Sentences with phrase «bending of»

Uber's bending of the transport rulebook might seem to pale in comparison beside Facebook's insistence that ads on its platform are just another type of «user content» to be inserted into anyone's eyeballs so long as you hand it a little bit of fiat currency.

Microsoft notes that «In bendable or flexible electronic devices, such as FOLED (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode) devices, the display part of the device has to be attached to the main body in a way that does not prevent or resist bending of the device.

I loved the whole bending of time and space.

Some find a slight to our sovereignty in the bending of the national knee to international opinion.

The trial judge accepted the expert evidence of the contractor that the over-deflection, cracking of the slabs and bending of the rebar was not caused by defective design.

The bending of rules is, after all, consistent with Atticus Finch's opinion of how the law should work.

The spoon bending of solar panels and wind turbines.

Changes in land elevation may occur in response to many processes, including mountainbuilding (tectonic) processes, or flow or bending of rocks caused by ongoing or past changes in loading from ice, water or sediment (isostatic changes).

As these SRM techniques are also largely unproven, require a mostly peaceful world to be deployed in, require the bending of judiciary systems, may backfire climatologically and do «nothing» [considering ocean temperature feedbacks they actually do do something] to abate ocean acidification — the simple notion that it is cheap [again, policy thinking] makes geoengineering so dangerous, possibly undermining cooperation behind the world's mitigation attempts, under the UNFCCC, the hard route that we need to go anyway * [as CDR geoengineering lacks the potential to get carbon concentrations back to safe levels, also for marine life — and isn't much cheaper / is costlier anyway].

Via Wikipedia: The bending of light by a gravitational body was predicted by Albert Einstein in 1912, a few years before the publication of general relativity in 1916 (Renn et al. 1997).

The details of the Paris Agreement are, therefore, very important to help achieve an additional bending of the emissions trajectory before 2020, to support the implementation of the INDCs and to ensure greater ambition after 2030.

The bending of light would not have been predicted by Gen. Relativity any better than before.

I am able to get away with jeans and a cotton pocket tee shirt at work which is a bending of the dress code.

Refraction, specifically the real component of refraction n (describes bending of rays, wavelength changes relative to a vacuum, affects blackbody fluxes and intensities — as opposed to the imaginary component, which is related to absorption and emission) is relatively unimportant to shaping radiant fluxes through the atmosphere on Earth (except on the small scale processes where it (along with difraction, reflection) gives rise to scattering, particularly of solar radiation — in that case, the effect on the larger scale can be described by scattering properties, the emergent behavior).

Of all the socio - economic trends only construction of new large dams seems to show any sign of the bending of the curves — or a slowing of the Great Acceleration.

And yet it is only by means of making this sort of change to our civilization that we are likely ever to get to the point at which we engaging in the sort of genetic engineering and bending of higher organisms to our purposes that he envisions.

1) He says the stretching / bending of the CO2 molecule interacts greatly with IR.

Industrially fabricated, Judd's metal furniture is crafted with considerable handwork in the unique bending of the edges of each piece, which are stamped and numbered for authenticity.

The metal furniture, though primarily industrially fabricated, is crafted with considerable handwork in the unique bending of the edges of each piece, and is carefully made to Judd's rigorous quality standards.

Cloud Sphere consists of 45 three - dimensional cloud forms intricately shaped through the twisting and bending of stainless steel hex netting.

Also, there is a high - minded bending of the back of a mythical animal.»

RV: I think there is a bending of «rules» in flash fiction, and it's a fine line between what works and what might fail.

Bending of scientific laws is allowed, but if bent too much, the story becomes fantasy and not science fiction.

LM: The young adult category is the most vibrant, experimental, genre blending and bending of all fiction today.

The car was simply too loud for discreet bending of the speed limit, so I was grateful for the quieter, yet still powerful, standard drive and exhaust modes.

The route never straightens, so the Miata's moderate power never becomes a handicap and the constant bending of the road up and down the mountainside highlights the responsiveness of the steering, the excellent and neutral grip, and the forgiving and stiff chassis.

its caused by the repeated bending of the wiring loom when opening / closing boot.

THIS COULD RESULT IN BENDING OF THE HITCH CHANNEL OR THE HITCH COULD BE PULLED OFF THE VEHICLE, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.

Alianza reported on prayers at graduation; blessings by its school leader, Dennis Snyder, during assemblies; the bending of pension rules by the American Heritage Education Foundation, and the holding of a Republican political rally on Escondido Charter grounds during which the school mascot wore a shirt that said, «Friends don't let friends vote Democrat.»

Joseph Krajcovic, a science teacher at Sto - Rox High School near Pittsburgh, reviews concepts related to the bending of light.

Of course, category fraud is not limited to the Globes; The Academy is also known to stretch the understanding of what is eligible for one category or another over the years, though without the silly genre - bending of the HFPA, their fluidity is mostly confined to the four acting categories.

The most genre - bending of all the Coens» films, Barton Fink is also a form of extended inside joke: an art film that makes merciless fun of the pretensions of art films.

My hands hurt just looking at all the Bending of the wires (LOL!!)

To getting the most out of this triceps exercise keep your body completely straight; the only movement should be the bending of you arms at the elbow.

The bending of head and back while performing the pose assist in the release of negative feelings and pressure from the chest.

They also work with the opposite side external oblique muscles to allow rotation and side - bending of the trunk.

Further, the upper fibers appeared to contribute the greatest force potential during lateral bending of the three regions of the trapezius.

A perfect OAPU is performed with a straight body, meaning no bending of your torso (snaking) in any direction.

A two foot take - off and landing is used, with swinging of the arms and bending of the knees to provide forward drive.

The calves and the bottoms of the feet are going to send the knee forward and pass it off to the hip flexors, which are going to finish the job of the flexion of the hip and the bending of the knee.

diffraction The bending of waves when they hit an object.

Gravitational microlensing, on the other hand, results from the bending of light from much smaller and less massive stellar - type objects like brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.

Microlensing relies upon measurements of the gravitational bending of light (predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity) from a more distant source by an intervening star and its planets.

The GBI completed the first radio measurement that confirmed, to high accuracy, Einstein's prediction of the bending of light (i.e. any electromagnetic radiation) near a massive body, commonly called Einstein rings or gravitational lensing.

Gravitational lens, matter that through the bending of space in its gravitational field alters the direction of light passing nearby.

Studying the effect of dark energy on large - scale structure involves measuring subtle distortions in the shapes of galaxies arising from the bending of space by intervening matter, a phenomenon known as «weak lensing.»

This disease causes pain and stiffness of the joints, and at advanced stages, limitations to the movement or bending of injured joints.

Such models also suffer from being nonrelativistic — they can not describe the bending of light by gravity, an effect predicted so well by a relativistic theory of gravity such as Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Vadim Zhytnikov and James Nester of National Central University in Chung - Li tried to construct a relativistic gravity theory which is able to explain both the orbital motion of stars in spiral galaxies and the bending of light while possessing the most general features possible (Physical Review Letters, vol 73, p 2950).

As it turned out, some bending of light would have been expected even with Newtonian gravity, as Johann von Soldner had calculated (unknown to Einstein) more than a century earlier.