| Against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc and compass breastpin. |
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| Can 2,000 years of church history be recorded within the compass of 200 pages? |
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| The matter is totally within the compass of the jury's jurisdiction to determine. |
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| Following is a more detailed description of the French cooper's compass with a solution to the connection puzzle. |
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| Exotic Amboina wood handles are decorated with a unique compass shield and capped off with Nickel silver bolsters. |
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| No. 1 presents to us a good specimen of a general servant, one who will do anything within the compass of her capacities. |
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| Complete achievement of these objectives within the compass of one individual lifetime is never possible, of course, but that is not the point. |
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| In those cases they must use their own judgement, relying on their own personal moral compass and using their own discretion. |
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| The modern concert harp has 46 or 47 strings and a compass of six and a half octaves. |
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| As a musical instrument the singing voice has wide tonal compass and uniquely variable pitch, intensity, and stress. |
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| The revolving compass card had jammed onto the needle when under pressure, preventing it from swinging freely. |
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| Most art stores and building supply houses sell a carpenter's beam compass that is ideal for laying out this second cutting line. |
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| With a simple mental command, he called up a map of the area, and summoned a compass rose. |
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| Also, carry a map, compass or GPS, flashlight, knife, matches and a thermos with hot fluids. |
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| It winds, bends, turns, and often boxes the compass on its 650-mile journey to the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. |
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| Arrayed around it like points on the compass rose were sections of the house. |
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| Above the sign was painted an ornate compass rose to indicate the necessary direction. |
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| Just as he had loosed the compass from its rope, the sea gave a mighty heave and tossed the compass from his grip. |
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| The IQ-Compeo will display the values of six user selected variables in the lower half of the screen surrounding the compass rose. |
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| Eventually the compass made its way to Europe and onto the ships Christopher Columbus used to voyage across the Atlantic. |
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| The summit cone of Ben More is magnetic and compass readings can be misleading. |
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| For example, if one places a compass on the ground, it spins confusedly without finding a set destination. |
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| The aims and compass of this edition have not changed from those of the first. |
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| The team was also marked on preparing and cooking meals, initiative bases, map and compass and teamwork. |
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| It had a huge screen, curved around four seats, each facing in the way of their own compass points, it seemed. |
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| Turn the map until the North point on the compass card points East or West of the lubber line. |
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| She licked the pad and pressed it onto the glass next to the compass point. |
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| The wind appeared to blow from all points of the compass at once, a trick of which Dublin winds have the secret. |
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| Ordinary pilgrims from all points of the compass purchase religious amulets and books. |
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| The earth's magnetic field now points south, meaning that a compass needle points north. |
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| Then, using an electronic compass and ultrasonic sensors, it cuts the area about 10 times, ensuring a minimum of missed patches. |
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| In general, the show boxed the compass under the four strong winds of realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. |
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| On the North Rim the difference between map and compass is 15 east, a distinction known as magnetic declination. |
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| The compass is mounted in a pendulous gimbal such that when subjected to high angular rates, the compass swings in its mount. |
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| There he began work on compass deviation, a topic he would return to many times. |
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| A pre-set magnetic compass and gyroscopic auto-pilot determined and maintained its course. |
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| Society has lost its moral compass and sense of certainty about right and wrong. |
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| The beam compass allows you to create circles with a larger diameter than an ordinary compass. |
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| The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects. |
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| The fine adjustment mechanism on a beam compass makes distance transfers quicker and more precise than with a ruler and pencil alone. |
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| The new finding by Wikelski and colleagues suggests that the songbirds' magnetic compass is calibrated, perhaps on a daily basis, by visual cues. |
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| The station pointer is a navigating instrument which can be used to plot ones position from three corrected compass bearings. |
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| Directional or compass information enables an animal to maintain a consistent heading in a particular direction such as north or east. |
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| The sarcophagus is also oriented to the compass directions, and is only 1 cm smaller in dimensions than the chamber entrance. |
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| These were called portolan maps and were produced by sailors using a magnetic compass. |
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| Or will he pick up an inexpensive magnetic compass and a paper map to find his way? |
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| Having boxed the compass in reverse, like two parallel magnets in a swinging ship, they again faced the nightlighted hill. |
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| Runway 1 would point to a compass heading of approximately 10 degrees or slightly northeast. |
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| The avian magnetic compass differs from the technical compass used by humans in that the avian compass is an inclination compass. |
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| Illinois bundle flower, butterfly milkweed, compass grass, and partridge peas nestle in another 20-acre plot. |
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| Make a note of the heading you require with the aid of the compass bezel ring, then take a bearing on the furthest visible reference point. |
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| Adjustable compasses have a compass body with a lubber's line and a rotating capsule or bezel with a boxing mark. |
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| The aircraft's magnetic compass probably appeared to be working well, and setting up the astrocompass would have been a nuisance. |
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| A cabin enclosing the ship's wheel, compass binnacle and a telegraph to the engine room. |
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| The radius of circle or arc you can make with this beam compass set is limited only by the ledge you have at hand. |
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| Still remaining are the steering binnacle, though without compass or wheel, and the chart table against the rear bulkhead. |
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| The bridge still had the ship's wheel in place, and the compass binnacle was intact. |
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| A form of astrocompass is the sun compass, which utilizes the shadow of a pin. |
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| However, in 1989 a series of storm-force winds boxed the compass and it was these that uprooted many trees on Dartmoor. |
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| My horse, Lightfoot, has boxed the compass, and it seems to me he has boxed it back again. |
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| When the train turned toward the left or right, the compass naturally turned oppositely. |
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| On through Crick tunnel and then mile after mile of seemingly uninhabited country as we boxed the compass on the summit section towards Welford. |
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| From here I follow a compass bearing to swim out perpendicular to the wall past a forest of sea pens. |
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| Each patrol is also given a first-aid kit, a global positioning system compass, an astrocompass and a shortwave radio. |
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| Continue until the seabed drops, and when you reach the boulder-strewn sea floor, follow your compass bearing until you reach some angular rocks. |
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| I was about to start drawing rhomboids and then stabbing the sharp part of the compass through the paper. |
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| I submerge straight away to get out of the slosh and follow a compass bearing over the shallow kelp and into the Ore Stone. |
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| My compass is the same one that my dad had in his musette bag 60 or so years ago. |
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| The boat took considerable damage in the storm, losing its mast, boom, compass and lifelines. |
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| The Linex Compass Set contains a pencil compass with knee joint, a bow compass, a pen insert with handle and extra leads. |
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| She taught us how to use a compass to find true north and to orient a map accordingly. |
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| Some French coopers used this kind of bow compass rather than the common hinged compass. |
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| These are works of dry stone masonry meticulously assembled, some aligned directly with points of the compass. |
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| Inside, a compass hangs on the wall next to a nautical chart under a glass plate. |
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| The network and the producers may have had their hearts in the right place, but they left their brains and moral compass at home! |
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| Always travel with stout boots, rainproof clothing, spare clothes, a first aid kid, torch, map, compass, food and drink. |
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| The main body lies roughly to the north-east, though I advise against using a compass. |
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| The map was tacked next to the compass and he was pleased at how well he could still read a nautical chart. |
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| Teams travel entirely on foot, navigating by map and compass between checkpoints in terrain that varies from open farmland to hilly forest. |
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| When using a compass east of the agonic line, the needle points in a direction that is west of true north. |
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| Other saws on exhibit include the coping, compass and keyhole saws, which are used for detail work. |
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| Amazingly, the wind rose on the compass, and the original mica cover have survived intact. |
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| To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current. |
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| Tyler, though, drifted into a group of loners and misfits who, if they had social events, did so beyond the school's compass. |
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| This new, all-in-one navigation device for the outdoor enthusiast is the first combination GPS, altimeter and electronic compass. |
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| Hence a wind is said to box the compass when it blows from every quarter in rapid succession. |
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| Deep Seeker reported that the wind boxed the compass from every direction except north. |
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| The men say they could box the compass in Manx before they could box in English. |
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| Emotional responses can act as a moral compass in responding to the other and in guiding one's sense of the situation. |
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| Jeff tries to act as a sort of moral compass to Johnny, but usually all he gets for his trouble is some harsh words. |
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| My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems. |
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| The Compass Engineer will swing the ship through the major compass points and determine the deviation on each point. |
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| There is general agreement that homing pigeons use the sun as a compass reference. |
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| The runners will have to carry their own food, basic medical supplies and emergency equipment such as a compass in case they get lost. |
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| The peloruses and magnetic compass came from the spares box, as did the small signal lights. |
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| A grey pencil case containing pens, pencils, a compass and eraser a ruler and small sheets of paper. |
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| The two polar molecules act like compass needles, which are small bar magnets. |
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| The state has no innate moral compass to guide it and the people who should be its guide are all too fallible. |
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| The Earth's magnetic field aligns liquid particles much like tiny compass needles. |
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| One could certainly argue that, over time, the moral compass changes within the same society. |
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| While sipping hot tea, I tweak my compass declination and draw bearing lines on our map. |
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| If we were born with magnetic detectors, the compass would never have been invented, because we wouldn't need one. |
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| Even the doctor, whose moral compass has been hopelessly skewed, risks his privileged position and his life to save her. |
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| Set the points of a pencil compass to the width of the widest gap between the counter top and the wall. |
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| The north magnetic pole, to which compass needles point from all over the Earth, moves day by day. |
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| It is wonderfully satisfying to make these pictures by hand, patiently, with pencil and paper, compass and straightedge. |
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| Roughly, one measures everything with a ruler and compass and sets things up according to strict astrological correspondences. |
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| She cleared her pens into a neon pink pencil case and put her compass carefully back in her box of mathematical tools. |
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| This implies a net magnetic moment less robust than the compass needle of single-celled magnetotactic bacteria. |
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| Some 800,000 years ago, a compass needle would have pointed south, having previously pointed north. |
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| As philosophers or historians we treat the datum as something impersonal to be brought within the compass of our own world of thought. |
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| But in magnets, like a compass needle, more of the domains are lined up in the same direction, and so the material has an overall magnetic field. |
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| The question is whether that school falls within the compass of this particular legislation. |
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| Runways, on the other hand, tell pilots the runway direction to the nearest approximate compass heading. |
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| It is the destruction of our moral compass and, at a terrible cost, we accommodate. |
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| Either he was born without the moral compass that engenders humility or he has one sick sense of humor. |
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| If you choose to follow the reef seaward, pick a slack-water period and ensure that you have a good compass bearing for your return, and enough air. |
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| The big disadvantage, and almost a dead give-away of this trick, is that the compass pointer moves in direct response to the movement and the proximity of your body! |
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| Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca. |
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| Where the conventional gyro consumes a substantial amount of electrical power the GPS compass operates from the boat's 12 volt DC bus drawing less than 2 amperes. |
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| With no official course, no maps and, for half the race, no roads, drivers navigate by counting telegraph poles, by compass and by observing the position of the sun. |
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| Today I skied from base camp up to Heart Lake and back, traversing a couple of small passes, navigating by compass through two snow squalls, and fording a river. |
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| The needle of that compass is kindness, simple human kindness. |
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| A new magnetic alloy produces no net field, making it a poor choice for compass needles, but it could be used to build new devices based on electron spins. |
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| Scott, who had worked on the bay for a year prior to the incident, said he had consulted tide tables and weather reports and had taken a compass with him. |
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| When I became a Freemason, I placed a Masonic square and compass emblem on my car, as is common practice, so I could be recognized on the road by my fellow brethren. |
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| She tapped the aluminium of my canteen, tried to bend the laminated steel of my knife blade, stared and poked at the compass mounted it its perspex bubble in the hilt. |
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| Recent studies indicate that Caribbean spiny lobsters have an advanced magnetic compass sense that enables them to travel long distances in darkness to specific den locations. |
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| We'll be crossing the well-known summit level which boxes the compass with a series of crazy twists and turns as it struggles to keep to its contour around the hills. |
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| But after marrying a rich, lonely heiress, his moral compass swerves in reassuringly complex ways. |
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| Cochran et al. have shown that Catharus thrushes calibrate their magnetic compass on a daily basis using twilight cues, apparently just the reverse of what homing pigeons do. |
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| He lowered the nose and the chopper gained momentum, banking sharply to the left, he checked his magnetic compass and set off at a bearing of 282 degrees. |
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| A giant compass depicting the life and times of a South Yorkshire community which traces its roots back to medieval times has been lifted into place. |
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| A device can be added that, like an experienced helmsman, senses the beginning of a turn before it is visible on the compass or has been sensed by the autopilot. |
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| He goes on to compass the very nature of memory by way of considering how we memorialize mass death. |
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| A hole, though shaped like an ellipse, in which this well-hung stud had placed it would look as if a compass traced it. |
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| Put aside Santorum, who compulsively froths, and Romney who is always a weathervane, never a compass. |
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| Santa Fe sits at seven thousand feet, and the desert dust in the air produces sunset colors that fill the sky, not only in the west, but all around the compass. |
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| For example, if the compass reads south as you face the office's front door, then the back part of the room is the north section, the left is east, and the right is west. |
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| Maybe their map reading or compass reading is not very good. |
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| Remember that signs here mention the compass direction you're heading in. |
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| They boxed the compass between a first and a third glass of wine. |
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| Foster often thought of you and your colleagues as a compass for journalists, pointing us in the right directions, orienting us and reminding us of how to get home. |
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| The types of compasses that are available can be classified as standard compass, compass leads, the beam compasses, and also the highly popular bow compasses. |
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| The plane's captain added to the error by steering the plane on compass alone, backed up by dead reckoning and astro-fixes from a periscopic sextant. |
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| Point the binos in any direction and a digital compass takes a bearing. |
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| This is easily determined by holding a compass near the magnet to determine if the strength of the magnet overrides the magnetic force of the poles. |
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| Often we look to the church as a moral compass for direction. |
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| Using a compass to create hundreds of circles in delicate works on paper, Hesse carried Minimalist repetition and seriality to the point of obsession. |
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| The needs and expectations of the enquiring traveller change rapidly and it would be impossible to meet them all within the compass of single volumes. |
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| To absorb 5,000 years of a country's rich cultural past within the compass of seven days, was like delving into a honeypot and emerging in a daze. |
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| Did such matters fall within the compass of judicial review at all? |
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| Extending the photograph beyond the compass of the glance into a continuum, he presents more information than a single frame could be expected to contain. |
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| We even relocate daybreak and sunset, which, one might surmise, are logical ways to determine the beginning and end of a given day, within the compass of clock-time. |
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| The car stopped further back on North Terrace, probably not within the compass of the map, but at best somewhere towards that very far left-hand side of the map. |
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| All of this, he believed, falls within the compass of science. |
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| Within the compass of these measurements, every outcome is inevitable. |
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| It can be used to determine if DC current is flowing in a circuit by moving it up against one of the two wires in a circuit and watching for a movement of the compass card. |
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| Sometimes the chart is highly decorated with religious images, illustrations of local rulers, flags, coats-of-arms, compass roses and town vignettes. |
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| The sepia tones of the land areas yield to soft blues and greens that continue over the ceiling, anchored by a compass rose in the ceiling's center. |
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| It was round, with a glittering gold compass rose painted on the ground. |
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| Notice the color of the sky that you see through the compass windows. |
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| Teams must navigate the course with map and compass and cover it through a prescribed combination of kayaking, mountain biking, trekking, climbing, horse riding and potholing. |
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| Even if you choose to find your way by dead reckoning, the rear-view mirror has a little LED display to tell you which point of the compass you are heading towards. |
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| I don't use the Garmin maps that often, and especially not in flight, so the arrow and compass rose that the Galileo displayed was really fine by me. |
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| This led the researchers to conclude that the thrushes used cues from the setting sun to update their internal magnetic compass and get back on the right track. |
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| If you were carrying a hand-bearing compass you could have made a note of the other vessel's magnetic relative bearing and checked it again every few minutes. |
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| Advances such as papermaking, printing technology, the magnetic compass for navigation and gunpowder propelled human civilization to greater heights many generations later. |
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| Path comes and goes, compass bearing is 255 degrees magnetic. |
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| Allowable equipment is usually limited to a compass, chart and tachometer. |
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| Tomorrow will be taken up with preparing for the Big Day itself, namely, preparing my desk, purchasing a set square and compass and making a list. |
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| Their cakes have the charm of iconic line drawings, all elegant right angles and perfect domes and maraschino cherries that might have been placed with a compass. |
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| Stepping to the binnacle, Hornblower noted the compass heading. |
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| Twin anti-aircraft gun barrels are coated with red sponge, a compass binnacle lies broken and beheaded and another has rolled away among other debris. |
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| Although the compass carries no maker's marks, it is designed to fit across the transit's trunnions and has a pin that fits a hole on the transit. |
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| From these physiological and behavioral responses of birds, we can conclude that photopigments are involved with the avian magnetic compass system. |
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| Your compass works by pointing its needle either towards the planet's magnetic north, or towards the nearest mass of ferrous metal, or else it combines the two effects. |
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| In a second rectangular maze, the mole rats were tested on their ability to use their internal map along with the magnetic compass to find new shortcuts to a food reward. |
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| The invention of the magnetic compass, telescope and sextant enabled increasing accuracy. |
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| The compass was later used for navigation during the Song Dynasty of the 11th century. |
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| On the roof, a large compass pointer and list of peaks identify the greater and lesser landmarks in the magnificent panorama. |
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| Swirl How sends out ridges to the four points of the compass, each leading to further fells. |
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| If the cloud comes down you will need both a compass and a knowledge of how to use it. |
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| Paths are generally well signposted, although a map is also needed, and a compass may sometimes be needed on high moorland. |
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| In bed, Lauren has never been able to control her lateral squirmage. She is the needle on a compass and Spencer is due North. |
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| Where is the moral compass and common humanity that accepts this state of affairs? |
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| They say a society needs its exemplars because they serve as the moral compass in uncertain times. |
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| He said we must ask ourselves where we are going, what direction our moral compass is pointing. |
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| A compass and straight edge construction trisection of a general angle is impossible, proved algebraically by Wantzell in the 19th century. |
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| Without changing the spread of the compass, place the compass point at position and draw another pair of arcs. |
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| To prepare for an event, orienteers suggests training with a map and compass on rough terrain. |
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| If only his moral compass were pointed in the right direction. |
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| Mountaineers could take a compass bearing from the summit cairn which would lead them to the first pole at the top of Gardyloo Gully. |
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| The butterflies navigate with internal clocks and use the sun as a compass to find their way to oyamel fir forests in central Mexico. |
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| Captain Jack Sparrow carries his trusty compass to find objects, and others can perform double jumps or carry more substantial weapons. |
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| Its strength does not lie in the ecumenic compass of a single voice, in a lingua franca's paradoxically disenfranchising hold over the many. |
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| The compass is perhaps the fiddliest to use compared to a conventional one, but again works faultlessly. |
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| He kept a knapsack packed in the garage, with a compass and a knife and something he called iron rations. |
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| So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account. |
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| He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. |
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| Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass. |
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| The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes. |
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| He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. |
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| So ecocritics continue to seek the solution to the solution by reference to nature. They steer with nature as their compass. |
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| For the first oceanic exploration Western Europeans used the compass, as well as progressive new advances in cartography and astronomy. |
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| The regular 17-sided polygon can be constructed with the help of a compass and a ruler. |
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| Geocache clues make use of GPS coordinates, whereas letterboxing clues tend to consist of grid references and compass bearings. |
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| The vehicles were fitted with among other gear a sun compass, machine guns, larger fuel tanks and smoke dischargers. |
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| They hustle and scheme without moral compass, trying to survive by making accommodations that are at best temporary, more often delusional. |
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| He steered by the guidance of his own peculiar moral compass, regardless of the rough waters through which it led him. |
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| To every sane man in all climes and ages the great Creator has given a moral compass to enable him to avoid the wrong and follow the right. |
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| Hart is one of those rare men... whose directness and sense of conscience have led others to regard him as the moral compass of the Senate. |
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| The direction can involve all directions of the compass and can be a complex meandering path. |
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| He had extensive maritime interests and was most noted for his work on the mariner's compass, which had previously been limited in reliability. |
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| And embittered Winter, fury consumed By thoughts of Spring's nighsome 'proach, can compass. |
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| Dust and smoke thickened the morning mist and the infantry advanced using compass bearings. |
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| It is also called the compass plant, since the flowers appear first on the south side of the cushion. |
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| A regular octadecagon cannot be constructed using a compass and straightedge. |
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| The wooden device also has north marked and had 32 arrow heads around the edge that may be the points of a compass. |
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| The device was tested successfully, as a sun compass, during a 1984 reenactment when a longship sailed across the North Atlantic. |
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| The Germans were left behind with a compass and direction toward the mainland as the submarine was too small to take them. |
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| Although the magnetic declination does shift with time, this wandering is slow enough that a simple compass remains useful for navigation. |
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| A typical procedure for measuring its direction is to use a compass to determine the direction of magnetic North. |
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| He would later use his previous measurements of the compass variation to adjust his reckoning. |
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| On 13 September 1492, Columbus observed that the needle of his compass no longer pointed to the North Star. |
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| In 1517 King Manuel I of Portugal handed Lopo Homem a charter gaving him the privilege to certify and amend all compass needles in vessels. |
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| In 1517 King Manuel I of Portugal handed Lopo Homem a charter giving him the privilege to certify and amend all compass needles in vessels. |
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| As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. |
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| In Asian cultures houses were traditionally laid out in the form of a square oriented toward the four compass directions. |
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| The central pole of the tent still operated as an axis but a fixed reference to the four compass points was avoided. |
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| These were necessary because in the more adverse climatic context of north western Europe, the compass was needed for navigation. |
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| Portolan or portulan charts are navigational maps based on compass directions and estimated distances observed by the pilots at sea. |
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| Portolan maps all share the characteristic rhumbline networks, which emanate out from compass roses located at various points on the map. |
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| These lines are similar to the compass rose displayed on later maps and charts. |
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| Usually, a diagram called a compass rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the compass face as abbreviated initials. |
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| These numbers allow the compass to show azimuths or bearings, which are commonly stated in this notation. |
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| The local magnetic declination is given on most maps, to allow the map to be oriented with a compass parallel to true north. |
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| Some magnetic compasses include means to manually compensate for the magnetic declination, so that the compass shows true directions. |
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| Magnetic card compass designs normally require a separate protractor tool in order to take bearings directly from a map. |
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| Mariners' compasses can have two or more magnets permanently attached to a compass card, which moves freely on a pivot. |
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| A lubber line, which can be a marking on the compass bowl or a small fixed needle, indicates the ship's heading on the compass card. |
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| A thumb compass is a type of compass commonly used in orienteering, a sport in which map reading and terrain association are paramount. |
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| Thumb compasses are also often transparent so that an orienteer can hold a map in the hand with the compass and see the map through the compass. |
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| Large ships typically rely on a gyrocompass, using the magnetic compass only as a backup. |
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| The magnetic compass is very reliable at moderate latitudes, but in geographic regions near the Earth's magnetic poles it becomes unusable. |
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| At some point close to the magnetic pole the compass will not indicate any particular direction but will begin to drift. |
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| Some compasses include magnets which can be adjusted to compensate for external magnetic fields, making the compass more reliable and accurate. |
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| A compass is also subject to errors when the compass is accelerated or decelerated in an airplane or automobile. |
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| When one turns from a heading of east or west the compass will lag behind the turn or lead ahead of the turn. |
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| When it is inserted in a cork or piece of wood, and placed in a bowl of water it becomes a compass. |
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| Later, these were divided, in China into 24, and in Europe into 32 equally spaced points around the compass card. |
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| The degree system spaces 360 equidistant points located clockwise around the compass dial. |
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| At sea, a ship's compass must also be corrected for errors, called deviation, caused by iron and steel in its structure and equipment. |
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| A compass deviation card is prepared so that the navigator can convert between compass and magnetic headings. |
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| A magnetic compass points to magnetic north pole, which is approximately 1,000 miles from the true geographic North Pole. |
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| They then pointed their ship to the next compass point and measured again, graphing their results. |
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| Exposure to strong magnets, or magnetic interference can sometimes cause the magnetic poles of the compass needle to differ or even reverse. |
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| Avoid iron rich deposits when using a compass, for example, certain rocks which contain magnetic minerals, like Magnetite. |
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| To see if a rock or an area is causing interference on a compass, get out of the area, and see if the needle on the compass moves. |
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| If it does, it means that the area or rock the compass was previously at is causing interference and should be avoided. |
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| Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. |
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| In 1985 a study was made on the origin of the sidereal compass used in the Caroline Islands. |
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| In one of his diary entries Tasman credits his compass, claiming it was the only thing that kept him alive. |
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| The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts. |
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| As easily as mediocre carpenters can draw circles by employing a compass, anyone can employ the system Han Fei envisions. |
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| It radiates her inner light and compass, her disregard for status quo. |
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| As a lifelong reader, I have rarely had any sort of compass to guide me. |
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| Unlike geocachers, who rely on a GPS unit, letterboxers use a compass to follow their clues. |
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| Letterboxing is similar to a scavenger hunt, with clues that could be simple directions or could use compass bearings and map coordinates. |
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| The belt and suspenders support carriers for ammo, field dressing, compass, canteen and entrenching tool. |
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| Species planted include big bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, rattlesnake master, and compass plant, just to name a few. |
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| The thrust of Stigler's story is that the moral compass of German pilots and the Luftwaffe was superior to those of the US Army Air Forces. |
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| With a small pocket compass, you can always maintain cardinal directions and stay on track in the thick stuff. |
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| Fluxgate electronic compasses can be calibrated automatically, and can also be programmed with the correct local compass variation so as to indicate the true heading. |
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| Seven fascinating profiles feature people in history who, despite the dangers, followed their moral compass rather than obey the rules imposed by the government in power. |
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| Teams are left to plot and navigate their own route between checkpoints, making use of map, compass, map reading skills and global positioning systems. |
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| The effect of ferromagnetic materials in the compass's environment can be corrected by two iron balls mounted on either side of the compass binnacle. |
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| This individual zone balancing prevents excessive dipping of one end of the needle which can cause the compass card to stick and give false readings. |
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| The military forces of a few nations, notably the United States Army, continue to issue field compasses with magnetized compass dials or cards instead of needles. |
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| In following the recipe for an artificial monopole, Hall and his team had to manipulate a condensate's rubidium atoms, each of which acts like a compass needle. |
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| It showed us once and for all that somewhere between that bright morning in May 1997 and the present day, Mr Blair mislaid not just his moral compass, but also his judgement. |
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| When the compass is held level, the needle turns until, after a few seconds to allow oscillations to die out, it settles into its equilibrium orientation. |
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| A ship will follow a loxodrome, or rhumb line, by maintaining a constant compass reading that can only be plotted on a Mercator chart with accuracy. |
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| The upper section of Great Gable has a roughly square plan, about half a mile on each side, with the faces running in line with the four points of the compass. |
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| They can navigate without a compass, because they have an astrologer, who stands on the side and, with an astrolabe in hand, gives orders to the navigator. |
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| Worse, the ferrous rocks make compass needles whirl erratically. |
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| The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing. |
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| When the sun was in the sky, it was not, therefore, difficult to find the four points of the compass, and determining latitude did not cause any problems either. |
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| At this stage the bird is in the position of a Boy Scout with a compass but no map, until it grows accustomed to the journey and can put its other capabilities to use. |
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| Ideas are our rudders. As the soul glides along the warm and swelling sea of feeling, it can only be turned to new points of the moral compass by them. |
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| I think he did absolutely the right thing, because according to his own personal moral compass, interfering with someone else's marriage was a sin. |
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| The vallum was quadrangular aligned on the cardinal points of the compass. |
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| Professional singers are paid according to the richness, sweetness, and compass of their voices, but the gridler's profit increases as his vocal powers decline. |
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| There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. |
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| You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. |
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| Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass. |
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| Ferromagnetism, the effect that makes compass needles turn and refrigerator magnets stick to metal, causes attraction or repulsion between two objects. |
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| The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that monarchs use an internal compass that relies on both ultraviolet light and geomagnetic cues. |
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| All they have to help them is an Ordnance Survey map, a compass and lots of adrenalin, caused by the fact they're being chased by a team of trackers. |
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| A number of designs are under investigation, some acting like a miniature compass with rotating structures, others acting much like a tuning fork or oscillator. |
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