Sentence examples for apparent friction from inspiring English sources

The metadata program remains the point of greatest apparent friction between the N.S.A. and the Constitution.

For all the apparent friction between Mr. Nader and the Democrats, he has far greater disdain for Republicans.

And Lo Duca was the first player to signal that there was apparent friction in the Mets' clubhouse.

Since this process is extremely improbable, the liquid, or more precisely the condensed fraction of it, flows without any apparent friction.

Three years after forming the Morphoses company to much excitement in the dance world, the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is walking away from the ensemble amid apparent friction with his executive director.

Related phenomena observed in the superfluid phase include the ability to sustain persistent currents in a ring-shaped container; the phenomenon of film creep, in which the liquid flows without apparent friction up and over the side of a bucket containing it; and a thermal conductivity that is millions of times its value in the normal phase and greater than that of the best metallic conductors.

As engine speeds increased, however, and it became apparent that friction horsepower increased with piston speed rather than with crankshaft rotating speed, there began a trend toward short-stroke engines.

The apparent dynamic friction coefficient is studied macroscopically, as the ratio between the forces that develop parallel and normal to the interface.

For example, using the fault model of Yokota et al. (2011) with an apparent coefficient friction of 0.4, 79.3% of receiver faults were positively stressed for at least one nodal plane following the Tohoku-Oki earthquake, whereas 64.2% of receiver faults were positive during the pre-seismic period.

As delays and apparent errors multiplied, friction between Paris and Brussels grew.

Perhaps the most remarkable development, at this early stage, is the apparent lack of friction with Israel, which has not objected to Egypt's ground-force buildup or the air missions, despite the fact that the Sinai was largely demilitarized by the 1979 peace treaty.