Sentences with phrase «commonly short out»

The red fire ants that have spread across the American South are pesky both for their painful stings and their attraction to electrical equipment; in Texas, they commonly short out the traffic lights by crawling into circuit boxes and chewing or even stinging electrical components.

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While the maximum payout has been raised, it still falls short of the tens of millions paid out by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and it may not be enough to encourage senior officers at large corporations, who commonly earn more than $ 10 million a year, to risk their careers, a lawyer suggests.

Yet while many recent preschool interventions have been found to have short - term effects on young children's language, literacy, mathematics, executive function, and social - emotional development, studies show that impacts on cognitive and academic skills tend to diminish in early elementary school — a phenomenon commonly known as fade - out or convergence.

Commonly, a parenting plan or custody order contains directions for a parent who wishes to take a child out of state for a short vacation like spring break.