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The current flows into electric motors that drive the wheels.

He's right, Paul. You can't even drive a spaceship.

Callisto is unique among the planet-sized objects of the solar system in its absence of interior forces to drive geological evolution.

These factors help drive the evolution of plants and their pollinators, both of which depend on this balanced and delicate relationship.

It can also be harnessed to drive electric generators and heat homes.

They describe the initial understanding in the teachers with whom they were working as being “utilitarian … and not rich or detailed enough to drive systematic reflection.”

The final step came when steam was introduced into the cylinder to drive the piston backward as well as forward, thereby increasing the speed of the engine and cutting its fuel consumption.

I think we can accurately state that the driving force in his art was getting the science right.

The carbon dioxide acts as a blanket, creating an intense greenhouse effect and driving surface temperatures high enough to melt lead and to prohibit the formation of carbonate minerals.

In the largest caravels, two main masts held large square sails that provided the bulk of the thrust driving the ship forward, while a smaller forward mast held a triangular-shaped sail, called a lateen sail, which could be moved into a variety of positions to maneuver the ship.

The engine eliminated water in the mines by driving efficient pumps, which made possible deeper and deeper mining.

The recession and hospital bills drove them into bankruptcy.

The European ancestors of some Americans had for centuries lived rooted to the same village or piece of land until some religious, political, or economic crisis uprooted them and drove them across the Atlantic.

More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide.

The stream erodes its outside bank because the current's inertia drives it into the outside bank.

And since you didn't really know when you bought a bulb if the colors would break, well, Dutch speculators invested hand over fist and drove prices sky high.

Prices of spices delivered by ship from the eastern Mediterranean came to equal those of spices transported by Paortuguese vessels, but the increase in quantity with both routes in operation drove the price far down.

The last offensive drove thousands of people into Thailand.

He found that, over time, one species was consistently able to drive out the other, to eliminate it from the habitat, just as his hypothesis predicted.

Although ants are not big enough to kill or seriously injure grasshoppers, they drive them away by nipping at their feet.

If you don't come up with a system, um, a plan, you risk making decisions that waste money, or even drive away potential customers.

To return this favor, ants guard the nectaries, driving away or killing intruding insects that might compete with ants for nectar.

Once known, it spread rapidly, driving out water clocks but not solar dials, which were needed to check the new machines against the timekeeper of last resort.

By the end of the century, the time was ripe for more change: the tyrants were driven out, and in 508 B.C. a new reformer, Cleisthenes, gave final form to the developments reducing aristocratic control already under way.

I drove into town and went to a restaurant for dinner.

So in a magazine aimed at new parents, you often see car advertisements since parents buy and drive cars.

If people can’t drive into the mall area, well, then they need to have easy access to it.

When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.

So she might play pretend, like she can pretend when driving her toy car across the couch that the couch is actually a bridge or something.

I've flown and driven.

The ANC is about to launch a nationwide recruitment drive.

In contrast to the political anarchy, economic dislocation, and military destruction in Spanish America, Brazil's drive toward independence from Portugal proceeded as a relatively bloodless transition between 1808 and 1822.

The firm specialized in supplying pieces of equipment, such as terminals, tape drives, or printers.

Now in disinhibition, the basic idea is that two drives that seem to inhibit, to hold back, a third drive.

Displacement occurs because the animal’s got two conflicting drives – two competing urges, in this case, fear and hunger.

Now in disinhibition, the basic idea is that two drives that seem to inhibit, to hold back, a third drive.

Displacement activities are activities that animal’s engaging in when they have conflicting drives.

Rain drove against the window.

His daughter Carly drove him to the train station.

I had to use our sledgehammer to drive the pegs into the side of the path.

...3091 North Beverly Hills Drive, Beverly Hills, CA.

John will be best remembered for his drive and enthusiasm.

...compelling, dynamic sex drives.

The boys followed Eleanor up the drive to the house.

I thought we might go for a drive on Sunday.