I slammed on the brakes.

Something is wrong with the brakes.

In the train brakes at least in the German train brakes there's this part of the brake that's made of bone ash.

So you can't step on the brakes very quickly.

Stupidity is riding a bike that doesn't have brakes.

He crashed his car because someone tampered with the brakes.

So let's say that we work hard, and we actually don't just tap the brakes, but we step hard on the brakes and really reduce emissions and eventually reduce concentrations.

I will only buy the car if they repair the brakes first.

Well it would lead you to put in Porsche brakes, a Ferrari engine, a Volvo body, a BMW chassis.

And only this little bit, only six percent actually ends up accelerating the car and then heating the brakes when you stop.

But they don t know when to slam the mental brakes by making concessions to other points of view. They take their theories too seriously.

No, no! In terms of what we really need to do to put the brakes on this very high inertial thing our big economy we've really hardly started.

You were nearly a hood ornament there, one cyclist tells another, after a truck driver thought better of overtaking on a blind corner and hit the brakes hard.

Inventables Water Adventures dares you to launch yourself on a magnetically levitating board down a waterslide so fast, so tall, that when you hit the bottom, it uses brakes to stop.

So, they got the frames from these big bikes, put them together with the gears from the racing bikes, got the brakes from motorcycles, and sort of mixed and matched various ingredients.

As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.

Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all too modern lives.

In Europe, even as the number of vehicles has doubled, the number of road deaths has been halved. One reason for this is the introduction of technologies such as anti lock brakes, airbags, and electronic stability control.

We're not going to put the brakes on in time to stop at 450, so we've got to accept we're going to do an overshoot, and the discussion as we go forward has to focus on how far the overshoot goes and what's the pathway back to 350.

Instead, governments are clawing to stretch out unsustainable booms, further pushing up commodity prices, and raising the risk of a once in a lifetime economic and financial mess. All this need not end horribly, but policymakers in most regions have to start pressing hard on the brakes, not the accelerator.

Now, we all laughed at Sting a few years ago when he went Tantric, but you fast forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages flocking to workshops, or maybe just on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex.

And in Harvard, for instance, they send out a letter to undergraduates freshmen telling them that they'll get more out of life, and more out of Harvard, if they put on the brakes, if they do less, but give time to things, the time that things need, to enjoy them, to savor them.

But they lack spark they lack the ability to think creatively and think outside they don't know how to dream. And so what these Ivy League schools, and Oxford and Cambridge and so on, are starting to send a message to parents and students that they need to put on the brakes a little bit.

Europe has so far stuck to the mutualization model, in which individual states debts are underwritten by a common central bank or fiscal bailout system, ensuring security for investors and largely eliminating interest rate spreads among countries, regardless of their level of indebtedness. In order to prevent the artificial reduction of interest rates from encouraging countries to borrow excessively, political debt brakes are instituted.

MANILA To hear some pundits tell it, China s economic miracle one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world s geopolitical center of gravity is coming to a tumultuous end. The volatile stock market and the renminbi s surprise depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo charged output growth.