Sentences with phrase «under the forces of»

But you know what happens to bids in negotiations: They get whittled away, the terms get changed, and, sometimes, the whole negotiation breaks down under the force of an ultimatum from one of the parties involved.

On the tiny island of Barbuda — where the hurricane first made landfall — cell towers snapped under the force of 185 - mile per hour winds, cutting off communication.

The critics and lovers of art who everlastingly appeal to Beauty and to the Spirit are always the first ones to reject a T. S. Eliot or a Faulkner, a Picasso or a Stravinsky; only much later, under the force of overwhelming evidence, to give them a grudging approval.

But no luck - they all crumbled under the force of the knife.

Because the chocolate layer was somewhat separating from the cookie layer under the force of the knife and even when I tried to eat those unfortunate, but tasty, looking pieces.

They took the dog bone - shaped tissues to the lab of Christian Franck, assistant professor of engineering, and together made precise measurements of the tissue strength under the force of being pulled apart.

Boosted by a rocket engine, a ballistic missile sails into space before releasing a warhead that plummets to its target under the force of gravity.

This gas gives rise to newborn stars — it gradually collapses under the force of its own gravity until it is sufficiently compressed to form a protostar — the precursor to a star.

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron - scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light - actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.

In the simulation, cosmic gas slowly coalesced under the force of gravity and eventually formed the first stars.

In the simulation, clouds of gas left over from the Big Bang slowly coalesced under the force of gravity, and eventually formed the first stars.

Another benefit of quads contraction is that they help you to resist flexing your knees under the force of gravity that tends to pull them down.

Snappy dialogue and spiffy performances aside, Barry Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's «Get Shorty» almost buckles under the force of its own incomprehensible plotting and vapidity.

Your head was leaning forward under the force of braking but now it's being pulled to the left.

Having by and large crumbled under the force of a recent storm, Malibu's roads are a glorious mess, but the chassis is composed, the suspension supple despite the kinetic challenge of 21 - inch - wheels.

It was windy that day, and I could feel the vehicle pulling left or right under the force of the gusts as I drove down the Overseas highway.

The garments were under attack, jerking and flapping under the force of the water jet like hanging targets in a shooting gallery.

«Votan and Human cities alike lay crumbling under the force of terraforming weaponry.

One such tribe scatters under the force of opposing tribes leaving their land and their legacy behind.

Under the force of gravity, the black paint (which he sometimes replaces with mars violet or orange - brown) begins to flow into the white undercoat.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen is descended from generations of sojourners and immigrants who labored under the force of anti-Chinese and Chinese Exclusion Act culture in the United States — the son of a «paper son» and «war bride» challenged by processes of legalization and marginalization.

Not exact matches

Typically they prevent people from joining together to bring class - action lawsuits that can force companies to change their practices under the threat of big monetary damages.

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

The women point out in the letter that forced arbitration clauses are now under attack as part of the #MeToo movement.

As part of his postdoc program, he examined Air Force pilots, Navy SEALs, and deep - sea divers, analyzing how they make decisions under pressure.

Google said it plans to close its news - linking service in Spain in response to legislation under which publishers will soon be able to force Internet sites to pay for re-publishing headlines or snippets of news.

Verizon Communications Inc. is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company's efforts to become a force in Internet content have gone relatively well under the leadership of AOL Inc Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.

Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas under the control of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.

Force 47 has worked pro-actively against distorted information, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head of the general politics department under the Vietnam People's Military.

The handover plan was announced after Euphrates Shield forces attacked several villages under SDF control east of the town of Al - Bab last week.

The search is under way for the next group of the most ambitious, innovative private companies transforming the economy and forcing the public giants to rethink the way they do business.

«Under - emphasis of these (structural) policies relative to macroeconomic, trade and financial stability policies is a key reason for many governments» failure in recent decades to mobilize a more effective response to widening inequality and stagnating median income as technological change and globalization have gathered force,» the report said.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron promised to restore cuts to the size of Britain's armed forces seen under Labour.

But under the surface, the leaders of the market have been churning, with the dominant forces in the benchmark S&P 500 giving way to lesser - loved areas.

Republican Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota, who co-sponsored the Keystone bill with Landrieu, has pledged to keep trying to force approval of the project that the administration has kept under review for more than six years.

Minshew explains that the company didn't need the funding, which is a great way to say «I've got this under control, but when an investor of strong caliber and aligned values showed interest, it made sense to join forces.»

As a vice presidential nominee during Senator Bob Dole's unsuccessful run for president in 1996, Kemp had served in a sub-cabinet position under George H.W. Bush as chairman of the Economic Empowerment Task Force.

Under its current wording, it would ascribe all oil produced from Canada's oilsands a greenhouse gas rating of 107 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule and thus force its importers to pay for carbon offsets.

Russia's banking sector has been under intense scrutiny since the central bank was forced to step in to save two of the country's private lenders earlier this year.

«One thing I think he wanted to make very clear is that the Bank of Canada, under his stewardship, will continue to allow the Canadian dollar to be driven by market forces,» Burleton added.

Fair enough, but under the new EU net neutrality laws (which aren't yet in force), the only kind of outright traffic shaping that will be allowed will be for highly specialized services — think dedicated packages for Internet TV or cars or medical applications.

PREPA has been hampered by years of under - investment, frequent turnover in management and inefficient collections that forced it to go deeply into debt.

UnitedHealth Group remains the largest insurer by membership, yet through acquisitions it has built a data analytics and pharmacy benefits business under its Optum division that is the driving force of its growth.

Retrieving the dead is itself a potentially lethal endeavor: Last week, a member of the Civil Defence Force was killed when a bomb buried under the ruins of a home exploded as he tried to free bodies trapped there.

The second phase could pull back as far as the 1990s conflict in Chechnya, or even the forced relocation of Chechens (including Tsarnaev's grandfather) under Josef Stalin in the 1940s.

Alankrita Shrivastava is the force behind the most talked about film of 2017, Lipstick Under My Burkha

In 2012, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for electing leaders with pending criminal charges, forcing Indian athletes to compete at the Sochi Winter Games under the IOC flag instead of the Indian banner.

On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air force and the rest of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases under attack.