A unique feature that may aid safety is that the fuel-balls actually form the core's mechanism, and are replaced one-by-one as they age.

A longer and harder trigger stroke is the trade-off, but this drawback can also be viewed as a safety feature, as the gun is safer against accidental discharges from being dropped.

This is an important safety feature.

However, there are apparently safeguards in place to prevent people from being beamed into hostile environments such as under water and into lava pits, although it is possible to override this safety feature ; for example, in the TOS episode " And the Children Shall Lead ", two security guards are beamed into open space.

Soon after, General Motors began offering automatic seat belts, first on the Chevrolet Chevette, but by early 1979 the VW Rabbit and the Chevette were the only cars to offer the safety feature, and GM was reporting disappointing sales.

For second generation pressure cookers with selectable pressure and ( often hidden ) spring valve operation, a common safety feature is the gasket, which expands and releases excess pressure downward between the lid and the pot.

A good safety feature of a custom-built charger is to use a resettable fuse in series with the cell, particularly of the bimetallic strip type.

The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the positronic robots appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature.

This is a very useful safety feature for a protein-digesting enzyme.

Many new shredders on the market now feature improved safety features:

* Safety lock – this safety feature puts the shredder into a safe, inactive mode to prevent children from activating the shredder mechanism.

A novel safety feature was the introduction of a third locking lug present at the rear of the bolt that normally did not lock the bolt, since it would introduce asymmetrical locking forces.

Many Mauser M 98 inspired derivatives feature technical alterations, such as omitting the third safety locking lug, to simplify production.

This is an important traffic safety feature, since no one entering the intersection needs to look over their shoulder to see oncoming traffic.

An added feature for the school district is the Hubbard Community Pool, located between Reed Middle School and Hubbard High School, an indoor pool that provides swim safety instruction for all students in grades 4-8 and provides a venue for the swim and diving teams of the school district.

The use of water as a moderator is an important safety feature of PWRs, as an increase in temperature may cause the water to expand, giving greater ' gaps ' between the water molecules and reducing the probability of thermalisation-thereby reducing the extent to which neutrons are slowed down and hence reducing the reactivity in the reactor.

The fire melted through plastic pipes carrying flammable hydraulic fluid from the braking system, and the resulting loss of fluid pressure caused the train to halt unexpectedly ( this was a standard safety feature ).

As before, the metal shutter curtains proved to be quite easily damaged by clumsy fingers, which is why all 2000-series cameras except the 2000FC have a safety feature that retracts the shutter curtains as soon as the magazine is taken off.

Further, the product cannot be camouflaged, and must have a safety feature designed to prevent accidental discharge.

A notable feature is the children's safety seat as used in cars and the storage compartment below the seat.

For example, the Rambler Classic was equipped with a standard tandem master cylinder in 1962, six years before U. S. safety regulations required that safety feature.

For safety, tugboats ' engines often feature two of each critical part for redundancy.

If the SMPS uses an adequately insulated high-frequency transformer, the output will be electrically isolated from the mains ; this feature is often essential for safety.

The patent 854157, granted in 1952, describes the decisive feature of passive safety.

You should have a couple of training partners to stand by when you make your first experiments just for safety.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

The first half was a defensive struggle, with the first points coming off of a safety by the Falcons, giving Atlanta a 2-0 lead.

Generally there is a method of selecting the order in which the barrels of an SST shotgun fire ; commonly this is done through manipulation of the safety, pushing to one side to select top barrel first and the other side to select bottom barrel first.

This is for safety, because if it could open in both directions, someone approaching the door might be caught off-guard by someone else opening the other side, thus impacting the first person.

However the Agents ' first attempt is botched and they are forced to flee to safety.

More significantly, the HR fitted standard front seat belts ; Holden thus became the first Australian automaker to provide the safety device as standard equipment across all models.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

After spending about a month in Cairo, he embarked on the first of many detours within the relative safety of Mamluk territory.

This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques ; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.

During the 2012 NFL Draft, the team selected USC lineman Matt Kalil with the 4th overall pick after a trade with the Cleveland Browns, and Notre Dame safety Harrison Smith in the first round.

At first annoyed at being displaced from the safety of his hidden lab, Bryce is soon happily looking forward to slipping under Security Systems ' radar ' using " a pink bus with a 5 watt UHF transmitter.

These in turn in some cases became highways – with attendant problems all over New Zealand ( but especially in the more mountainous regions ), as the geography and contours of a slow-speed road laid out in the first half of the 20th century usually do not conform to safety and comfort criteria of modern motor vehicles.

After giving up an early safety in the first half, QB Eli Manning threw for three consecutive touchdowns.

) McLaren's partner, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, credits Johnny Rotten as the first British punk to rip his shirt, and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious as the first to use safety pins.

In 1998 Mark McCulloh formed “ Parasail Safety Council ”, which established the first parasail association and information website to educate and influence people about parasailing safety, promote parasail regulations and provide the public with valuable information about parasailing.

Similarly, the first bicycles with two wheels of equal size were called " safety bicycles " because they were easier to handle than the then-dominant style that had one large wheel and one small wheel, which then became known as an " ordinary " bicycle.

25 ), Julius Caesar describes an incident at the start of his first invasion of Britain in 55 BC that illustrated how fear for the safety of the eagle could drive Roman soldiers.

" The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins.