If turned off for even a moment, hoses freeze, leaving them plugged, stiff and useless.
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If you turned off the oven, bring it back up to 350 degrees F.
Sometimes you just can't remember if you turned off the toaster oven before leaving the house.
In other words, Niagara Falls, if not turned off and on like a faucet, is turned up and down like a fancy massaging showerhead.
Well, what if we turned off the thermostat, but on our return drive an hour away from home, I use my phone to direct an Internet-enabled thermostat to turn the heat up in my home!
Most of the people in the world climate community think there is about a degree of warming left if we turned everything off now.
Indeed, for all the potential of GPS pinpointing, if consumers are turned off by having advertisers track their every move - as they've recently demonstrated online - geographically targeted advertising may not be the most promising way to pump up the wireless market.
They would get turned off if they think you're getting money to help out those people.
They can be introduced with a particle accelerator, which can be turned off if danger threatens.
And critically, in contrast to existing electronic displays, the images thus created do not disappear if the power is turned off.
Indeed, one can only wonder if the West could have held off the Soviet Union if the Cold War turned hot and whether the United States would have had to carry an unfair portion of the burden.
And then, the visitor disappeared in a flash, just as if a TV screen had been turned off.
When Belarus's leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, irked the Kremlin in 2004 Russia turned off the taps, if only briefly.
We shook hands, learned a few things about each other and then she sat down, turned off her smart phone and asked if she could help finish setting up the room.
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Turing turned out to be right, if a couple of years off on his projections.
Even in the offseason we're still football crazy, and some news has leaked out that will adjust how we watch the NFL. Most recently, the Wall Street Journal reports the league has officially relaxed local blackout requirements, which reduces the chance broadcasts are turned off in a team's home area if they don't sell enough tickets.
After the seat belt sign was turned off, I went to the cockpit to see if any of the G550 systems had malfunctioned.
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But Ditto Trade might make it in the competitive world of online brokerages if it continues to attract and retain young investors like Solomon who are turned off by traditional brokerages and money management.
When she climbed into bed, he had already turned off the light on his side, and he closed his eyes as if he were asleep.
When users are working with two monitors, Magic Return automatically moves content from a screen that is abruptly turned off to the screen that is still on, enabling content to be accessed even if one of the monitors gets disconnected, or shuts off.
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What if the financing spigot--either for the automotive companies or for the individual consumer--got turned off?
If the cut off date has passed, the room rate, and allotment of rooms has already been turned back into the hotel, and is no longer available.
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