Sentence examples for elasticity from inspiring English sources

The dough may spring back as you stretch it thanks to the elasticity developed during kneading, but if this happens, just let it rest a moment before continuing.

Stir, then tip the dough from its bowl on to a clean surface and knead for 5 minutes to build up the strength and elasticity of the dough.

These days Hooke is well known only for his law of elasticity: that the amount a material stretches is proportional to the force applied.

In an extreme case, demand for goods on which tariffs are raised might be completely inelastic, so the rise may not matter (except as a matter of principle).An estimate of this sort does exist; World Bank economists have used existing estimates of the elasticity of demand to tease out the effect of everything countries did, tariff and anti-dumping-wise, last year.

That leaves a stiff scaffolding through which sound waves can readily pass, without compromising the wood's elasticity.

Those showed significant changes in his skin elasticity, but the result added just one data point to earlier, anecdotal reports.Results published this week add a smidgen of intriguing data to the debate.

Differences in supply constraints can explain much of the striking disparity between American states, from the modest run-up in prices in Texas, where land is easily available, to the huge surge in places like Nevada, where land-use regulations are tighter.But elasticity is not always a good thing.

The resulting coefficient, the inelegantly named "inter-generational elasticity of income", is today's main measure of social mobility.

America's greatest strength is its elasticity: France is the land of French people, Germany the land of Germans, but America belongs to an ideal rather than a people, and that ideal of equal treatment is expansive enough to comprise and accommodate itself to anyone willing to live according to its precepts.

"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark about my eye died: the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and, behold, a man transformed into a brute".Others have a curiously contemporary ring.

Economists call this the income elasticity of demand for labour.But at least marginal tax rates encourage work somewhat.