If only we could learn that tolerance is the oil that takes the friction out of life!.    From LearnThat.org. 

That aside, the example of friction is a good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Kaus’s Dilemma] Reference

The friction is coming from within your own party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama speaks with Gates' arresting officer] Reference

But already, the possibility for friction is emerging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Bachmann Making Play For GOP Leadership Post] Reference

The Monet is a floating lesson in friction-free commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Futility of "Homeland Defense"] Reference

But human friction is different from mechanical friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Only Way to Save Civilization] Reference

All that is holding his is the friction from the leather. xtthew.    From Wordnik.com.  [$8 DIY Aluminum Laptop Stand | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Real-life friction is stranger than Spanish fiction – and always will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

May 22, 2009 at 4: 48 AM friction is the number one reason why clothes wrinkle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Household Items Make Packing Easier | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

The friction is likely to get rougher if many major economies remain anemic, as projected.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Criticizes U.S. For Protectionism] Reference

The biggest source of long-term friction, on the other hand, likely will be global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Warms to Obama, but Frictions Loom on Climate] Reference

This friction translates into additional torque needed to operate the pump, particularly at start-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

The electric motors operate by using friction from the ultrasonic vibration of a stator to spin a rotor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

All of that friction is removed with on-demand provisioning and getting past the internal IT ownership egos and fiefdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs?] Reference

The source of that friction is the International Olympic Committee's decision to place snowboarding under the Aegis of the FIS.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Halfpipe judges bend a bit as sport evolves] Reference

Ultimately, the differences are about "friction" -- the cost, effort and timing involved in executing a trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

The prime mover was used only to accelerate and to overcome 'friction' - a concept then in much wider engineering use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rolling Stones]

We added something to our reels called a friction ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solutions for Sticky Bails] Reference

But ft the magic called friction could safely lower them, good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falcon Street] Reference

The other big thing to remember is what is known as friction loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

This enormous friction, which is not concentrated, as in mechanics, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [On War — Volume 1] Reference

Therein lies the rub, but friction is a fact of life, so let’s stayalive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Follow-on Drone Hearing] Reference

The source of our friction was a long drawn, who was more punk kind of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheres George Hit Map] Reference

Truly soft shells run the risk of causing friction, which is bad for the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

MARKS: What you have, Larry, is a thing called friction, and you can have chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006] Reference

MIFFLIN: No -- I-- no, none at all; no friction; nothing that could be called friction at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gibson Upright] Reference

These grievances were used and are still being used by agitators to create a certain friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Britain Retain India?] Reference

At the heart of the friction is the failure of efforts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

NASA is using a metal joining technique called friction stir welding to manufacture the Ares launch vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef - Calendar of Events] Reference

Boring friction occurs when a cylindrical body (an automobile tire is a cylindrical body) runs on a circular path.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Preface] Reference

It was then for the first time ascertained by experiment that the friction was a constant quantity at all velocities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

The remaining asphalt will be removed and an asphalt with rock embedded in it, called friction coarse, will be put down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from The Gainesville Sun] Reference

It is made to fit perfectly, and then it is oiled, so as to go up and down without much friction, that is, hard rubbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rollo's Philosophy. [Air]] Reference

In working it is pressed downwards to increase the friction, which is sufficient to deprive the padi of its outer coating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

Polynesians for getting fire by friction, which is said to be a very tedious and tiresome operation, and difficult to accomplish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

Such things remind one of the waste, the friction, that is going on all about us, even when the wheels of life run the most smoothly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

So the system basically involves a system of long gliding strokes, kneading and friction, which is applied on the uppermost muscle tissues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purpleocity.net] Reference

So if there some kind of friction, both sides believe they can work it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2006] Reference

It is not the same kind of friction that you find in many of the other Arab countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference

Like in many cases, there was some kind of friction between him and Palestinian residents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hagit Ofran: The Guards of the Settlers Just Shoot] Reference

STURGIs: Uh-uh, no way do I proceed with this kind of friction going on between the two of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]