Sentences with phrase «of weak material»

Color Cage for Pets comfort and safety Dogs are strong animals that are difficult to contain especially if the cage is made of weak material.

And, by now, Kidman has mastered that survival skill honed by all good actors — faking conviction in the midst of weak material — and it serves her brilliantly here.

Like most nearly - two - hour comedies, Sisters does run long in the tooth and curiously elongates some of the weaker material.

In fact, because of the weaker materials, you may not even need a specialty tool to complete the attack.

Not exact matches

-- it will face continued margin pressures «due to higher labor content in certain areas of manufacturing where we have temporarily dialed back automation, as well as higher material costs from recently imposed tariffs, commodity price increases and a weaker US dollar.»

At the same time, manufacturers pointed to the weakest rate of input price inflation so far in 2016, despite rising demand for raw materials and some reports of renewed stock shortages among suppliers.

The slump was related to higher material costs and a weaker performance among its nickel - battery products, historically the firm's biggest revenue source, because of the global slowdown and weaker power tool sales.

However, retail sales were quite weak in March, suggesting that the tax increases that occurred at the start of the year may be beginning to have a material effect.

«I turn down many otherwise down attractive investments because of their weak balance sheets, and I believe that this discipline is a material reason for our success over the years.»

The prices of other building materials remain weak.

Measuring the Dollar against a basket of commodities, you get a different situation: the Dollar is fundamentally weak against the major commodities and raw materials.

But these anarchic motives may be directed toward decent activities — marital procreation, protection of the weak, provision of material necessities.

Jesus wept over Jerusalem; but Jesus was definitely not weak in spite of all the bad Sunday School material that attempts to present him as «gentle Jesus, meek and mild.»

When such devotion is nominally assumed but is actually weak, it is necessary to set up stringent legalistic regulations which define within a narrow range the allowable forms of published and broadcast materials.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

He speaks of «a weak objectivity that includes the transcendental conditions of establishing truth» (p. 299), which is very close to Bernard Lonergan's discussion in Insight of the contingency of judgments about the material world.

We are frequently more ashamed of our blunders afterwards than we were at the moment of making them; and in general our whole higher prudential and moral life is based on the fact that material sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than ideas of remoter facts.

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

Moreover, Leclerc's own argument that certain intimate actions binding minimal substances together are themselves substantial principles, is very weak, and seems to rest on the assertion that such relations must be substantial because 1) there are composite material substances, and 2) such composites are composed of other, smaller substances.

DuPont works with leading meat, poultry and seafood manufacturers, like you, to develop packaging materials and sealing technologies that can seal at broader temperature ranges with better seal - through of contamination areas, help ensure stronger, more consistent seal integrity on all sides of the package and avoid the weak seal spots that cause leaks.

The weak points of high chairs - as in every piece of furniture - are the joints, the areas where two materials work together and the add - ons, like trays.

«But if you plot the same information as a function of the sample size, the datasets, in fact agree, and display the same general trend — the larger the indentation in the material tested, the weaker the olivine becomes.»

«We then studied the chemistry of these materials in greater detail and calculated the energy that would be needed to separate the layers, focusing primarily on materials where interactions between atoms of different layers are weak, something known as Van der Waals bonding,» says Marco Gibertini, a researcher at THEOS and the second author of the study.

To understand how the material changes when exposed to light, researchers expose the material to a very short, but intense, pulse of light which causes the change, and then continuing to measure the change introduced by the first pulse by probing the material with subsequent much weaker light pulses at different delay times after the first pulse.

Individually they are weak, together they form the cement that holds together a whole new family of designer materials sings the praises of hydrogen bonds

2 - D materials have a layered structure, with each layer having strong bonds horizontally, or «in plane,» and weak bonds between the layers, or «out of plane.»

The volume of material that is heated is very small and survives for a very short time — seconds, perhaps — followed by very little heat generation during sliding because the lubricant is very weak.»

This roiling of material would have sustained a weak field that lasted for at least a billion years, until the moon's interior cooled, causing the dynamo to die completely, the team suggests.

The findings are expected to substantially contribute to the fundamental understanding of weak chemical bonding in 2D layered materials in general, and to the development of TMD materials.

In a previous accident, the character had destroyed his «intrinsic field» (a made - up concept), which presumably stripped him of the fundamental forces — electromagnetic, strong force, weak force — other than gravity, that hold material together.

Weak, long - range interactions give 2D solids some of their most interesting behaviors; therefore, understanding these interactions is crucial for further developing these materials.

This weak ratio and other concerns, like the leakage of waste material, remain, said Zenk.

But any experiment to prove that quantum illumination can boost the sensitivity of imaging has to use weak signals, and creating materials capable of upconverting faint beams with high efficiency is technically daunting, Kumar says.

Not only would the organism's DNA have to stay together in spite of the weaker bonds, says Benner, but so would all the molecules required to draw arsenate from the environment and build it into the genetic material.

Further probing will lead to either «mechanics of materials» for those with a technical background and «I make sure things are strong or weak enough to function properly» for the non-technical person.

In research published in Nature Materials on 26 September [2016], Yang and his team mimicked a crucial underlying component of how synaptic connections get stronger or weaker: the flow of calcium.

The new gel is a hybrid of alginate (black) and polyacrylamide (grey) that diffuses strain across many weak bonds, resulting in a tough material overall.

in the midst of all of the terrestrial «noise» such as seismic events, sound waves, random laser fluctuations, and thermal effects of the materials used that can easily overwhelm the very weak gravity wave ripples of spacetime.

«This work helps us to sort out how rather weak crystals can form composite materials with remarkable mechanical properties,» said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The receivers are supercooled to keep their materials and electronics from giving off any radio signals of their own that would swamp the weak signals we receive from space.

Now, take heart: it's not as though you're some weak, defenseless, blob of goo and bones covered by a tiny, thin layer of cellophane - like material.

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

It was a fascinating production in which the weaker aspects of the source material — a significantly dumbed - down Cliff Notes - worthy version of the Victor Hugo novel and a high - fructose pop music score — were deftly camouflaged by Trevor Nunn's innovative theatrical direction and by the extraordinary energy of the ensemble cast.

The overall plot of Fire Emblem is thin, introducing the cast in ways similar to their source material but with weak excuses for battles.

It's the weakest kind of direct - to - video material — an impression reinforced by the presence of DTV staple Christian Slater.

Total Run Time: Approximately 60 minutes, Stereo / Mono Audio Additional Bonus Materials: Deleted Scene / Grim Grinning Ghost Anatomy of a Scene / Friday the 31st Fun Facts / pop - on video commentary for selected segments Photo Gallery / Behind - The - Scenes of Bad Seed Storyboards / Ding Dong Three Audio Tracks: 5.1, 2.0, Commentary Three Subtitle Tracks: French, Spanish, English Soundtrack Listing: Tales of Halloween Main Title - Lalo Schifrin Sweet Tooth - Christopher Drake The Night Billy Raised Hell - Bobby Johnston Trick - Joseph Bishara The Weak and the Wicked - Austin Wintory Grim Grinning Ghost - Christian Henson Ding Dong - Sean Spillane This Means War - Michael Sean Colin Friday the 31st - Joseph Bishara Limbchoppalooza!

The weakest aspect here is the thinness of the material.

The latest from Cannes includes a new pile of fluff from The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, and a solid gloss on weak material from André Téchiné.

When it doesn't, it feels as if he's overcompensating for the weak, routine material that comes with his character — a scared guy who's desperate to get out of the fight, keep his job, and maintain his family obligations (His daughter, played by Alexa Nisenson, has a talent show later in the day, and his pregnant wife, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, is three day past her due date — one guess as to how the movie's climax plays out in between the fight sequence).