Sentence examples for increase friction from inspiring English sources

Talks this week on the European Union's next budget are likely to increase friction between Britain and European partners.

"But one of the things that might drive better behavior might be to increase friction — to make it harder to sign up.

They may seem little more than digital decoration, but biomechanics have long known that fingerprints have at least one use: they increase friction, thereby improving grip.

However, adhesion and cold welding problems in vacuum conditions lead to increase friction coefficient values.

The capsule robot is one centimeter in diameter and three centimeters in length, with 1.5-centimeter-long feet that open on demand and press into the surface of the tissue to increase friction and anchor the device, says Sitti.

Eccrine glands occur in hairy skin only in humans and some primates; but the footpad glands, which increase friction and thus prevent slipping in many mammalian species, are of a similar type.

He said litigation would add to the government's pile of bills and possibly increase frictions between have and have-not creditor groups.

"It increased friction, it increased discipline problems, having to worry about who was wearing what.

The conflict in Abkhazia has increased friction between the nations in recent months.

Another is that hunching increases friction on the peritoneum, a membrane that surrounds the abdominal cavity.

The findings marked the latest chapter in the increasing friction between Ms. Reno and Louis Freeh, the F.B.I. director.