People are woefully inept at knowing when to hit the brakes with food.
Lengthening yellow-light intervals, for example, gives motorists more time to hit the brakes.
But when Pic hit the brakes a fraction too early, he opened the door for Vitaly Petrov to move past.
Traffic slowed suddenly, and our Google car hit the brakes, too.
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Stock investors took their cue and began buying on the hope that the Fed will hit the brakes on its series of 17 consecutive interest-rate increases.
Fiat has been suffering from a decision taken in the midst of the financial crisis: to hit the brakes on its investment in developing new cars.
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When SED development hit the brakes a few years ago, OLED technology quickly stepped in to fill the emptiness felt by our fickle hearts' desire for the blackest of blacks.
According to Einstein, the force of gravity keeping your feet on the ground is fundamentally identical to the force slamming your body forward when you hit the brakes on the highway or take a sudden sharp turn.
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Carrefour hit the brakes on a costly revamp of the French retail giant's biggest stores in the wake of a drop in profit for 2011, underscoring the challenges the new chief executive will face when he starts later this year.
Driving in on the Bruins net on a 2-on-0 break, Vanek hit the brakes at the top of the crease and waited for Tuukka Rask to commit before shoveling the puck in over the fallen goalie to make it 6-4.
Good sense got run over today when the EPA hit the gas instead of tapping the brakes.
The warden at the wheel hit his brakes, trying to make a U-turn on the narrow pine-lined road.
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If the two right wheels dropped off the pavement and hit the mud at the same time, maybe I could use the brakes and slow us down enough for survival.
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Their rage escalated as traffic crawled for miles and the women flashed their headlights and hit their brakes.
Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?
Unfortunately, if the brakes aren't fixed soon, this online delivery service will hit a wall.
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