Sentences with phrase «slick surface in»

In this scenario, you would only need to prove that a reasonable person would have more likely than not been able to identify the slick surface in the store and clean it up in time to prevent your accident.

Crews will repair the concrete (leaks have led to the hazardous slick surface in the tunnel), and replace aging water and sewer lines that have been vulnerable to breaks, causing closures over the years.

Not exact matches

The fire that caused an oil rig to explode on Tuesday has resulted in a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, with a oil slick about 10 miles in diameter covering the ocean surface.

A number of injuries in food processing plants can occur due to wet or slick surfaces.

The Brentford goalkeeper came through a sterner test later in the first period when John Fleck cut through midfield and let fly from 25 yards but, despite the ball skipping off the slick surface, Bentley saved well.

Another benefit is that during folding, the stroller remains in a standing position, which is a huge plus if you've ever wrestled with folding a stroller, trying to keep the fabric surfaces from rubbing against an oil - slicked, wet or dusty parking lot.

In addition to giving you a snug fit, it will also stay put on slick surfaces.

Surface slicks may account for as little as 2 per cent of the oil now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study of a controlled deep - water spill conducted in 2000 by the US Minerals Management Service and a consortium of oil companies, including BP.

Dispersants are mixtures of solvents, surfactants and other additives that break up the surface tension of an oil slick and make oil more soluble in water, according to a paper published by the National Academy of Sciences.

Once they are dispersed, the tiny droplets of oil are more likely to sink or remain suspended in deep water rather than floating to the surface and collecting in a continuous slick.

And even though dry surfaces are more easily gripped than slick ones, there are still dangers at hand: Multiton slabs of rock can pop off the face of a cliff with little or no warning, careening downslope dozens of meters to shatter in a cloud of geological shrapnel.

When two smooth, slick surfaces are submerged in water and brought within 100 nanometers of each other, something odd happens: they adhere, even though they are too far apart for electrostatic forces to bridge them.

With help from the ocean's natural wave action, the reduction in surface tension allows large surface slicks to separate into individual droplets that eventually sink to the sea floor.

The technique works in nature because rain regularly replenishes the moisture needed to keep the surface slick.

A water barrier forms over the surface of the sponge which makes it feel very slick (almost slimy), but in a good way.

One of the most memorable scenes in The Last Jedi, with the slicks of red salt beneath the surface of Crait are a nod to the blood slicks in the powder during Lady Snowblood.

Slick surfaces aside, this Hamlet, in maintaining the Bard's original language, covers all the familiar plot points and scenes.

Traditionally, racing slicks were swapped out for grooved rain tires in wet conditions, but these new tires were designed for grip even on wet surfaces, while providing a large contact patch characteristic of a racing slick.

The screens glow vivaciously in daylight and their seemingly frictionless surfaces dim to a slick, black blankness when switched off, but this digitalization marks the end of a great era of mechanically analog information transfer.

Though there's still some lightness and a bit of tail wiggle when summoning these immense slowdowns, the proceedings still feel commendably in control considering the levels of deceleration and the slick surfaces beneath.

That's around peak torque at 6500rpm, which, on this rain - slicked surface, is when the fat rear Pirellis can contain the engine's urge no longer — both spin up and the back end jinks a degrees or two sideways before ASR steps in.

Though anti-lock brakes are the best safety system on the road to ensure stopping on slick or wet surfaces, we found that under normal braking conditions on dry roads there was too much play in the brake pedal for our liking.

The RX also is offered in All - Weather Drive to help the RX's handling performance and control on dry and slick surfaces alike.

In low range, the standard traction - control system also helps keep the vehicle under control when creeping downhill on a slick surface, not just in preventing wheelspin on acceleration — but only if the driver's foot is on the accelerator, not the brakIn low range, the standard traction - control system also helps keep the vehicle under control when creeping downhill on a slick surface, not just in preventing wheelspin on acceleration — but only if the driver's foot is on the accelerator, not the brakin preventing wheelspin on acceleration — but only if the driver's foot is on the accelerator, not the brake.

«In addition to providing sure footing on slick surfaces, there's a performance advantage to all - wheel drive,» says Jay O'Connell, SVT chief engineer.

Lest you think that performance testing is inconsistent with the careful driving necessary to survive on slippery roads, consider this: Reduced traction on slick surfaces makes at - the - limit situations likely in everyday driving.

Four inches would collect on the lake's dry surface in a slick pool.

Paper is too slick a surface and in large breed puppies it may stress, strain and over-flex their little joints in the effort to get to a nipple or under the puppy pile.

There's enough room in the foot wells for most dogs, but nervous dogs may be uncomfortable with the slick surface.

The slick, bony surfaces of the patella and trochlear groove become inflamed and eroded in a process called chondromalacia.

Walks under control in building (slick surface, carpeted floor).

In fact, some long - haired cats, actually prefer less litter and a smooth, slick surface, such as the bottom of the litter box.

Environment plays a role in that many of these pups are raised on surfaces which are too slick or «give» too easily such as newspapers and floor tiles.

Because the hips are loose and unstable, the slick surfaces that coat them become inflamed and set in motion a very destructive process:

The dog might need other help, too, such as aids to help get in and out of the car or special non-skid booties to prevent sliding on slick surfaces around the home.

At the sea surface the seeps are marked by oil slicks, and in places, bubble froth.

Gynaecological instruments superimposed on the surface of the works disrupt traditional Romantic readings and imply a desire for human intervention in the timeless cycles of birth and death... [Kiefer] has been criticised for being theatrical... Yet in this increasingly frightening and unfettered world we need artists like Kiefer... who are prepared to face what is tragic rather than endlessly celebrating what is glib, slick and ephemeral.»

Mapplethorpe's gelatin silver print — with its slick, luminous surface and intricate gradations of black and white — gives Lyon's form the appearance of a classical sculpture, frozen in mid-motion.

Her work — meticulous and slick, somewhat cool, with off - kilter detailing (bent coat hangers, casts of sliced bread, a celeb autograph on the side of a slick surface)-- alludes to modern design and industrial production in both form and feel.

Fishman creates sculptural paintings — large, constructed installations with hypersaturated colors and industrial - like slick surfaces — that evoke the design of pills, their combinations in drug «cocktails,» and the colors and surfaces of drug advertising.

Fishman's work has its innovative place in the history of geometrical abstraction — her use of auto paint, making for a slick surface, and giving the painting a sort of dramatic, confrontational presence, all the more dramatic and confrontational because of the abrupt contrast (dare one say clash?)

Justine Hill's knotty acrylic abstractions clearly relate to the work of her former employer Mickalene Thomas in their bright, direct colors and in the progressively fractional way they divide the canvas, but the tension between their cheerily slick surfaces and half - born compositional problems suggest that Ms. Hill will end up somewhere far away from Ms. Thomas.

The figure — the head — is captured with the qualities of a film still, caught within a frozen and blurry moment, depicted in a reduced palette of colors that are rendered in a series of horizontal bands of paint seemingly pulled across a smooth surface — slick and evocative.

The effect is one of brilliant luster, in which slick smooth surfaces of high - gloss paint reveal embedded relief drawings.

The production of the works, of slick and shiny surfaces, evident in the work of Jeff Koons sculpture of the Pop - icon, Lady Gaga, suggests the need to almost erase any personality or any flows.

For his paintings, he soaks the paper in oil and manipulates paint across the slick surface using various implements, including his hands.

After he soaks the panel in oil, he manipulates paint across the slick surface, mostly using his hands.

Reviewing the latter exhibition in Artforum's October 2003 issue, art historian Michael Lobel noted that «the large scale of much of Rosenquist's work was initially intended to offer the viewer some critical perspective on commercial imagery by calling attention to its numbing blankness,» and that «the hallmarks of Rosenquist's mature style — the slick rendering, the vibrant Pop colors, the sustained attention to the surfaces of commodity objects ---- are brought together to imbue [his smaller] works with an uncanny psychological resonance.»

Here a gaggle of slick, black ducks suggests the victims of an oceangoing tanker spill, while recalling, purely in terms of surface design, some of the sublimely apolitical color field paintings of Morris Louis.

Having used sheets of newspaper to protect the surfaces of the studio while painting the objects, and upon observing the resultant drips and slicks that obscured the newspaper images, Spremberg discovered startling compositions in which the variegated paint both disrupted and distorted the original photograph.