Sentences with phrase «of hitting the brakes»

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

Her mental illness is confirmed very quickly when she heads straight for a brick wall with her car without the intention of hitting the brakes or swerving away.

Not exact matches

You have to hit the brakes, and accelerate the person in front of you.

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.

Analysts say markets are worried that Summers, who has said little about monetary policy but has sounded a skeptical note in the past about the impact of some of the Fed's efforts, might hit the brakes faster.

Mr. Speaker, while other partner countries in the joint strike fighter project are hitting the brakes because of costs rising from $ 50 million to $ 92 million per plane, the Conservative government is going full throttle and is planning to stick Canadians with the bill.

Because it takes a lot of capital and «inertia» to move the housing market, directional movements take time to develop and they become fast - moving trains with no brakes — until they either hit a wall or hit the ground.

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.

So with Analogy at the forefront of my meagre brainbox, I set off behind the wheel of my saucepan... gentle acceleration at acceleration point A1, into the Attack Position, make a swift, smooth overtake past the tin of beans, cadence brake before I hit the fridge, watching out for the gravel er... spilt sugar... A three - poin - turn in front of the washing machine and slide gently into the kerb (curb) alongside Number three burner of the cooker.

Cox hit the brakes and ripped to the outside of Peat where there was nothing between Cox and Brees but air and opportunity.

Vettel hit the back of Hamilton believing the Mercedes driver brake checked him and then seemingly turned into his title rival after pulling alongside him to wave his hand in frustration.

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.

Seeing the flashing lights of the deputy's van, the 19 - year - old abruptly hit the brakes.

A slight bit of bruised knee showing between sundress and mud boots, Ada hits the ramp with growing confidence and speed then jams the brakes to skid into the corner and pedal uphill for another run.

That's the sound of halting brakes as we hit reality.

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.

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

Spacecraft screaming along at many thousands of kilometers per hour have to hit the brakes hard, firing retrorockets to swing into orbit.

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.

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.

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?

«Where there is queueing, if drivers are not aware of the queue downstream, they don't have enough time to hit the brakes to slow down or stop, thus, increasing the likelihood of a crash.

With «1 - in - 150» of humanity affected by flooding in just one recent month (and not counting the later impact of Hurricane Maria), the matter before us really is how hard can we hit the brakes and how fast politically can we hit them.

But when it comes to the really important things — how antilock brakes work, what to do if you hit a patch of wet leaves, how to clean your battery posts — were sadly lacking.

While we do need cortisol in our bodies and our lives — say, to help us hit the car brakes before slamming into a tree — our modern lifestyles prompt us to pump out way too much of this steroid hormone.

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).

n0ne: Just be ready to be called a dumbass when something does nt work or you go too deep LMAO Learn to find the balance between flashy and efficient, and remember that it's easy to be fast with Falcon, but it's harder to know when to hit the brakes and not lose control of your character.

She has an eye for landscape, a love of light — relish the infernal glare of the dust whenever a driver here hits the brakes at night — and an all - too - rare mastery of geography in an action scene.

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

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.

However, speed can be picked up over the course of the race, as players can hit the accelerator and the brake at turns to perform power slides, which raises a player's turbo level.

When the flames die down and the guns run out of ammo, the movie hits the brakes hard.

My brain is hitting the brakes to join the pace of the meeting, which adds to the caring nature of the community.

When I hit slightly rough patches of road, especially when braking or cornering, it kind of feels like the car «skips» a little.

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.

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.

I stupidly accelerated very fast and hit the brakes very hard in a short amount of time.

Scared by my own courage, I hit the brakes and immediately wished for a four - point belt, stronger forearms, and eyeballs capable of staying inside their sockets.

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.

So why would car designers give you the feature to shift from reverse to drive without hitting the brake of it can cause damage?

There was only enough time for a 30 second ride through the parking lot before his next appointment, but that's more than enough time to floor it, hit the 1 - 2 shift, and do a little engine braking to indulge the auditory sensations of driving a V12 Vantage.

Rotors are easily warped nowdays due to quality, usage, and even by hitting a puddle of water after or during braking because it shifts the rotors temperature so quickly from hot to cold that the steel warps.

«Tweren't nothing or nobody going to stop me from making my appointed rounds in the motley procession of deathmobiles my pals and I rode around in, back when drum brakes, eight - track players, and leaded gas were as much a part of everyday life as platform shoes, fringe vests, and the radio hits of the Electric Light Orchestra.

A child runs out in front of you - you hit the child at 40 even hitting your brakes... now if you were doing 30 & hitting the child at 20 the child lives... at 40 miles per hour the child dies... And you go to prison.

Ms. Herzberg appeared suddenly, proverbially out of nowhere, and there is no indication from the video or photos released of the accident, which includes a video from a camera on Uber safety driver Rafael Vasquez's face, that there were any other obstacles that the Volvo might have hit had it swerved, or braked, suddenly.

Played with a set of headphones, you can pick up all the small pieces of gravel hitting the underside of the car, or the squeak of brakes, or even cracks and pops when you lift off.

This car lasted for over 132,000 miles over 4.5 year when the guy in front of me slammed on his brakes causing me to hit him, and causing me to be hit from behind.

... I braked briefly before a banked, blind curve and then hit the throttle again, a flash of dry leaves blasted into the air behind me.

As a result, the Civic scrubs a bit of speed easily when entering a corner without hitting the brakes, while providing plenty of thrust on corner exit without you needing to worry about downshifting from fourth to third gear.