Sentences with phrase «rhumbs as straight lines»

Ahlborn says the team has decided that the best route is one that goes in as straight a line as possible in order to prevent the high - speed twists and turns from turning the Hyperloop into what one critic called a «barf ride.»

The reason for our failure to see that time could evolve from contingency to non-contingency without being destroyed is perhaps due to the popular image we have of time as a straight line that goes on and on.

Regarding the popular view of time as a straight line stretching backward and forward, it should be observed that it is not only naive as Von Rad has mentioned, 32 but also quite unreal and non-evolutionary.

C.S. Song, an Asian theologian speaks of the western God as a straight line God who operates in a certain logical order.

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.

Evolution should not be pictured as a straight line moving smoothly forward and upward or as a tree growing placidly and quietly without any critical events in its life.

Because the way we live in today's world is just time as a straight line and things get further and further away as you move on forward.

Keep your back and hips in as straight a line as possible.

Jayden would also line up cars, magazines or blocks on the floor or a table in as straight a line as he could make, never stacking objects as other kids would.

The fault trace is where the fault surface intersects the seafloor; it is seen as a straight line in the east - west direction.

While the trend is shown as a straight line, the overall warming we experience does not always follow a consistent path upward.

All curves have reached their plateau at that point and will continue as straight lines.

Anjanath's final ace in the hole is that they can spit flames — especially when enraged — in an explosive 180 degree cone in front of them, as well as a straight line, which can be difficult to dodge.

The rear sensor should show as a straight line with no bumps or ripples.

In the real world, there is no such thing as a straight line over an even surface outside of an auto - testing facility.

The richly layered shifts of colour could start as a straight line at the top of the canvas and end in a swirl at the bottom, meeting and meshing with other colours in the middle.

This is not a graph steady dilution as claimed, as straight line, nothing like it.

It did not perform as well as a straight line in hindcasting the GMST.

One simple change can help: adjust the exit and entry points each nation sets for its airspace so that planes can fly in as straight a line as possible.

(That's intended as a straight line, too.

Some unique features include underlining as a straight line, instead of free form, and rotating exhibits.

FASB continues to want two classifications, where type A (capital lease) will be treated as a financial arrangement and type B (operating lease) will be treated as a straight line expense over the lease term.

Using your foam paintbrush and gloss black acrylic craft paint, paint the rim of your shade, attempting to make as straight a line as possible.

Not exact matches

Comments: «The path to our 2013 year - end S&P 500 target of 1600 is not a straight line, and we remain somewhat cautious on US equities in the near term, as the US Fiscal Cliff and the growth outlook for Europe and China remain overhangs.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and lift your butt off the ground with your pelvis held as high as you can so the line from your knees to your shoulders is straight.

The bulk of any extra business went straight to the bottom line, showing up as profit improvement.

We're particularly keen on the line's straight and double - breasted suits, as well as its three - button jackets in tones of grey, navy, chrome green and black, perfect for the boardroom look.

As a public speaker, Meg demystifies today's fast - paced world of brand establishment, social media, marketing and PR to show how companies can take advantage of powerful digital tools to boost their bottom line through proven strategies and straight talking.

Structuring, upfront and similar fees are recorded as a discount on investments purchased and are accreted into interest income, on a straight line basis, which we have determined not to be materially different from the effective yield method.

The leases include certain lease incentives, payment escalations and rent holidays, the net effect of which is being recognized as a reduction to rent expense such that rent expense is recognized on a straight - line basis over the term of occupancy.

It is not my job to make you walk the straight line as I see it.

For example, as a straight ally for my LGBT friends, I'm careful to check with them when I write about LGBT issues, to see they feel I've crossed a line or said something off base.

With the empirical evidence of the universe evolving, it is possible to accept the Thomistic argument from finitude and contingency as recast in evolutionary categories.5 Without the evolutionary category of birth, it would be impossible for us to argue that the universe had a Creator - Ground, for we would have to imagine process as a horizontal straight line that extends in either direction indefinitely and infinitely.

The attitude of Western man to linear time is, generally speaking, naive; time is seen as an infinitely long straight line on which the individual can mark such past and future events as he can ascertain.

The analogy of that possibly is How we listen to Gods voice / Instruction / by the influence of the Spirit of God as you describe here, which determines how straight the line is but then, maybe that is how God intended it to be.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

Sometimes ba is the same thing as ab, sometimes it isn't; a + a may be 2a or a according to circumstances; straight lines in a plane may be produced to an infinite distance without meeting, yet not be parallel: and the sum of the angles of a triangle appears to be capable of assuming any value that suits the author's convenience (N58: 385 - 6).

For complex, zig - zag polygons, such as illustrated in FIGURE 1,1 the general condition is rather that such a connecting straight line cuts the boundary an odd number of times.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

... it seems a subordinate falsification of the facts to say, as Bergson apparently does, that the whole «distortion» effected by the intellect in its attempts to deal with time arises from the dependence of all measurement on the primary measurement of segments of straight lines.

there were triangles and straight lines standing up as well..

Consequently, Whitehead's philosophy of nature does not demand that gravity is propagated along the straight lines of a prior geometry, and hence the value of the gravitational constant is not a function of the prior geometry as Will and Ariel claim.

In light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuum.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

Therefore, I feel I must overcome my resistance and resentment, must dismiss the feeling of engaging in an unwilling exercise in apologetics, and try earnestly, if not to supply straight and simple answers, at least to clarify and line up some of the evasive arguments that I have harbored for a long time, and to articulate them as well as I can.

Sometimes you catch sight of a turn leading off into the distance, a dirt track or a county road at right angles to the highway you're on, as you drive along those straight, miles - long lines you find only in the West.

More abstractly, but not in an essentially different way, time is described as a motion along a straight line; the moving point stands for the present instant, the path already covered corresponds to the past, the points not yet occupied correspond to the future events.

It was far better and far wiser in God to be content with a Faith that was quite amazingly right about the basic precepts of God, morals, and creation as good, and of its nature allowed for developmental growth in a straight line as time and culture called it forth.

The final human opinion may, in short, in some manner now impossible to foresee, revert to the more personal style, just as any path of progress may follow a spiral rather than a straight line.

They tend to keep going in a straight line, a principle enshrined as Newton's First Law.