Sentences with phrase «shaft when»

The new law only benefits multi-billion dollar insurance companies while giving auto collision victims in Ontario the shaft when in need of accident benefits.
It's no secret that European gamers often get the shaft when release dates for just about everything game related are concerned.
Traditionally, solo travelers got the shaft when it came to price and service.
Authors who belong to major imprints and labels are apparently getting the shaft when it comes to ebook royalties.
Two High mode was reintroduced on the redesigned second generation Expedition (U222) for the 2003 model year and featured a new full front axle disconnect system with vacuum operated front locking hubs that would disconnect the front axle, front differential, and front drive shaft when not needed for quieter, more fuel - efficient operation on pavement.
Both fours use seven - speed S tronic dual - clutch gearboxes and the fuel - saving quattro ultra all - wheel drive system that only connects the prop shaft when required.
Basics mentioned above would ensure that we get maximum possible continuous torque to main drive shaft when engine is being operated in normal manner.
Unfortunately, they are discovered by Stuart's upstairs neighbor and ex-girlfriend Kate McKay (Meg Ryan), a successful research executive, and even more unfortunately, Stuart falls down an elevator shaft when all the elevators in the city mysteriously stop working.
Some suggest that carbon dating the wood would allow accurate dating of the Pyramid because wood must have been left in the shaft when the Pyramid was Directed by James Gunn.
So, while I never have been a gold - digger, I have certainly got the shaft when it came to guys and their spending habits.
As a Gunner fanatic you have to admit Spuds got the shaft when the First Division was formed.
A bff of mine has her birthday on Christmas eve, so she always gets the shaft when it comes to gifts / parties.
They sort of got shafted when the seeding came down — they got passed on the League's final night due to a bunch of double headers (due to the weather)..
This not only promises for strong military support in most cases but also allows us to utilise them in creating deals with their allies (To all those people who say the USA can protect us they have shafted us when we went to war with Indonesia the first time and when we almost went to war the second time with them as recently as 1999, you can't trust them).
The system can send up to 50 % of torque to the rear wheels and send it to the left or right rear wheel as necessary — or effectively disconnect the rear wheels entirely using ratchet - type dog clutches on the front and rear shafts when all - wheel drive functionality isn't needed, improving fuel economy in the process.
It's not uncommon for the U.S. — and, even more often, Canada — to get shafted when an automaker comes out with a new hot hatch or other performance vehicle.
Do you think PS4 and Pro owners will feel shafted when all of the third party games look and run better on X1X?
I felt shafted when I found out what «VIP» was, although turn 10 did make a turn (heh) and is updating it so it doesn't have limited uses.

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When a resident dropped keys down the elevator shaft, the superintendent used a makeshift hook to pry open the door on the ground level, Leone says.
When the supply of copper dwindled in 1773, the Connecticut General Assembly decided to turn the shafts and tunnels into a prison.
A question for Timelesswheelman: Why is it that, unlike other religious believers who are faced with images of their prophets, gods, etc, Muslims appear to be the only religious group that goes absolutely bat - shaft crazy and murderous when someone, for example, publishes a cartoon of the prophet?
«I know just what was going through their minds when they came out of that mine shaft.
By making something that should be both individual and optional into something generic and compulsory, the FA and the PL have performed the miraculous feat of shafting the thing in both directions: it's completely meaningless most of the time, except on the rare occasions when it's cosmically overblown.
When he resumed training in Orlando, Fla. he was so fat the straining shafts of the jog cart rubbed sores on his sides.
Huis meanwhile was absolutely livid, perhaps understandably when he'd been just been shafted out of an extra $ 100,000 because of a computer glitch.
When Oakhurst officially reopens next spring, its limited membership of 300 - 400 golfers will be allowed to play the twisting course using only wooden - shafted clubs and gutty - type balls.
We might have lost at Manchester City and Arsenal, when yet again we were shafted by a poor decision, but 1 - 0 wins against Southampton and Leicester had taken us to 29 points.
When the fibers are disrupted, say in a twisting motion in the presence of water, these hard proteins change shape and the wool fibers expand and the outer sections begin to pull away from the main shaft.
Cuomo once said the dilapidated Amtrak shaft carrying commuters under the Hudson River from New Jersey into Manhattan was «not my tunnel» when the federal government asked to put up state cash toward its repair, but today he insisted the project to refurbish the tube and construct a parallel conduit for trains is «desperately needed.»
When he took over in 1983 from Michael Foot, he was stuck at the bottom of a disused mine shaft, chained to a bogie.
These are caused when the mine shafts are collapsing and cause a depression on the surface.
If leftist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the radical Working Families Party and the Senate Democrats are allowed to control this seat, hardworking Western New York taxpayers are going to get the shaft — just like they did when Democrats controlled the Senate in 2009 - 10 and raised taxes by $ 14 billion,» Reif said.
Throughout the campaign, Funiciello has used the factory, which GE has operated since 1946, as an example of the pitfalls of corporate welfare, the practice of using taxpayer dollars to subsidize corporations that Funiciello says give voters the shaft by pulling up stakes when times get tough.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo once claimed that the dilapidated Amtrak shaft carrying commuters under the Hudson River from New Jersey into Manhattan was «not my tunnel» when the federal government asked to put up state cash toward its repair — but today he insisted that the «Gateway» project to refurbish the tube and construct a parallel conduit for trains is «desperately needed,» and demanded President Donald Trump honor his predecessor's commitments to funding it.
Good luck to ev erybody striking this Thursday, When will the people of this country wake up and see we are being shafted by this government.
When I get to the shaft I normally go down, it's closed, so I go to another one.
When light twists the shaft, the latter rotates and the seesaw tilts, and this is detected by the optical cavity.
So I'm compelled to ask: When it comes to global warming, are jellyfish the canaries in the mine shaft?
Baxter suggested that the particles fell onto the roadside during the 1960s and early 1970s when radioactive material was being carried in trailers to the waste shaft.
The tunnel itself was discovered when a heavy rainstorm exposed a shaft that led to a spot about halfway down its length.
The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.
The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the infected bats was obtained when tissue samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).
«Hair grows faster in summer, and when you don't cut off split ends, they move farther up the hair shaft and leave hair looking worse,» explains Quinlan, who advises getting dustings (quarter - inch trims) every six weeks.
When it comes to strengthening hair and restoring damage, one of the most important qualities of a hair product is how well it can penetrate the hair shaft.
Although fun and enticing, when executed improperly, could result in long term damage to the hair shaft and strand.
On records, when compared to metal made curling wand, ceramic wands are far less likely to burning the shaft of your hair.
The highlights seem to be placed around her face and concentrated from mid shaft to her ends, and they look subtle and incredibly natural when styled in beachy, undone waves.
When the brush is halfway down the hair shaft, rotate it clockwise for two rotations.
When the shaft is made with thick material or tends to slouch, you're legs will look thicker than they are and make the boots look really unflattering.
Calf - height shaft; above - ankle when cuffed.
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