Sentence examples for as a lock from inspiring English sources

One way to understand a bitcoin is as a lock that comes with a key.

Coming off wins over the Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals, the Giants were seen as a lock.

This creates two different human rights regimes across the UK which could technically act as a lock on Westminster moves.

The security function of the program necessitated an original signal combination to act as a lock and key for the NES console.

United, they stand as the most intriguing story in the Eastern Conference, if not necessarily as a lock to win it.

At the top of the drawing, you see a phallus, arranged to the viewer's right, limp as a lock of hair.

In that sense he may have felt an immediate sense of belonging, as the Tigers have an injury list as long as a lock-forward's arm.

The American pension system, says Phyllis Moen, a Cornell University sociologist, is designed as "a lock-step process of continuous, full-time employment.

This is partly due to the strongly coupled nature of the deployed applications, a lack of abstraction of device communication layers as well as a lock-in for communication protocols.

They do so by using what is known as a lock-and-key system, whereby a group of atoms forming part of the protein fit, as a key would in a lock, with complementary groups in the antigen.

should be observed, if a phase-intensity sensitive system such as a lock-in amplifier is used for backscattered light detection.