Some of those boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end up on welfare or skid row.
Mainly you're pedalling, sweating, and trying not to hit the deck or skid down a 40-degree scree slope.
For $5 a bucket, with complimentary club rentals, the boys sent balls sailing into the darkening sky -- or skidding along the manicured grass.
If you could get down in one piece without hitting a pothole or skidding on the gravel and then manage to navigate the left-hand bend at the bottom you were a legend.
Leaping and turning, their bodies crumpling out of ballet positions or skidding across the floor, the performers, dressed in simple, bright-colored dancewear (Mr. Millepied's designs) might be playing a game, testing one another's limits.
At that point, the shuttle's nose was yawing, or skidding sideways, at a rate measured at 20 degrees a second, the limit of the instrument's ability to measure.
There are, instead, shifting feet, trembling hands, shredding tires and the hard whine of machines that, whether flying or skidding over the track, can feel like nothing other than needlessly reckless manifestations of human arrogance, like Icarus' wings — but, you know, with the Marlboro brand emblazoned on them.
With his record on the subcontinent, not many would have predicted that England's captain would be dismissed three times by a teenager, but Mehedi Hasan's impeccable line and length on "spin or skid" pitches proved too much, even for Cook.
Skid resistance is a measure of the resistance of pavement surface to sliding or skidding of the vehicle.
Logging operations (e.g. tree felling, log yarding or skidding) induce incidental damage to surrounding trees, proportional to logging intensity in conventional [6] or reduced impact logging [7].
