Sentences with phrase «points of impact»

Melanie Benjamin, chief executive at Mille Lacs, spoke for many tribes in identifying five points of impact on program operations that get at the heart and soul of Self - Governance:

Pictures can show points of impact in a collision, document injuries, and prove another party's fault or negligence.

It can often help in showing points of impact in a collision, documenting injuries, and proving that another person was at fault.

«What I was doing,» he clarified to Millet, «could well appear as antipainting, whereas what I wanted to show, through the traces or points of impact in a clear surface, was what a painting could be if disencumbered of object, color, and form.»

As for the bosses, they are larger characters with very particular points of impact and strategy that you must do to take them down.

Greengrass» vomit - inducing camera work aside, he has a gift for framing action sequences in a holy - shit - they - did - not - just - do - that kind of way, and the final car chase (come on, you knew there would be one) has moments so visceral that the points of impact will bruise your skin, which is a nice contrast from, say, the painfully obvious CGI car sequence of «Live Free or Die Hard.»

Until now, multiple skull fractures meant several points of impact to the head and often were thought to suggest child abuse.

Unless these developments escalate to the point of impacting global growth, we do not expect a sizeable impact to the commodity complex as a whole.

Hanzal sees the «23» and «BROWN» on the back of the captain's jersey from at least the top of the faceoff circle all the way down to the point of impact.

Club - head speed, angle of impact, the path of the club and point of impact on the face are all revealed in an enlightening display of swing mechanics.

At the time, I worked for an insurance company, and one of the claims adjusters pointed out that when a car is going 55 m.p.h., the passengers are also going 55 m.p.h., and if «something» should suddenly stop the car, you are still going 55 m.p.h. until the point of impact.

My 4 year old, with the most severe injuries, suffered a severe cut to her foot (aptly and completely repaired by great surgeons) and a broken leg (remember, she was AT the first point of impact, a side impact.)

Once the distance is determined, the scope will adjust the point of impact.

With just 2 clicks, you'll be able to identify the range of your target and it automatically adjusts the point of impact.

Such movement makes the brain bump into the interior of the skull at the point of impact, as well as on the opposite side of the skull, resulting in contusions (bruises) that damage two sites in the brain, called the coup and contrecoup injuries.

Additionally, they've discovered that not all fractures start at the point of impact — some actually may begin in a remote location and travel back toward the impact site.

This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.

Researchers discovered the likely mechanism behind petrichor only in 2015: A study in Nature Communications found that the average raindrop hits a porous surface with enough force to trap air bubbles at point of impact.

Throw a rock into a pond and the ripples flow outward; toss a rock into a metamaterial pond and the ripples might flow inward, toward the point of impact.

More recently, Daniel Fisher, a respected paleontologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, took a close look at the fractures and found patterns he says are consistent with blows from a rounded stone, which leave a characteristic notch at the point of impact.

But at higher speeds, the force chains grow more extensive, which causes the impact energy to move away from the point of impact much faster than predicted by previous models.

Standard grenade launchers can fire it at targets hundreds of metres away, marking vehicles and people over a wide radius from the point of impact.

The ideal situation would be two black holes spiralling in towards each other, churning up space - time as the approach the point of impact.

As soon as you make contact, you can almost feel the force — the slight freeze, the grimace in its face, and the dust billowing off at the point of impact.

Well, faster than a hotrod down an interchange, developers Criterion Games are back with Burnout 2: Point of Impact.

Based on the largely forgotten 2007 film starring Mark Wahlberg and the novel «Point of Impact» by Stephen Hunter, the series (executive produced by Wahlberg) was originally scheduled to debut in July but was postponed following the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, then again after the shooting deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

We have confirmed that the show, based on the Mark Wahlberg film from 2007 and Stephen Hunter's novel, Point of Impact, will air exclusively on... Read More

Claudel adheres to the screenwriter's axiom of entering scenes late and leaving them early, focusing on the precise point of impact between two characters and leaving his audience to interpret its causes and consequences.

Point Elastic — A synthetic floor that deforms at point of impact, under a user's foot.

All passengers are now safe and secure thanks to the Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure which is a specifically designed system that helps divert energy away from the point of impact in the event of an accident.

Analysts examined the point of impact for S60s and XC60s with City Safety and for comparable vehicles without a low - speed front crash prevention system repaired under PDL coverage.

The hood is meant to act as the point of impact of the pedestrian's upper body and head, rather than the A-pillar (the upright support from the corner of the hood to the roof).

The ACE body structure works by diverting energy away from the point of impact and equally distributing it throughout the vehicle.

The large effect for drivers younger than 25 is consistent with a recent HLDI analysis on point of impact.

The crossover's RISE body construction is designed to help absorb energy, while the Outlander PHEV's suite of air bags work to create a cushion between you and the point of impact.

by Greg Perry, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett, Point of Impact by Steven Hunter, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and War and Peace by Leon Tolstoy.

• Image Comics unveiled a slate of new projects, including: The Bounce, by Joe Casey and David Messina; Satellite Sam, by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin; Lazarus, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark; The Saviors, James Robinson and J. Bone; Oliver, by Gary Whitta and Darick Robertson; Pretty Deadly, by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma Rios; Sex, by Casey and Piotr Kowalski; Non-Humans, by Glen Brunswick and Whilce Portacio; Reign, by Chris Roberson and artist Paul Mayberry; Nowhere Men, by Eric Stephenson, Nate Bellegarde and Jordie Bellaire; Multiple Warheads, by Brandon Graham; Point of Impact, by Jay Faerber; and Great Pacific, by Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo.

When a rock is thrown into a pool, rings of water move out from the point of impact.

Corrected the M39's laser sight so it points at the point of impact and aligns with scopes when zoomed.

This was my first chance to sample the revolutionary soft body deformation physics engine that will be powering the final game - potentially, this could set the new standard for car damage in racing games, as cars finally crumple and deform realistically at the exact point of impact.

Ink Jet Increased hitbox of player versus enemy bullets (Shooter weapons), so it will be easier to shoot down Decreased explosion radius at point of impact — 17 % for damage, 20 % for inking Decreased damage dealt by exhaust (underneath the Ink Jet) by 75 %

Fans of the classic Crash Mode from Burnout 2: Point of Impact will know that this is not the first time we've done something like this.

Point of impact is a particular nuisance.

Whereas too many current racing games rely on primitive texture changes and pre-determined damage which never looks truly realistic, these cars deform dynamically at the exact point of impact in a shower of debris, striking the perfect balance between realism and spectacle.

Well, faster than a hotrod down an interchange, developers Criterion Games are back with Burnout 2: Point of Impact.

I raised my carbine repeater and fired; when my bullet hit the bird, I watched a fine mist of blood burst in the air at the point of impact as the dead animal plummeted.

Burnout 2: Point of Impact is the follow - up to the original smash hit with improved graphics, faster gameplay, and bi...

The role of a Collision Investigator has changed, I used gather the evidence at the collision scene in the form of skid marks, ephemeral data and the position of debris to work out the movements of the vehicles up to the point of impact.

These would indicate the pedestrian was walking / running from left to right at the point of impact.

The development of evidential data recorders (EDR and EDU) and the fitting of insurance companies» black boxes now assist in locating vehicle movements, and assessing braking / impact forces, at the point of impact.