Sentence examples for a longer slide from inspiring English sources

Beijing never laid out its reasons for stepping in so forcefully, but there are many possible explanations for why it chose not to allow a longer slide.

But if there is a sense that they've lost a deeper plot, this may be just decoration on a longer slide.

But for his opponents, his harsh dismissal of the protesters gathering in Istanbul and Ankara as "bums," and in particular his allowing the police to crack down on what began as a peaceful demonstration against the razing of a park in Taksim Square, is public evidence of a longer slide into authoritarianism.

This can be explained by the fact that there is a longer sliding distance within the same test duration at higher sliding speeds.

However, a larger-diameter ball has a longer sliding distance per step, which could increase the rate of wear, and there is concern that higher stresses in a thin liner also might substantially accelerate wear.

The longer slide will aid accuracy by increasing the distance between the front and rear sights, and the heavier weight will reduce recoil and allow for faster followup shots.

Pin-on-disc wear tests, carried out at constant load and speed, showed that sulfur implantation of the discs had a pronounced wear-reducing effect, leading to an up to three times longer sliding length before breakdown of the lubricating system (scuffing).

The two devaluations come after a run of poor economic data and have raised suspicions that China is embarking on a longer-term slide in the exchange rate.

The store's security gates, mangled by the force of the pickup truck, no longer slid up.

"China is no longer sliding, the global industrial cycle is ticking up, and, really, how high can rates go with the Fed printing money?" asked Frederic Neumann, the co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC.

The operating wear mechanisms at 823 K are adhesion at shorter sliding distance and tribo-oxidation at longer sliding distance.