Sentence examples for avoid the wedge from inspiring English sources

It's the flight attendant who kicked me out of the row of empty seats in the back of the plane, after I moved there to avoid the wedge.

It is financing its share buy-back programme by issuing debt because it wants to avoid tapping the wedge of its $137 billion cash pile that is held abroad and subject to hefty taxes if repatriated.

Nesting sites are attended nocturnally in order to avoid predators; the wedge-rumped storm petrels nesting in the Galapagos Islands are the exception to this rule and attend their nesting sites during the day.

The clinician should avoid wedging the catheter to prevent reflux along the catheter shaft.

Based on this study, it is recommended that (1) surgeons avoid lateral closing wedge osteotomies when the patella is already very high (plateau-patella angle greater than 29°), and (2) that they avoid opening wedge osteotomies when the patella is lower than the normal mean of 25° (½ the population).

(Glad to see that "Wedges Reaffirmed" avoids the biomass pitfall!) 6.

To avoid missing wedge bias, we used cross-correlation map normalization (Schmid and Booth, 2008).

Tip of the catheter was placed in distal part of the pulmonary arterial tree and balloon was carefully filled with increasing volume of air to avoid over wedge phenomenon.

A gap of 50 mm was provided between the loaded edge of adhesive bonded joint and concrete edge to prevent the edge or boundary effect and to avoid wedge (triangular section) failure in concrete prism (Mazzotti et al. 2008, 2009).

Did I pay extra to avoid being wedged into a middle seat back by the toilets?

The stereochemistry indicator is in wedge convention (preferably, in one-wedge style to avoid ambiguity) [34]; it indicates the wedge direction ("up"/ down"/ either"), as well as orientation of the wedge narrow point (towards the atom or out of it).