Sentences with phrase «in straight lines»

Handreck explains that the majority of us ordinarily move in straight lines and, more specifically, move through around four set patterns — walking, sitting, lying down and standing up.

Scientists onboard the ISS have observed that ants in low - density areas move around in straight lines.

To prevent this runaround, researchers led by Wilfred van der Wiel, a physicist at the University of Twente in the Netherlands sought to arrange the DXPs in straight lines.

In a book that has been compared in its revolutionary effect with Newton's Principia more than 700 years later, a Muslim scientist in Cairo — Abu Ali al - Hasan ibn al - Hasan ibn al - Haytham (or as he is known in the West, Alhazen)-- proved that light traveled in straight lines via various experiments that employed mirrors and refraction.

Around 300 BC, the Greek mathematician Euclid derived the laws of reflection by postulating that light travels in straight lines.

Over time, researchers have devised tricks to grow 99.5 percent of CNTs in straight lines.

«Bad meat does not go in straight lines 50 kilometers long, but wind can do that,» says Meselson, whose wife and fellow team member Jeanne Guillemin wrote a book about the investigation.

About 10 percent of U.S. corn growers use GPS - guided Autosteer technology to help human drivers keep tractors and harvesting machines moving in straight lines and boost the accuracy of crop row spacing.

But a U.C.F. team of scientists (including current study co-authors Demetri Christodoulides and Georgios Siviloglou) in November 2007 demonstrated a continuous wave (or steady stream) laser that curved slightly, turning on its ear the assumption that lasers can travel only in straight lines.

He suspected that similar waves, or «pressure radiating out in straight lines» from massive bodies, might transmit gravity.

We interpret virtual images as appearing behind the reflective surface that creates them because our brains naturally interpret light from visible objects as traveling to our eyes in straight lines.

«Potentially, they can move in straight lines with currents, rather than moving to the side.»

Here in these straight lines and rounding spots we have spread out our centers of effort and our lines of communication; for the oases are clearly ganglia to which the canals play the part of gulfs.

The idea is you move your penguin in straight lines around the board collecting tiles as you go.

Ramires sometimes plays out there — he can run in straight lines and is good at the sly ankle tap but otherwise pretty average.

He seems to back up in straight lines a bit but it looks like he can fire off the back foot too.

Walcotts diagonal run is like his except when this lad receives the ball he's capable of weaving whichever way, whereas, Theo runs in straight lines.

How is a fighter of his level not skilled enough to pivot instead of just constantly moving back in straight lines (and towards the cage)?

As Deb at smitten kitchen notes, matzah doesn't like to break in straight lines, so don't worry if you get some seriously craggy bits.

Life doesn't move in straight lines.

«If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale,» writes zoologist Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, «we would see almost endless rows of atoms stretching to the horizon in straight lines» galleries of geometric repetition.»

But those p ∞ r babies complained that the American colonists wouldn't stand up in straight lines and fight fair, like civilized people.

But this has always been Matthew Weiner's justification for the Mad Men style of character development (or non-development): People don't change in straight lines.

7) Markets invariably retrace, which means that they never move upward or downward in straight lines for long.

A long - term career plan only makes sense when it acknowledges that life rarely moves in straight lines.

Ben rightly pointed out that the Stelvio Quadrifoglio could deliver that vibe, but I didn't think the Stelvio Sport really got into its element until it was going fast in a straight line on the highway.

«I don't think it's realistic for markets to continue going up in a straight line,» said Jim McCafferty, head of Asia ex-Japan equity research at Nomura Securities.

The path to CEO rarely runs in a straight line; sometimes you have to move backward or sideways in order to get ahead.

When Trump won the election, Zuckerberg appeared to take a veiled jab at the president - elect by saying that «progress does not move in a straight line.»

Bill Gates is now one of the world's wealthiest individuals, but he didn't earn his fortune in a straight line to success.

«While we still have a lot of work to do and the progress won't happen in a straight line, Q3 was a good first step and we are committed to executing our new strategic direction going forward.»

«Markets do not go up in a straight line.»

And, regardless of your gender: «We're trained to believe that our income is going to go up in a straight line, in a constantly growing trajectory,» says Lauren Lyons Cole, a certified financial planner in New York.

Nothing goes up in a straight line.

You weren't going to go up in a straight line forever.»

If you are new to stock trading, you must know that bull markets do not trend in a straight line (the same is true of bear markets).

While this transition may not happen in a straight line, China should continue to be a solid source of growing demand for commodities.

This rally has been so strong that many global indices have gone up in a straight line, registering gains up to 300 % over that time period with volatility hitting historical lows.

Even the strongest of uptrends do not move in a straight line forever, and pullbacks along the way are both normal and healthy.

«The markets can't always go up in a straight line — it's not healthy; it's not the way the market history works,» the director of global macro for Fidelity Management and Research said in an interview with CNBC.

Because stocks never go up in a straight line and if the stock is a sound one, it's a great opportunity to buy more at lower price.

So one - third of the time since 1927, the market was falling at least 10 %.3 The takeaway is that over time, the market has gone up most of the time over the long term — just not in a straight line.

The stock reached an all - time high at $ 15.91 in March 2012, then dropped in a straight line to $ 2.09 in November, ahead of a bounce that stalled near $ 6.00 in 2014.

1) Nothing goes up (or down) in a straight line.

Note in this chart however, that even a persistent uptrend does not move in a straight line, and that minor pullbacks along the way are common and to be expected.

They know that the answer may not be in a straight line from where we have been in understanding, and out of the box ideas pay off sometimes.

That night was different when the dog was coming back I see this wind blowing through the leaves on the ground in a straight line heading towards me next to the dog.

Chapters 8 - 10 treat this question, though not in a straight line entirely free of...

Newton's first law — an object will continue in motion in a straight line with a constant velocity.

Parliamentary debates, after all, seldom move in a straight line, and legislators are hardly masters of logical development.