| As the solar wind from the sun flows out beyond Pluto, it collides with the material between the stars, forming a shock front. |
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| Such preaching collides with the spirit of our times, captured as it is by subjectivism and relativism. |
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| A cathode emits a stream of electrons that collides with neutral atoms of xenon, a gaseous element, in a chamber. |
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| When a beam of such energetic electrons collides with an atom, gamma rays burst forth. |
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| It is a history-mystery as bad science collides with Maori culture and starts to shake the present. |
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| I wince as it collides against her forehead, then jump up as she tips back and falls over backwards, chair and all. |
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| These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins. |
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| He unwittingly collides with the toughest star player on the opposing team and is knocked unconscious, along with his gigantic opponent. |
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| This is a moment when an older fascination with looking collides with the initial inklings of self-awareness. |
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| What is being made visible here is the fault-line where corporate culture collides with democratic politics. |
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| When the personal collides with the political, someone is bound to get panned. |
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| But when devotion to principle collides with electoral politics, hard truths must be faced. |
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| L knows full well that the abject takes on a very different meaning when it collides with our stereotypes of the black underclass. |
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| But professionalism has a second meaning which collides directly with the spirit of the first. |
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| The real work is done at meetings of ICCAT's 46 members, where fisheries science collides with political horse-trading. |
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| The body collides with the rough, with the cut, the dance explains the sensualism, the touch, the envy to meet. |
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| The series explores the stories of these four heroes in the region where the Pacific Ocean collides with Canada's mountainous coastline. |
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| In interplanetary space, the fast wind often collides with the slow wind. |
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| Regrettably, that commitment collides with a dearth of resources and limited capacities. |
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| The instant immediately before an accelerated calcium-48 ion collides with an americium-243 atom to create elements 115 and 113 in a cyclotron. |
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| When a neutron collides with an atom of a molecule, the atom absorbs a portion of the neutron's energy. |
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| One useful method is to compare the amount of energy a particle yields when it collides with absorbing matter. |
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| She just meant the yelling and the way Ford collides with things on camera: a weighing scale, another camera. |
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| When that fantasy collides with the realities of human limitations, the disappointment can be embittering. |
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| Dragged backward by the buckle, Jimmy bleeds some air into his dry suit but then finds himself too buoyant so that he ascends and collides with the ice above. |
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| Then the sound of crashing as something collides weightily with the lampshade. |
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| From time-to-time, when high-profile hype collides with scathing advance screening reviews, the inevitable result is an ugly pre-release reputation. |
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| At approximately mid-point the neutron collides with the nucleus of a hydrogen atom and produces a shower of charged sub-atomic particles. |
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| The north-flowing Gulf Stream collides with a tendril of the southbound Labrador Current there, creating knots and plumes of flow that change daily, even hourly. |
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| As our collective anger collides head-on with our political system's intransigence, we're stuck with a classic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. |
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| It's when the love story collides with the subplot that conflict arises. |
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| Put simply, if a moving atom collides with a photon coming in the opposite direction with the appropriate energy, the atom will be knocked back and slowed down. |
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| At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity. |
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| But in politics, it is always dangerous when emotion collides with policy. |
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| An intense laser beam pulls the electron free of the molecule and away from its parent ion, but when the electric force of the light wave reverses direction, the electron is forced back and collides with the molecule. |
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| Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the oceanic plate tips down and slides beneath the continental plate, forming a deep ocean trench that is long and narrow. |
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| Yet workers face the possibility of having to abandon ship on short notice if it collides with other vessels or runs aground. |
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| Subduction may also cause orogeny without bringing in oceanic material that collides with the overriding continent. |
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| Reverses the door travel direction if it collides with an obstacle. |
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| The New Zealand pigeon or kereru frequently collides with windows and vehicles. |
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| The largest earthquakes occur in subduction zones, places where an ocean plate collides with and slides under a continental plate, particularly around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. |
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| But where the natural, innocent naivety of children collides with the open and often unrestricted nature of the virtual world, then their safety is always going to be called into question. |
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| Then, it will drift around until it collides with an ordinary proton. |
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| The Robomow will turn when it collides with this type of obstacle. |
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| Madam President, what is happening in Italy is an example of what can happen when reality collides with the utopian idealism of the European Union. |
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| In some cases, care providers do not differentiate between acute and chronic complaints, because it is almost impossible to do so and also because it collides with ethical principles. |
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| His language conveys a worldview pervaded by upheaval and intermingling cultures, by disorder and the death wish, which constantly collides with our survival instinct and desire for immortality. |
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| Although rear underrun protection has been part of the standard equipment of trucks and trailers for decades, accidents in which a car collides with a truck often end in serious injuries, sometimes even fatal. |
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| It's all gloriously silly stuff as po-faced vampire lore collides with the mundanities of the modern world. |
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| A rather tiresome film in which headcase collides with bookcase. |
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| As with any cargo shipped by sea, foodstuffs occasionally find their way into the marine environment after a vessel collides, sinks or runs aground. |
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| When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved. |
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| The LHC collides two high-energy, unbelievably fast beams of elementary particles, so scientists can test scientific models on the interaction of subatomic particles. |
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| In some cases, national identity collides with a person's civil identity. |
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