If the vertical load is increased under these conditions, failure usually takes the form of non-violent yielding.
Her work — both violent and yielding, fiercely willed and oddly relaxed — is the subject of a commanding solo show, on view through July 28 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Battered by realities that are even more violent than he is, Don Quixote resists yielding to the authority of church and state.
Though still under construction, the International Monitoring System is already yielding a wealth of science spinoffs, detecting violent winds, volcanic eruptions and the crash of meteoroids from outer space.
Landing in lowly 17th place, A Most Violent Year has begun falteringly with £217,000 from 180 cinemas, yielding a £1,203 average.
Slowly and strategically, a thick blue line of city police officers retreated from downtown toward the Republican National Convention today, yielding before an illegal protest parade rather than facing a potentially violent street confrontation with the world watching.
Pious agunot, women desperate to be free of their husbands, many of whom are violent, criminals or pedophiles, are vulnerable to corrupt rabbis who tell them that yielding to extortion or torturing their husbands is the only way they can ever be free to remarry and raise a family.
And as long as we keep making those blow them up, tie them down, cut them off, intolerant, violent films -- and don't even get me started on video games -- we'll keep yielding the same results.
Neither yielding nor resisting.
Reforms are now yielding fruit.
