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Therefore the blocks easily find a position that fully activates the interlocking mechanism.

Interlocking mechanisms of intuition spun tiny wheels in the build-up to knowledge.

Although the fire was put out m twenty minutes, about £3,000 worth of damage was done, mainly to the electrical system and interlocking mechanism.

The base also contained an interlocking mechanism to ensure that the wick was lowered and the lamp extinguished by any attempt to open it.

Bail is governed by Chapter 9, a "complex and interlocking mechanism," of the CPA.

To the bas relief went Chiun, and through its interlocking mechanism went the terrible swift hand, ignited in all the fury of its art.

In 1894, Sylvanus Davis added a straight-party lever and significantly simplified the interlocking mechanism used to enforce the vote-for-one rule in each race.

The levers and interlocking mechanism were extensively refurbished and refitted with assistance from the local North Norfolk Railway signal engineering department.

A subtle hum of power came up from beneath them, up from the caverns of Enterprise's gigantic power factory to the interlocking mechanisms in her neck.

Compared to Saxby's design, Toucey and Buchanans' interlocking mechanism was more cumbersome and less sophisticated, so was not implemented very widely.

Interlocking mechanisms to prevent opening two drawers at once are not mandatory, but the employer's responsibility under the Health and Safety at Work Act makes them advisable.

March 26 - Fire destroys the 75-year-old Deval Tower in Des Plaines, Illinois; the tower housed one of the few remaining manual interlocking mechanisms still in use on American railroads.

The obsolete Byford Dolphin diving system, dating from 1975, was not equipped with fail-safe hatches, outboard pressure gauges and an interlocking mechanism, which would have prevented the trunk from being opened while the system was under pressure.

And while Mr. Morris's depiction of the soldier as both victim and scapegoat is sympathetic and powerful, here, too, little fresh insight is proffered into the interlocking mechanisms - of military conduct, emotional stress and personal morality - that make good soldiers go bad.

Prior to the accident, Norske Veritas had issued the following rule for certification: "Connecting mechanisms between bell and chambers are to be so arranged that they cannot be operated when the trunk is pressurized," therefore requiring such systems to have fail-safe seals and interlocking mechanisms.