Sentences with phrase «steep slopes»

But once you're past that threshold, there's a really steep slope of increasing commitment that's expected.

This is primarily seen when driving on steep slopes with lots of turns.

Plus it comes with a hand brake, making it easy for you to run in areas with steep slopes.

As a quick striker, once your pace starts to go it's a very steep slope downhill.

You will also have no problem climbing steep slopes as you can adjust the speed with 24 gears.

(2) Poor engine braking when descending steep slopes.

We all stopped for a while and then had to climb up the same steep slope.

Moreover, they have performance benefits relative to traditional fixed income index funds and ETFs if the rising rate and steep slope yield curve environment persists.

The terrain is pretty easy, there's just one short steep slope.

They can be picked up and thrown as heavy items, or they may become active should they appear on a sufficiently steep slope.

Despite assurances that the abortion decision did not start us down a slippery and very steep slope, that is clearly where we are, and gathering speed.

The loss of the wheel means engineers must take extra care to avoid terrain with steep slopes and loose soil, which can cause the rover to slip.

Controlling the throttle and brakes, Crawl Control can inch the LX down steep slopes at a snail's pace, freeing the driver to fully concentrate on the job of navigation and obstacle avoidance.

When students, teachers, and principals are involuntarily assigned to schools, it creates a very steep slope for the school to climb.

In - the - know locals have long professed that Llandudno is their favorite beach, and it's easy to see why: this tiny slip of sugary - soft sand sheltered by steep slopes in a quiet residential neighborhood feels like a hidden gem.

Traction and stability control are fitted as standard to the Vauxhall, as is Hill Start Assist — which prevents the car from rolling backwards on a slope — and Hill Descent Control — which allows it to drive down steep slopes at a controlled speed.

On Johnson's farm, the potential for polluted runoff from steep slopes is high, making it an ideal study site, says Greg Olson, the field projects director for the Sand County Foundation.

Husqvarna have dealt with that: their machines can tackle steep slopes of up to 24º (45 %), with some models covering areas of up to 5000m2and an area capacity of up to 208 m2 an hour.

Researchers had long thought that proto - North American and Gondwana collided on a shear zone with a much steeper slope, leading some to the view that the two plates slid laterally past each other.

We will ascend slowly along steep slopes that will take us to the Marcocasa pass (3,650 m.).

Visibility was reaching 15 m. / 48 ft. Dive site has some interesting rocky reef formation with vertical walls and steep slopes covered with soft corals and many big sea fans.

Len Catron says that `' I've skied steep slopes and hung from a rock face by a short length of rope, but staring into someone's eyes for four silent minutes was one of the more thrilling and terrifying experiences of my life.»

Allied rock - wallabies are found on steep slopes while koalas can be found in most wooded areas.

Fig. 12D shows that normal fairy circles can form on rather steep slopes.

A door flew suddenly open and two portly city executive types marched smartly out backwards, skilfully negotiated a short but steep slope then performed an incredibly agile backward leap into a motor boat waiting at the water's edge.

«An article by Kenneth P. Dial and two co-authors in the May 2006 issue of BioScience summarizes experimental evidence indicating that ancestral protobirds incapable of flight could have used their protowings to improve hindlimb traction and thus better navigate steep slopes and obstructions.

They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons.

Others are both large enough to create a big flood, and sit beneath steep slopes or steep glaciers, and could be dangerous.»

That's because larger footprints are more likely to include steep slopes or fields of boulders — terrain too dangerous to risk landing on.

As new technology allows, or as poverty demands, rich and poor alike have pushed into soggy floodplains or drought - ridden deserts, built on impossibly steep slopes, and created vast, fragile cities along fault lines that tremble with alarming frequency.

That understanding comes from images captured by MESSENGER that show elongated «scarps,» or steep slopes riddling the surface.

The altimetry data for the area in and around Kraken Mare also showed relatively steep slopes leading down to the sea, which also suggests the Kraken Mare might indeed be quite deep.

Given the increasingly steep slope of the current market advance, along with the most extreme valuations in history and the most lopsided bullish sentiment in more than three decades, it's quite possible that this instance will be different.

The experience taught her a lesson that she later applied to her scientific career: «When you're on a really steep slope, and you can't see the bottom, you have to just push off and trust your own abilities.»

«It's a pretty steep slope and has been there for a long time.»

Lamb and Prancevic's flume experiments did indeed show that steeper slopes require less water to move sediment than flatter streambeds.

Each country, although different in culture and history, shares snow leopard habitat characteristics such as mountains with steep slopes dotted by rocky bluffs, ridges broken by outcrops, and valleys interrupted by cliffs.

A very steep slope tells you that you have very little endurance, while a slope of 0 (or nearly 0) for 12 or 13 miles means that it's reasonable to suspect that your aerobic system is ready to run a marathon.

- I ended up descending a very steep slope using the ditch on the right hand side of the road as a runner to stop the car sliding off the left hand side of the road, which had no barrier other than some trees further down the slope.

One of the most exciting off - road features of the Cherokee Trailhawk is its ability to climb and descend extremely steep slopes, thanks to its impressive approach angle of 29.9 degrees and departure angle of 32.2 degrees.

Hill Descent Control (HDC) helps maintain a steady slow speed while descending especially steep slopes, while Hill Start Assist (HSA) allows a smooth, controlled start on a steep incline without roll - back; both features are optional.

I'm staring at a seriously steep slope, sopping wet from late - winter rain with two very deep ruts carved into the mud.

An hour later, having had much of my life flash past me at various moments as I crawled on hands and knees up the extraordinarily steep slope while the children cantered ahead like little goats, we found our way back down and on to the correct path - and what we'd tried to climb wasn't even the steep side!

In the south diving is from small boats on steep sloping reefs.

Many of the characters» actions are what you would expect from a game drawing inspiration from the early 3D platformers of the late 90s — high jumps, gliding, and a special method of movement that somehow gets you up steep slopes among them — it all feels fine - tuned and polished to the point of feeling brand new again.