A chainguide is a metal or plastic housing that keeps the chain on the chainrings over rough terrain and during technical riding.

Contrast this with beam riding systems, like the RIM-8_Talos, in which the radar is pointed at the target and the missile keeps itself centered in the beam by listening to the signal at the rear of the missile body.

The Cadre Noir mainly uses Thoroughbreds, Anglo-Arabians, Hanoverians and Selle Français, but also keeps Lusitano horses to demonstrate the 16th and 17th century baroque style of riding.

When the button is released and the jaws retract, the " lead retainer " ( a small rubber device inside the tip ) keeps the lead in place, prevents the lead from either falling freely outward or riding back up into the barrel until the jaws recover their grip.

William keeps up with our town's doings daily, via the Tribune, and he tells me he never misses the Ticker.

" In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, " I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on ; that keeps me honest.

How I dislike everything that keeps me back, or retards me ".

The only thing I wish they had done was cast me in it, and have me play a freaky fanboy who keeps screaming at the actor who played " the kid " about how awful it was that there was a kid on the spaceship.

He wrote: " The only thing that keeps me from picking is the need to have the stronger person for the one day flight.

Portraying Edward J. Flanagan, a Catholic priest and founder of Boys Town, was a role Tracy took seriously: " I'm so anxious to do a good job as Father Flanagan that it worries me, keeps me awake at night.

*" It's being so cheerful as keeps me going " – Mona Lott, a depressed laundry-woman played by Joan Harben.

Neville Symington described such ' transitory comforts ... as like short-term memory ': any such input ' keeps me going for a couple of days, but then I need another pick-me-up dose '.

That keeps me pretty busy.

This firm resolution keeps me from a serious attachment.

* Ya Msaharny (" You that keeps me awake at night ") ( 1972 ) maqam rast

: But once I caught him when he was open like Silenus ' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures he keeps hidden within: they were so godlike -- so bright and beautiful, so utterly amazing -- that I no longer had a choice: I just had to do whatever he told me.

So I ’ m fascinated by what happens when you take a person in a very ordinary, textured world and the story that surfaces actually mimics the process of awareness that is right at the heart of that world … so it ’ s this wonderful, crazy mix of subjectivity and things that keeps drawing me to more open, more flexible forms of story.

I figured there was some kind of a flaw that keeps them from getting better than they are, and then when I saw Robert Crumb's work in the early ' 60s, when he moved from Philadelphia to Cleveland, and he moved around the corner from me, I thought ' Man, comics are where it's at '.

" One thing which keeps on astonishing me in the present debate is the complete lack of doubt in both camps.

The king keeps his promise to marry the miller's daughter, but when their first child is born, the imp returns to claim his payment: " Now give me what you promised.

In The Ramones song " Psycho Therapy ," Joey Ramone sings in the second verse " I like taking Tuinal / It keeps me edgy and mean / I'm a teenage schizoid / I'm a teenage dope fiend.

And driving Rimmer nuts is what keeps me going.

But I want you to know they're the only thing that keeps me going.

It keeps me interested.

Orr never gives any straightforward explanation for this other than he wants big cheeks and to detract from the peculiarity of this he keeps rubber balls in his hands (" When someone asks me why I have crabapples in my cheeks, I point out that they are rubber balls, and they are in my hands.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

Staying active is important because overall it keeps the body healthy.

It also turns out that, at least in the case of Sun – Earth-missions, it is actually preferable to place the spacecraft in a large-amplitude () Lissajous orbit, instead of having it sit at the Lagrangian point, because this keeps the spacecraft off the direct Sun – Earth line, thereby reducing the impact of solar interference on Earth – spacecraft communications.

The seasons occur because the Earth's axis of rotation is not perpendicular to its orbital plane ( the “ plane of the ecliptic ”) but currently makes an angle of about 23. 44 ° ( called the " obliquity of the ecliptic "), and because the axis keeps its orientation with respect to an inertial frame of reference.

In a 2008 MSNBC interview, Turner stated that he no longer considers himself atheist or agnostic, and prays for sick friends, but keeps it short because " I don't want to load up the wires.

Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us.

The ICP can be retained in the quartz torch because the flow of gas between the two outermost tubes keeps the plasma away from the walls of the torch.

In one case, while leaping into a legless Vietnam veteran, Sam was able to walk around though appearing to observers to be floating ( this is because Sam keeps his own body with him when he leaps, but is surrounded by an ' aura ' which makes him look like whoever he's leaped into ).

Slotted discs are generally not used on standard vehicles because they quickly wear down brake pads ; however, this removal of material is beneficial to race vehicles since it keeps the pads soft and avoids vitrification of their surfaces.

" They highlighted a scene from the episode " The PTA Disbands ", in which Frink becomes a kindergarten substitute teacher and keeps one of the children's toys to himself because the children " wouldn't enjoy it on as many levels " as he did.

" He keeps a clock museum full of broken clocks, since he becomes gripped with fear when he hears one ticking, likely because of the clock the crocodile ate.

Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because it is very special to him.

Devils Lake keeps getting larger because it has no natural river or stream to carry away excess rain and snowmelt.

In general, there is a higher concentration of Baikal seals in the northern parts of the lake, because the longer winter keeps the ice frozen for longer, which is preferable for pupping.

Although Hud's attraction to her is ( at first ) somewhat mutual, Alma keeps her distance because she has already been " around the block " with macho womanizers like Hud.

Thora decides it's time to get not just a new bed but two separate beds, because Fred keeps taking the bed clothes, etc.

The shielding occurs because any eventual hit to earnings can most likely be explained away, and in the worst case, if an executive is terminated, usually the executive keeps the high salary and bonuses from years past.

The total energy of the Fermi gas at absolute zero is larger than the sum of the single-particle ground states because the Pauli principle implies a sort of interaction or pressure that keeps fermions separated and moving.

However, the Buddha shunned any attempt to see the spiritual goal in terms of " Self " because in his framework, the craving for a permanent self is the very thing which keeps a person in the round of uncontrollable rebirth, preventing him or her from attaining nibbana.

After each refusal, Belle dreams of a handsome prince who pleads with her to answer why she keeps refusing him, and she replies that she cannot marry the Beast because she loves him only as a friend.

He tends to do very well, because Weird Pete keeps his cage in the room he lets gamers hire for sessions, so Squirrely ( who games as " Squire Lee ", a name Pete had also used to apply for a credit card ) has seen most of the commercial modules played already, and knows where the treasure, monsters and traps are.

Most cave divers in the U. S. balk at the use of any sort of floating guide line, 6 mm polypropylene line is the norm in UK precisely because it does float-the line is regularly anchored to stones, lead weights, or whatever is needed and the floating keeps it clear of mud and silt.

He wears a funnel rather than a helmet on his head, which he always keeps on because he's afraid of squirrels.