His face was lined and tired, and his mouth, like his shoulders, appeared to be falling downward into resignation.
Aboard such a ship, there is a natural concept of "up" and "down": the direction in which the ship accelerates is "up", and unattached objects accelerate in the opposite direction, falling "downward".
"They just put 500 bucks on Buchmann to ollie the stairs!" A small crowd had gathered nearby to see if he could launch both himself and his board into the air, but the trick was to do it while falling downward.
The material falls downward to the mouth of a centrifugal pump, and this transports the slurry (containing 20 to 25 percent solids) to the processing plant.
I don't mean gravity as in seriousness; I mean gravity as in the force that makes things fall downward rather than float upward.
The southeastern part of the plateau includes the Ethiopian Plateau, the East African Plateau, and in eastern South Africa, where the plateau edge falls downward in a scarp the Drakensberg range.
But it is not possible to know that the next stone one drops will fall downward or that the next glass of water one drinks will quench one's thirst, even though psychologically one has every expectation, through the association of ideas, that it will.
Some other hardening tactics include adding extra steel reinforcing bars to concrete surfaces vulnerable to attack, so that even if the concrete is shattered by a blast, the broken chunks are held in place and do not fall downward causing additional damage, as happened in the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
As Diggs are added to a story, blocks fall downward to the vertical bar, making it higher relative to other stories.
In this paper, an analytic model of quiescent solar prominence is developed and used to demonstrate that the prominence velocity increases exponentially, which means that some gas falls downward towards the solar surface, and that Alfvén waves are naturally present in the solar prominences.
As Friendly Mart is the new store, on the list of priority destination for distributors they fall downward; if for a certain reason they are out of stock of a brand, they must wait longer and may not get the emergency visit in between due to the low bargaining power.
