Sentences with phrase «hit the gas with»

Once you press that big silver start / stop button, position the thin column - mounted shift stalk in Drive, and hit the gas with gusto, it will be some time before you notice much else of your surroundings.

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Then they released tear gas and hit us with truncheons,» Amirah Lidasan, one of the leaders of the protest, told AFP.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

There's more to Atlanta than Outkast and Georgia peaches — the city's cost of living is astonishingly low, with food and gas prices hitting the same level or lower than national averages.

Despite shaky offensive moments, and despite only a plus - 78 yardage margin, the Horned Frogs capitalized on every Longhorn mistake, hit the gas late, and headed back to Fort Worth with a 48 - 10 win and a 10 - 1 record.

With high gas prices and unemployment hitting the families hard, just about everyone is counting pennies and looking for free or inexpensive entertainment these days, and you can find more such activities in our Weekly Events listing.

With gas prices hitting or exceeding $ 4 a gallon, trips to the museum, zoo, beach and other local attractions have become harder for families to afford.

His online display ads are hitting the gas tax moratorium hard, with a petition for list - building.

Days after Trump said he wanted to pull the United States out of Syria, Syrian forces hit a suburb of Damascus with bombs that rescue workers said unleashed toxic gas, possibly drawing him deeper into an intractable Middle Eastern war that he hoped to leave.

Police pushed back against the rioters, peppering the crowd with tear gas grenades from behind riot shields and hitting the crowd with water cannon.

Given the topic hits so close to home as New York grapples with the idea of approving high - volume hydraulic natural gas drilling it may still be worth a watch.

The Executive Budget is proposing a massive $ 651 million increase in the state's «Section 18 - A» assessments on utilities (increasing the assessment rate from.3 percent of revenues to 2 percent), a significant share of which will hit electric and gas utilities, with a direct pass through to their business customers.

In the case of UED, an electron beam shines through a gas of iodine molecules, with the distance between the two iodine nuclei in each molecule defining the double slit, and hits a detector instead of a screen.

We wanted to see, if you took a realistic cloud of cold gas and hit it with a hot, fast - flowing, supernova - driven outflow, if you could accelerate that cold material to velocities like what are observed,» Robertson said.

When used to perform HHG, the argon crystal reduced the wavelength of incoming laser light 40-fold, compared to 20-fold in argon gas hit with the same level of illumination.

Though there was never any danger of Siding Spring colliding with Mars or any of the orbiters, its tail contained gas and fine dust particles that, when they hit the Martian atmosphere and vaporized, caused what was probably a spectacular meteor shower, though one that no one could see except for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.

Weinberg uses a similar «hitting the gas» approach to immunotherapy, targeting the T cell co-stimulator OX40 with a drug now in clinical trials.

The galaxy hosts a bright quasar that may have illuminated the ghostly structure by hitting it with a beam of light from hot gas around a central black hole.

It's a valid concern — not being able to go to the bathroom before a race means you may get hit with the urge mid-run, and in turn, cramps and gas or a need to pause mid-race and make a bathroom pit stop.

When we are low in this neurotransmitter, our brain continues to hit the gas, overstimulating us with activity.

HIT violates the GAS principle (general adaptation syndrome) by insisting on going to failure on every set of every workout, year - round, with no emphasis on the need for periods of decreased intensity or detraining periods.

When your car needs fuel do you fill it up with water or wait until you run out of gas before hitting the gas station?

On sex: When people experience difficulty with sex it's usually not because there isn't enough stimulation hitting the gas peddle, it's usually because there is too much — stress, shame, discomfort with their body, a lack of feeling safe, disconnection from their partner — hitting the breaks.

You can go talk with them in any way you can and begin hitting off the gas pedal of the relationship field.

Cooper hits the gas quickly with an opening sequence in which a band of rabid Comanche raiders descend upon a seemingly peaceful family of white settlers.

Accordingly, Planet Terror hits all the right notes — the secret military bases, green gases, strippers, rednecks, BBQ, splatter, the casting of C - list icons like Tom Savini and Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn, the fitting of go - go dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan) with a prosthetic machine gun, and so on — without ever suggesting that Rodriguez hears the music.

I went with a KTM X-Bow in the GT4 circuit, loaded up my first practice lap and hit the gas.

There are really only two buttons you use for gas and reverse and when you hit the gas you can sometimes be driving forward at a complete ninety degree angle which brings up a problem with the physics.

It even has a few interesting gameplay twists of its own, as you can actually interrogate enemy commanders for information by hitting them with a canister of truth gas.

He's not the only creature to get hit with a dose of plot as several other canisters of this harmful gas have landed in rural Wyoming and some Florida swamplands, infecting a wolf and crocodile.

This car is over 20 years old now but it has been a great car... If you find one with low miles and it is gonna be cheap you can not go wrong... So great on gas, my Saturn just hit 200k and still goes... Read full review

Dialed to such settings, the transmission — a new eight - speed version of Porsche's dual - clutch PDK automatic — can occasionally ram into gears with unexpected suddenness, but it's an otherwise seamless unit, downshifting two or three gears at once when you hit the gas at cruising speed.

The plug - in will start at $ 76,090 when it hits dealerships in the spring, compared with the $ 64,590 starting price of the Premium Luxury gas - only model (all prices include destination).

Those outgoing M cars have their drawbacks (the M3 might be the smallest car ever hit with the gas - guzzler tax), but in its dotage I'm finding that I harbor a soft spot for the normally aspirated engine.

Now I don't have power steering when the car is on a cold idle, it only kicks in (again, with a thunk) when I hit the gas for the first time.

Yet the 911 Turbo won't get hit with a gas - guzzler tax in the United States, Porsche says.

The problem with many hot hatchbacks is they're great if you just want to hit the gas and get mashed back in your seat all day, but awful the rest of the time.

The M - Class comes standard with a number of around - town driver - aid features, including downhill speed regulation and an adaptive brake system that automatically dries the rotors when driving in wet weather, assists on hills by holding the brakes for a few seconds, precharges to reduce reaction time when lifting quickly off of the accelerator, and uses a Brake - Hold feature that lets you relax your feet at long stoplights without worrying about the vehicle creeping forward until you hit the gas pedal.

As they did with the last price spike in 2008, when the highest recorded price of a gallon of regular gas in Florida hit $ 4.08 on July 16, Florida dealers are seeing an increase in customer interest in fuel mileage.

Hit the gas and the Q60 is responsive with a nice growl to the exhaust as the car zips out into traffic.

Yes, there's a place for a Super Cab or a Crew Cab on a jobsite, allowing crews of workers to arrive in one vehicle, saving gas and parking space, but the popularity of extended and crew cab pickups didn't hit their stride until middle managers with families started purchasing full - size pickups as everyday commuter cars.

Thanks to standard all - wheel drive, the GTE can hit 60 mph (96 km / h) in just six seconds, although it would be hard to hit its maximum EV only range of around 32 kilometres with the gas pedal pinned.

With 2.4 L direct injection 4 - cylinder producing up to 201 hp and 180 lb - ft of torque, the new Acura ILX is refreshingly full of spirit when you hit the gas.

It will press you back in your seat when you hit the gas and is wonderfully engaging, especially if you let the revs creep up with that manual transmission.

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With its Sports Exhaust option, the Continental GT V8 S's engine let forth a deep, bass growl worthy of a»67 Chevy Impala SS whenever I hit the gas.

The 2016 CLA is also equipped with Adaptive braking, which sets the brake pads closer to the discs when you quickly lay off the gas pedal, providing more immediate response if you need to quickly hit the brakes.

The sticker price is $ 77,600 which includes delivery charges — but you'll still get hit with a $ 1,300 gas - guzzler tax.

With most cars, I sort have a habit of pressing the gas down halfway, waiting until it hits third gear, then slowly easing off.

The Jaguar F - PACE has been efficiently designed with Stop / Start Technology, which is able to turn the vehicle off while it's idling and turn it back on the second you hit the gas pedal.