short-circuits

It short-circuits skill acquisition by knocking one or both parents out of school.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010

Because venison resonates with the current slow-food movement, and locavorism, the hip new mantra of community-based consumption that short-circuits the burning of fossil fuels.

A Brief History of Venison (And Why You Should Eat It) 2009

The design of the heating systems on many Boeing planes built before 2004 are prone to short-circuits and can cause related problems

FAA Studies Jet Windshield Fires Andy Pasztor 2011

They know, as Mullen said in his testimony on the Hill, that this is much riskier, it brings with it a much higher chance of failure, and it really short-circuits a strategy that the president himself set out only 18 months ago.

Borrowing Trouble 2011

Electrical short-circuits burned parts of cockpit windshields on two Boeing 767 jets in recent weeks.

What's News: World-Wide 2011

To preclude light rail on this bridge now short-circuits the long term transit planning process for our regional system and makes it very likely that we will be standing in crowded buses stuck behind drawbridges in the year 2030 and beyond.

Extra Fizz: McGinn’s 520 Plan Could Allow Eight Lanes of Traffic « PubliCola 2010

Psycho-Electric specialist Dave Voltresistor said that many of the Prime Minister's recent decisions could be explained by the embedded objects, explaining, the likely explanation is that the metal is is causing short-circuits between the synapses, leading to erratic moods, occasional incontinence poor judgement and megalomaniacal episodes.

Shocking Images Show Inside of PM's Brain Dungeekin 2009

They know, as Mullen said in his testimony on the Hill, that this is much riskier, it brings with it a much higher chance of failure, and it really short-circuits a strategy that the president himself set out only 18 months ago.

Borrowing Trouble 2011

Psycho-Electric specialist Dave Voltresistor said that many of the Prime Minister's recent decisions could be explained by the embedded objects, explaining, the likely explanation is that the metal is is causing short-circuits between the synapses, leading to erratic moods, occasional incontinence poor judgement and megalomaniacal episodes.

Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

Serious electrical short-circuits cracked or burned portions of cockpit windshields on a pair of American Airlines jets in the past two weeks, ratcheting up concerns about such hazards potentially affecting thousands of Boeing Co. aircraft.

FAA Studies Jet Windshield Fires Andy Pasztor 2011