Sentences with phrase «hit the brakes on»

Developer Steve Witkoff is hitting the brakes on plans to Convert The Park Lane Hotel into luxury condominiums.

A proposed retail and entertainment complex next to the arena is tied up in litigation, and county officials hit the brakes on a 25 - acre biotech park after Northwell Health abandoned plans for a $ 350 million Center for Bioelectronic Medicine, citing the cost.

A league of lawmakers is pushing for Mayor Bill de Blasio to hit the brakes on two luxury residential buildings slated for Brooklyn Bridge...

So although Lynx1 and other molecules cut off our critical period by hitting the brakes on plasticity, they also help lock in knowledge for the long term.

When you hit your brakes on the highway, up pops a window on the screen of your nav asking one of several questions: Can you see the cause of the holdup?

That's because it also stimulates gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors that hit the brakes on your neuro - excitatory neurotransmitters.

Happily, Zhao has a sharp sense of when, and how, to hit the brakes on the wrong, corny kind of rugged individualism.

Many people questioned whether the state should hit the brakes on change.

These are whiplash - inducing times for public schools in New York, as state education leaders keep hitting the brakes on the very reforms they had aggressively...

Are billionaires like Eli Broad suddenly hitting the brakes on ed reform because they care about pubic school budgets, or are they just upset that vouchers and religious school tax credits will be horning in on the lucrative charter school racket?

It is by no means sporty, and the transmission did a fine job in automatic mode of applying lower gears when I hit braked on a hill descent.

Despite the financing options offered by the Firestone Credit Card, most reviewers seem to recommend hitting the brakes on your application.

Despite the financing options offered by the Firestone Credit Card, most reviewers seem to recommend hitting the brakes on your application.

They ask, What if we hit the brakes on climate change by tracking gas emissions from space?

When you hit the brakes on your car, you have to allow for stopping distance that changes with your velocity, road conditions, tire conditions and whether the girl on the side of the road is cute or not:)(reaction time).

Once conservatives are convinced that addressing climate change does not threaten their pocketbooks, endanger the free enterprise system, or expand government, they'll hit the brakes on the motivated cognition that drives skepticism.

I think it is clear to some folks that we will hit the brakes on CO2 or hit the wall on global temps.

5) Get a radar / laser detector — this would be expensive but it will help your car automatically hit brake on time when someone is tailing you, it might be a police or something

Samsung hit the brakes on the rollout on February 14 due to unexpected reboots.

The best situation for women with responsive desire is one which revs your engines and allows you to accelerate to that arousal point, while minimizing stress that hits the brakes on desire.

Not exact matches

You see, most drivers (especially commuters) are on «automatic» and thus may do something stupid (like hitting the accelerator rather than the brake) if they're startled by something unexpected.

But if your heart is set on passing — or if you didn't notice until the last minute that your exit was coming up — just wait until you're in the exit lane before you hit your brakes.

Foreign investors hit the brakes last December, shortly after the Harper government approved the Nexen and Progress deals and the prime minister warned that future takeovers in the oilsands by state - owned enterprises (SOEs) would be approved on only an exceptional basis.

If I use the elasticity (price gains with respect to wage growth) from the full sample, the model predicts inflation hitting 2.8 % by the end of 2019; if I limit the sample to the 1980s, when the elasticity was at its highest, prices hit 3.7 % at the end of 2019, before which point the Fed would surely slam on the brakes.

When we enter the tomb of suffering, we have about as much control over the logistics as when we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's control.

Montoya looked to be ahead as he braked around the outside, but Ralf got on the kerb and span, hitting his teammate and causing him to skip across the grass.

His lead in the standings is now just three points after he admitted to simply coming out of the Watkins Glen pit lane too quickly, hit the brakes, locked up and slipped off on cold tyres.

I do tend to hit my foot on the brake while walking though.

The brake button on the Phil and Ted Vibe is located in the center of the handle and this can be a problem when using one hand to push the stroller as you can inadvertently hit the brake button and lock the wheels.

You see the tree branch on the road, hit the brakes, and it seems like an eternity before you know if you avoided the collision or were too late.

In driving - simulation and closed - course studies, people on marijuana are slower to hit the brakes and worse at safely changing lanes.

So what I did was I recruited 28 test subjects and had them complete three laps on the game Gran Turismo 3 for PlayStation 2; and they had a steering wheel, an acceleration [and] brake pad to simulate a real driving experience, and I counted the number of crashes they made during each lap, which was the number of times they hit the wall and also the number of times that they deviated from the course.

Instead of hitting the brakes, I put my foot down on the accelerator.

In one of the scenarios Honda is testing, the first car traveling in a group of three slams on the brakes to avoid hitting an animal, which sends an immediate warning to the following vehicles and sends a picture of the situation to their dashboards.

Cortisol is your main stress hormone, and it rises during times of stress to sharpen senses and increase chances of survival (if you were, say, outrunning a tiger or slamming on your brakes to avoid hitting a car in traffic).

When Josh slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a dog along a two - lane highway in the country, his car is rear - ended by Lorraine (Marianne Jean - Baptiste), a cellist en route to a gig.

The film opens on a hit - and - run, unseen by us but signaled by the screech of brakes intruding into the hush of night on a winding country road.

We managed to hit 205 mph on a closed test track before having to brake for the next bend, and the car was feeling more stable by the second, while the cylinders were only just hitting their stride.

Not sure on your particular vehicle, but most auto - adjusting drum brakes work when applying the foot brake (not parking brake) while the vehicle is in reverse, so whenever you back out of a parking space and hit the foot brake, the brakes adjust.

The forces that it exerts on you under acceleration, or when you hit the huge carbon brakes (they still need more progression, but they're much better than in the Gallardo) or when you lean on the Pirelli P Zero Corsas are massive and intimidating.

When we were on a high speed blast and suddenly hit a go slow zone, the GT's brakes — the biggest iron units ever fitted to a Bentley at roughly 16.5 - inches in front with 10 - piston calipers clamping down on them — hauled it down with authority and without a bunch of clutch and grab in the process.

That allows a Volvo-esque pedestrian detection system that can brake autonomously at up to 45 mph and can entirely avoid hitting those on foot at up to 31 mph.

When I stop the car (by hitting the brake pedal), the engine all of a sudden stops while on drive.

I've heard many such noises caused by worn bushings, and missing caliper shims or if you have Drum Brakes in the rear; a loose spring - A loose spring could be loose and during slow rotation you will hear it knock as the spring slaps from one side to the other (front to rear) and the other bracket tries to operate but will not, and the bracket that is working will hit against the tip of the other one as you hit the brakes because both brake brackets are not moving at the same time and one of them is raising off / away from the back plate and slams back down on the plate Brakes in the rear; a loose spring - A loose spring could be loose and during slow rotation you will hear it knock as the spring slaps from one side to the other (front to rear) and the other bracket tries to operate but will not, and the bracket that is working will hit against the tip of the other one as you hit the brakes because both brake brackets are not moving at the same time and one of them is raising off / away from the back plate and slams back down on the plate brakes because both brake brackets are not moving at the same time and one of them is raising off / away from the back plate and slams back down on the plate again.

By then, the carbon - ceramic brakes were hot enough to decelerate our gleaming citrus fruit on wheels with such effectiveness that it seemed perfectly OK to ignore the cone markers and to hit the pedal eerily late even though extreme deceleration would occasionally trigger an initial wobble or two.

Every automatic transmission car I've driven (not sure if all do this) allow you to shift from Reverse to Neutral and from Neutral to Drive (and therefore Reverse all the way to Drive) without pressing the brake or hitting the little shift lock on the gear selector.

Luckily I never crapped on anyone but c'm on... it seems ridiculous but that is one that could really kill you when you hit the rear brake on a panic stop and that rear wheel is covered in oil and starts to come around on you... exhale.

Vehicles slow down slightly all the time on the road without hitting their brakes.

It shakes like when you're on driving mode and you hit brake to stop your car (like waiting for red light).

I put my windshield wipers on the other day and my radio turned off when I hit my brakes my lights dim down same thing when I roll up and down my windows do you have an idea where to even start is there a main wiring harness somewhere I cant figure it out thank you please let me know any help would be great thanks again Rodney.................. [email protected]