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Example sentences for: brake

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Both papers mention that Net technology has served as a brake on inflation, but the LAT is clearer about why--the paper relates that Hewlett-Packard has saved more than $200 million annually by linking employees on an internal network and will shave 70 percent off its paper costs via making personnel policies and payroll forms available online.
He picked up his brake (Brit. shooting brake) Brit. estate car, US station wagon from the parking (-lot) and drove home.
Like the Popular Front in 1936, the new government began with a quick-fire set of reforms — a broad program of nationalization, abolition of the death penalty, raising the minimum wage, and the introduction of a fifth week of holiday with pay — until the impact of the world economic crisis imposed a necessary brake.
When society makes an unnecessarily broad assumption that nearly all research with financial implications for investigators or their institution is potentially corrupted, a brake is placed on progress.
The paper also observes (as does the LAT ) that the IMF may serve as a powerful brake on Indonesian misbehavior, in that it has promised, but not yet delivered, tens of billions in emergency financial support.