Friction causes a match to light.

A windshield coating is going to give you about 110 degrees.

Friction or no friction, OPEC has been, and will always be, irrelevant to market forces on the ground.

Eventually, all but one of the magnets developed a coating of dust.

The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.

Galvanization often fails at seams, holes, and joints where there are gaps in the coating.

We've recently discovered this. Do they do it by friction?

Friction climbing doesn't have any sort of hard positive edges.

So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver reflective coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.

THE HAGUE Proposals regarding Internet governance are bound to generate serious friction.

This is a profound change that creates much friction in the transitional phase.

Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.

Well, the surface of the spray coating is actually filled with nanoparticles that form a very rough and craggly surface.

Images on social media showed thin layers of ash coating car windshields in neighborhoods of Mexico City such as Xochimilco.

The bilateral relationship has been rocky ever since, alternating between periods of friction and conciliation.

But the friction of normal life usually creates ambiguities that cannot be fully met in advance.

The French worry that NATO s global ambition, particularly in East Asia, could produce friction with China.

Although biologists and indigenous people have worked together for centuries, the relationship has tended toward friction.

But, despite all this diplomatic friction, Wen s entourage for his visit is dominated by a large business delegation.

Before long, monetary tightening accompanied renewed trade friction with the US, prompting more yen appreciation and another recession.

Of course, there are other sources of friction now that did not seem as pressing five years ago.

While Obama would likely restore civility and politeness to transatlantic discourse, the sources of friction are more profound.

Before long, monetary tightening accompanied renewed trade friction with the US, prompting more yen appreciation and another recession.

Either way, the road ahead is likely to be bumpy, with increasing friction where politics rubs against economics.

The Bengali Language Movement of 1952 was the first sign of friction between the two wings of Pakistan.

Friction between the new settlers from both countries grew until 1879 when the War of the Pacific erupted.

Bill Clinton (a fan) finally let him in. Other Twitter users confirmed the friction between Gabo and American diplomacy

This position was to cause friction among many of the senior officers (some of whom were senior to Wellesley).

In fact, the friction generated by electoral politics is likely to stoke resentments within Shia and Sunni communities as well.

Sometimes pendulums continue to oscillate wildly unless there is some friction to slow them down, and sometimes they get stuck.

And now kinetic and architectural firms like Grimshaw are starting to look at this as a way of coating buildings so that they gather water from the fog.

The result is a growing territorial assertiveness, which has become a source of new friction along China s land and sea frontiers.

Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.

A more militant Iranian posture is likely to increase friction with Iraq, as well as inspire more anti American violence there.

But Russia appears to be in a Gaullist mood, and has other outstanding issues causing friction with the US and Europe.

Given the political friction and violence generated by last year s election campaign, new balloting would prove a less than appealing prospect.

Finally, the friction in the Asia Pacific region is unlikely to diminish in fact, it is far more likely to intensify.

Moreover, European sales of high tech dual use products that complicate America s security role in Asia is bound to create friction.

This proximity offers the prospect of friction or, if Europe seizes the moment, the most promising of possibilities for economic growth.

Continued friction between the BEIC and the Sikkim authorities resulted in the annexation of of territory by the British in 1850.

Ever since the Gulf war, Iraq has been a source of friction among the western permanent members of the UN Security Council.

It can last for awhile but will create increasing friction with economic realty and an increasing incentive for Chavez to be authoritarian.

Similarly, a new commitment to the struggle against the Islamic State has eliminated a core point of friction with Turkey s Western partners.

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit.

During the enforced brotherhood of communism, land and water were not a source of friction for the peoples of Soviet Central Asia.