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They go in with their own friction.
And again, technology meant that I could do the fastest abseil over 100 meters, and stop within a couple of feet of the ground without melting the rope with the friction, because of the alloys I used in the descender device.
Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter-tactic only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
It's actually got a naked skin for most of its body, so it reduces friction with the water.
Just surviving the friction of assorted personalities at close range is the sub-plot.
The two bond and become very close (but only after some friction), and just as everything is going perfect Ted's wife comes back to town and wants sole custody of their son.
The writing is superb, the script creating friction that starts the entire process of "heat" from the beginning until the end when it really does erupt into a fire, the conflicts moving into complete rupture of relationships.
His son, a ne'er-do-well in search of his own identity, makes hip comments about how young people look down on Vegas (give them another ten years), and his disapproval of Dad's lifestyle causes friction.
In her high school there is plenty of friction between her female classmates and guys.
When Isabel gets fed up with the John-Lily romance causing friction with the show, she leaves, and John decides to make Lily the star.
But when he slides he picks up speed thus defying physics (mainly friction); yet what lies behind the door is supreme.
The film raises a great deal of tension between characters, particularly between Aimee and the men in her life, but never fully addresses this social friction, leaving the viewer unsatisfied.
But you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more.
The friction between Lainie and Virginia was intense and interesting.
Knowing that CGI techniques are so prevalent tends to make me hyper aware of them in movies that use them, creating friction that makes it harder to suspend my disbelief.
Diced among it is another movie about the emotional friction between a father and son.
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a classic sitcom about single 30s something Mary Richards,moving to new town Minneapolis,when her relationship breaks down,she gets an apartment through old friend Phyllis(Chloris Leachman)at the start,causing friction with Rhoda(Valerie Harper)from upstairs,the friendship of Mary and Rhoda becoming one of the backbones of the series until Valerie Harper spun off to her own spin off success "Rhoda",after four seasons.
Meanwhile Macroth eyes Stella causing quite a bit of friction between all involved.
Given that's it's about a relative - in this case a son - who's a pain in the ass it's tempting to see it as another angle on the same director's 'Tatie Danielle' where an aunt and not a son was the cause of friction but that would be to superficialize.
As on the Internet, so in real life: sometimes friction has a purpose.
At the time, I thought that the greatest policy concern would be the burgeoning current-account surplus of over 10% of GDP, which would create friction with China’s trading partners.
Making Space for ChinaLONDON – When the United Kingdom announced earlier this month that it had agreed to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the headlines focused not on the news itself, but on the friction the decision had caused between the UK and the United States.
But if one assumes a full-employment equilibrium, as described in textbooks, with the market working without friction, this penalty is ineffective.
Nigeria’s Road to RuinWith 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.
This is a profound change that creates much friction in the transitional phase.
But the friction of normal life usually creates ambiguities that cannot be fully met in advance.
Consolidation is giving way to friction, with more energy needed to overcome the EU’s internal problems.
This leaves Iran the opening it needs to place a strategic bet that the Syrian conflict will generate increasing friction between the West and Iran’s regional archrival, Saudi Arabia.
But Russia appears to be in a Gaullist mood, and has other outstanding issues causing friction with the US and Europe.
For to end friction and suffering the crisis-ridden Middle East needs more than troops – a reality that has been recognized in previous conflicts around the World.
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