Sentences with phrase «by absorbing the blow»

The iBallz are actually pretty well conceived: four balls, connected by stretchable cord, protect your e-book reader from drops by absorbing the blow, and also keep a resting device elevated just high enough off of a table to save it from spills.

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Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»

It is dissected by several gullies, cut into the unconsolidated sand by streams (melting from the glacier surface is encouraged by the accumulation of dark wind - blown sand, which absorbs solar radiation)[17].

It is somewhat dimmer as much of the light is absorbed by the surrounding nebula of material that the star has just recently blown off, and no helium is seen in their spectra.

It is somewhat dimmer as much of the light is absorbed by the surrounding nebula of material that the star has just recently blown off, and no helium seen in their spectra.

One thing I do know, nuts blow up in size by the end of the soaking period leaving no doubt that they have absorbed the salt soaking medium:

The independent suspension design remains the same (MacPherson struts up front, multi-link out back), but Honda engineers worked hard to isolate passengers from road noise by using very stiff mounting points in the rear and «blow - off» valves on all shock absorbers that reduce harshness when a wheel hits a severe jolt, such as a pothole.

That's not only a big financial blow for a medium - sized or small gallery to absorb, it means that scores of new clients are being appropriated by these other bigger galleries.

Photons of sufficient energy are absorbed by oxygen molecules and as a result the atoms of the oxygen are «blown» apart.

There are a few clues that maybe CO2 doesn't idle the centuries away aloft, and that (I know you'll be shocked) the Climate Commission (and IPCC) have overstated things: If emissions are absorbed by the global system in a matter of months, it rather blows the idea that we have to act decades ahead to stop the catastrophe.

The way this test works is that, when the breath air is blown in, infrared light / radiation is shot across the sample chamber and is absorbed by the ethanol.