The researchers were able to make every droplet of oil or water placed on the material to run or stop in its tracks (a response which the team describes as "pinning"), simply by flexing the material or letting it relax.
Why, of all the doctors in the world, did it fall upon him to finally stop polio in its tracks?
And that, with the Union expanding to the east, would stop progress in its tracks.
PhRMA woke up and came up with a brilliant plan to stop ASC in its tracks and it worked.
Our recovery from the great recession has crawled at a painfully slow pace and any fiscal hit could stop it in its tracks.
Taking a low dose of aspirin every day could have the potential to prevent breast cancer or stop it in its tracks.
The language used by Labour during the second reading debate on Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill leaves little doubt that they intend to do their best to stop it in its tracks.
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The reason for this is believed to be to stop cancer in its tracks by preventing tumour cells from dividing more than a certain number of times. (Successful cancers often have a special enzyme that repairs telomeres.) The cost is that, eventually, even healthy tissue cannot renew itself.
Mr Obama is by no means alone in urgently wanting more action to stop the crisis in its tracks before it spirals even further out of control, wrecks the European economy and sends shock waves across the Atlantic.
It offered a bit more economic growth, and its health care reform proposals would not stop medical progress in its tracks in the way that ObamaCare is designed to do.
Casey and Stanger agree that too much make-up can stop a relationship in its tracks.
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If they are, they'll then start the drugs right away to stop the disease in its tracks.
And I fear the outcome of today's Supreme Court case could stop the shift in its tracks.
However, the US and EU are against it which should theoretically stop the proposal in its tracks.
They discovered that they didn't need a magic bullet a superdrug that could stop all cancer in its tracks.
The question is whether, when used together, they will be enough to stop the virus in its tracks.
Yannick Jauzion put pressure on Halfpenny from Baby's lofted kick and after France won possession they were within a few metres of the Welsh line only for Jamie Roberts to stop the threat in its tracks with a terrific tackle on Cedric Heymans.
With further research we may be able to stop this devastating disease in its tracks.
He said software than could effectively stop this kind of fraud in its tracks was something the business world would welcome.
She's been known to sew buttons, remove stains and even catch you on the way out the door to stop a stocking's run in its tracks with a dab of clear nail polish.
There were those who hailed the announcement by initial leadership candidate Simon Thomas to drop out and throw his weight behind her as a gamechanger that would stop Leanne Wood's momentum in its tracks.
The notion that an agreement among a group of States that authorizes price fixing and market share divisions, as the MSA does, can stop federal enforcement of antitrust laws in its tracks, is almost unthinkable in its terms.
Even if this war is a short one a month, say and there are no accompanying terrorist attacks, it could be enough to stop the industry's fragile recovery in its tracks, as the chairman of Publicis, a French advertising giant, has given warning.
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