Sentences with phrase «of putting on the brakes»

Brain freeze is your body's way of putting on the brakes, telling you to slow down and take it easy.

Linn says that the danger of putting on the brakes now is that states, districts, and individual schools may never reach the intended goals.

Not exact matches

NEW DELHI, April 24 - U.S. sanctions on Russian military exports have put the brakes on a $ 6 billion deal with India and may derail the arms purchases of other U.S. allies around Asia, experts say.

It zoomed into hydrogen, only to put on the brakes in the mid-2000s after regulators found that Shell vastly overbooked oil reserves, a scandal that prompted Shell to refocus on what it saw as the part of its business that really counted.

But others are quick to put the brakes on speculation that Toronto's slowing new condo sales are an indication of significant troubles ahead.

Uber is putting the brakes on its driverless car pilot program after one of its self - driving cars got into a high speed crash in Arizona.

With the OMB's approval of the Labor Department's 18 - month fiduciary rule delay having most assuredly kicked in (approval was anticipated within a week or two at press time in early November), should advisors put the brakes on compliance?

A repeat of this sort of thing could serve to slam the brakes on the oil / metals rally and possibly put a lid above the SPX as well.

While one might put the brakes on this expectation after looking at the 175 % payout ratio, Enbridge's reported EPS numbers are largely impacted by depreciation on assets that may not be depreciating at the reported rate (many of these pipelines actually become worth a lot more over time).

The Saudis retaliated, not by playing its historic role of swing producer and putting the brakes on oil output, instead deciding to pump as fast as possible.

It causes a temporary period of prosperity, and then the bust period happens when the Fed puts on the brakes, raises interest rates, and people realize that with a lot of the projects they started there is not enough real savings to complete them.

If Heyman's suit puts the brakes on part of Campus Crusade's film distribution, or shuts it down, such a scenario might not disturb Bright greatly.

They know that religion is an old machine that will never wear out and that has always been used to insure the fidelity of people and put a brake on the restlessness of human reason.

I fight the daily transformation with large percentages of me... as if Christ's ongoing reformation of me is something that won't be for my best and that my constant putting on the brakes is doing me any good!

The ideal of a gentleman had the moral power to put the brakes on our most tawdry and aggressive male proclivities and to make us take pride in our manhood.

Desperate to put the brakes on summer and its warm, sunlit nights and tawny skin, they lamented the return of sweaters, snow and the mania that is the holiday season.

After the Foxes made it four 1 - 0 wins from the last five games, though, we are running out of time fast and if someone does not put the brakes on soon there will be nothing Arsenal can do.

I personally do not think the board done enough to make anything happen, they wasn't happy with spending big again which has put the brakes on Wengers development of the squad.

But these latest quotes may put the brakes on the rumours as the Spaniard seeks out a car capable of taking him to a third world title.

Pablo Fornals has put the brakes on a deal to join Valencia, after supposedly hearing of interest from Arsenal.

New guidelines for the manufacture of walkers on wheels were put into place in 1997, which required them to be wider so they did not fit through doorways, as well as including lock in place brakes.

Foot - activated parking brake - The foot - activated parking brake is very easy to put on and release, with just the tap of your foot.

Having a baby or small children may change the type of vacation you choose but doesn't need to mean putting on the brakes for travel until they grow.

Babies, while created in moments of intimacy, really manage to put the brakes on any more baby making behaviour.

«When drivers see the squad, they automatically take their foot off the gas and put it on the brake, which improves the safety of the intersection,» Rodriguez said.

Remember that your toddler has no sense of distance and can't always put her brakes on as quickly as she needs to, so gates at the tops and bottoms of staircases will also protect her from potentially dangerous falls.

As soon as I had the CAT Scan — that's when they kind of put the brakes on and we're just like: «Wait.

Now, however, Democrats have been putting the brakes on, citing the prohibitive cost of a special election as the main reason for their reluctance to make good on the governor's pledge.

Here Labour may feel that they have a bit of a cushion in that they didn't start the process and can always claim later that it was out of their hands or if it is obviously going to be a disaster they can put the brakes on and say that they were opposed to it all along.

The Assembly also did not use the expiration of those two programs as a way to strengthen rent regulations to try to stop the hemorrhage of rent - stabilized apartments or put the brakes on mechanisms that landlords use to raise stabilized rents to unaffordable levels.

We have to put the brakes on these commercials until a system of accountability is in place, and if our targets can not be met, we should scrap the whole thing.»

Still, Kelly Nimmo - Guenther, president of Pledge 2 Protect, told the crowd how the coalition intended to put the brakes on the project.

Some examples of this propaganda include the FT piece titled «Labour's disappointing England poll results put brakes on «momentum» `, the Times article headlined «MPs call for inquest as Corbyn fails election test» and the Guardian's line that «Labour failed to dent the Tories».

«Everyone saw the value of a mixed economy that put the brakes on private monopolies and guaranteed a public realm.

Tensions between the Obama and Cuomo administrations date back to June, 2014, when Enck put the brakes on Cuomo's plan to use $ 500 million from a revolving loan fund devoted to clean water projects for the construction of the new Tappan Zee bridge.

Its job is to take a deeper look at the idea of a new athletic venue in the city that the mayor put the brakes on a few months ago.

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Cayuga Nation will ask a judge today to put the brakes on a settlement between the state and Oneida Indian Nation that would give the Oneidas a casino monopoly in the heart of the Cayugas» reservation.

The IDC worked to put the brakes on bad practices in the subprime auto industry to protect consumers, some of whom are stuck paying the price of a new car for a junker because of the terms of the loan.

He believes that policies are being rushed through by the Conservatives and that ministers should be «putting a brake on» some proposals, which are in «danger of getting out of control».

He is wary of putting the brakes too heavily on children's competitive nature, however.

But its final report published today comes amid clear evidence of fundamental disagreement between the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, meaning deadlock has once again put a brake on reform.

Meanwhile, a group of 46 big donors wrote to the Sunday Telegraph saying the plans would put a «brake on philanthropy».

In the Daily Telegraph, Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy put the boot into Justine Greening, claiming that the former education secretary «put the brakes on policies that work, like free schools, and devised bureaucratic initiatives of little value».

The Governor's Office put the brakes on those subpoenas, which may be an ongoing topic of federal investigation itself.

Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, will put the brakes on the contentious Common Core standards if she is confirmed by the Senate.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says the implementation of Common Core Learning Standards have been «poorly executed» and he says if the Regents won't act to put the brakes on, the Senate will.

• The fate of Atlantic Yards now rests with State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimity to pass a project — and he boasts an impressive megaproject kill ratio, having already done in the West Side stadium and put the brakes on Moynihan Station.

The work and pensions secretary released the figures ahead of next week's upratings bill is debated in the Commons, when MPs will vote on the government's plans to put the brakes on future benefits increases.

A group of legislators want to put the brakes on a city program that limits deliveries during rush hours.

The city of Oswego is putting the brakes on SUNY Oswego's construction of several signs on city property designed to improve the entrance to the college.