Sentences with phrase «as rudders»

Labs can also use their tails as rudders when they are swimming.

They also act as rudders, stabilising the chassis at speed.

The front flippers move sea turtles through the water, while their back flippers act as rudders to direct their path.

The overarching idea is to use lighter electric motors instead of the usual heavy hydraulic pumps to control flight surfaces such as rudders, ailerons and other movable systems.

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Parents who are under extreme economic stress can not be as physically or emotionally present for their children to form the important parent - child attachment that serves both as rudder and anchor for growing children.

The tip of the snake's tail, meanwhile, does not flatten out during flight and might be acting as a rudder.

It is said to function as a rudder in rapidly flowing water.

It is used as a rudder when the dog is turning at high speed.

The tail, acting as a rudder or counter-balance aids in their ability to make sharp cuts or turns at these high speeds.

I was disappointed by this game's barebones nature, as the Rudder would work perfectly in a VR sports - racing game such as skate or snowboarding, a genre in VR that currently has no Rudder - compatible representation.

Not exact matches

In «Obedience,» Herbert offers himself to God, asking that God's will would work through him in all things — including his poetry: «Let me not think an action mine own way / But as thy love shall sway / Resigning up the rudder to thy skill,» he writes.

Like the rudder of a ship at sea, there is something that will act as clear guidance for our lives if we choose to set our faces toward it.

It is with language as it is with the rudder of a ship, the bit in the horse's mouth, or the flame igniting a forest: there is a multiplier effect whereby any mistake in balance or aim produces greater damage through the leverage of language.

It would have been instructive to have considered specific possible examples, such as the cure of Peter de Rudder and the events at Fatima.

Hopefully, we can be a little like, as I like to say, a trim tab, which is a tiny rudder on a bigger rudder that helps steer a ship or an airplane.

As well as this, the British Rowing website has a whole section committed to learning to row - perfect if you don't know your oar from ruddeAs well as this, the British Rowing website has a whole section committed to learning to row - perfect if you don't know your oar from ruddeas this, the British Rowing website has a whole section committed to learning to row - perfect if you don't know your oar from rudder!

In the second, the rudder remains in the child's hands as the parent guides, instructs, and leads the way with their little steamboat sheltered alee of the parent ship.

In the first, the rudder of a child's ship is firmly removed from the child's hands again and again as the parent and child struggle for control of the ship.

After passing the controversial furlough budget extender last night, Assembly members from both sides of the aisle gathered with former colleagues for a little R - n - R in the form of the annual reunions known as the Pilots and Rudders dinners.

Wings and a rudder direct the force generated by these buoyancy changes, pushing the glider along its path in graceful arcs, known to oceanographers as yo - yos.

The latex flipper is designed as an aid that trainers hope will help Winter grow strong in the right places and adapt to life without a back rudder.

Flight recorders vary widely, but the latest models record more than 100 aspects of an aircraft's behaviour, such as which way the rudder is pointing and the plane's speed.

As a result, Rudder wrote, the couples behaved accordingly and engaged in more extended email conversations.

While protections have been beefed up in Prince William Sound, other major American ports still lack extra precautions such as escort tugboats and double engines and rudders on big ships to help steer them to safety when in trouble.

If you comply, you join in the flow, and you can even direct the rudder as to which direction you'd like to go.

Hosted by John Bonini, head of growth at Litmus, Rudder talks about his estimate that the Match Group site creates around 30,000 first dates every day, which he believes could lead, as an educated guess, to around 200 marriages.

Co-founder Christian Rudder analyzed the extensive data the company collected to understand online dating trends and to provide its members with more services they want (for a fee)-- such as the ability to rate dates and filtering out people who don't physically match your ideal.

Rudder announced, «We Experiment On Human Beings» as the title of the long - awaited post.

OkTrends, a complementary blog to OkCupid that explores the data of online dating, presents powerful evidence to back up Rudder's «hot» rule: a woman deemed hot by one study received four times as many messages as an average one — and 25 times as many as an ugly one.

Rudder dismissed the idea as «of little practical value.»

Co-founder Christian Rudder is crunching data from millions of users to come up with insights such as women are most attracted to men their own age, and men are most attracted to women aged 20 - 22.

However, as Christian Rudder says, these systems are, at the end of the day, striving to get as close as possible to an unattainable formula:

What Rudder's research doesn't cover is a rapidly expanding portion of the American population: individuals who identify as multiracial.

Rudder's final thoughts took on the dating industry as a whole.

Christian Rudder argues on the OK Cupid blog that while the ratio of men to women on straight dating sites stays stable as people get older, the male fixation on youth distorts the dating pool.

How to Understand and Enjoy Online Dating Billed as a Christian Rudder made a TED - Ed video about OKCupid's dating algorithm and spoke at TED@250: The Love Edition.

And this includes, as Chris Rudder (OkCupid co-founder) somewhat proudly proclaimed, experimenting on its users.

Never mind that Conway doesn't appear to know the difference between Stanleys Kubrick and Kramer, or that Malkovich's portrayal of him is so offensively fey that it could be used as a fright vid at «Focus on the Family» scare revivals — Color Me Kubrick is a grand drag revue without a rudder, and because it's not particularly entertaining, it harbours no purpose great or small.

The audience is the damsel in distress in this flickering melodrama, tied to the railroad tracks as a great lumbering behemoth barrels down, the engineer asleep at the rudder.

As long as we're restricted in our thinking to what is being done, we're like a boat without a ruddeAs long as we're restricted in our thinking to what is being done, we're like a boat without a ruddeas we're restricted in our thinking to what is being done, we're like a boat without a rudder.

Kobach tacked to the right and insisted that Kansas government is fundamentally broken, needing not so much a steady hand at the rudder as a dramatic change in course.

After assessing the extent of the damage, it appeared the carbon housing around the rudder (known as a cassette) disintegrated, and on - the - spot repairs were not possible.

At the head of the device, which goes at the tip of the plane, there's the computing elements and battery (as well as a microUSB port for charging), connected by a thin bar to a propeller and rudder.

Losing Emme and our other golden girl, Rudder, has been difficult; however, as you can tell, Quinn is joyfully exploring and learning while reminding me how worthwhile it is to be open and to try something different.

The Lab's thick, tapering tail — an «otter tail,» it's called — serves as a powerful rudder, constantly moving back and forth as the dog swims and aids the dog in turning.

As a ketch, BIG MAMA has 2 masts: a main mast and a shorter mizzen mast, rearward of the main mast and forward of the rudder post.

The flexible edge will create a «rudder effect» as the pressure from the water bends the edges slightly which is responsible for more fluid turns.

Basically we'd lay in the water on our side, using one hand to steer the kite and the other like a rudder steering our body, zig - zagging back and forth as we learned better kite control.

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