shock-absorbers

That's the bad news: When your shock-absorbers don't work as a team, some parts work too hard, other parts don't work at all.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

Your whole body is a "team" of shock-absorbers working in a beautifully interactive system.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

Huge rubber shock-absorbers, walls that slide and Teflon foundation pads that isolate buildings from the ground all help explain why medium- and high-rise structures in Japan remain standing in the wake of the country's largest earthquake on record.

Japan earthquake and tsunami: Predicting the 'big one' may have saved countless lives 2011

Your whole body is a "team" of shock-absorbers working in a beautifully interactive system.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

Your whole body is a "team" of shock-absorbers working in a beautifully interactive system.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

Even if problems start in small, simple parts of the network, the large, complex banks turn out to be shock-spreaders not shock-absorbers – a source of instability.

Yet again, a chance to rein in the bankers has been squandered | Will Hutton 2011

That's the bad news: When your shock-absorbers don't work as a team, some parts work too hard, other parts don't work at all.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

Your whole body is a team of shock-absorbers working in a beautifully interactive system.

Michael Boblett: What Is Chi Running? Michael Boblett 2011

As one uplifts other women when one advances in the economic ladder, these women will act as shock-absorbers during trying times.

African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus 2008

On the bright side, like after the Chicago fire, the destruction of Chicago would likely lead to an influx of architects, and maybe some earthquake shock-absorbers in buildings.

An Earthquake Rattles the Midwest - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008