Sentence examples for while creeping from inspiring English sources

The report went on to say that female political representation, while creeping higher, is still depressingly low––not least in the world's oldest constitutional democracy, the United States.

This implies that while creeping segments are suggested to act as seismic rupture barriers, slow-slip events on these zones might promote seismicity on adjacent locked segments.

I worry only about the OSHA ramifications here: while creeping around a boyfriend's parents' pitch-black house at 3 a.m. once, I formed the opinion that sex is dangerous because you can plunge down a darkened stairway.

And what fantastic adventures these two have while creeping around and up New York buildings in the middle of the night, liberating ornaments that might fall by the wrecking ball tomorrow — or someday.

There is plenty of time, while creeping through the security maze, to ruminate over questions like whether potential terrorists have the same preoccupations as the Homeland Security authorities who issue their increasingly detailed instructions.

Competition from budget airlines is the biggest manifestation of this change, while creeping international de-regulation and new planes, big and small, that can fly longer distances direct are undermining the dominance of the traditional hub-and-spoke network in many regions.

She noted that while creep relieves stress on a fault gradually, eventually the surface movement must catch up with the long-term underground fault movement.

Both the nonreciprocal diffusion and the interfacial process generate stress in the alloy, while creep relaxes the stress.

As a consequence of increasing alternating load, fatigue damage becomes more and more important, while creep damage caused by ever shorter holding times at high operating temperature decreases.

While creep tests in dry conditions resulted in little decrease of elastic properties, it was observed that mechanical loading of the materials combined with water immersion resulted in a strong synergistic effect on the loss of stiffness.

(4) According to low-temperature performance test, when the filler bitumen ratio of the asphalt mortar with SB continues to increase above 1.2, creep stiffness modulus increases rapidly, while creep rate and ductility decrease rapidly in the ductility test.