Sentences with phrase «as a buffer between»

To keep things safe, it also proposes that a 100 - foot cushion just above that airspace be made a no - fly zone to act as a buffer between drones and other aircraft, such as planes, according to The Guardian.

In l956 the leaders of most of the former colonies of the world met in Bandung to organize a «nonaligned» movement which established their group as a buffer between the proponents of capitalism (First World) and those of communism (Second World).

The regime still hopes to use the «non - white / non-black» groups as buffers between themselves and the angry Africans.

When in doubt, add cooked grains to your make - ahead salad: They act as a buffer between the greens and the dressing, making sure it's well - seasoned but not wilted.

He suggests that the club is happy to use the Frenchman as a buffer between their profiteering and the anger of the fans.

I'm also going to hope that the pillow acts as a buffer between any fumes and his nose.

In a sense proximity to parents during the night acts as a buffer between the immature infant and the microenvironment within which it lives.

They are great burping cloths and work well as a buffer between the baby and whatever they are laying on.

Former Assemblyman Tony Casale, whom Cox brought to serve as a buffer between Basile and the county chairs, some of whom didn't like the former executive director's leadership style.

Instead, Papamoschou's idea is to create a cone of hot air that moves more slowly than the exhaust, but faster than the ambient air — and thus acts as a buffer between the two.

A new study, however, shows that forests devastated by drought may lose their ability to store carbon over a much longer period than previously thought, reducing their role as a buffer between humans» carbon emissions and a changing climate.

«Plan a re-entry day that serves as a buffer between your vacation and your first day back to work,» says Smith.

If you're going outdoors and think you might come into contact with poison ivy, use an over-the-counter barrier cream as a buffer between urushiol oil and your skin.

It acts as a buffer between the hip and lumbar spine.

I'm using it not only for cutting, but also as a buffer between the table and hot foods -LCB- in this case, soup -RCB-.

Traditional automatic transmissions have a fluid - filled torque converter that acts as a buffer between the engine's constantly turning crankshaft, and the gears in the transmission, which have to stop from time to time when you roll into the garage, or up to a stop sign.

It appears they have a computer as a buffer between the client & customer support.

All the money he makes serves as a buffer between him and being at that point again.

Instead of mounting the scratching pole directly to the hardwood floor, I created tension with a large screw at the top (using the face of the smaller file drawer front as a buffer between it and the ceiling) and secured the pole to a 2x4x4 block covered in carpet scraps.

Cartilage in joints acts as a buffer between bones.

The best way to protect communities from floods is by restoring natural floodplains, which act as buffers between floodwaters and homes, and protecting wetlands, which act like sponges, soaking up and filtering floodwaters.

It is designed to face north to maximize sun exposure during the day to reduce heating and cooling costs (remember, in the southern hemisphere, the best solar orientation would be north, not south as it is here in the northern hemisphere), using a generous sunroom as a buffer between the outdoors and indoors.

«Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed,» the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

Although global ocean temperatures are rising, a layer of fresher water immediately below the sea ice is thought to act as a buffer between the ice and the warmer Atlantic waters flowing into the Arctic Ocean basin at a lower level.

By tracking elevation information and GPS mapping, the researchers have shown that it is possible to create «learning» regenerative braking systems that optimize the flow of energy between the motor, batteries and a supercapacitor that acts as a buffer between the batteries and the motor — limiting the strain on batteries that do not like to be charged and drained in quick succession.

Remember, your lawyer acts as a buffer between yourself and the other driver's insurer.

Many couples retain lawyers to prepare their dissolution of marriage to act as a buffer between spouses.

«I personally believe as a former practitioner in family law and as a judge that having the collaborative team in place acts as a buffer between parties who don't get along where there is either actual domestic violence or the potential for domestic violence and you have an experienced mental health professional that can watch out for the signs and help both parties work through an agreement,» Nichols said.

It's separated from street traffic by a floating parking lane so that space which once held curbside parking now houses a bike path, and a floating parking lane serves as a buffer between the now - curbside bike lane and moving cars.

Rich Rosa, co-founder and co-owner of Buyers Brokers Only, LLC, discussed a variety of home - buying topics, including using an exclusive buyer agent, how buyer agents get paid, the Greater Boston real estate market, what to consider when making an offer on a home, the importance of retaining an experienced real estate lawyer, why your buyer agent should be acting as a buffer between you and the listing agent and home buyers not getting overly emotional about homes, with The Money Show host Rick Shaffer.

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I joined as Buffer's first Culture Scout in October 2015, when we went from growing the team by 1 to 2 people per month to being on the lookout for 30 to 40 team members between September 2015 and April 2016.

City staff told the council a wider 200 - foot buffer between dispensaries and homes would eliminate almost all commercial areas as potential sites for dispensaries.

That's because there's a margin of safety, or a buffer, that's often built right in when you buy a dividend growth stock that's undervalued, as that favorable gap between price and value also means there's less of a possibility that the stock becomes worth less than you paid through some kind of negative event (corporate malfeasance, investor mistake, etc.).

To overcome this mismatch between daily spending and financing, the Treasury keeps cash balances with the Reserve Bank that act as a buffer.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

This meant that Israel was a buffer state between them, whose possession was eagerly sought by strong neighbors as a step toward larger prey.

This is especially true in marriages in which the spouses have used the children as a primary way of relating or as a means of avoiding intimacy (by always having the children between them as a buffer).

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

In the latter, God serves as something of a buffer between you and the other person, protecting you from potential rejection.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

They are, as the Supreme Court has recognized, «critical buffers between the individual and the power of the State» and are, in Fr.

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as those we promote through the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, offer simple, practical solutions, such as maintaining big buffer zones, preferably planted with native trees, between farm fields and waterways.

The bench coalesced around the no - nonsense Posey who served as an essential buffer between the veteran stars and everyone else.

A ludicrous 21 points difference seperated Real Madrid and Valencia in the La Liga table last season, which provides ample opportunity for Malaga to assert themselves as La Liga contendors next season and provide that much - needed buffer between 2nd and 3rd place — a vast turnaround on recent year's achievements.

He continues to treat them like children wanting to maintain some parental control so they do not show him much respect and the boys now look to me as the parent and the buffer between them and their dad.

After trying one of the Prop»em Up ™ nursing assist pillows, it helped be a buffer between my arm and the baby's body and I didn't need to lean over as much!

His son James, a cloned version of his father complete with push - it - and - I - talk anti-BBC phrases, is slowly coming into the scandal spotlight, as the buffer zone between him and calamity, sometimes referred to as Rebekah Brooks, disintegrates away.

Between them is a buffer zone of 10 mixed states (and the Federal Capital Territory) known collectively as the Middle Belt.

That conflict ended with North Korea as a sort of human buffer zone between US forces and the Chinese mainland.

When in 2015 oil prices went even as low as between 28 and 35 dollars a barrel and oil production fell to less than one million barrels a day we had no buffer, no savings, to tide us through.