Sporting and cultural events are beacons for promotional giveaways by newspapers. |
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The intense feeling welled up within her and shone from her eyes like dark beacons. |
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It's probably among the last beacons of hope here, in that you can see a protest every couple of miles. |
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Other applications have included beacons for emergency services vehicles and marine navigation lights. |
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At night, these monitors become light beacons with the internal sculptured ceilings ghosting behind translucent glass. |
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Long ago masters of ships found it comforting to find such beacons of light in the darkness. |
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The AAR operator is responsible for control of the aircraft's rendezvous beacons and tanker illumination lights during air-to-air refuelling. |
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Because most revenues came from import duties, he had to fashion a customs service and build buoys, beacons, and lighthouses. |
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They carried with them into the wilderness the light of civilization and lit victory beacons visible for miles around. |
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There were no signals received from locator beacons attached to the helicopter and its crew, suggesting it disintegrated almost immediately. |
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From the late 1970s, constellations of man-made navigation satellites have taken over as beacons to guide the way. |
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Aerial bombs or radio beacons are suspended from external bomb racks on detachable pylons. |
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As the aircraft slowed, ten members from the elite Golani Infantry jumped out and set up landing beacons for the remaining aircraft. |
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Similar technology is used to track down lost aircraft and yachts through their radio beacons. |
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Light, when introduced in the form of navigation beacons on ships, crawled, the speed of light being several thousand times slower. |
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On British road sign poles, apart from Belisha beacons, we lost our white stripes many years ago and they are now plain black. |
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This morning we flew over Lake George as the sun rose, illuminating the dams one after the other like beacons. |
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Such beacons have an historical pedigree and were once lit to warn of imminent danger. |
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Morgan and Basil were both under the light, their fair hair standing out like beacons in a fog. |
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The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity. |
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When the Romans came to Britain they built a pharos, or lighthouse, at Dover, and several beacons were maintained during the following centuries. |
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The brilliant beacons whose radiation streams out of faraway galaxies are known as quasars. |
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Four independent teams of researchers used the beacons of X rays from distant quasars to probe the contents of several intergalactic clouds. |
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It has navigation, communications, and recording systems and can obtain exact position fixes from beacons set in the sea bottom. |
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Additionally, intelligence sources suspected them of setting off beacons as tactical deception decoys. |
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He admitted that his biggest faux pas in the music business was turning down the beacons of girl power themselves. |
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The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership, declining funds, and diminished authority. |
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However, with the development of sophisticated radio beacons and automated electrical lighting, as well as shipboard navigational aids, many lighthouses became redundant. |
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The crash triggered emergency beacons both in the aircraft and on the men, and helicopters from RAF Leconfield and RAF Wattisham were immediately scrambled. |
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The technique involves the attachment of infrared beacons or transmitters to specific anatomical landmarks, the surgical instruments, and cutting blocks. |
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One of the great hazards for early immigrants was being shipwrecked on the uncharted Australian coast, where guiding beacons were few and far between. |
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The scheme involves improving the lighting and installing internally lit up poles to the 59 belisha beacons at all 26 zebra crossing locations in the city. |
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As experience outside St Mary's Church has repeatedly proved in the past, a good guard on point duty is better than any number of red, green and amber beacons. |
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It originally referred to someone who deliberately caused shipwrecks by using false beacons to lure ships onto rocks, or someone who plundered goods from wrecked ships. |
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The system includes location beacons having a known position and the beacons are capable of receiving the identity information transmitted by the portable terminals. |
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Punctuating the sand from end to end, postos are the permanent lifeguard stands that act like beacons. |
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Cuomo, as any other governor would, insists his budgets are beacons of responsibility. |
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Because during those times that were so cruel and so dark, those small acts of kindness were beacons of light. |
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Mr Peek, who organised a raft of Golden Jubilee beacons in 2002, delivered the crystal to the Tower of London yesterday evening. |
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Most impressive when in flower, the strongly fragrant golden spikes shine like beacons across the winter garden, followed by clusters of blue-black berries. |
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Many here believe that hackers are already cruising around metropolitan areas in cars and on bicycles, with their laptops listening for the beacons of wireless networks. |
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One of the beacons of the Romantic reform movement, Hugo was among the most fervent partisans of English drama during the Restoration period in France. |
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The savage blankness of the instrumentals is tempered by vocal tracks that ascend like beacons, their brightness amplified by the murky distances between them. |
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In navigational applications, RDF signals are provided in the form of radio beacons, the radio version of a lighthouse. |
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The dimly-lit, old-fashioned belisha beacons are completely unsuitable for one of Sutton Coldfield's busiest commuter roads, they say. |
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You should have realised it must be at least somewhere around the 1940s, simply by observing the cars, the fashion and the Belisha beacons. |
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In these tests the air calibration of the components of the automatic landing systems, including the localiser, glide path and marker beacons. |
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The news was conveyed to London by a system of beacons that had been constructed all the way along the south coast. |
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The system was supported by a communication network based on hilltop beacons to provide early warning. |
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On 13 March 2010, a public event Illuminating Hadrian's Wall took place, which saw the route of the wall lit with 500 beacons. |
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On July 26, 2013, ANA said it had found wiring damage on two 787 locator beacons. |
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Often indicated on navigation charts, they may be painted white or lit as beacons for greater visibility offshore. |
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In the Canadian Maritimes, cairns have been used as beacons like small lighthouses to guide boats, as depicted in the novel The Shipping News. |
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They will use the cash to buy locator beacons and educate bushwalkers on safety. |
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And they serve as beacons of hope to the rank and file right-to-lifers who have worked tirelessly for decades on behalf of the voiceless. |
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The addition of 253 new products includes a variety of back-up alarms and cameras, beacons, minibars and work lamps. |
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Zebra crossings would be replaced by brightly coloured biscuit wrapping and Belisha beacons were to be replaced by flashing Teacakes. |
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Navaids come in different forms such as lighthouses, beacons and buoys. |
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Anthony Green Appledore Road, Cardiff HOW long does it take Cardiff council's highways department to fix the Belisha beacons by the shops on Countisbury Avenue, Llanrumney? |
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Their report, which will appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that radio galaxies may serve as beacons for finding other primordial groupings of galaxies. |
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Lorries have flashing beacons and reversing bleepers, but what if someone who is walking behind one is blind, deaf, or just cannot walk very fast to get out of the way? |
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Before the lighthouses there were beacons on several of the islands. |
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