Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.

Friction or no friction, OPEC has been, and will always be, irrelevant to market forces on the ground.

Rob Grover Friction really starts to build up on the spacecraft, and we use the friction when it's flying through the atmosphere to our advantage to slow us down.

The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.

Nevertheless, the availability of such technologies has already begun to cause friction.

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit. Similarly, hard economic times may worsen relations among governments, as well as domestic conflicts that can lead to violence.

Consider the fire that you strike ( and get by friction ) .

Consider the fire that you strike ( and get by friction ) .

The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security .

Consolidation is giving way to friction, with more energy needed to overcome the EU s internal problems.

Friction or no friction, OPEC has been, and will always be, irrelevant to market forces on the ground. OPEC has never had market power, but Saudi Arabia has, and Saudi market power has always been assigned, mistakenly, to OPEC.

Slowly ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

As on the Internet, so in real life sometimes friction has a purpose.

This is a profound change that creates much friction in the transitional phase.

While Obama would likely restore civility and politeness to transatlantic discourse, the sources of friction are more profound.

For the West, there is a silver lining in this nationalist rivalry neither China nor Japan is a rogue state, and, so long as their quarrels do not lead to the use of unconventional weapons, we may treat the friction between them as an internal Asian quarrel.

Most sleds are used on surfaces with low friction, such as snow or ice.

Sometimes pendulums continue to oscillate wildly unless there is some friction to slow them down, and sometimes they get stuck.

The heavy handed approach adopted by the regime is causing friction among even its loyalists.

The bilateral relationship has been rocky ever since, alternating between periods of friction and conciliation.

Finally, the friction in the Asia Pacific region is unlikely to diminish in fact, it is far more likely to intensify.

In fact, the friction generated by electoral politics is likely to stoke resentments within Shia and Sunni communities as well.

In 1801, he performed an experiment showing that the electricity from friction was identical to that produced by voltaic piles.

At that time, transient electrical energy could be generated by friction machines but there was no way to store it.

The French worry that NATO s global ambition, particularly in East Asia, could produce friction with China.

But the friction of normal life usually creates ambiguities that cannot be fully met in advance.

But Russia appears to be in a Gaullist mood, and has other outstanding issues causing friction with the US and Europe.

A more militant Iranian posture is likely to increase friction with Iraq, as well as inspire more anti American violence there.

Friction with the US is thus inevitable, but in the long run there is usually fruitful cooperation.

Many would agree that the root causes of friction among cultures and civilizations are not primarily religious.

While in that position, he was able to focus more on his hydraulics research, especially on flow and friction losses in pipes.

But, despite all this diplomatic friction, Wen s entourage for his visit is dominated by a large business delegation.

Of course, there are other sources of friction now that did not seem as pressing five years ago.

Friction makes the ice at the bottom of the glacier move more slowly than ice at the top.

It has also reduced friction that might arise between countries because of recourse to extraterritorial enforcement of competition laws or of jurisidictional conflicts.

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So one meeting tends to lead to another meeting and tends to lead to another meeting.

Over the past century, ethnic distinctions have diminished to the point where there is no significant inter ethnic friction, although regional divisions still occur.

This magnetised rod (or magnetic needle) is then placed on a low friction surface to allow it to freely pivot to align itself with the magnetic field.

The concrete bonds to the tendons as it cures, and when the tension is released it is transferred to the concrete as compression by static friction.

The root cause of friction is not a clash of civilization but often a clash of political and economic interests.

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With so much political friction in Iran and Iraq, it is easy to overlook the growing unrest in Nigeria, the world s eighth largest oil exporter.

As the wind blows, pressure and friction perturb the equilibrium of the water surface and transfer energy from the air to the water, forming waves.

A solution for this researchers are hoping to find is a low friction coating or channel materials that help reduce the blocking of the tubes.