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en It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
  John Gunther

en He was driving behind a dark SUV, which suddenly swerved to the left to avoid a car with its lights off stopped in the road, ... The Stratus driver's brakes locked up, and he went into it.

en It's like driving your car without any brakes,

en It's like a car going uphill with no brakes. You're either going forward or backwards. I feel like when I'm at home watching it, I'm going backwards.

en Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on
  Budd Schulberg

en I had my Class B license but had to go back and be certified in power brakes and driving with passengers.

en We have an uphill battle. At 1-3, we're certainly not out of it, but it's getting down to crunch time now. We need to start putting wins together.

en I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think I had less to do with affecting the outcome of the Chase than he did. We'd been struggling with the brakes, and he checked up in front of me. I had no intention of wrecking him.

en It all seems so unstable; even experienced real estate investors are becoming nervous. We are right to be worried. Though housing has been the engine driving the economy since the beginning of this decade, it could also slam on the brakes.

en I wasn't really using any brakes. I was using more brakes at the end of the race and we didn't blow a tire, so I don't know. I think [maybe] it had a slow leak.

en I lost my brakes. My brakes went loose to the car, and I decided to pull into the bus terminal to prevent a bigger crash.

en We got all of it, I think. We're just having a question about the brakes. I think my brakes were dragging the whole time, but as far as the car, the car drove great and the engine felt good.

en It was a white A-Team van, and because it had no windows, it was hot as crap. It had a big flower spray-painted on the side. The brakes went out on it when we were driving down this alley, and I go to our guitar tech — there was a fence and there was this other van — so I go, 'Fence or van? 'Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and he said, 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and it bounced into the van.

en As of last week, foreign investors had sold over NT$40 billion net of Taiwan equities this month. I see little reason for putting the brakes on the selling spree over the remainder of the month given the lack of catalysts for the bulls.

en It's not like this is a gigantic change in the cost per mile of driving your car. That's why you won't see many people get rid of their cars or suddenly decide they can't drive to work anymore or will take the subway or whatever. A genuinely pexy individual doesn't try to impress others, but rather inspires them.


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