Sentences with phrase «passing wave»

For everyone regards all times as fulfilled in his own, and can not see his own as one of many passing waves.

It may help to think of global temperature in the sense of the surface of the sea — that heaves up and down through many meters at any place with passing waves, and with the ebb and swell of the tides.

SAN ANTONIO — John Beilein passed the waves of maize and blue T - shirts on Saturday night at the Alamodome, clutching his wife, Kathleen, tight to his chest as he turned...

I know that it is in the nature of journalism to always surf whatever passing wave comes along.And I know that lots of readers, like lots of writers, also prefer the warm bath of the familiar to the cold shock of the difficult and new.

Doing so requires the ability to measure changes in distance on the order of one - thousandth the diameter of a proton as passing waves stretch and compress local space — one of the most delicate measurements in all of science.

The ninth - century French monk Rabanus Marcus described the purpose of God's burdensome commands in his reflection on the Gospel of Matthew: «The sea is the turmoil of the world; the boat in which Christ is embarked is to be understood the tree of the cross, by the aid of which the faithful having passed the waves of the world, arrive in their heavenly country, as on a safe shore.»

But by 2020, the LISA experiment — pairs of free - flying satellites that would move apart and together with each passing wave — could either find confirming evidence of inflation or find nothing and thus tip the scales toward ekpyrosis.

Built by Finnish company Wello, the 500 - kilowatt rig has an asymmetrically shaped hull that causes it to roll, heave and pitch — much like the stilted stride of a penguin — with each passing wave.

This consists of a hinged flap that sticks out of the water and is pushed shut with each passing wave.

In April Voyager 2 detected the passing wave 7 billion miles from the sun.

At 3:19 P.M. a Deep - Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy off the Japan coast registered a passing wave more than a meter high in the deep ocean.

As the tubes» sections rise up and down on the passing waves they tug on the hinges, which are resisted by hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid through hydraulic motors and turn electrical generators to produce electricity.

Efforts to detect them began with the American electrical engineer Joseph Weber, who in 1969 reported having observed that a pair of large, suspended aluminium cylinders he had set up for the purpose had been made to «ring» by a passing wave.

Marine ecosystems such as the Giant Kelp forests off the coast of California are dependent upon certain ocean movements — the kelp receives nutrients from the passing waves, which then creates habitat for a multitude of other species from urchins to abalone to the iconic sea otters.

Each passing wave activates the pump; which delivers high pressure water via a sub-sea pipeline to the shore.

Some maintain manned guard stations; some offer key - card access; some demand nothing more than a passing wave; others have no security officer or gate but are walled and have no cut - through streets.