Sentences with phrase «slow the waves down»

The bottom section requires some basic work to build a damaging gauntlet to slow the waves down, while the top can safely focus on long - range weaponry as well as a few close - range towers kill off any stragglers.

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The spike in the use of sleeping pills has caused some alarm, with critics warning that these pills — sometimes known as benzos — actually cut down on critical REM sleep and slow - wave sleep during which we consolidate information, and pose a risk of dependence.

MH: I'd like to wave a wand and make people slow down.

The fact that the team were able to convert the light into sound waves not only slowed it down, but also made data retrieval more accurate.

Nevertheless, with good reason the values and views of this class have been perceived as the wave of the future, which others may resist or slow down, but which they must somehow adjust to.

Coming back down the strip, Garlits smiled and waved his arm in a slow pirouette that seemed more like a long sigh than a gesture.

Happy with his crushing performance and with a massive lead over second - placed Nelson Piquet he started to slow down wave to the crowd as he completed his final lap.

«I think when the FIA brings the safety, to slow down a lot under double waved flags, the Halo is coming in... But launching a qualy which shouldn't have taken place, or at least after the out lap didn't seem that it was possible to run, I believe that decision should've been made a bit more differently.»

Your milk ejection reflex comes in waves — milk flows quickly, then slows down, then flows quickly again.

But slower, secondary S waves, the other type of body wave, move particles perpendicular to the direction the wave itself is traveling: up and down or side to side.

«It slows down reconnection, and it can contribute to the generation of waves that, in turn, accelerate particles in other parts of the magnetosphere.

Meanwhile, seismologist Don Helmberger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues saw seismic waves slow down dramatically in a patch at the bottom of the mantle under Iceland.

Seismic waves extracted from another hydrothermal feature in the north slowed down and scattered significantly in nearly the same area suggesting somewhere west of Old Faithful was an underground feature that affects the seismic waves in an anomalous way.

«When the jet stream slows down, it starts to form much bigger waves,» explained Greene.

And those slower, deeper waves could actually dial down the strength of the gamma waves that rippled along the outer brain.

They noticed that the waves traveled faster in two vast arc - shaped regions under the margins of the Pacific Ocean (blue in the illustration), while they slowed down in two equally large plume - shaped regions below the central pacific and Africa (red).

The waves slow down in relatively warm spots and speed up in cool ones.

Space - time foaminess will have a random effect on light waves, he says, speeding them up at some times and slowing them down at others.

Neutron stars usually spin very rapidly, so the asymmetric distribution of mass would deform space - time and produce a continuous gravitational - wave signal in the shape of a sine wave, which would radiate energy and slow down the star's spin.

This slows it down relative to the parts alongside, so the wave starts to curve inwards towards the cape.

The relatively small rock bodies are termed «ultra-low velocity zones» because seismic waves greatly slow down as they pass through them.

These interactions alter the light's refractive index, essentially slowing it down; the light's wave front bends away from these «roadblocks.»

People would slow down, roll down their windows, and everyone would lean out of the car, waving and honking the horn for our unlikely hero.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

These mysterious regions slow down seismic waves from earthquakes and may give rise to volcanic hotspots

As the pulse crossed into each segment, some of its wave components reflected backward and slowed down, while other parts reflected forward and sped up.

By scattering light, the material slows down the effective propagation speed of the light waves through the medium.

These seismic measurements enabled scientists to visualize these ultralow velocity zones in some regions along the core - mantle boundary, by observing the slowing down of seismic waves passing through them.

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

When the solar wind encounters planets, like Earth, a shock wave is created that slows the wind down and deflects it around the planet.

They slow down the seismic waves caused by earthquakes and may be the culprit for deep mantle plumes, which can lead to volcanic hotspots like those that created Yellowstone National Park or the Hawai'ian Islands.

Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

Eventually, the brain begins to slow down and slower waves known as alpha waves can be observed with an EEG.

The breath and mind work in tandem, so as breath begins to lengthen, brain waves begin to slow down.

1,5 hour meditative journey, taking you through waves of joy and ecstasy and then slowing down melting into stillness.

The final result should be a slow steady breath that goes up and down the body in waves.

I must add, that there's a new gen of dietitians who actually listen to you now, and don't just wave their hand and set down «one size fits all» rules; but my own experience was not good, which is why I started «reinventing the wheel» and doing it the long slow hard way; except that when I came across this blog, Kate was fab and answered very quickly, to the point, with a couple of suggestions that I found very encouraging.

When the hot waves slow down, layer them with grey tights, comfortable shoes and big plaid scarf.

I waited for the waves to slow down a little, and then grabbed one, a really good one, for myself at forty percent off.

The trendy no - rinse cleansers that hail from France have been riding a serious wave of popularity over the last couple years that shows no signs of slowing down.

5) It's the wave of the future — As a culture we're obsessed with running our lives from our smart phones — a trend that doesn't seem to show any sign of slowing down.

Those familiar with games like The Creeps will recognize the basic formula of Monster Feed as you throw down towers of various flavors (e.g., area damage, slowing, poison, fast etc.) and upgrade them to deal with the incoming waves of enemies.

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In the early 1980s, publishers tried to slow down the growing wave of manuscripts coming at them by putting requirements on guidelines that no manuscript be sent unless it was solicited.

«Now that continuous waves of attacks against Sony's servers have slowed down a bit (it's been over a week since the last hack), the company found some strength to regroup and released an Android client for its popular cloud music service Music Unlimited, powered by Qriocity.»

They also tend to pull books from distribution as soon as the initial wave of sales starts to slow down.

This type of bottom will slow the oncoming waves down some and they tend to break a little further from shore so as not to be «pounding» right on the shoreline.

As the limestone rock reef and the corals on it grow more massive, the waves that once surged right through it to batter the beach now slow down.

In Kefalonia, the time slows down, interrupted only by the sounds of the waves, lazily washing over the pebbled shores.

If you want more speed you need to trim the surfboard to stay high on the wave, if you want to slow down, move further down the face of the wave.