Sentence examples for length contracts from inspiring English sources

The body becomes shorter along its direction of motion; that is, its length contracts.

In the core, the bond length and the bond energy are almost the same as the corresponding bulk values; in surface, the bond length contracts but the bond energy increases; and in the subsurface, the bond energy keeps the bulk value but the bond length contracts.

(If I were to pull out a pair of binoculars and look at your speeding car, I would actually see its length contracted and you moving in slow motion inside).

"Is this an African viewpoint or rather a Western viewpoint?" In Namibia, political scientists say concerns are growing about whether officials are negotiating arm's-length contracts with China.

"Relationship capitalism is basically where a lot more is done through contacts -- who you know, how you know them -- rather than through arm's-length contracts, more transparency, more open dealing and so on," says Professor Rajan, who is now serving as the International Monetary Fund's chief economist.

Similarly, I'm not against all tort reform, only dumb tort reform -- capping damages at unjust levels, forcing injured parties to forego public trials for private arbitration, allowing tort claims to be contracted away via esoteric clauses in War and Peace-length contracts, and so on.

THE AGREEMENT Highlights of Contract LENGTH OF CONTRACT -- Three years.

Clark is an impoverished grad student and gambler who owes money to the mob and has signed a high-risk, book-length contract with Jamie's father to tutor her for her SAT.

Similarly, according to the relativistic equations, an observer riding a light wave would see lengths contract to zero and clocks stop ticking as the universe approached him at the speed of light.

Professors Milberg and Winkler define offshoring as "all purchases of intermediate inputs from abroad, whether done through arms-length contract (offshore outsourcing) or within the confines of a single multinational corporation".

There is excessive arm's-length contracting compared to the case where the top firm controls this organizational choice itself.