Sentences with phrase «by a friction of»

Suppose a flame is accidentally triggered by the friction of two highly combustible materials.

When the fillings containing 50 % mercury are heated by the friction of a dentist's drill, toxic mercury vapors are released that are invisible, colorless and odorless.

The FBI arrested a member of the Havasupai tribe and seized four of his horses, who were severely underweight; one had bad wounds along his spine caused by the friction of baggage and ropes against his skin.

If the process goes off track (Your first choice candidate accepts another offer), what is the next step to regroup such that progress is not stunted by the frictions of the talent war?

«First - time buyers should be closer to 40 percent of the market, but they're held back by the frictions of tight credit and very limited inventory in the lower price ranges in most of the U.S.,» Yun said.

Not exact matches

Richard Sears understood the power of disrupting complexity and driving out friction by offering simplicty and experience just as well as Jeff Bezos does.

Sears grew dramatically, as did consumerism, because it did one thing above all else, it simplified people's lives at a time of increasing socioeconomic complexity by eliminating the friction in a transaction and replacing it with a trusted experience.

But Jelli takes the friction out of media buying by consolidating access to thousands of radio stations across the United States.

A stake purchase by the activist investor could add friction in a potential merger of the $ 53 bln software company with its controlling shareholder Dell.

If there was another way to promote exposure to prominent cryptos by using proven fiat exchanges, cryptocurrencies could take an important step toward the goal of ubiquity by simply skipping over the layers of technical friction that keep many would - be investors at bay.

The commerce chief was responding to comments by the top US envoy to Hong Kong, who on Tuesday said he was seeking to ease worries that the city would be a «voiceless victim» of the escalating trade friction between China and the United States.

BEIJING / WASHINGTON — Top Chinese and American officials have begun the long process of sorting out trade frictions between the two economic superpowers, with the stakes raised higher by a new U.S. threat to impose restrictions on tech companies ZTE and Huawei Technologies.

Other risks mentioned by the Report include fluctuations of interest rate and exchange rate; instable oil and commodity prices; deepening credit crisis; raising Sino - Canada trade friction; unfamiliar investment restrictions, laws and policies; crime and public safety, etc..

We reduce friction and ease the logistical pain points for our founders by inviting them to live in our UpWest house, a community of fellow portfolio entrepreneurs located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

This could soon create efficiencies and reduce friction by allowing individuals to directly transfer property without the use of a broker, lawyer, or notary to sign off on the transfer.

The tech sector has been the epicenter of stock market pain in recent weeks, hurt by concerns about trade friction with China — a key market and supplier for tech firms — and fears of tighter government regulation.

He is driven by a vision, essential in the context of Software - as - a-Service, where hyper - growth is underpinned by a process where the initial transaction is only the beginning of a long term, low friction, value based partnership that delights customers at every touch point.

The accident highlighted the friction between Mobileye and Tesla Motors, an issue that was brought further into light by George Hotz of comma.ai.

Again the trouble may lie in factors harder to cope with — domestic disharmony, friction in one's work, a job one loathes but fears to leave, worry about the future, lack of success in some pivotal enterprise, separation by distance, by marriage, or by death from one who is deeply loved.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

Reuters: Saudi sharia judges decry «Westernizing stench» of king's legal reforms Saudi judges who enforce sharia (Islamic law) have condemned what they see as «the stench of Western ideas» in sweeping legal reforms pushed by King Abdullah, underscoring friction between government modernizers and religious hardliners.

Cut off from real communication with others, they feel like grains of sand, washed back and forth by the waves of impersonal forces, having friction with others but no organic relatedness.

But there is a work of God in the midst of this dark reality which brings forth matured, self - reliant, free persons whose freedom has been nurtured by their participation in that friction of will against will which makes up so much of life.

I've toughened up enough to wonder if some of those churchy heels might just get what they deserve — a little cracked and pained by the same kind of abrasive friction they've been dishing out all these years.

A society where all were invariably aggressive would destroy itself by inner friction, and in a society where some are aggressive, others must be non-resistant, if there is to be any kind of order.

Traditional Matcha is ground slowly by a stone mill in order to minimize friction and heat which can cause the deterioration of its color and flavor.

Because we're making this dough by hand and there's no kneading, I use a friction temperature of 2 degrees F (1 degree C).

The pair engaged in several spats during the course of the match, which was characterised by on - field friction between the two sides.

The most recent edition of The Sauerbrun Report, which has 40 subscribers who each pay an annual $ 10 fee, offers a kick - by - kick account of Sauerbrun's preseason, a story about the friction between Sauerbrun and since - released placekicker Kevin Butler — whom Thompson refers to as Butthead — and a glossary of terms such as Sauerboot (a typical Sauerbrun punt), Sauerpooch (a kick from inside the 50) and Sauerbrat (a bratwurst cooked over coals in the parking lot north of Soldier Field).

Maybe it will all play itself out just fine, and it is all just friction caused by Kawhi and «his group» erring on the side of caution when it comes to what will likely be a nine - digit payday (unless his mystery illness doesn't abate).

Microscopic tearing of tissue caused by unlubricated friction increases the chance of transmission of diseases.

In addition to delaying the purchase of a phone, we have limited the amount of media friction in our house by using this time - honored parental technique: distraction.

Gourley also notes that your baby may be nursing differently so their gums rub on your breast to help relieve teething pains, or one of you may be breaking suction at the end of a feed by just pulling your nipple out, which causes friction, instead of releasing suction first.

Blisters are often the result of a poor latch or friction caused by a powerful suck.

Babies have sensitive skin that is easily aggravated by chemicals, the friction from the diaper and the presence of urine or feces, according to the Ask Dr. Sears website.

After a campaign to ban them was launched by agencies such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, manufacturers voluntarily established a safety standard in 1997 that required that baby walkers have a rubber friction strip on the bottom that stopped the walker if any of the wheels went off a step.

According to the report, 47 percent of children whose parents have finance - related friction in their relationship are somewhat affected by these issues.

Or whether they were naive enough to think that journalists would bury the line in the sixth paragraph and instead go in on the Brexit secretary's comments about how the principle of mutual trust, underpinned by robust mechanisms, can reduce trade friction.

That friction has mostly been exhibited by Faulkner, chafing as Massey and party leaders have worked to push him out of the race in favor of the dramatically better funded Massey.

The adversarial style was particularly prominent in inner - city areas, where the relationship between the police and young black people was shaped by a history of friction, and resulted in proportionately more arrests of black and mixed race youths.

Russia has unfavorable economic factors - the lack of inter-country navigation combined with out of date technological base combined with entrenched culture of corruption means far more relative expenses and greater friction in economic activity and far lower average standards of living (not exactly helped by 70 years of Socialism; but Russia was economically screwed over by the Czars for centuries before that; and by post-Soviet governments after that too).

But the alternative of a «Maximum Facilitation» arrangement - relying on technology and trusted trader schemes to minimise trade friction - is regarded as unacceptable by many Remainers.

The escalating friction within the Electoral Commission (EC) has taken another turn with the deputy Chairperson of the commission in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwah, refuting accusations of corruption levelled against her by the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei.

Tisch, appointed by the Board of Regents with little gubernatorial input, has had friction with Cuomo and his administration.

At tonight's Republican mayoral candidate debate, hosted by WCBS - TV, 1010 WINS and El Diario La Prensa (available in full here), the three candidates displayed a fair amount of friction.

Quiet in manner but squarely backed by his conference, Heastie is heading into a legislative year that's sure to bring challenges — including the impact of recent friction between both legislative houses and Gov. Andrew Cuomo surrounding a scuttled special session that could have brought the first increase in legislative base pay since 1999.

Here's a YouTube video of Andrew Cuomo visiting what I believe is the Satmar sect run by Aron Teitelbaum — the one, as I noted yesterday, that Vito Lopez did not show up at because of friction between Lopez and Cuomo.

Here, tugged and flexed by the planet's huge gravitational pull, as well as that of the more distant moons Europa and Ganymede, friction keeps Io piping hot.

While «it is not something you will see on your watch,» says Landerer, it's comparable to the influence of the tidal friction of the Earth - moon system, which slows our planet down by 2.3 milliseconds every 100 years.

«Scientific partnerships, spearheaded by Norway, with Eastern Europe's Communist bloc in the 1970s served as a foundation for international cooperation on environmental pollution despite ongoing Cold War frictions,» says Rothschild, an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.