If it is too thin, which can happen at very low temperatures, the ski sticks.
The U.S. has the world's most outstanding collection of swimmers, but it is oddly thin at the freestyle sprints.
It is indeed thin and light enough to fit comfortably in your wallet, but it will add some heft, and may be an unwelcome addition to already packed vessels.
Time after time in my discussions with European Union officials on accounting issues relating to country by country reporting and the need for multinational corporations to be accountable to people in all the states in which they operate, these officials, whose support for IFRS brought this whole edifice to worldwide prominence, indicate that their support for it is wearing thin.
This time it is the impossibly thin, flat glass used to make liquid crystal displays.
It is sleek, thin, stunning in its design, and incorporates the latest Blackberry OS and some neat features.
The other would carry about 193, 000 barrels of condensate daily to Alberta where it is used to thin petroleum for pipeline shipping.
Addictions can wreck lives, and it seems there is a thin line between intense and vigorous play and compulsion.
Buyers and sellers in Manila have established a price, but because its commercial-property market is so thin, some analysts fear it is not the right one.
The actual evidence for global warming (GW) itself over the last century is thin but it could exist.
Once the beads have been mixed into the liquid rubber, it is rolled out into a thin film and cut into sheets.
Because profit on sales to individuals, thin as it is, is much better than profit on most fleet business, the models you are offered at the rental agencies are the ones customers are not clamoring for.
First Solar is by far the world leader in thin film panel production and it is the most valuable solar company in the world.
It lies in the Great Basin, an area where the earth's crust is thin and cracked, so it has great potential as a producer of geothermal power.
It is served on an ultra-thin and crispy crust, more like a cracker or rigid tortilla than pizza dough.
Consumerization of IT is true, but only for thin clients ( And yes that includes prima donna MAC user).
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But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
Since the Vivo Tab RT is a traditional tablet with an optional keyboard dock accessory (though it is currently included free of charge), the tablet itself is thin and light.
Calling on Congress to act in some non-specific way is getting a bit thin, not least because we all know it is not a plan but a tired taunt.
It is an inflatable pouch that has a thin-film solar panel with two-coin cell rechargeable batteries.
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There is a thin line, it seems, between the freedom that spurs creativity and a free-for-all.
Artificial snow can make up for a thin snowfall, but it is expensive.
Depositing the CIGS materials evenly on glass or metal foil is a lot harder than it sounds, and figuring out a way to mass produce thin films is another big challenge.
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When the Fed creates money out of thin air, for example, it is a lie.
As with so many other laptops (especially ultraportables), the audio is thin and tinny, as if it were trapped behind the speaker grille.
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Instead, he demonstrates how thin the laptop is by pulling it out of an envelope.
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