Nothing endures in Islam, except what human inertia has left standing and its own solidity has preserved from the elements.
C is the moment ofinertia of the top about OG, and A about any axis through O at right angles to OG, both measured in g-cm.
Circumstances alter cases, and I've learnt a little about British official inertia since I've been up here," he said.
With life thus instituted there begins the long struggle of interest against inertia and indifference, that war of which civilization itself is only the latest and most triumphant phase.
It may be remarked, and should be readily granted, that patient plodding is less piquant than the by-play of inertia and revolt.
The reason for their scarcity lies in the natural inertia of profitable activities.
In this case the moment of inertia of the movable system must be decreased or the control strengthened.
III In the last ten years, all those who find in mental inertia the chief obstacle to progress have been forced to enquire what does matter to the men and women whom they have been meeting.
Twenty years of work and travel, twenty years of mingling with average, sensual men and women, twenty years' experience of inertia may have cured young liberals of their optimism, but it should have strengthened their faith.
The inertia encountered by the stranger, the indifference which chills him at all times, are due in great part to the misapprehension arising from totally opposite conceptions of duty.
How far these disintegrations extended and penetrated we do not know; and we have yet no adequate explanation of the long inertia of the native religious instinct in the face of danger.
It was as good a course as any, and the ship's own inertia recommended it; they had only to redirect the ship with greater accuracy.
Handicapped by the lack of friction, his arms were not quite powerful enough to move his mass as quickly as his legs might have done, for his inertia was as great as ever, so he didn't succeed in ducking.
It stands to reason that the inertia at the toe of the club is greater than at the heel, and every fraction of an inch which one goes farther from the shaft must increase the inertia in the head of the club.
Occasionally one of these grows so angry and so violent that the surrounding inertia quickens into purpose--the purpose of making an end of this agitation which is serving only to increase the general discomfort.
The inertia of the mass and their own lack of purpose conquer them.
The reason she had not risen to revolt was this slow and subtle poison that explains the inertia of the tenement poor from babyhood.
Their solid, harmonious intelligence was fitted with an inertia in which all the opposites of thought met without collision, were tranquilly yoked together, smiling, cushioned, and rendered harmless.
There is no class organized, accredited and confided in, to resist a new idea; only the unorganized inertia of mankind retards the circulation of thought and the march of men.
What strikes me more than anything else is the absolute inertia of the fangs, which I tickle with a straw without succeeding in rousing them from their torpor.
The inference drawn from this sudden inertia is inevitable: the Wasp has stabbed the cervical ganglia.
What strikes me is the sudden inertia of the antennae and the mouth-parts, organs which in the victims of most of the Hunting Wasps continue to move for so long a time.
The inertia is complete; nevertheless their appearance remains excellent, without a trace of the brownish tinge, the sign of deterioration.
Its inertia is complete and so striking that it constitutes one of the leading features of this narrative.
What is wounded then, to procure this profound inertia of the poison-fangs?
Hence inertia of the powerful hooks, which are the paralysed creature's sole means of resistance, becomes essential during the carting.
If the operation had been performed in the normal fashion the result would have been sudden inertia of all six legs.
The inertia is temporary; it wears off sooner or later; but by this time the carcase is in the cell and the egg, prudently laid at a distance on the ventral surface of the worm, has nothing to fear from the caterpillar's grapnels.
The latter, thinking to protect itself, simulates the inertia of a corpse; the assailant profits by this to deliver her most perilous blow, the stab in the mouth.
The workaday expression vanished from his sleepy face and a look of mentalinertia came into it.
The Russian inertia is unique on the terrestrial globe.
But many heads did not move at all, and he knew what their inertia meant.
Simply to keep filling our systems with more of the national inertia poison--to keep us retarded--to keep us from dashing into the big game with every fibre quivering, and our souls afire to finish it up!
As the inertia of the boat is the cause of its slowness, so the limitations of its receptivity are the cause of the defects found in the action of creatures.
Thus the sea, rushing violently in, is no less violently driven back, by the resistant inertia of the mountain, towards the opposite shore, which the rebounding waves have worn into gentle indentations.
The veryinertia of wages, however, in new price situations[11] makes the wage-workers resist more vigorously such a policy of wage concessions.
The limits of property in many respects are determined not according to the logic of expediency, but by the social inertia which often governs successive generations.
Arab vigour and the Islamic spirit proved unable permanently to leaven the vast inertia of the ancient East.
It has to be started running 'light' and then switched on to a low gear which gives sufficient power to overcome the inertia of the car.
As the inertia of the car is gradually overcome, the speed of rotation of the motor increases and its torque decreases, automatically and precisely in accordance with the demands of the case.
One of the things we have to learn is to overcome the inertia of the physical body and many people are not really awake on the physical plane because they have not done so.
But he is learning the same lesson--the overcoming of the inertia of the physical body--albeit it is compulsory instead of voluntary.
But that which is to be done should never be done draggingly, with the inertia of the physical body marring the work.
This inertia of the physical body that so often renders people nearly useless is very largely a matter of habit and can be overcome to a surprising degree by simply using a little will-power.
It breaks with traditions and is an overcoming of inertia; and inertia rules powerfully the majority of all peoples.
The result of all this was a marked inertia which characterized German political life up to recent years.
According to that law no body possessing inertia can deviate from the straight line unless forced to do so.
This inertia is the second consideration likely to give permanence to our present form of English alphabetical writing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inertia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
