How To Use Brakes In A Sentence
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Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
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That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
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The BMW M6 has deeper front valance with air intakes for the engine and brakes, more contoured sills and rear valance that includes a diffuser to increase aerodynamic efficiency.
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She slammed on the brakes to try to avoid the dog.
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He told how he was stopped behind a tipper truck with his handbrake on when he heard brakes screeching.
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I would advise against riding the moped without testing the brakes first.
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The new Mustang has disc brakes all round, a decided improvement on the original cars.
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Those two pilots physically wrestled the plane down with all four legs straining at the brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brakes don't seem to be working properly.
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At about 2. 50pm on Wednesday, a light truck lost control on the slippery Hume Freeway between Arkells Lane and the Wandong exit, setting off a chain reaction when the car behind it slammed on the brakes, which in turn caused the car behind that to aquaplane straight into the car in front.
Star News Group
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But there was further drama when the crane's brakes failed and it slid into the cab of the lorry.
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The brakes consisted of two inefficient rear brakes and one transmission front brake, usually full of oil.
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It's like we're doing 55 down the highway and then someone applies the brakes. mang
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His tachograph showed that the brakes had not been applied at all, said the prosecutor.
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"The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
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But it switches off when cruising and is recharged when the car slows or brakes.
The Sun
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The steering system is lighter and more compact than a steering column and rack and the brakes occupy the same space as a conventional caliper.
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Or you can set the adaptive cruise control to maintain a selected safe distance, get too close and the car automatically brakes for you.
The Sun
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But a friend who worked as a car mechanic insisted the brakes had another 15,000 miles of wear on them.
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With the looping left-right into the semicircular end-turn coming up fast, go hard on the brakes, and turn in firmly before pushing up the power again to aim for the exit.
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Check your bicycle brakes before you ride.
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It connects with engine electronics and beeps when the driver brakes hard, takes a corner fast or accelerates quickly.
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The bonnet and boot lid are carbon fibre and the brakes carbon ceramic Why should I care?
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't be surprised if your child wants to put the brakes on the process once she has told you.
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It was underpowered, the brakes were very mushy, and the styling and interior were very blah.
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As the programme changed, the room filled with the screech of brakes and rapid gunfire of a pseudo Western.
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It will target cyclists who flout road regulations by, for example, riding without lights or having faulty brakes.
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Adam slammed on the brakes when he got a glimpse of the animals milling around in a large lot.
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His nightmare was based on once when his brakes nearly failed going along Clapham Common.
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Only this bike offers adjustability for toe-in in its road brakes via concave/convex washers.
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Applying increasing pressure on the brakes with 3,000 feet of runway to go, we felt a strong thump below the jet.
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Greed and corruption is the formular that brakes down anything.
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Air brakes sprang from the hull and the plasma retros fired a controlled burst.
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Capt Yost continued the approach, skillfully aligning the aircraft with the runway using right rudder and fanning the speed-brakes once the landing was assured.
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Take-off was delayed for around 90 minutes while engineers carried out safety checks and tested the brakes.
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We stayed together, and landed on a dark, windy night with no airspeed indicator or brakes.
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The steering is tauter, the brakes sharper and the whole car more grippy and planted.
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I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Steven Wright
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Seat-mounted side-impact airbags, bundled with anti-lock brakes, are optional on the GXE and SE models.
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Alcohol puts the brakes on fat burning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Test your brakes after driving through water.
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And it makes it sound to me like he may really put the brakes on some of the first amendment rights the press has enjoyed in the past.
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These dumbwaiters are designed much like a standard elevator, with built-in safety brakes and safety interlocks that prevent operation if any door is open.
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That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
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A situation that puts brakes on your love life is resolved.
The Sun
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Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. The main grille is larger, and the entire front of the car is more ventilated to provide cooling for brakes and the front Haldex differential.
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Without the soul in first gear with the Boss, brakes are difficult to apply and take longer to become operative.
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With the corner approaching he advised using the brakes and a change down into second.
Times, Sunday Times
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He refers to them as ‘tall tippy monstrosities with mediocre brakes that block other driver's view of the road and inflict massive damage during collisions.’
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The vehicle brakes sharply; husband and wife are jolted against each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian.
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See that master ignition switches and individual ignition switches are off, set parking brakes and have the ground crew remove the wheel chocks.
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On wet or icy roads, apply the brakes gently.
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All she could do was to slam on the brakes and shut her eyes.
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Some buses examined by inspectors in the last year have been found to have defective steering, faulty brakes or even bald tyres.
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He is also seeking to apply the brakes to public spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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He slammed on the brakes and dropped the gearshift into reverse.
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The most common defects were bare tyres, faulty brakes, steering and suspension, plus broken headlights and brake lights.
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If your handlebars slip in the stem clamp, that can be dangerous when you slam on your brakes.
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But it switches off when cruising and is recharged when the car slows or brakes.
The Sun
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Another possibility was a crash on landing caused by failure of landing gear and brakes.
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Though the brakes of his bike had somewhat gone wrong, he still shot the works in a desperate effort to win the race.
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Speed cameras pose a safety risk because motorists are slamming on their brakes to avoid being clocked, researchers have claimed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brake pedal likewise; when fitted with anti-lock brakes, pedal response is woefully mushy.
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A standard feature on cars since 1902, drum brakes are going the same way as the cassette deck.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hit the brakes and aimed it toward the shoulder of the highway.
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The brakes consisted of two inefficient rear brakes and one transmission front brake, usually full of oil.
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Optional extras include anti-lock brakes and an electric sunroof.
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This must be one of the few parts of the world where wine, walking and sea air are bound up with the hoot of the whistle and the hiss of the brakes.
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Though the brakes of his bike had somewhat gone wrong, he still shot the works in a desperate effort to win the race.
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Autoblog
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Unions say it puts the brakes on a 20-year trend towards casual labour, but employer groups are calling it a disappointing and costly precedent.
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With nine airbags as standard, anti-lock brakes and a battalion of advanced electronic stability, braking and traction controls, Lexus is hoping the RX will score a five-star Euro NCAP crash test result.
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The rules change that allows the use of disc brakes has helped me hold the Plymouth at the starting line, and the LED Tree has quickened my reaction times.
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At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
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Additionally, anti-lock brakes and air bags can also help lower your premiums.
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Then we'd have to make sure the brakes would work, stopping before the end of the runway.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you have never driven a car with anti-lock brakes, sure to get training on proper use.
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With five doors, Kalos Xtra comes with its own 14-inch alloy wheels, dual front and side airbags, anti-lock brakes, remote central door locking and alarm, electric front windows and height adjustable steering column.
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Newell said the issue of engine compression brakes - commonly known as jake brakes - has become a nuisance, particularly on the south side.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
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He also admitted to driving with faulty brakes and steering, and to driving illegally with a provisional licence, which he got following a previous disqualification.
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Then, barely a minute from starting my engine, I release my brakes and taxi out to the runway.
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A cart has no brakes, so the horse is fitted with breechings around the hind legs to allow him to slow the vehicle.
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The 407 suffers from squealing brakes and two trips to the garage have failed to cure them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authorities in China have already acted to put the brakes on credit growth.
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Once outside he connected the trailer to his truck - disengaging the automatic brakes - and watched with horror as the whole vehicle began rolling down the slope.
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All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Minutes later the brakes let out a screech as the wheels of the bus came to a halt.
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Old age, his inventions and innovations including batteries, cement mixer, sound recording telephone, double - and multi-type cable system, railways used brakes.
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Alcohol puts the brakes on fat burning.
Times, Sunday Times
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In effect, for ideological reasons the administration put the brakes on one of the most promising lines of biomedical research.
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The increase was smaller than expected, but has not quelled fears that as inflation creeps up the government will need to slam on the economic brakes.
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Electronics have led to some of the biggest safety breakthroughs in vehicles, such as antilock brakes and stability control.
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How could he put the brakes on now?
Times, Sunday Times
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This is effectively the same as carrying two or three extra passengers around all the time and means ancillary components such as brakes, steering and suspension have more work to do and sometimes have to be uprated.
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The combination of the described vicious cycles acting as accelerator wheels, a set of ineffective brakes, and increasingly obesogenic environments represents a major challenge for weight management.
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But we can tell you that the outdoorsy type is more likely than the average American to own a car that's equipped with airbags and anti-lock brakes.
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Brakes screeched and horn blared but Harry just sauntered over to me so nonchalantly.
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For a time the brakes held the 125 horsepower engine to 70mph.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside, the church bus rumbled to a stop, air brakes wheezing.
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They also found that the pilots applied the wheel brakes manually, rather than in the automatic mode.
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It is the driver who determines the speed of the vehicle when the road is bad, visibility is poor, the surface is wet or when brakes are faulty.
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Similarly, a compound called resveratrol, found in red wine, also might switch on the gene, and tap the brakes on aging, at least in animals.
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They're unlike other technologies that we see coming onto markets, including technologies that save lives, such as airbags and anti-lock brakes in cars, which are now quite affordable.
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Nine coaches and minibuses have been taken off the road after roadside checks uncovered a worrying catalogue of defects, including faulty brakes.
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He also needs to put the brakes on the state's budget-busting aid to local school districts, spiraling up at two to three times the rate of inflation.
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In the afternoon it was even stronger, and I had to go back on the sledge and act as guide and brakesman.
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Tyres fail to grip when brakes are applied and contact with the road surface is poor.
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One Mercedes mini-bus, which had dropped off passengers from Hull, was found to have no front brakes, faulty steering, faulty lights, bald tyres and stank of diesel.
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The brakes are then applied and an emergency alarm goes off.
The Sun
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It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish.
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He guns the engine and gels away from them, sweeping up to the front door and locking up the brakes in a skid.
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A child suddenly ran out into the road and I had to slam on the brakes.
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If so, it is argued, there is no need to slam on the brakes.
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When that gave out they had to take a tow at 60 miles an hour from the Ford Corsair with very dodgy brakes - ‘terrifying’.
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It felt like being on the top deck of a bus when it brakes too hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the tangents diverge, a sample of found sound enters the piece, with crowd murmur and the whine of vehicle brakes.
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Where the fields go wild and grow into brakes, and the soil becomes fenny, on the north-western edge of Grande Pointe, a dark, slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly north-eastward into a swamp of huge cypresses.
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JungMee hehe the mountain root veg is called “gosari” – it’s fern brakes!
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I would advise against riding moped without testing the brakes first .
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Mrs Thatcher is anxious to apply the brakes.
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Other safety-related technologies like anti-lock brakes fell short when consumers were asked to pay for it as an option.
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The cast-iron disc brakes work with four-pot calipers and it rides on 10ins rims at the front and 14ins at the rear.
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Ian turned as he heard the dull thud and screech of brakes.
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Standard brakes include power, vented front discs and rear drums with anti-lock backup.
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Indeed, outer movements and scherzo at speeds were driven at speeds that would interest the police, until the brakes slammed for the final bars.
Times, Sunday Times
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He brakes once more, guns the engine a final time - and we race off across the roof of the Big Top, the floor dizzyingly far below, and come to a screaming stop, high above the ground on the far side.
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It felt like being on the top deck of a bus when it brakes too hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vehicle sales in China are expected to slam on the brakes this year, and grow by as little as 5% to 6%, according to analysts' projections.
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Throw in halogen headlamps, front and rear stabilizer bars, anti-lock brakes (naturally) and a passel of other performance and appearance features (like the front-mounted intercooler for the turbo and an aluminum hood with a heat-extracting vent) and you've found one of the best bargains in the "boy racer" class.
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Suddenly a large buck deer leapt across the road in front of the car and I slammed on the brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stability control system also triggers a reflex to dry the brakes when streets are wet, so they grip better.
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She slammed on the brakes to try to avoid the dog.
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I don't realise I am driving fast, but am woken up by screeching brakes, a confused horizon, loud shouts and a sinking feeling.
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check the brakes
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As a result, they might do worse in the office scenario I described, but they might also be the first to slam on the brakes in the car/mobile phone scenario.
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Detailed changes to the front and rear suspension have given the car greater poise through corners, while uprated brakes achieve a 13% improvement in stopping distances.
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Turn a special key, press the brake pedal, and your car's brakes lock.
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Something isn't quite right with the brakes on your bike.
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The car in front brakes, the car with the trailer doesn't.
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Turn a special key, press the brake pedal, and your car's brakes lock.
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I managed to slam on the brakes in the nick of time to avoid getting into an accident, tyres screeching and all.
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The drivers are taught to use engine retarders instead of brakes, and if they have to use the brakes, to tap them lightly.
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They're unlike other technologies that we see coming onto markets, including technologies that save lives, such as airbags and anti-lock brakes in cars, which are now quite affordable.
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With five doors, Kalos Xtra comes with its own 14-inch alloy wheels, dual front and side airbags, anti-lock brakes, remote central door locking and alarm, electric front windows and height adjustable steering column.
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It can now truly be compared to conventional tractors for fieldwork but retains those key features of full suspension, proper disc brakes and a rear deck for demount sprayers and spreaders.
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How could he put the brakes on now?
Times, Sunday Times
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Bearing in mind that this is a heavier car than the other Focus models, Ford has uprated the brakes.
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Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
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The redtail hit the brakes, did a barrel roll, sunk one set of talons into the crow, and the crow dropped like a rock when it let go.
All hunters have seen crows go after a hawk.
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You have no electronic driver aids, no traction control and no antilock brakes.
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It is all outside frame with vacuum brakes on the rear bogie.
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These include fitting an automatic gearbox, hand controlled brakes and accelerator, extending seat runners and moving foot pedals.
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Furst time eye letted teh boiz outta by site, an awl h*ll brakes loose!
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Big knobby tires, suspension fork and disc brakes make this one mean extreme machine, or at least one that looks the part.
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Suddenly a large buck deer leapt across the road in front of the car and I slammed on the brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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With nine airbags as standard, anti-lock brakes and a battalion of advanced electronic stability, braking and traction controls, Lexus is hoping the RX will score a five-star Euro NCAP crash test result.
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Poorly working handbrakes are a particular hazard.
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Fortunately, as soon as they realised that their scheme had been rumbled by councillors, they slammed on the brakes.
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Hooker, noticing a black guy standing next to his own car while talking to some street girls, brakes, gets out, turns to Romano and says, ‘See if you can run a trace on that pimpmobile.’
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I smelled burning rubber and realized I had hot brakes and possibly a blown tire.
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But a nightmarish shot at the 15th, where he blazed the ball into a water hazard, put the brakes on his charge and he stumbled home for nine-under.
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Mr William tried to slow down by pumping his brakes but the vehicle jackknifed in the road while trying to avoid Mr Utting.
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The electric power steering and the brakes feel cheap.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it did not suit man to be completely freed from old bonds, from the steadying brakes of "Thou shalt not" and "Thou mayst not", and to be allowed to tear along straight towards the goal.
Autumn
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No brakes, no hands,..no bars and no fork would be even more tuff. a lot of them look like hairy colourful clowns as is, with their Howard the Duck eyeglasses and oversized flat brimmed hats and all.
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Brakes strident, slewing to one side like a crippled ocean liner, I'd found myself pulling over to pick him up.
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The prototype includes a Honda GK 100 77cc, 2hp air-cooled engine, asymmetric CVT transmission system, tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis, 16 Inch recumbent wheels, twin-tie road steering system, variable jet carburettor and simple caliper cycle brakes.
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Skeletons do not have any brakes or suspension and with top speeds exceeding 80 mph, this is not a sport for the timid.
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He suddenly hit the brakes and Prudence shot forward in her seat, bracing herself on the dashboard.
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They jostle and joggle while seated on the “train” and respond to the brakes in the “car.”
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The silence was broken occasionally by a muffled gasp or a quivering sigh that was more like the hiss of air brakes.
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Front side airbags are available as an option and anti-lock brakes are standard on the van.
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In the courtyard I saw a little cart, with iron brakes underneath it, such as fastidious people use to deaden the jolting of the road; but few men under a lord or baronet would be so particular.
Lorna Doone
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It just seems to me we're going to lose very important technologies, very important human capital if we don't do something soon to put the brakes on here.
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Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
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It's helped me hit the brakes in time a few times when it'd have turned out otherwise if I'd been dilly dallying along.
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The Veloster—a three-door (one on the left, two on the right) hatchback with a direct-injection 1.6-liter and choice of six-speed manual or dual-clutch automatic—comes standard with 17-inch alloy wheels, four-wheel disc brakes, LED headlight accents, Bluetooth, XM satellite radio, a 7-inch color touch screen with a Pandora app (that syncs up to your iPhone), and more.
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The technique to going quick in one of these jiggers is to leave the braking as late as possible, and enter the corner under brakes, so that the front tyres are biting.
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The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him.
The Return of Blue Pete
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On my first run, he stopped chortling long enough to point out that to use your legs as brakes the whole way down the hill is rather defeating the object.
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My brakes gave me some grief after the second to last stop.
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I tried to reach the foot brakes but I couldn't.
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There have been some nasty accidents (two were fatal) caused by harvesters vibrating their handbrakes loose and crushing operators.
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Head gaskets, clutch cables, gearboxes and stuck handbrakes feature most commonly on the tired and dying list.
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The superbike brakes are superb with just the right feel during emergency braking.
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We raked the water's mirrored edge and poled in willow-shrouded brakes, plumbed the deep and darked ledge, traced dimensions of despair and waked in light to fete your coming home –
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Laid crops and unsettled weather put the brakes on harvest for many growers this week.
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There are no modifications to the brakes, suspension, steering or interior; even Works wheels are extra.
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His abrupt departure has slammed on the brakes and set off the car alarms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bicycle has no brakes you ride it at your peril.
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After watching a hipster in Portland faceplant off their fixie mixte with flat pedals while dumping the scalding cup of coffee on themselves they were holding in one hand while trying to stop without brakes right in front of a breakfast crowd on Belmont...well, I swore fixies were stupid.
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The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles.
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The operational settings include the suspension, the gearing, the brakes, and the stabilizers.
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Some research indicates they may increase rear-end collisions as drivers slam on their brakes when they see posted camera notices.
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Drum brakes have more parts than disc brakes and harder to service, but they are less expensive to manufacture, and they easily incorporate an emergency brake mechanism.
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QI am having problems with rusting disc brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The state's rivers, canebrakes, birds, and flowers inspired her.
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At that moment, from the other side of a wood, they heard the screech of brakes and an ear-shattering bang.
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Also, why is it that the brakes suddenly came back to life when he was approaching a tollbooth?
