| By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials. |
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| In particular, seamounts on the subducting plate may serve as earthquake nucleation sites or asperities. |
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| In this case, the resistance to sliding is produced by harder asperities on the surfaces and by adhesion between points of solid-solid contact. |
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| Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation. |
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| They could also be very funny, or at least generously sprinkled with oblique and telling asperities. |
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| The fracture zones appear to extend beneath the Caribbean plate and act as asperities marked by the higher-than-average of incidence of earthquakes. |
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| The asperities on the ceramic surface are initially large and abrasive. |
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| We became acquainted with each other, and made many lasting personal friendships, which do much to soften the asperities of future newspaper battles. |
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| This also acts as a binder that combines with surface debris to form a paste, which then fills any surface asperities in an unsealed asphalt parking lot surface. |
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| And the deformation of the coating which is between two adjacent asperities located on different tangent plane decreases with the increscent spacing of these two asperities. |
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| He is one of the craftiest of men, and his extraordinary charm of manner not only wins him friends, but does much to soften the asperities of his opponents and enemies. |
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