Sentences with phrase «controlling runaway»

The PC Resource Optimizer increases your PCs responsiveness by controlling runaway processes.

A good criminal defense lawyer will rarely seek the judge's help in controlling a runaway opposing witness during cross examination.

«Saying [your goals] out loud focuses your attention, reinforces the message, controls your runaway emotions and screens out distractions,» says Sadapin.

As the network notes, El - Erian has previously called the policy a «reverse Volcker moment,» in reference to former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, who raised rates and deliberately put the nation into recession in the early 1980s to control runaway inflation.

Even so, this might not be enough to control our runaway debt.

Outgoing Gov. Jim Doyle may be best remembered for programs benefiting Wisconsin youth and families, but history also will reflect his struggles with a grim economy and failure to control a runaway budget deficit.

LINDAU, Germany — A 93 - year - old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists on June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans» remarkable evolutionary success as a species.

Each of these ecosystem collapses could trigger an out - of - control runaway warming process.

As a result, the system could control runaway drive wheel speed in as little as a third of a wheel revolution.

Chuck, the quote seems pretty accurate to me, but some will cavil about the use of the phrase «out - of - control runaway warming process» for «each» of those systems; but there are certainly feedbacks associated with most of them that will indeed drive toward more warming, though some effects are going to be stronger and faster than others.

Not exact matches

If I hadn't paid attention to that piece of advice, I might have also gotten caught up in a runaway train and perhaps never gotten control of it.

Like a runaway train, they speed down the track out of control, unable to stop and turn at critical junctures.

Observers view Porat as the financial disciplinarian, the CFO who is making sure the various Alphabet companies don't spiral out of control with runaway spending.

The situation can quickly spiral out of control, resulting in higher interest rates and runaway inflation.

And... I learned that successful Home Study leaders were chastised... because they represented a threat of a «satellite church» or a runaway «church» that the Sunday pastor could not control.

Runaway desire can set institutions lurching, both defensively and reactively, out of control.

The late Harry M. Tiebout likened the «runaway symptom» of the alcoholic's out - of - control drinking pattern to the dangerously high fever of pneumonia.

Mechanical failures, especially of the brakes, made runaway trains common in the early days of railroading — mindless monsters rolling out of control for many miles up and down grades until they crashed into another train or derailed at high speed on a curve.

«Other parks superintendents got to be Santa Claus,» Claypool observes wryly, referring to the problems - plagued Park District's notoriously long history of bloated budgets, runaway spending and lack of administrative controls.

Pardon my cynicism, but I spent 3 decades with the Department of Health, Andy's poster child for runaway, out of control metastisizing of one State agency with one very important mission into a bazillion boards, commissions, off - budget private corporations (HRI) etc., etc. etc. ad nauseum.

The runaway replication of cancer cells can also traced to genetic causes — mutations that remove the normal controls on cell growth.

To prevent a runaway reaction, an ax wielder stood ready to literally chop the rope, which would drop the control rods and stop nuclear fission if a meltdown was imminent — so literally safety control rod ax man.)

But if the machine isn't going to grind to a halt at the first drop of rain, or shoot out of control like a runaway bulldozer, researchers need to develop a host of new technologies to satisfy their needs.

Climate forecasts have long noted that every increase in global temperature heightens the odds of runaway global warming, beyond any human control.

Runaway cell proliferation is driven by accelerators, or oncogenes, that are stuck on go — in collusion with broken brakes, or tumor suppressors, that can't control a tumor's pedal - to - the - metal growth.

«Our future goal is to characterize the distinct activities of monomer and dimer to see if we can «control» runaway inflammation and related neutrophil - induced tissue damage in diseases such as sepsis.»

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Before it all ends — not a moment too soon, if you ask me — prissy scoutmaster Ed Norton loses his pest control spray, his latrine - inspection detail and his short pants, while the runaway children land in another camp where the mentally challenged Jason Schwartzman enters.

As the girl who took control of a runaway bus, Annie is now in a runaway relationship with hunky Jason Patric, a SWAT cop.

The only problem is that America is still in the process of a widespread national debate about gun control, so when absolutely nothing is made of the case at the heart of the story to make room for the chases and behind - closed - doors intrigue, the issue becomes a mere afterthought, which Runaway Jury indifferently exploits for the purpose of escapism.

It is time the Board of Regents exercises control over the State Education Department to stop the runaway train of anti-public school «reform» that the commissioner represents.

With unfunded liabilities under control, the state would no longer be subject to runaway retirement costs, allowing both the state and local school districts to create more stable budgets.

Hill Descent Control (HDC) prevented vehicle «runaways» when descending steep gradients and 4 - wheel Electronic Traction Control (4ETC) prevented wheel spin in low - traction conditions.

After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.

I'm usually disinclined to read stories about runaways, especially in controlling relationships, but I couldn't pass up a Caroline Leavitt book.

You state: «Amazon is the runaway market leader in digital book sales, with many in agreement that they control 75 % of the Canadian, US and United Kingdom markets.

Amazon is the runaway market leader in digital book sales, with many in agreement that they control 75 % of the Canadian, US and United Kingdom markets.

Fifteen - year - old Kendra James» life begins to spiral out of control with the return of her long - lost runaway sister Meisha, and -LSB-...]

A little inflation is OK, but the Fed wants to prevent runaway inflation which is much harder to control.

They are runaways or chewers or nippers or growlers or barkers or domineering or fearful or just plain difficult to control.

Dog owner Alan Foehr, 42, of Chestnut Court criticized the system this week after animal control officials refused to help him find Lady, his 11 - year - old runaway German shepherd.

beyond our control and runaway are not the same, but runaway was being said a lot back then, so...

I can't understand why that is a sensible definition of a runaway feedback effect, or why that ends up «putting things completely out of our control» (as if once the methane starts going up, let's just give up and burn all the coal because it won't matter anyway).

From a layperson's (my) view, it may mean «runaway from any human controls.»

From a geologist's view, it may mean «runaway from any earthly controls» (or negative feedback processes)-- like what has happened on Venus.

We don't know that anthropogenic global warming will be limited before the system goes into runaway positive feedback driven by melting methane hydrates we can't control.

This has been reinforced with increasing urgency by scientists around the world, with US climate scientist James Hansen this week publishing a paper highlighting that «conceivable levels of human - made climate forcing could yield the low - end runaway greenhouse effect» including «out - of - control amplifying feedbacks such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates».

People often conclude that the existence of positive feedbacks must imply «runaway» effects i.e. the system spiralling out of control.

The longer global warming continues, the greater the risk of «waking the sleeping giants» — major feedbacks such as ice sheet collapse, methane «burps,» or ecosystem collapse — that could ignite abrupt or runaway warming beyond our control.

In nuclear reactors the control rods and fission poisons (like boron in the fuel rods) absorb neutrons to prevent a runaway reaction.