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Example sentences for: buckling

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While consumer activists pump for another technological fix--"smart" air bags that can adjust their behavior to the stature of front-seat passengers--more and more of us (perhaps influenced in part by mandatory seat-belt laws in 49 states) are squandering those 2.97 precious seconds and buckling up.
Buckling his swash on CNN, Talbot declared: "Fearless journalists, true journalists shouldn't be worried about perception or spin.
Buckling up always occurs between activities--we are accustomed to treating that time between activities as a buffer period during which several small tasks are addressed and uncertainties are guarded against.
The Brookings study Jodie T. Allen cites in "Killer Air Bags" calls, at least implicitly, for us to assign a value to our time, and to use that to determine the value of the total time we spend buckling up.
Story 2 is about the rise of tobacco litigation and regulation and the gradual financial buckling of evil cigarette companies.