Sentences with phrase «such deflections»

«This is such a huge missed opportunity and such a deflection,» said Lerner, who said polls show New Yorkers are very concerned about state government curbing corruption.

However, Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity predicted that such deflection could in fact occur — a prediction subsequently borne out by experiment.

This rule states that surface water is a common enemy that may be repelled or deflected onto the land of other proprietors, provided that such deflection is the result of the ordinary use of land and is not accomplished by means of channels, ditches or other extraordinary construction.

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The ASE has also asked the U.N. to coordinate a practice asteroid - deflection mission to test the technologies for pushing a rock off course before such tactics become necessary.

Congress has also called on the US Office of Science and Technology Policy to recommend by October 2010 which agency or department, such as NASA or the Department of Defense, should lead US efforts to track dangerous asteroids and develop deflection technologies.

After accounting for the deflection of the cosmic rays by the Milky Way's magnetic field, the team found that the particles are travelling about 326 million light years from a region of extragalactic space containing several potential sources, such as active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies.

In such works, signs and gestures are meant to carry out tactics of deflection or flight or to question the work's status as commodity.

As outlined in the science journal Acta Astronautica, the more time we have to prepare for such an eventuality, the more likely the chance of success: «To use a kinetic impactor for successful deflection of an NEO [near - Earth object], it is essential to minimize the reaction time and maximize the time available for the impulse delivered to the NEO by the kinetic impactor to integrate forward in time to the eventual deflection of the NEO away from Earth impact.»