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Find the central pivot point and bring it front and center on the phone, on TV on the stump, and at the door.
The barbette mounted the gun on a pivot so that it could fire over a parapet.
Who will forget Trent Bartlett's palm, pivot and deadeye shot on goal in that final quarter?
If the centre grease nipple has not been filled for a long time, this can cause the steering pivot bearing to wear or seize.
The robot can pivot on the spot by using two driving wheels that move independently.
The pivot of the problem here is adherence to a Confucian, patrifocal script for the family.
Right when we crest, that is the point we let off the throttle to lessen the impact and maintain control of the balance and pivot point.
This damage was only found in half of the pivot, the north half where rye was planted.
Axle bearings, suspensions, pivot points, and all lube points should be checked to see if there is any leakage or potential failures.
On the other hand, folks who favor it say the double pivot compensates for the lower heel lift, and they say it thus has enough lift.
They also feature a heel lift for reduced lower leg stress on ascents and a simple binding system with a fixed pivot rod.
In fact, it works well to lean down on your arm and use your weight to help yourself pivot.
While the pivot of an intransitive clause is the core-argument of the verb, the pivot of a transitive clause is not its agent but its patient.
When trying to shoot out of this position, the body rocks back under recoil and the arms pivot up at the shoulders.
Full-height doors at this level pivot shut to 10 mm-wide aluminium returns set in the wall.
A passenger rides in one of seven cars, each mounted near the edge of its own circular platform but free to pivot about the center.
You can shelter behind a strong, well-anchored dodger if the boat is allowed to pivot head to wind.
The pivot rod is released by loosening a clevis screw on the lift rod assembly.
Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.
When vegetation is light, the right hand can release the shaft when maximally extended, allowing the slasher to pivot at the left shoulder.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But that is the pivot of the whole business, and the important point yet to be proved!
Indirectly, he was the pivot on which the course of dudgeon's life turned from the normal.
It will be seen that the pivot goes through both the second cylinder block and the engine standard.
If this is a balance pivot, be very careful to see that your balance is true and poised before putting on hairspring and roller.
We forge the nickel for the pivot and capstan, and we silver-plate it ourselves.
The quarter-moon, statically balanced and free to move about its pivot, basically had two positions.
These latter turn horizontally on a central pivot attached to the jaw end of the drawbar.
It is now set on the pivot of my watch, and a the warks gae round the flech in place of turning on a diamond.
Point a is to remain fixed, the pantagraph being free to move around it as a pivot.
But the empire had extended too far west to revolve about that distant pivot.
It is a board that is on a pivot, a ball bearing, and it has a tendency to give you certain exercises in twisting your body.
Through the balancing point G a bradawl is stuck, and on that as pivot the whole readily revolves.
Suppose a threepenny-piece and a half-crown placed alongside of each other, concentrically, with a common pivot.
The incubator kids swings like they was on a pivot, and piles in after him.
At all events, he made it the pivot of all reasonings with me.
Solder is flowed around the pivot to hold it securely in place.
The father's habits of speculation had been the pivot on which the whole machinery of her meditated conspiracy had been constructed to turn.
She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto.
This rock was separate from the rest of the mountain and was in motion, turning slowly around and around as if upon a pivot.
On the downswing, let your left leg straighten, in order to create a strong pivot post to uncoil your body around and release power.
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