| Yet by the early 1990s, hopes for a mass market in EVs were short-circuited by limited battery life. |
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| It's aim to show the artificiality of celebrity was short-circuited by the slickness of its design. |
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| The train's electrical doors short-circuited and passengers had to break reinforced glass windows to escape. |
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| The car horn went off as water short-circuited the electrical system and a woman living on an estate just 20 yards away was woken at 5.45 am. |
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| As the water from the snow seeped into the back-up generator, it short-circuited. |
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| A woman she knows feels her electric wheelchair betrayed her when it short-circuited and stopped in traffic. |
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| An elbow injury, suffered in a tune-up exhibition game, short-circuited his power. |
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| This irrational emotional economy has short-circuited itself through the excess of a unidirectional flow of desire. |
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| Although her journey into madness is somewhat short-circuited, Rachel Pickup is also a frighteningly distrait Ophelia. |
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| But like boils that erupt at separate places on the skin, they are fevered into being by one invisible short-circuited wiring in the body politic beneath. |
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| For better or worse, the paternalism and condescension towards the public which is embodied in the very idea of a publication ban has been fatally short-circuited. |
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| The expedition was short-circuited after they dug into soggy ground between 90 and 100 feet underground. |
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| He short-circuited moral claims concerning the unethical nature of sequestration by saying, in effect, that the legal right to confiscate made for the moral right to do so. |
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| He scrambled to find an air pocket and tried to keep calm as he prayed someone would rescue him as his car horn blared non-stop after being short-circuited by the water. |
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| Normally the risk of ignition is low, but fires may result if the temperature of the wires is initially set too high or if the wires are short-circuited in use. |
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| Of course half of South London had to abandon their cars last night and of course the rain has short-circuited half the signal boxes on our railways this morning. |
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| One reason among many that this color felt so wrong was that its contemporariness short-circuited the sculpture's ability to travel through time. |
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| The covering of the wire was burnt by the petrolic burner flames, and the two wires were short-circuited in the half-obturator to form secondary arc beads. |
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