Sentences with phrase «slow the descent of»

Parachutes are generally used to slow the descent of a person or object to Earth or another celestial body within an atmosphere.

He could even take out enemies and slow the descent of his falls with a spin of his tail.

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The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

What can the politics of autonomy» which is the distillation of the politics of the Sixties» say in the face of the existential threats that will confront the next president of the United States and the next Congress: the threat of Jihadism (which has a very clear, and very different, idea of the good society), and the threat of a slow descent, via biotechnology, into the stunted humanity of the brave new world?

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

From the lazy descent of fall leaves to the slow unfolding of cloudscapes in empty blue skies, it is all just here and we are just here to see it.»

After all, it was while we were above - and - beyond - the - tithe faithful givers and just after we'd filled a pledge to donate sacrificial chunks of change to our church's building campaign that we began our descent (slow at first, then picking up nice steam) from cushy, comfy well - off to broke.

I tend to get my fill of pumpkin pretty quickly after Canadian Thanksgiving passes, so these little dream puffs are right on time, marking that slow descent to a less pumpkin - obsessed existence.

By the time the loaves bake the next day, the oven will be on a slow descent from its peak temperature of 800 degrees, and the heat trapped inside the bricks will shape the shaggy lumps into crackly, crusted loaves.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

This is the time of year where I normally begin a slow descent into depression.

In the European Space Agency's (ESA's) control room in Darmstadt, Germany, the mood was anxious and all eyes were glued to the mission control computer screens as a spidery, three - legged lander named Philae detached from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, and made its slow descent to the surface of a comet — and cheers and hugging broke out on 12 November when the control room received confirmation that the lander had arrived.

Closer examinations of the lander's transmitted telemetry then revealed that the ejection of the parachute and a heat shield occurred earlier than expected, followed by a too - brief firing of rocket thrusters meant to slow the spacecraft's descent.

One of the most difficult aspects of landing on Mars is dealing with the thin atmosphere — there is just enough to create dangerous heat during the descent, but not enough to slow down a spacecraft the same way we do on Earth.

Parachutes will slow its descent through the atmosphere; air bags will cushion its fall onto the rock - strewn floor of a vast impact crater called Isidis Planitia.

And the other really fascinating implication of general relativity is that falling through a vacuum in curved spacetime by stretching and contracting but not at the same rate, if you stretch at one rate and contract at another rate, you can actually slow your descent and behave like a glider even though there is no atmosphere.

The flight was intended to test a new type of parachute and an inflatable Kevlar ring, both intended to slow an object's descent.

Hence the importance of a slow, controlled descent.

Take hand - off to a tight position over the crown of the chest, a slow controlled descent tucking the elbows in towards the body and compacting the triceps on the lats, holding most of the weight on tensed muscles.

Dependably, however, Scott intrudes upon the slow burn of their kindling romance, cutting away from Robin and Marion's bonfire pas - de-deux for some far distant plot business and then cutting back to Robin and Sir Walter as the latter reveals the long - buried secret of Robin's patrilineal descent: seems that Robin's stonemason daddy had some unique ideas about all men being created equal, and set them down in a document that bears a certain resemblance to one M ---- C ---- ...

Opening titles establish 1925 as the peak of this Barrymore's stage success, then followed by a slow descent into alcoholism, which would ultimately claim his life at age 60 in May of 1942.

The film didn't really even build the sisters» relationship with the grandmother which definitely could've made her slow descent into death more heartbreaking (it also could've helped explain why neither of their parents were there).

The bunny ears affixed to his head slowed descent on jumps just like the raccoon tail, but without the added benefit of flight.

These perks will grant you passive abilities like slowing your descent from the height of your jump, creating a hover like effect.

Altman cuts from Mary's quiet adoration of Tom in bed to a stained - glass Christ; her upward glance echoed by the upward angle from which the camera begins a slow descent along the church window.

It's a spectacular piece of work, from director James Cameron's plotting of the story between past and present (though not his direction of Billy Zane) to the stunning execution of the ship's slow descent into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Something dramatic has to happen or there is nothing left but to try to slow the rate of descent.

The Sachsenring has plenty of slow corners, lots of climbs and descents, two long straights, and two very fast and very blind fourth - gear bends.

Having said that the engine delivers plenty of go, the «box is great and the brakes are really resilient even when slowing 1295 kg on steep mountain descents.

First up was a minor descent, which the baby SUV passed with ease, then came up a sharp corner where the X1 maneuvered easily at dead slow speed with its chunky and light steering wheel giving a sense of its compact dimensions, which is a big advantage while driving in congested areas.

Likewise, you can add character perks as well, increasingly the likelihood of finding rare items or even slowing your descent when you fall.

Sony is in rough financial shape and has been for a long time, resorting to selling a number of its assets just to slow its descent deeper into the red.

Yoshi and Wario are able to perform it in Super Mario 64 DS as well, and Luigi can even start slowing to slow his descent at the apex of his jump.

By aiming her pair of repeating shotguns while in the air, she can even slow her descent to maximize the death from above.

Tapping the jump button will launch you into the air in a rising leap, but the speed of your descent is far too slow.

The former's nullification of many projectiles and its slowing of Gunvolt's descent makes it useful in many areas, while the latter rewards players for not using Gunvolt's electricity powers by making him invulnerable to most attacks while not using the Flashfield.

Dixie Kong is not as fast, however can take advantage of her Helicopter Spin to whip enemies, hold Barrels over her head, or slow her descent, allowing her to hover to safety.

It is the highest jump any of the characters can perform, and is also capable of slowing the player's descent.

Kohler writes that the works in the show (which include an installation and collage works) address «the theme of despair and loss... a slow moving katabasis; the dystopic descent of bottoming out, depression and loss of social standing.

2006 The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY Pangaea's Blanket (and the Slowest Descent from Grace), Visual Arts Gallery, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN The Fourth Room, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

«Wood inlay's checkered history in Western culture is one of a regal beginning, followed by a long slow descent into kitsch,» she says.

Rocha Pitta's diverse practice is connected to a deep fascination with the subtle transformations of the world around him — the slow erosion and alteration of desert terrain, the descent of fog, and the fluctuations of underwater formations.

So, we might have been past the warmest period of this most recent interglacial, and beginning a slow, multi-thousand year descent into a new ice age — until we changed the atmospheric composition.

Leaving aside the descents into glaciation, which were much more gradual, the sudden (geologically speaking) jumps up in temperature every ~ 100,000 years represent a rate of change roughly ten times slower what we are currently witnessing.

Temperature records of recent ice ages show a long slow descent, starting around 10 - 12,000 years after the beginning of the interglacial.

As the sun begins its seasonal descent in the Arctic sky and temperatures drop, the summer melt of sea ice is slowing down.

I'm thinking out loud here, but if I understand PAGES2k results correctly our now interrupted descent out of the last interglacial, heading for the next glacial necessarily means the oceans get colder, and that they in turn are the buffer, slowing the descent.

Evidently the hundred - thousand - year glacial cycles did follow a sawtooth pattern: each cycle showed a slow descent into a long - lasting cold state that ended with a mysteriously abrupt rise of temperature.

However, it is a very slow descent, so I think that it's only a matter of time before the buyers get involved and push this market to

Commissioned selling is the breeding ground for misrepresentation, smooth story telling, lying by omission, lying by fabrication, manipulation of trusting, ignorant clients who are really marks, for the purposes of that next commission cheque, and for the slow, steady descent by too many initially honest sales people into the wagon rut of slippery dealings for payoffs... in short... corrupt behaviour, which by the way, is woefully dealt with by the in - house supposed police state.