Sentence examples for progressively stiffer from inspiring English sources

Although an air spring is flexible under normal loads, it becomes progressively stiffer when compressed under an increased load.

Will robotic backbones become progressively stiffer in successive generations, thus corroborating the author's hypothesis that vertebral columns evolved from notochords under selection pressure for enhanced feeding?

This distal fibrosis has important clinical ramifications; as the myocardium becomes progressively stiffer, both contraction (expulsion of blood) and relaxation (refilling of the ventricles) becomes impaired.

Per capita gross cost of master trainers was progressively decreasing from $US2,342 for the batch, to $US330 for the second batch and $US9.6 for trainers who provided direct LSE for young people; 7-fold and 34-fold less respectively.

The customers win; the money saved is progressively redistributed (a $2.00 fee means a great deal more to someone making $35,000 a year than it does to a bank or its employees); and it's a small spoonful of sugar to go with the ugly medicine of this bailout package.

The sum will be increased progressively up to $16,000 in the 2011 2012 school year.

The level of Ser15-phosphorylated p53 progressively increased following UV irradiation indicating the importance of phosphorylation for preventing p53 from ubiquitin-mediated degradation [54].

And the annual turnover threshold will then be progressively increased each year – to $25m in2017-­182017-­180m in 2018-­19, to $50m in2018-­192018-­19o on – untol all companies face a tax rate of 27.5% in 2023-­24.

After initially investing around $2.6 billion, Goldman Sachs has raised more than $4.5 billion by progressively selling down its stake in the Chinese bank.

The holiday offers 100% relief on business rates up to £6,000, with progressively smaller rebates on amounts up to a cap of £12,000.

As the standard story has it, science increasingly acquired understandings of how nature unaided by deliberate intent and planning could produce virtually any R proposed, and thus while (2) might continue to hold for virtually any human artifact a having any intended R one might please, (3) — and consequently the inference to (4) — became progressively less defensible.