Sentences with phrase «in slippery ice»

So just imagine what it'd be like if the kitchen floor was covered in slippery ice or separated by two moving lorries.

As a snake moves, its scales grip the ground and propel the body forward — similar to how crampons help hikers establish footholds in slippery ice.

Not exact matches

Irish moss is famous for setting the frothy New England fanciness, blancmange, when boiled in milk, and what keeps seaweeds flexible and slippery is also what keeps ice cream, lipstick, and shaving cream smooth.

Getting the robot's legs, each of which featured four joints, to move in a synchronized fashion — not to mention adjust dynamically to slippery surfaces such as ice — proved challenging.

Thus, for every 1 % increase in local sea level, there is a ~ 5 % increase in ice flux through the grounding line (though this may be higher if the bed is slippery near the grounding line, see Tsai et al. 2015).

If this little blue hatch can survive a hardcore rally in the snow and a slippery ice - racing course on a frozen lake, then a simple autocross on warm pavement should be no sweat, right?

Providing you with optimum torque control when you move off from a standstill, Low Traction Launch enhances capability in slippery conditions like wet grass, snow and ice.

Driving a pickup in the winter could be challenging because the light rear end slides on slippery snow and ice.

Whether taking the RR SVR to Sweden and sticking it on a «Silverstone» track carved on an ice lake in Arjepog, Sweden, proves the SVR is like no other performance car is debatable (Bentley do it every year with their Continental GTs, and now with the Bentayga SUV too), but it still makes for some good photos and a watchable video as two tonnes of Range Rover play on the slippery stuff.

This mode may not be ideal to use when wanting to drive in a sedate manner; nor when road conditions are very slippery, due to ice, snow or torrential rain — because loss of tire traction may be experienced (wheel spin during acceleration, and may also result in road wheel locking during downshifts at high engine rpms under closed throttle).

ATC prevents wheel spin under acceleration especially when traction is limited on slippery surfaces in mines or on ice.

Dynamic mode modified transmission shift points while illuminating the Virtual instruments in red and Rain / Snow / Ice mode, for more slippery conditions, provides more progressive throttle control.

In a series of tests in mountainous Colorado at the Mazda Ice Academy (photo inset), the Mazda CX - 5 conquered hills and slippery slaloms better than competing SUVIn a series of tests in mountainous Colorado at the Mazda Ice Academy (photo inset), the Mazda CX - 5 conquered hills and slippery slaloms better than competing SUVin mountainous Colorado at the Mazda Ice Academy (photo inset), the Mazda CX - 5 conquered hills and slippery slaloms better than competing SUVs.

Walking up the muddy wet dirt paths, crossing over the streams of the waterfalls, slippery rocks and fallen treat, the trek took a good 1.5 hours before finally reaching the main fall - a majestic 45 m drop, landing in a shallow pool of ice cold water, perfect for cooling off after the sweaty walk.

It's a journey even Indiana Jones would have to brace himself for: an hour - long rainforest hike, a swim across an ice - cold stream into the narrow mouth of a cave, and then a slippery descent into the dark, cavernous depths where bats, spiders, and ancient scorpion - like amblypygi lurk in the nooks.

The contrast when playing in Summer where waterfalls flow and the sun shines while Toku swims, to playing in Winter where it snows and pools of water turn into slippery impenetrable ice is something we think players will really feel immersed in and enjoy.

Then in the ice world, all of the surfaces are slippery.

The real jewel in the crown in Obliteracers is it's multiplayer, it is definitely geared more to be a party game than a racing game with the full pack of racers being followed at one time, this gives it an arena feel rather than an actual straight up racing game, you still have to try and lead the pack (at times) although that's only to knock other racers out as the main aim is to destroy your enemy, within multiplayer you can customize your game to suit your preferences from turning certain or all weapons off, reversed controls, ice skating which is an extremely slippery track speed boosts etc etc, i'd liked to have listed them all in this review but with so many you'll have to take a look yourself.

Each area theme (ranging from slippery ice plateaus to scrapyards and bejewelled cave systems) spans a fixed number of levels, boss encounters crop up at the same point in the sequence every time, and each layout is home to a certain number of weapon and ammo crates.

These dungeons have you solving simple puzzles such as activating switches in the correct order, lining up dots using switches, pushing slippery ice blocks in their designated locations, and so on.

The Super Mario All - Stars versions of Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels would retroactively decorate some levels with fallen snow, but this world came several years beforehand, and introduced a hazard that would not be found in its remade predecessors: The slippery ice surface, which made getting solid footing extra-treacherous.

But in Super Mario Bros. 2, new elements were added: Ice levels with slippery terrain, deserts ready to swallow you up with quicksand, and caves full of rocky barricades to tunnel through.

An interesting level in the successful sequel to the monumental Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2's Cliffhanger sees you enter an enemy base by scaling a slippery, icy cliff side, using ice hooks and while you avoid falling.

From moving rooms, to slippery ice floors, it'll require you to all work together in order to succeed without burning all your ingredients!

With the IPCC previously «taking a pass», in its assessment of Greenland's contribution to sea - level rise - due to poor understanding of how ice sheets would respond to global warming back in 2007 - this new paper is an important first stab at pinning down the slippery mechanisms of «ice sheet dynamics».

As education in the US Public Schools has more and more become UN GREEN indoctrination, the santicmony of our 20 - something academic generation is on a slippery slope (not caused by melting ice caps) to the destruction of our nation.

The stable design and wide tires did well on ice roads and the snirt (for you sun - belters, that's a slippery mixture of snow and dirt), and the pedal - assist certainly came in handy when plowing through small drifts of snow.

The steady growth of LPO has Gabe Acevedo fed up, and his guest post at Above The Law sounds a grim warning: «the practice of discovery in American law is not just on a slippery slope, it's careening down a steep mountain covered in ten feet of solid ice.

On this week's Lawyer2Lawyer podcast, we interview two lawyers who are experts in the slippery issues of liability for snow and ice:

Other contributing factors in car accidents are speeding, traffic violations, diver fatigue, bad road conditions, and slippery or wet roadways from rain or ice, tire blowout, or mechanical failure.

Slip and fall injuries can result from such problems as water, rain, ice, snow, grease or other slippery substance on a walking surface, as well as abrupt changes in flooring, poor lighting, or a hidden hazard, such as a gap or a hard - to - see hole in the ground.

A dangerous condition can take many forms, such as a rotten plank on a walkway, a loose handrail, slippery floors, or ice in front of a doorway.