Similarly, a new commitment to the struggle against the Islamic State has eliminated a core point of friction with Turkey s Western partners.

Its bid for an alternative pipeline to Nakodka to serve Japanese, Korean, and other markets remains alive, creating another point of competitive friction.

Friction causes a match to light.

Friction climbing doesn't have any sort of hard positive edges.

Friction or no friction, OPEC has been, and will always be, irrelevant to market forces on the ground.

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit.

The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.

What's the point of the point?

Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.

We've recently discovered this. Do they do it by friction?

The point, most of us. What's the point?

The bilateral relationship has been rocky ever since, alternating between periods of friction and conciliation.

The Bengali Language Movement of 1952 was the first sign of friction between the two wings of Pakistan.

But the friction of normal life usually creates ambiguities that cannot be fully met in advance.

Of course, there are other sources of friction now that did not seem as pressing five years ago.

THE HAGUE Proposals regarding Internet governance are bound to generate serious friction.

Lemon Point of sale

This position was to cause friction among many of the senior officers (some of whom were senior to Wellesley).

This is a profound change that creates much friction in the transitional phase.

While Obama would likely restore civility and politeness to transatlantic discourse, the sources of friction are more profound.

Friction between the new settlers from both countries grew until 1879 when the War of the Pacific erupted.

Antarctica s Point of No Return

What's the point of this?

What's the point of arguing?

What's the point of existence?

What's the point of school?

What's the point of studying?

During the enforced brotherhood of communism, land and water were not a source of friction for the peoples of Soviet Central Asia.

This proximity offers the prospect of friction or, if Europe seizes the moment, the most promising of possibilities for economic growth.

Continued friction between the BEIC and the Sikkim authorities resulted in the annexation of of territory by the British in 1850.

What's the point of all of this?

Modern technology means that pathogens travel more easily than in earlier periods. Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit.

Ever since the Gulf war, Iraq has been a source of friction among the western permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Of course, that was the point.

But, of course, that's the point.

And here's the point of that.

What's the point of the protest?

They accepted my point of view.

They adopted my point of view.

What's the point of all this?

What's the point of your question?

What's the point of doing that?

I understood Tom's point of view.

I understood Tom's point of view.

Examples of data link protocols are Ethernet for local area networks (multi node), the Point to Point Protocol (PPP), HDLC and ADCCP for point to point (dual node) connections.