But the net-net has always been a slow, steady drive down.
PCs might not seem like an obvious route for a phone maker, but the steady drive toward convergence means its creation was not only long-rumored, but inevitable.
For all its seriousness, "Kalamity" lacks a steady narrative drive; its speeches are too long, and its themes become repetitive.
Tony Romo led the offense to the Cincinnati 2 with a steady opening drive before stalling, and David Buehler kicked a 20-yard field goal.
In "Afghan Star," Havana Marking's engrossing documentary, suspense surrounds a talent competition that becomes a national obsession, lending a steady narrative drive to this portrait of an "American Idol -style televIdol -stylein Afghanistelevision
This could be related to the decreased firing of neurons in the midbrain reticular formation and mesopontine cholinergic nuclei, which removes a steady excitatory drive from thalamocortical neurons and allows the membrane potential of cortical neurons to reach more hyperpolarized levels [30].
These days the ex-rebel, now premier of Lower Saxony, speaks with near-reverence of Mr Schmidt's steady drive to forge closer international economic co-operation, something he particularly hopes to emulate once in office.
This steady drive toward primacy, combined with NATO expansion, has deepened suspicions and accelerated countermeasures by Moscow, including new missile development and violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
The West was burned by the Iranian revolution and its steady drive toward anti-Western belligerence, along with its support for terrorism and the chimera of a world where every country bows to the Prophet Muhammad.
Acoustophoretic (AP) motion of spherical polystyrene particles in a steady pressure driven flow is investigated in shallow microchannels, where the channel height is comparable to the particle diameter.
