In addition to the judges' ability to lower the starting point, other precautions are taken to prevent overjumping, including limits on ski length and ski-suit thickness (thicker suits permit more air to be trapped in the suit and thereby allow for longer jumps) and rules for the placement of bindings on skis.
When he isn't with them, he can't help remembering, though it makes him ashamed, how he sat with his back to the girls in the bedroom while they dressed, sweating in his thick suit, Connie's white stocking wrapped twice around his eyes and tied behind his head.
Now investors can confidently buy into the social network's IPO, knowing Facebook has a thick suit of armor and a sword of its own for the next time someone tries to stab it in the back.
Sizes were made slightly larger to account for thicker suits.
I am one of the crazies who wears a very thin suit, even in extreme cold as I find that with the extra resistance of a thicker suit, I am able to move around more, and generate my own body heat through movement.
It can't penetrate our thick protective suits.
How much did those thick woolen suits weigh?
Thick woolen suits and overcoats in shades of green, gray, or brown loden cloth and colourful dirndl dresses may still be seen.
Because as soon as we jumped in with our thick neoprene suits it was utterly wonderful being in the ocean swimming so close to dolphins that you could reach out and stroke them".
Yet on the broad porches of those multifamily dwellings — wooden tenements — that I stared at from the streetcar I had seen quite young bearded men wearing shiny black hats and thick, dark suits, and old, bearded men in black skullcaps and their undershirts, and, no doubt, pale boys, too, looking old and solemn for their size.
