To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King, the arc of the federal spending universe is long, but it bends toward restraint.
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It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction.
It bends upward again with the second industrial revolution of the late 1800s built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.
So it bends and collapses at the top and that weight goes down so it demolishes like the pack of cards you saw.
Because gravity pulls on light as well as matter, when light passes by a heavy object it bends as though it is passing through a lens.
To exploit the power of modern high-speed locomotives, engineers resort to tilting trains and special track free of sharp bends: it's cheaper than tearing up the existing rails and starting again.
As the accompanying mini-documentary shows, the team behind this project not only put great care into constructing the 20ft x 7ft custom track with the right bends, it also faithfully crafted the slot cars so as to mimic the Audi quattro's all wheel drive mechanic.
Changes in the way the light moves comes from the way gravity bends the light as it travels from the quasar towards Earth.
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Perhaps its greatest moment came in 1979 when it was the first telescope to observe a gravitational lens, an effect where a "massive" object bends electromagnetic radiation such as light around it.
To get that song, you'll have to download the entire album it appears on, the 1995 release The Bends.
The Securities and Exchange Commission bends over backwards to assist the companies it regulates comply with the law.
It would be like risking the vinous equivalent of the bends, the decompression sickness of deep-sea divers who ascend too quickly from the bottom of the ocean.
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The coach crashed as it travelled down a steep mountain road, which features 21 hairpin bends.
It crashed as it travelled down a steep mountain road, which features 21 hairpin bends, 65km from Grenoble.
Its gravitational field thus bends and focuses the light from the distant object, making it appear closer than it really is.
Ms. Yang bends her knee a bit and angles her body sideways, so it isn't facing the camera head on.
"Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us that mass bends space and time, so when light comes toward us through the Universe, if it passes some dark matter, its light gets bent and the image we see gets bent and distorted, " Dr Heymans told the meeting.
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