Sentences with phrase «as on an automobile»

Other modern touches include shaft - drive, self - canceling turn signals - same as on an automobile - and twin - piston disc brake calipers.

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These two segments of aggregate demand reinforce each other because buying a house or an apartment triggers spending on consumer durable goods («big ticket» items) such as furniture, appliances and even automobiles because relocations typically change commuting patterns and lifestyles.

The tariffs could result in higher prices for consumers on things such as automobiles, as manufacturers pass on the higher costs of raw materials from abroad.

GPS - based navigation is on its way to becoming standard automobile equipment, says Magney, as are satellite radio and connections to iPods and other MP3 players.

As the number of automobiles on the road grew, tens of thousands of family - run shops popped up to fix twisted fenders and busted tail lights.

Apple is doing its part to cater to automobiles as well with CarPlay, which extends iOS devices into vehicles, but the company's efforts so far are miles away (again, pun not intended) from the total integration that Google looks to be working on.

As forklifts beep and spin, teams of men and women on the first of three daily shifts are assembling dash mats, acoustical automobile components that insulate a vehicle's interior from engine noise.

Attempts to attract automobile manufacturing were followed by a focus on IT and biotech and finally aerospace, as leaders went after higher - valued manufacturing companies.

CETA would give Canadian exporters preferential access to the EU, and would affect tariffs that the EU has been imposing on imported merchandise, as well as investment restrictions, automobile specifications and procurement rules.

Then Trump rattled Japan's leading automobile producer, Toyota, and its CEO, Akio Toyoda, by threatening to slap a «big border tax» — which he has referred to as 35 % — on any automobiles the company assembled in Mexico and imported into the U.S.

This figure includes spending on goods and services as people travel by automobile, jet or some other means to visit friends and family.

Expectations are especially high for electric vehicle (EV) production and sales, as the Chinese government sweetened the incentive for families to trade in their gas - powered automobile for one that runs on a battery - powered electric motor.

«These proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports couldn't come at a worse time,» Bloomberg quoted Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, as saying.

But as home computing migrates away from the laptop, the tablet and the smartphone, experts warn that the security features on the coming wave of automobiles, dishwashers and alarm systems lag far behind.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Chinese automaker GAC Automobiles» plan to sell vehicles in the United States ran afoul of Washington trade politics on Wednesday, as the top U.S. Senate Democrat and U.S. President Donald Trump separately criticized Chinese trade practices.

This form of lending is concerning for three main reasons: Like storefront payday lending, auto - title lending carries a triple digit APR, has a short payback schedule, and relies on few underwriting standards; the loans are often for larger amounts than traditional storefront payday loans; and auto - title lending is inherently problematic because borrowers are using the titles to their automobiles as collateral, risking repossession in the case of default.

The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

Young said that, «every day those projects go on, they put out as much CO2 as all the automobiles in Canada on that day..

While other automobile manufacturers such as Ford and GM are looking to introduce their systems in fleets of taxi - style cars, Volvo will be releasing its technology directly on vehicles that can be purchased by individuals.

She has sat as member of the Legislative Administration Committee, the Law Amendments Committee, Crown Corporations Committee and the Public Accounts Committee, and has been a member of the Select Committees on Education, Health, Local Governance and Regional Collaboration, and Private Passenger Automobile Insurance.

Some of this easing in China's import growth may reflect reduced reliance on imports owing to the substantial expansion of China's manufacturing capacity in industries such as steel, automobiles and ITC.

This figure included spending on goods and services as people traveled by automobile, jet or some other means to visit friends and family.

In 1950, the committee sanctioned traveling in an automobile on the Sabbath as long as this was necessary to attend Sabbath services.

Continuing the automobile analogy, 35 - year - old former 76ers and Nets center Todd MacCulloch, who had a chronic foot condition, remembers that a podiatrist once described his 7 - foot frame as «a Hummer body on Toyota Tercel feet.»

This time the fish could take heart, because Williams demonstrated his fly - casting technique on the high and dry parking lot for automobiles, which served as the arena for the festival.

If you picked to purchase an infant seat early on, you will most likely require to acquire the exchangeable automobile seat as quickly as your infant goes past the optimum weight restriction of 20 extra pounds.

The safety seat (infant as well as all) could be affixed to the base with a minimum of difficulty when you come to your location it could be obtained of the automobile and also positioned on the infant stroller — all without waking child!

On the other hand, nearly all, if not all, states already have laws requiring the purchase of automobile insurance and these laws are not set up as a tax.

From his roles in the Patricia Etteh saga culminating in the now notorious and ignoble image of Dino in his torn attire on the floor of the House; to his alleged threat to beat up a woman, a fellow senator and wife of former Lagos State Governor, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to the controversial paternity issue with a known Nollywood actress; to his ostentatious display of personal wealth such as his expensive automobiles, to his certificate scandal and many more, what is it that Dino represents that should be the envy of the right - thinking?

As part of the recommendations in the report by the Senate Committee on Works on the National Roads Fund Establishment Bill 2017, a levy of N5 will be imposed on every litre of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and Automobile General Oil (diesel) imported or refined in the country.

The Finance Act 1910 replaced the earlier system with the «Road Fund tax», based on a scale of liabilities based on horsepower rating, formulated by the Royal Automobile Club and subsequently referred to as the «Treasury rating».

Sunday, July 9 — The first concrete road in America was completed on this date 125 years ago in Bellefontaine, Ohio — just as America entered the age of the automobile.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

In addition to improving the efficiency of gasoline - powered internal combustion engines through technologies such as direct injection, variable valve timing and turbocharging, the plan rests on giving a boost to electric - powered automobiles, such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Volt, according to officials at the DoT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In early 2007 he co-sponsored the Coal - to - Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 as a measure to lessen dependence on foreign oil by turning coal into automobile fuel.

As part of a pre-Olympic cleanup, China this year adopted some of the toughest fuel - efficiency standards for automobiles anywhere and put pressure on refineries to produce higher - quality gasoline.

The maximum thermal efficiency of present - day gasoline engines for automobiles is on the order of 30 %, believed to fall to a level as low as 15 % in states from idling to low - speed city driving.

Supporting Role: In these catalysts, the oxides are merely a surface on which the precious metals sit while the metals break and form bonds in other molecules, such as those found in automobile exhaust.

So Bernardo, since the fifties, has had its economy based on the automobile industry - headquarters of the first vehicle assemblers of Brazil, such as Volkswagen, Ford, Scania, Toyota, Mercedes - Benz and Land Rover.

Charles Tyner went back to the stage in 1977, occasionally stepping before the cameras for such TV movies as The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel (1979), theatrical features like Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1985) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1991), and his recurring role as Howard Rodman on the weekly television drama Father Murphy (1981).

Mangold along with his editors Quincy Z Gunderson and Michael McCusker and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael stage these scenes, that take place on planes, trains and automobiles amongst other various locations such as the rooftops of Salzburg and abandoned downtown factories, with energy and visual dynamism.

A scrapped automobile serves as a playground for the children of Gankhuyag, a former herder who lives in a ger or tent on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, the capital.

Apatow's extended editions are known for their gratuitous length but then so are his theatrical cuts, and while there exists, on some VHS tape in some Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, no doubt, a version of Planes, Trains & Automobiles with a running time that would humble David Lean (ditto The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off), the theatrical release — no less a «director's cut» at a mere 92 minutes, as Hughes was his own producer by this point — demonstrates ruthless craftsmanship.

It would have been nice if they had credited Planes, Trains & Automobiles as the source material, since Due Date lifts the concept — high - strung guy on the road with an annoying, but secretly lovable fat guy.

Based on a short novel by James Sallis, it stars Gosling as an unnamed young man — called «The Driver» in the credits — whose skill at automobile stunt work and get - away driving blends into his attachment with a pretty young wife and mother (Carey Mulligan) with increasingly bloody consequences.

For anyone who grew up in the»80s, John Hughes has undeniably left an impression on them in some way, having directed such teen classics as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, in addition to two of my favourite comedies of all time, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

But a set piece for the ages comes late in the game, as Popeye commandeers a passing car to chase a hijacked subway train under its elevated track (Friedkin's camera is mounted on both train and automobile).

Vacation DVD Review by Kam Williams Revival of Irreverent Road Trip Franchise Released on Home Video National Lampoon's Vacation is an enduring film franchise launched back in 1978 by the late John Hughes, the brains behind such Chicago - centric screen classics as Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Trains, Planes & Automobiles; Home Alone; Uncle Buck; and Baby's Day Out, to name a few.

The 40 students, mostly juniors and seniors at the 900 - student Marysville High School, are creating a documentary on the town, located on the St. Clair River northeast of Detroit, starting from its early days as a logging community and chronicling its later automobile and ship - building industries.

As part of its drive to educate children on recycling, the local business with the help of its ingenious Recycle - Trux automobiles, are giving school children in Cambridgeshire the chance to win # 1,000 for their school or the opportunity to earn themselves an Ipad mini.