more expensive.

Even as he tries to open more than 30 new stores in three years, he'll do it cautiously, watching how the stores perform in each new market before opening more: «Until I'm very comfortable and convinced, the foot's always ready to be on the brake as opposed to the gas.»

It's about as sensible as trying to race your car with the parking brake on.

While the comfortably well - off and live - for - today segments may carry on as usual, the slam - on - the - brakes and pained - but - patient segments — by far the large majority of consumers — may well retain the consumption habits they've learned.

As China continues to choke on its own emissions, the country is starting to pump the brakes on what was once considered an insatiable appetite for coal - fired power.

Plus, you can get vehicle data, such as information on carbon emissions, fuel efficiency, and even speeding, harsh braking and engine idling.

A press release distributed by Norway Post explicitly mentioned some of the Tesla Semi's main design features, such as its low air resistance, automatic emergency braking, Autopilot technology, and its capability to cover up to 500 miles on a single charge.

In other words, the challenges of borrowing can contribute to slamming on the brakes so far as creating jobs is concerned.

As usual, V - brakes can be found on low - speed electric scooters for kids.

A repeat of this sort of thing could serve to slam the brakes on the oil / metals rally and possibly put a lid above the SPX as well.

Property prices in recently top performing inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney are being «belted» by up to 10 per cent as banks slam the brakes on lending in response to tougher regulatory scrutiny and the banking royal commission, according to real estate and buyers» agents.