In 1826 Henri-Gustave Delvigne of France, seeking a means of expanding the projectile without making it difficult to ram home, created a narrow powder chamber at the breech end of the barrel against which a loosely fitting lead ball came to rest.
This morphology enables benthopelagics to feed efficiently on krill and schools of small fishes by expanding their buccal cavity, and overtaking and sifting large mouthfuls of prey (e.g., ram feeding).
Residents have long opposed expanding the runway, which is bound on one end by Long Island Sound and on the other side by the highway, where the plane rammed into a steel fence that shields passing cars from the blast of planes taking off.
Even so, Amy Walter, who tracks House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, sees Texas as "the firewall" that will protect the 12-seat Republican majority, or "the battering ram" that will expand it.
I.B.M.'s microelectronics group invested heavily in joint ventures to design new memory chips and expand its dynamic random access -- or D-RAM -- memory chip production, then paid dearly for it when the market for such commodity chips crashed in 1996.
What this expert in ground breaking interplanetary technology made of seeing a series of armoured toasters ram into each other over the course of a fortnight was, sadly, never expanded upon.
What this expert in ground breaking interplanetary technology made of seeing a series of armored toasters ram into one another over the course of a fortnight was, sadly, never expanded upon.
What they settled on was a variety of methods, said Michael J. Goldstein, vice president for New York construction at Schiavone: sledgehammers, picks, shovels, rams, robotic rock splitters and a chemical compound that is poured into holes in which it expands, cracking the stone as it does.
