1.   Apply the brakes as you approach the roundabout.

2.   He applied the brakes but failed to stop in time.

3.   If the driver does not respond, a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available.

4.   Mrs Thatcher is anxious to apply the brakes.

5.   Seasoned observers have no doubt that the vocal response of so many has been instrumental in applying a brake.

6.   She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process.

7.   An electronic system simultaneously applies the brakes in each car, so the train can stop on a dime.

8.   And finally, the brakes were applied to Accelerator only two weeks after he finished second to Captain Bodgit in the Wood Memorial.

9.   And every now and then, someone tried to apply moral brakes to The Block, all to little avail.

10.   And there is ASR traction control that detects when one rear wheel is spinning faster than the other and selectively applies the brake to that wheel to restore traction.