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Breakers in sentence

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As you can see, code makers and breakers are engaged in an ongoing battle to outwit each other.
Ketchup, though, is part of a merry band of linear rule breakers called Non-Newtonian fluids.
That's because life on this planet and its history is the history of rule breakers.
Mud walls need speed breakers so that the rainwater cannot run down the wall fast, and these speed breakers could be lines of bamboo or stones or straw mixed into the mud, just like a hill needs trees or rocks in order to prevent erosion.
So what about circuit breakers?
This is 130-year-old technology, and this is a problem, because over 80 percent of all home electrical fires start below the safety threshold of circuit breakers.
Resilience runs much deeper: it's about building modularity into what we do, building surge breakers into how we organize the basic things that support us.
Her look of misery in this ending scene of the film is heart-rending, and unforgettable.And, of course, as the screen goes to black we are left only with the eternal sound of the sea, as the breakers crash softly against the sand.
Who would ever think that power would still be connected to an old abandoned hotel, yet they try the breakers and presto, they have lights!!
He does have enough authority to clean up the town and rid Torpedo of some of the worst law breakers in the Old West.
GSN killed potential long-term viewership of this show by filling the early episodes with butt cheek pencil breakers, nipple enhancement sellers and geriatric strippers.
It is much harder to find circuit breakers for this dynamic than for, say, that caused by balance-sheet distress in the financial sector.
For example, since the 1987 stock-market crash in the United States, the importance of having circuit breakers has been recognized; but if improperly designed, such reforms can increase volatility.
The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit/cost ratios.
When they become too skewed, circuit breakers kick in to restore balance.
But if circuit breakers are disabled, the system will ultimately self-destruct.
Indeed, not only are new institutional circuit breakers, such as the European Financial Stability Facility, in place; existing bodies have also been made more flexible and thus more effective.
Given the EU’s fundamental interconnectedness – in economic, financial, geopolitical, and social terms – the disruptive impact of each shock would amplify the others, overwhelming the region’s circuit breakers, leading to recession, reviving financial instability, and creating pockets of social tension.
Closer to the shore, many natural ecosystems, most notably coral reefs and mangroves, act as natural shock absorbers and wave breakers.
And they cannot be fully certain of the speed and effectiveness of the international policy responses that might otherwise act as “circuit breakers.”
Absent a marked shift in policies and economic trajectory, the political circuit breakers will be tripped at some point, just as they have been in the US and the UK.
Currency policy remains confused, while newly introduced (and soon withdrawn) stock-market circuit breakers have accelerated market falls, as investors try to sell shares before liquidity disappears.
Yet, rather than regarding these measures as necessary but insufficient, too many Americans will instead be inclined to conclude – incorrectly – that restrictions are ineffective except in their very narrow role as temporary circuit breakers.
Of particular concern now are the economics of viral contagion, of fear, and of “circuit breakers.”
That brings us to the third analytical priority: the economics of circuit breakers.
The immediate priority is to establish circuit breakers that can limit the scope of dangerous economic and financial feedback loops.
After clearing the outer belt of rocks via a narrow passageway, the Nautilus lay inside the breakers where the sea had a depth of thirty to forty fathoms.
Traveling in the lead, the Compass ran afoul of breakers on the southerly coast.
The Torres Strait is about thirty-four leagues wide, but it's obstructed by an incalculable number of islands, islets, breakers, and rocks that make it nearly impossible to navigate.
In place by the oars, Conseil and I rowed vigorously, and Ned steered us into the narrow lanes between the breakers.