Pastoralism keeps rangelands open and, when practised on common land, slows down the fragmentation of land and creates synergies for wildlife.
Friction with land slows down the wind flowing into low-pressure systems and causes wind to flow more inward, or flowing more ageostrophically, toward their centers.
Friction with land slows down the wind flowing out of high-pressure systems and causes wind to flow more outward than would be the case in the absence of friction.
When returns from his lands slowed, he fell into bankruptcy and was confined in a debtors' prison for more than three years before his release in 1801.
Mr. Phillips said he believed that the Federal Reserve had managed a "soft landing," slowing growth and the risk of inflation without sending the economy into recession.
How could this happen, especially when many Wall Street strategists think that the Fed is guiding the economy to a soft landing, slowing it down to a manageable but still positive pace?
The renewed threat of invasion during the War of 1812, several years of harsh weather marked by the notable year of 1816 known as "Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death" and also called the "Year Without a Summer"—and the eventual opening of more fertile western lands slowed Vermont's population growth substantially.
Blue Origin recently conducted a test launch from Texas in which the rocket dubbed New Shepard performed a vertical landing, slowing its descent by relighting its engine as it fell back to Earth.
We will also explore how we may be able to use the land to slow the flow of the upper river Derwent, thereby contributing to the prevention of flooding downstream in communities such as Keswick and Cockermouth.
"When we see what's going on in Chinatown with all the development, it's important for us to try to preserve some of the property and the land to slow down gentrification.
If in a tight area, just land & slow down, turn around, and do it again.
