As an aircraft flies it creates waves of pressure as it pushes its way through the air.
But the Lieberman-Warner bill isn't the only "cap-and-trade" proposal floating around on Capitol Hill these days, so why is it making waves?
It was a small campaign, but it made waves.
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It experienced waves of migration over the past century from countries such as Italy, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Korea and the Middle East, all of whom brought their cuisine and culture with them.
Fortunately, this means we finally get to say goodbye to the pebble look and feel: the edges are straighter from top to bottom, giving our fingers more surface to grasp onto, and the back cover fits flat on the faux-chrome edge instead of curving around it like waves of the ocean.
Soil is a highly attenuating material, meaning that it is difficult for sound waves to travel far in it.
It is naturally "birefringent" - meaning it sends light waves of different polarisations along slightly different paths.
It takes sound waves in the environment and transforms them into nerve impulses to the auditory nerve.
However, it is not waves of light that are made to interfere with one another, but waves of matter.
It uses quantum waves to transfer information from one part of a nanoprocessor to another without relying on any physical connection.
Nonetheless, when, not so long ago, Ben Okri and his editor, Maggie McKennan, moved from Random House to Orion it still caused waves.
Set the company's iPhone-sized speaker on a desk, coffee table or even a surfboard and it transfers sound waves into that material -- creating an on-the-fly subwoofer.
If gold breaks through that level, several gold market watchers said it could uncover waves of sell stops, or pre-placed sell orders, that might encourage further selling.
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When Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender newspaper published his battered face on their covers, it sent shock waves throughout America, and especially in the black community.
You can knock one of these nuclei from up to down by bathing it in radio waves of a particular frequency (exactly which frequency depends on the element).
When news broke in December that construction had briefly halted on The Bow, the showpiece headquarters of EnCana, Canada's largest independent energy firm, it sent shock waves across Calgary.
It's not clear why waves of Nomura's jellyfish have made it to the Sea of Japan in recent years.
That means it experiences smaller storm waves in its inner regions, which are narrow and shallow, than in its wider, deeper parts.
Last year, Gartner made waves when it predicted that by 2017, the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO.
But when Mr Kejriwal spoke out last week, it swept the air waves and became the biggest talking point in an increasingly cynical nation.
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The beauty of the system is its true self-sustainability: once the transmitter has been been jumpstarted with radio waves, it powers itself through the resulting transmissions.
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But thanks to Germany's size and history, when it pursues its own interests like any other normal nation, it can still send waves around the world.
Again, since a-waves in a corrective decline can be either 3 waves or 5 waves, it makes it more complicated to analyze corrections at the start of the correction.
Even though the Minimoog, a stripped-down version of the original instrument and beloved by artists like Rick Wakeman, made waves when it came out in 1970, the writing was on the wall.
"The last time I measured it 15 months ago, the lighthouse was 20.6m (67.5ft) from the sea and my best guess is that it had 10 years before it fell into the waves, " he said.
The play caused shock waves when it had its London premiere in 1955 - a play without a traditional plot, two tramps pondering the meaning of life while they wait for a man who never comes.
Needless to say, it resonated with many of Nokia's now disenfranchised fans and employees, and it made some serious waves -- enough so that Plan B was picked up by several major news outlets, including this morning's print edition of the Wall Street Journal.
The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer mapped the locations between Nov. 2 and Nov. 20 using multibeam sonar, which produces detailed images of the seafloor by calculating the amount of time and distance it takes for sound waves to travel from the ship to the seafloor and back.
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