Sentence examples for of a brake from inspiring English sources

Neither is much of a brake in a global enterprise.

Rarely has a filmmaker seemed less in need of a brake pedal.

"But skills shortages are starting to bite, putting more of a brake on investment and future growth in consumer services.

However, he stopped short of announcing a recall of Toyota's third-generation Prius hybrids amid almost 200 reports of a brake defect.

And because of that there's a reserve caution – a sense of, 'Let's make sure we know what we're doing.' And that's a bit of a brake.

The presence of the Arab League mission, even if it was thwarted in its work, was considered something of a brake on the government violence against civilians.

Job security can be a kind of burden, a brake on the nurturing of hopes and the following of dreams.

The family of the victim, Noriko Uno, said that Ms. Uno tried to stop her 2006 Camry before crashing into a tree in Upland, Calif., but that a faulty accelerator and the lack of a brake-override system made the car speed out of control in the wrong direction on a one-way street.

In 2010, the Japanese company, which is a leader in gas-electric hybrid technology, recalled 433,000 hybrid vehicles, including the Prius, because of a braking software glitch.

Honda will recall about 18,000 of its 2006-7 S2000 and 2006 Acura RSX models because of a braking problem, the automaker has informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The application of the technique is illustrated through an example of a brake-by-wire system.