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Collision in sentence

191 examples of Collision in a sentence

We can stop the collision course of 50 percent of the planet with the high seas.
So if you will allow me a little creative license, I will tell you the story of the serendipitous collision of my patient's problem with a physicist's solution.
It's no wonder that scrawny second-born Jack Kennedy fought so hard to compete with his fitter firstborn brother, Joe, often at his peril, at one point, engaging in a bicycle race around the house that resulted in a collision costing John 28 stitches.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth.
And if our universe got hit by another, that collision would generate an additional subtle pattern of temperature variations across space that we might one day be able to detect.
Hansen closed his talk by saying, "Imagine a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
In the U.S. alone, a billion birds die in collision with glass buildings.
And the idea that truth comes from the collision of different ideas and the emotional muscle of empathy are the necessary tools for democratic citizenship.
The problem I see is that, ultimately, the clash of how we solve that problem of serving those three billion people that need a home, and climate change, are a head-on collision about to happen, or already happening.
NASA's always on the lookout for possible asteroid collision hazards, so the Pan-STARRS telescope is scanning the sky every night.
You observe that, over the course of the millennia, Earth is continually bombarded with asteroids up until a point, and that at some point, corresponding roughly to our year, 2000 AD, asteroids that are on a collision course with the Earth that otherwise would have collided mysteriously get deflected or they detonate before they can hit the Earth.
They intentionally have a head-on collision with the wall so they don't slow down and can transition up it in 75 milliseconds.
It's a millisecond of a collision, a car accident that transforms your life completely.
Now, if we want to bring a driver assistance system into a car, say with collision mitigation braking, we're going to put some package of technology on there, and that's this curve, and it's going to have some operating properties, but it's never going to avoid all of the accidents, because it doesn't have that capability.
An echo of such a collision may appear in the cosmic microwave background —a soup of radiation throughout our universe, that’s a relic from an early Big Bang era.
Although because their gravitational fields can affect a planet from a large distance, they could be dangerous even without a direct collision.
In fact, a collision with the Andromeda Galaxy is predicted to happen 4 billion years from now, which may not be great news for our home planet.
This is probably the first planned mid-air collision, at one-twentieth normal speed.
The two-gram carbon fiber cage around it prevents the propellers from entangling, but essentially the collision is absorbed and the robot responds to the collisions.
These are the same stickers used on big trucks to avoid collision.
Now, this was no small collision.
I noticed some interesting parallels between her story and chemical reaction rates, which happened to be what she was studying in the hallway the day of the collision.
By increasing the number of particles available for collision, we create an environment where more collisions can take place.
Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater likelihood of the reaction-causing collision.
By splitting up, each student has more area exposed that is available for a collision from a passing student.
If light were made of tiny, solid balls, then you would expect that some of the particles from Beam A would crash into some of the particles from Beam B. If that happened, the two particles involved in the collision would bounce off in random directions.
Not one more working family should be told that the collision of their work, their needed work and their needed parenthood, is their problem alone.
Stars die by this same intersection, this time flung outward in a violent collision of smaller atoms, intersecting and efficiently fusing into altogether new and heavier things.
As I journeyed along my path, I encountered the best and worst of life at an intersection: the tremendous opportunity to self-define, the collision of expectation and experience, the exhilaration of victorious breakthroughs and, sometimes, the explosive pain of regeneration.
To see those traces, our detector, with 150 million sensors, acts like a really massive 3-D camera, taking a picture of each collision event - that's up to 14 millions times per second.
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