Sentence examples for required tension from inspiring English sources

After two days spent fruitlessly chipping away at the rock with his knife and devising a clever but futile system of pulleys with his climbing clips and ropes to hoist the boulder clear – he was defeated because climbing rope is stretchy and he couldn't obtain the required tension – he put his knife to his arm, only to find it was so blunt he couldn't even cut his body hair.

The reading slows down the processing, allowing the setup to build the required tension.

To achieve the required tension in case of copper core samples (A1 and B1), a draft of 1.3 between the front drafting roller and the take-up roller had to be maintained.

The hamstrings are like the rappelling rope in that they require tension to control the rate of lowering the load.

Alternatively, the glands may neither adhere to the muscles nor require tension for growth, and may simply be opportunistic in their growth, held back largely by the force of the surrounding muscles.

Additional screws were implanted in 2 patients, and 1 patient required additional tension band wiring.

If centromere localization of Aurora B is not required for tension sensing and chromosome bi-orientation, the question remains what the role of centromeric-localized Aurora B is.

The mutant channel possesses protective ability in downshock assays similar to that of the wild type, but in patch clamp assays, it required a tension ∼50% higher than that of the wild type to undergo the transition to the open state.

Richard C. Holbrooke, the president's top adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan, said on CNN that success required overcoming tensions between Washington and Islamabad, and he cited what senior Pakistani officials have labeled "the trust deficit".

However, this linking role required negotiating tensions between obligations to the formal healthcare system and to communities.

As discussed previously, although breakage of the dicentric chromosome requires the tension established by stretching the chromosome between different spindle poles, the mechanical force exerted by this tension is insufficient to break double-stranded DNA.