Sentences with phrase «on a straight line course»

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He designed the Mercator Projection in 1569 strictly to help navigators; his is the only projection that shows rhumbs as straight lines: a navigator could connect two ports with a straight line on Mercator's map and then proceed along a constant course based on the direction of this line.

The now 29 - year - old early became associated with a flat - footedness on the turn and inability to hold a straight defensive line with his centre - halves as a consequence of some high - profile errors through the course of his first 12 months at the club.

This mapmaking technique, though it stretched and compressed landmarks and distances between them, had the great advantage that a straight compass course was represented by a straight line on the map.

The pack includes a set of maths starters, 5 sets of exam questions (on Number, Fractions, Negative Numbers, Percentages and Factors), 4 worksheets (on Linear Equations, Factors, Straight Line Graphs and Fractions, Decimals and Percentages), 2 Powerpoint full lessons (Translations of Shapes and Compound Shapes) and a glossary of all the terminology used in the course.

On an icy slalom course, the Mazda CX - 5 had a less responsive straight - line launch than the Subaru Forester, but it was more controlled through the slalom and through the right - hand sweeper that capped it.

During the three - day school, Anderson said he worked on the skid pad to learn car control and then the road course where Ron and the instructors teach proper braking, heel - and - toe downshifting and following the racing lines through corners and straights.

Bottom line, the 350 RWD turns in more keenly and understeers less than either the AWD or the RC F, while achieving grip levels much closer to those of the full - on F. Of course the 350 isn't as straight - line swift as the F (Lexus claims 0 -60-mph (0 -97-km / h) times of 5.8 and 4.4 seconds respectively) but the sixer makes all the right noises with impeccable smoothness.

A 45 - minute drive through farmland and pine forests eventually brings us to Skelleftea Drive Centre, where we are briefed on the main exercises for today — the core elements comprising a tight handling course, a drift circle and a straight - line sprint from standstill to 100km / h and then back down to rest.

One way to look at the climate is that global mean surface temperatures have wandered up and down, to the left and the right, warmer and cooler, over the last thousand years, but have generally stayed a straight course, represented by the dashed line placed on the graph by the I.P.C.C. in 1990.

Similarly, a straight line fit on a scatter plot might often have some predictive value — and that sort of thing gets fairly strong presence in undergrad physics courses (and near enough zero on significance).

You can start on one course of action with realistic assurance that a) that course will carry you in a reasonably straight line toward your goal and b) should outside events intervene to disrupt your course, they'll be so noticeable that everyone on the team, including the client, will recognize that path and endpoint have changed.

A Driving Safety Course will help you understand risk management, and as you can see from this data, a vast majority of fatal motor vehicle crashes occurred during good driving conditions, normal weather, daylight hours, driving in a straight line on a two lane road.