Sentences with phrase «move against a pressure»

I worked out his equations in Excel, and a gas will move against a pressure gradient if it is moving with a temperature gradient: i.e., if the air is hotter than the water, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the water will be higher than in the air.

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Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Tory Newmyer and it looks at labor federation AFL - CIO's decision to lift a freeze on political contributions that it imposed in March in a move meant to pressure Democrats to vote against free trade measures.

A few dollar - denominated commodities moved higher on Friday in response to a weaker U.S. Dollar, a drop in U.S. Treasury yields and softer - than - expected U.S. economic data.The dollar was pressured against a basket of currencies after the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product came in at 2.3 percent.

There is no particular point in producing pressures of evil against a man or woman who moves harmlessly and respectably with the normal currents of contemporary human living.

Sanchez is a player under particular pressure to put in a big performance against Liverpool, with the Chile international yet to really get going since his January move from Arsenal.

The Spanish playmaker scored twice in United's 3 - 1 victory against Villa to move them above neighbours Manchester City into third and keep the pressure on Arsenal in second and remain eight points off league leaders Chelsea, who they face at Stamford Bridge in two weeks.

It may have been the underlying performance of the VJM10, but it felt like the Force India driver took the limelight in many races last year as they always seemed to pressure others, move forward and often battled against each other.

City once again had their backs against the Champions League wall when Yevhen Konoplyanka, long linked with a move to England as the Daily Star reports, made Sevilla's pressure pay after half an hour.

Place both hands around your breast, against your chest, and apply gentle pressure as you move your hands toward your nipple.

I have frequently brought him into bed with us at night but wish I had never felt the pressure to go against my instincts and move him out in the first place.

If the cradle becomes angled to a degree that prevents an infant from moving off the railings, pressure against her chest can become great enough to prevent breathing.»

At 8:30 a.m. Carl Paladino, who has been under pressure to drop his pledge to petition his way into a primary against the GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Lazio, will hold a press conference to discuss his next move.

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

His entry into the Senate District 38 could narrow the field, and may put pressure on Pizzo to get out of the race or move to Senate District 39 to face off against Flores.

The huge outpouring of opposition already beginning in student organisations is likely to place huge pressure on some of the party's backbenchers to rebel against the move, however.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

In 2008, Ateshian's group demonstrated this phenomenon for the first time using a small sphere articulated against a cartilage plug, showing that interstitial pressure was maintained indefinitely if the contact area moved faster than the diffusive speed of the synovial fluid.

The water molecules push back against the sand, raising the water pressure so it's strong enough to force the grains out of contact with one another, while the shaking allows grains to readily move.

«Gauging attitudes and behaviors of those providers on the front lines with respect to PrEP is a key pressure point in moving towards the routine use of effective, safe and well - targeted biomedical interventions in the fight against new HIV transmissions in the US.»

In the simplest case, this consists of two arms, which move against each other around a joint and can thus exert pressure on the shell.

The idea behind this gadget is that you add pressure by pulling and pushing against the bar and foot board, allowing you to get more out of the stretch or strengthening move you're doing.

When you contract your muscles, the pressure of the tightening muscle squeezes against the veins to push blood upward toward your heart, and the valves open to allow blood to move from one segment of vein to the next.

Sometimes if she notices that a student's belly isn't moving with the breath, she'll place the spine of a book into the belly horizontally and tell the student to press against it with the abdomen on an inhalation and then release the pressure against the book on an exhalation.

The 7 - series» DSC includes a huge amount of sub-functions, including ABS (anti-lock brakes), ASC (stability control, including a separate mode for stabilizing a trailer), CBC (cornering brake control), DBC (Dynamic Brake Control, which recognizes panic situations and helps the driver to effect a full - braking panic stop with less pedal pressure), Brake Fade Compensation, Brake Drying (which applies the brakes slightly in wet conditions to keep the pads dry and thus ready for use), Brake Standby (which applies slight brake pressure in the event of a sudden lift from the gas, moving the brake pads up against the rotor for quicker response in a panic stop), Startoff Assistant (which prevents the 750i from rolling backwards down a hill as you start out), ACC Active Cruise Control (see below), and automatic brake hold (which holds the car at a stop even with the transmission in gear).

All brakes use a hydraulic system, wherein fluid moves through brake lines to create pressure which presses the brakes pads against the rotors and stops the car.

Pushing into new areas like hardware and tablets in that regard is an important offensive move to defend against erosion and competitive pressure elsewhere in the business.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon welcomed the move, after putting pressure on the museum to maintain the original agreement for the event, stating that «any attempt to discriminate against Israel is completely unacceptable and we will continue to fight against such injustices.

In that case, a similar slow - moving low pressure system brought moisture from the Gulf of Mexico against the front ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains leading to record breaking precipitation totals and flooding.

Air has buoyancy, and moving the sealed jar of air up or down is work against gravity.A mass less jar makes it obvious, carry the jar down stairs and let it go and it floats up to where you started, carry it up stairs and let it go and it sinks back, Use the pressure difference to do work, and that is just the same work it took to move the jar up or down.

Once it expands it pushes against the adjoining parcels so pressure increases in the horizontal plane but pressure in the vertical plane remains the same so the expanded and lighter air parcel moves in the direction of least resistance which is upward.