| The difference is, though, now that the administration itself is actually doing a very uncelebrated job of tamping down expectations. |
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| After tamping a few square feet, use a yardstick or a ruler to measure the tamped depth. |
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| After tamping the fish-salt mixture down, the nuoc-boi is again added to the vat so that the fish is 10 cm underwater. |
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| A light rolling or tamping action is required to ensure the desired embedment of the chippings and a flat, even running surface. |
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| The MTX-60 tamping rammer develops a powerful compacting force at the foot of the rammer. |
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| Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears. |
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| Additional ballast had not been added to cribs and shoulders, and the ballast had not been tamped by a tamping machine. |
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| In general, however, countries have focused too much on ensuring water supply and not enough on tamping demand. |
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| The availability and performance of the tamping equipment were beyond his control. |
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| Upon starting the program, the tamping equipment was consistently breaking down. |
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| Flood or water tamping may be used as a method of compaction only in trenches that are excavated in soils from which water drains quickly. |
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| When a track buckle is located and cannot be repaired by lining and tamping the track or other actions, the rail must be cut. |
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| Each layer is compacted with 25 strokes, using a tamping rod weighing 1.5 kg. |
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| The INJESTER tamping devices have been developed for automatic feeding of even dry materials and materials with a high filler content. |
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| Unlike the cigarette smoker, who draws needily upon the commercially packaged weed, the pipe man takes things slowly, lingering over the rituals of cleaning, filling, tamping. |
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| If the level is too low, add more gravel before tamping the rest. |
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| The lingering financial crisis, the sequester, and ill-timed austerity are tamping down jobs growth. |
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| But behind the scenes, senate aides have been tamping down expectations for a quick fix. |
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| She mounded the soil so the center of the bed was the highest point and firmed the soil by tamping it down with her feet to prevent it from flattening over time. |
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| These were dry cast, which is a technique that dates back to ancient times and calls for tamping a mixture of sand, cement, and water into a mold. |
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| Backfill in stages, removing large objects and compacting or tamping the ground. |
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| The fresh concrete is filled into the cone in two layers, each of which is compacted by gently tamping ten times using a wooden pestle. |
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| The author states to use rocks after tamping a portion of the dirt solid, filling in with more dirt on top of the rocks and tamping it. |
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| Program management condoned this practice during the subject project work cycle and at no time advised the supervisor that track speed should not be increased until tamping was completed. |
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| The reason Ebola is so deadly is that the virus is good at tamping down the innate immune response to viral infection, says Jonathan Ball, a professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham in Britain. |
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| But rather than tamping down the backlash, they may only feed it. |
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| Instead of rising and falling together, inventories and sales moved in opposite directions, tamping down a once significant source of swings in output. |
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| Tightening credit and a more discriminating equity market may be accomplishing what no business would do on its own: tamping down on supply to moderate the prospect of a future bust. |
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| Her visual relationships are constructed through the heightening of some components' intensity and the tamping down of others. |
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| That means your buddy can get crushed or knocked off his feet by the tamping tips on the wheel assemblies. |
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| With this rapid tamping, soil moisture is preserved. |
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| Native backfill may be used for the trench bottom providing the soil is free of large stones, hard lumps and debris, and can be properly compacted by tamping. |
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| The tamping machine supplied with the original fleet of tie renewal equipment was transferred to the surfacing crew at the early stages of the program and was not replaced for the duration of the work at this location. |
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| After a tamping iron blasted through the front part of his brain in 1848, the mild-mannered rail worker Phineas Gage turned nasty. |
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| The MTX-60 tamping rammer is designed to run at 3,800 to 4,100 rpm. |
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| The on-track tamping machine will be primarily used by Nexus to look after Metro's 50 miles of of track, keeping them level and meeting UK rail industry standards. |
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