The adage holds that there are two phases to seasickness, the first being fear you're going to die and the second being fear that you won't.
At any point on the curves, the temperature and pressure allow two phases to exist in equilibrium: solid and liquid, solid and vapour, or liquid and vapour.
"I think what we saw was that there were two phases to the recession," said Tim Brosnan, M.L.B.'s executive vice president for business, who explained that the first half of the season was more severely affected by the economy.
Charles A. Gargano, chairman of the Javits Development Corporation, said the stadium exhibition space and the convention center, which he said would be expanded in two phases, to 40th Street and then to 42nd Street, would provide a major economic stimulus.
For conservation reasons the show at the National Gallery of Modern Art here, curated by Ozaki Masaaki and Matsubara Ryuichi, is being staged in two phases, to allow the works on silk and paper to be substituted with examples by the same artists, the first continuing through March 31, the second from April 4 to May 5.
— SIMONE OLIVER DAVE ITZKOFF: There are only two phases to this year's Golden Globes as far as I'm concerned: seeing how hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler open the show, and then I suppose the part where they give out the awards.
There are two phases to the pitching process.
Technically, the proposed scheme utilizes two phases to locate mobile devices.
In 'stages of validation', the SFSTP guide requires two phases to validate a method.
There will be a capacity penalty due to the use of two phases to transmit the same information.
Two phases to be considered here are a continuous fluid phase interspersed with a discrete solid particulate phase.
