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Inertial in sentence

14 examples of Inertial in a sentence

I'm wearing an inertial motion capture suit that's figuring what my body is doing.
The only people who could notice time on the moving spaceship passing slower for Stella would be observers in an inertial, or non-accelerating, reference frame– like Terra back on Earth.
Where Stella went wrong was her assumption that she and Terra had equal claim to being inertial observers.
To be an inertial observer, one has to maintain a constant speed and direction relative to the rest of the universe.
We know that this year’s change in an inertial price, such as wages, tells us a lot about next year’s wage changes, while this year’s change in a non-inertial price, such as oil, tells us next to nothing.
Yes, the inertial expectations of the economy have combined with monetary policy to distort interest and inflation rates, but not in the direction that Taylor is proposing.
The fanatic is inflexible and inertial, a steamroller ready to flatten everything in his way.
The risk they face is clear enough: absent a profound reengineering, inertial spending – owing to entitlements and civil-service wages – is bound to crowd out spending on new priorities and new policies.
Fortunately, there are a few things governments can do to mitigate the effects of inertial spending.
One hopes that, in the future, such plans will be adopted on a large enough scale that we can devise a variety of new programs that serve both inertial and active individuals well.
It is a policy that sounds almost utopian, given the enormous inertial force of the region’s problems.
A far more inertial indicator is unemployment, which experts predict will grow in 2010.
But it seems plausible that in an economy like Argentina’s, with a long history of inertial inflation and toxic feedback loops between prices and the exchange rate, disinflation would have been faster had policymakers relied on additional tools other than the interest rate.
In addition to poor starting conditions, the new government faced well-known structural constraints – fiscal dominance, financial dollarization, fear of floating, high inertial inflation, debt intolerance, weak domestic capital markets, and a small, commodity-dominated export base.