When the chair hits an obstacle, the wheel hub moves to absorb the impact, essentially allowing the chair to float, as if suspended in mid-air.
Surprised, Churchill accepted; dumbfounded, the country interpreted it as a move to absorb into the party all the right-of-centre elements of the former coalition.
July 8 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Lakers moved quickly to absorb the loss of Dwight Howard by reaching an agreement to sign free agent center Chris Kaman on Monday.
I would have the big picture but be moving slowly enough to absorb each detail.
The debate here began when the Omaha district, which educates most of the state's minority students, moved last June to absorb a string of largely white schools that were within the Omaha city limits but were controlled by suburban or independent districts.
When they moved to America her family absorbed themselves in the culture, celebrating Jewish festivals for the first time.
In 1988 the centre was again reorganized when it moved to Los Angeles, where it absorbed the Institute for National Strategy and took over the publishing of New Perspectives Quarterly.
It's impossible to be comprehensive in a field that is changing so fast: on June 27, the Justice Department moved to block Worldcom, which absorbed MCI in 1998, from acquiring Sprint.
A possible explanation of the droplet size reduction after an increased soybean lecithin concentration and an increased glycerol content is that soybean lecithin freely moved and was able to absorb around the snake oil droplet, thereby resulting in an increased surface to volume ratio of the droplet.
In the early 70s, he briefly studied journalism, then moved to Columbia, New York, to study literature, absorbing the influences of poets such as John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara.
