Sentence examples for buoyancy against from inspiring English sources

Some of Mr. Arnold's biggest laughs mined familiar territory: jokes about continuous, ultimately pointless attempts at buoyancy against the tide of his own loserdom — sort of like Charlie Brown's quest to kick the football (professional respect and marital happiness) and Lucy's pulling it away at the last moment (his own character-as-destiny).

The spirit of the work is a kind of anguished buoyancy, optimistic against steep odds.

In water, buoyancy acts against the body to reduce the load at the joints, while water viscosity requires the subject to exert greater force than when moving on land [ 4].

Here, even when characters step downstage into spotlights to confide in us, the audience, the effect is of drained, joyless souls speaking to people like themselves; there's no buoyancy to work against or come down from.

Further nails in the floor provide additional safety for the platform and the sliding valve chamber (see Figs. 1, 7) against buoyancy.

It is shown that mixed convection mode can cause minimum ¯¯¯¯¯Nu unfavorably due to counteraction of jet flow against buoyancy driven flow.

It is shown that mixed convection mode can cause minimum average Nusselt number unfavorably due to counteraction of jet flow against buoyancy driven flow.

It is shown that mixed convection mode can cause minimum heat transfer unfavorably due to counteraction of jet flow against buoyancy driven flow.

It is shown that mixed convection mode can cause minimum average Nusselt number at two values of Péclet number and a maximum average Nusselt number occurs in between theses two Péclet numbers at higher Rayleigh number due to counteraction of jet flow against buoyancy driven flow.

The upward stroke works against buoyancy and helps maintain depth.

There must be further VERY GREAT INCREASE IN SPEED... your speed must vastly exceed [that of] your possible enemy!" Fisher's desire for a shallow draught was not merely based on the need to allow for inshore operations; ships tended to operate closer to deep load than anticipated and were often found lacking in freeboard, reserve buoyancy and safety against underwater attack.