The helicopter settled into a hover seconds later and dropped its dipping sonar into the water. |
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The idea, I suppose, is that while Santa was fiddling the lock his reindeer would hover over the driveway. |
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When they signaled for pickup, the crew chief talked the pilot down to a 30-foot hover and started hoisting. |
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They patrol low over the ground, or hover high over a field, watching for movement, then swooping down, talons first, to grab prey. |
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Hummingbirds flap their wings at fantastic speeds which allow them to hover in midair while they feed. |
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It seems to hover between teaching it as a second language and as a first language, without being successful at either. |
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Imagine your commander's surprise when you crank up the engine and hover over the garage! |
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Once opened, the cross references expand when you allow the mouse to hover over them. |
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Flashing brilliant sparks of glittering light as they hover and dart among flowers, hummingbirds evoke a surreal magic. |
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Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark. |
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Jimmy pulled up the hatch built onto the floor of the hover vehicle and reached inside the small confines to reveal a duffel bag. |
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The servants continue to hover disdainfully on the sidelines, grudgingly carrying out the master's orders. |
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Then a strange bloke started to hover near us and every time I laughed he quietly guffawed. |
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Entire nations are condemned to wander as disinherited immigrants, mortal illnesses hover over humanity, and terrorism lurks. |
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Unemployment that should hover around 5-6 per cent gradually moves to double digits. |
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Estimates of the total number who joined the Exoduster migration of 1877 to 1881 hover around fifty thousand, though that figure may be low. |
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You read a cracking post, hover for a while but click away before commenting? |
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The little house fly may hover in large numbers in nearby garages, breezeways and homes because it prefers shade. |
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This emission-free multicopter can hover and glide by changing the thrust and torque produced by 18 spinning blades. |
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Tiny blue azures alight in the grass, and cabbage whites hover over the vegetable patch. |
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Maori wrasse, sweetlips, trevallies, grouper and every variety of Indo-Pacific coral browser hover around. |
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Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth. |
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Two, pick up into a hover and do a pedal turn to park the aircraft on the port line-up, a three-minute evolution at most. |
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At each side of the stadium, Dawson's giant steel-mesh rings hover like wreaths above the entry gates. |
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Most millisecond pulsars hover around the 300 revolutions per second mark, and the fastest spinning pulsar ever detected clocked in at 641 rps. |
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They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner. |
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Leafy branches hover above the shrine figures in the altarpieces of Tilman Riemenschneider and his contemporaries. |
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The thing is, half the time, my friend would stir early and hover in the groggy world of the almost-awake. |
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The visa applicants hover nervously in their best clothes as shoe shine boys run eagerly around. |
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As the rays hover over the seamounts, the diminutive angelfish come up and feed on the parasites that attach to the rays' skin. |
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Other beneficials include damsel bugs, ground beetles, hover flies and beneficial nematodes. |
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As they follow the coast, kestrels often hover above marshes and grasslands, waiting to pounce on rodents, small birds, and insects. |
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They can glide with wings held level, and kite and hover in moderate winds. |
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Usually rendered as Good Samaritans, doctors in paintings typically hover near sickbeds or deathbeds, dispensing solace and advice. |
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These provisions leave some without sick pay, others without pensions, and all on wages that just hover above the minimum wage. |
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I gently fed power to the hover coils and, as the SAP eased off the ground, retracted the landing skids. |
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop. |
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When I hover over a link, I expect to be able to see where it leads, simply by looking at my status bar at the bottom of the browser. |
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She looked rather lost unused to choosing between an electric hover or a self-propelling rotary. |
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By now the guests have started to hover around the buffet and Ismail, who is showing discreet signs of kitchen-fatigue, encourages all to dig in. |
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In the white squares framed by the crossing bands, ghostly points of complementary color hover. |
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At Kelliston Drain you can hover over what is claimed to be the biggest brain coral in the world, a green Millennium Dome some 4m across. |
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A kestrel hovers in one spot over a meadow, then moves on, only to hover again in a new location. |
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The calligraphist had given each letter a shadow, so that the words seemed to hover just over the page. |
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She seemed to hover in indecision for a second, and then made the abrupt decision to speak. |
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Against this, realisations in the domestic market hover between Rs 2500-3000 per tonne, inclusive of excise, sales tax and freight. |
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A pair of helicopters helmed by stunt pilots were set to hover about 1.6 km above the Utah desert. |
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Their wing bones are fused into a stiff paddle that enables them to hover at a bloom while drinking. |
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Fairy basslets and sweepers hover over a plate coral decorated with feeding featherstar crinoids in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. |
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Overhead, black helicopters hover in military formation like giant birds of prey. |
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Gas prices continue to hover near record levels, but if you think you're paying too much at the pump that may be the least of your worries. |
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The grandchildren hover close by, whispering and squirming bashfully if my glance falls upon them. |
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We hover close enough that I can see the matted clumps in the bear's shaggy, pale brown coat. |
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Some, including Phillips, tried to hover within acceptable levels of steroid dosage. |
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On the shopping list of items necessary to encourage cycling, indoor bike lockers hover near the top. |
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We located that raft and began the recovery process from as stable a hover as possible. |
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Waiters dressed in traditional Gujarati costume hover attentively at one's elbow. |
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He now felt the craft's movement as it slowed to a hover and descended to the landing site. |
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Tool tips display as you hover your mouse pointer over the various diagram elements. |
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The scene which appears most frequently in art shows the cook repelling boarders, beating off the tasters and nibblers who hover hopefully round his precious stewpot. |
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The verdins have been doing their best to hover at the feeding holes. |
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Their rhythms hover uncertainly between the ordinary Shakespearean pentameter and a fairly prosy free verse. |
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It is wonderful to see how the clouds hover and linger around these snowclad mountain peaks. |
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Means which hover in the 3.00 range indicate characteristics that are not strongly present and should be treated as areas of issue or concern. |
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I took a drag from my cigarette, and the smoke from my exhale seemed to hover in the air, visible by the dim streetlights even with the falling snow. |
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Like the other three Coastguard helicopters, the Sligo chopper is equipped with all the latest search and navigational equipment and has an automatic hover capability. |
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Terns skipped along on the breeze, pausing to hover over the shallows and occasionally to dive, emerging sometimes with a silver flash of sand eel in their beaks. |
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Not to mention the untold number of families who hover just one medical crisis or job loss away from financial ruin. |
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Then it suddenly soared above the branch to hover triumphantly high. |
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Naturally, Prom time rolled around, and being gothic and hip, my natural inclination was to hover in a semi-conscious state of misery and darkness. |
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For search and rescue missions the rescue hoist and winch are installed on the starboard side and the helicopter operates under hover trim control. |
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The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Shaped like a slightly distorted semi-circle, the flat roof is supported by slim tubular steel columns so that it appears to hover lightly over the solid structure below. |
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These go largely unmentioned but, for followers of provincial politics, hover over the entire story like the spectre of death in DeLillo's White Noise. |
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Together, they hover on the edge of reality, dangerously poised somewhere between girlhood and womanhood. |
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Motivated by this thought, Isis gunned her hover cycle before taking off. |
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Behind their back they're called helicopter parents because they hover over their children and make a lot of noise rescuing them whenever difficulty arises. |
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Four Sea Harriers lined up in a hover in front of the 100 or so personnel in the squadron at RNAS Yeovilton for an emotional decommissioning ceremony. |
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It is possible to map memory as a performative form, a set of concurrences that hover between original and copy, a theatrical source of creativity. |
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The standard procedure was to establish the aircraft in a hover, train the forward-looking-infrared radar to the contact, and downlink the picture via our HAWK or data link. |
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Most pilots perform a hover more or less near to the ground and then decent slowly to the ground. |
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The helicopter is fitted with a forward extendable in-flight refuelling probe and it can also hoist hose refuel from a surface ship whilst in hover mode. |
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He seemed to hover there spread-eagled, then landed on his side in the dirt. |
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Flunkeys would hover around the men, ensuring that empty bowls were filled and bring out armfuls of breads and baked goods for the loggers. |
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The lowdown: Using high resistance and a slower cadence, you'll hover between aerobic and anaerobic zones. |
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If you hover your mouse near the top left corner of the content block, you will see two icons: a trashcan and four-way arrow. |
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The copter would then hover over the house, and James and the remaining six SEALs would shimmy down to the roof. |
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A mountain rescuer, who was wearing a bulky but lightweight vacuum mattress pack on his back, was deployed on to a snowfield from a hover. |
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Two of the most famous asterisms in astronomy, the Big and Little Dippers hover above the pine trees at Carranza Field in the New Jersey Wharton State Forest. |
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It confirmed that the pilot's workload during the hover at the slinging area would have been quite high. |
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The model was used to simulate scaled fruit-fly wings in hover. |
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Special suits allow you and your team to hover over gaps and jump to superhuman heights. |
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But whispers about his past hover like a threatening storm over his papacy. |
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Thanks to the elegantly designed mount, this Pannello seems to hover just off the wall. |
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Initially, the train was filmed with the helicopter situated in a hover alongside a trestle. |
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Another was a hover tank chassis with a ballista mounted on top. |
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The pilot and aircrew will wear a garment equipped with tactile sensors to direct the hover and movement. |
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She notices something similar at weddings, where guests hover outside before the service, a little intimidated about entering. |
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If you hover over the picture, a star and a pencil appear in the top right. |
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Ontario's unemployment rate is likely to hover in double-digit territory through next year. |
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An unpowered glider can soar through the sky, a helicopter can hover and flit around, and a cannon can even shoot a circus performer in a parabola through the air. |
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When the hexacopter arrived at their location, it would hover in place. |
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At the top of this painting, three putti hover over the scene. |
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This was a superb demonstration of the RAF pilot's skill, holding a large helicopter in a hover next to a cliff face in the dark while winching the casualty on board. |
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Boxfishes and three-spine sticklebacks hover very well by oscillating their pectoral fins with large attack angles on both recovery and power strokes. |
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They like to mind their own business and will only bother you when they're bored or at election time when they'll hover around the refrigerator clawing at your legs. |
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Flies hover above baskets of locally grown almonds and dried fruits. |
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New snorkel technology, for example, enabled the submarines to operate continuously underwater and allowed them to hover close off the entrances to British and Canadian ports. |
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With no visual external references to maintain the hover position, the pilot was unable to control the helicopter when it slipped rearwards, and it struck the terrain and rolled over. |
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Despite the complexity of the task, the control inputs in a hover are simple. |
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They hover oddly in anticipation of silence. |
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Young, American inventor, started work on model helicopters in 1928 using converted electric hover motors to drive the rotor head. |
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His approval ratings, improbably, hover around the 40 percent mark. |
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This is because a helicopter generates its own gusty air while in a hover, which acts against the fuselage and flight control surfaces. |
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The spirit of the dead was believed to hover near the resting place of the corpse, and cemeteries were places the living avoided. |
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Because they are strong fliers and able to hover and inspect foliage for aphids, syrphids may be especially good at locating aphid colonies. |
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Tiny flowers are perfect for attracting delicate beneficials like chalcid wasps and hover flies, whose larvae devour aphids. |
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve probably did not envisage that choppers bearing the insignia of oil-rich Gulf states and cash-rich Asian countries would hover over Wall Street. |
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Once the second passenger climbed onto the left skid and the helicopter slipped rearwards, necessitating corrective flight control inputs, the pilot had insufficient exterior vision and he lost hover reference. |
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Like hummingbirds, South American long-tongued bats hover at flowers and feed on sugar-rich nectar. |
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The video model is just as lean as the audio variant without a camera: The aluminium front appears to hover a whole 21 millimetres away from the wall. |
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To close the hover move the mouse pointer out of the hover. |
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If any partition display is too small for accommodating the relevant information, hover the mouse pointer over the partition to see the information. |
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Nevertheless, it would be premature to conclude that the price is necessarily destined to hover just above zero until the end of the first period. |
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Being able to view and hover over a specific target is especially important when hoisting a person over featureless terrain, such as sand, water or snow, and in conditions of low visibility. |
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Liveried waiters, unsmilingly hover waiting to pick up your plates as you finish your courses. |
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The dastardly Daleks will hover back on to our screens in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. |
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Critically, the stock of property on the market continues to hover close to historic lows with new instructions to agents falling in 10 of the last 12 months. |
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Although there can be little doubt that the spectre of violence will hover over South Africa for some years to come, difficult as it may be with the constant media focus, the matter needs to be kept in broad perspective. |
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But interest rates for second mortgages often hover around 1percentt higher than the prime interest rate, which has jumped from 4percentto8.25percentcent in the last two years. |
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In the air, they are able to hover and they are also able to take off quickly with little space. |
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We don't feel a fixed air craft would be able to swoop and hover in the same way required. |
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For example, the schnorkel, a breathing device which enabled the submarines to operate continuously underwater, allowed them to hover close to the entrances to Canadian and British ports. |
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If your file name is too long, there won't be enough space to display it unless you hover your mouse over it to get the full name to pop up. |
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Smith calculated power was available for a single-engine hover in ground effect. |
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Plainly, something is brewing in Guston's manner of the early and middle sixties, as masklike black forms hover in jam-ups of pewter grays, ardent blues, sickish reds, and the occasional, blaring green. |
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It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers'. An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse. |
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When you hover the mouse cursor over an item that has the autoclick feature enabled, the feature is automatically clicked after a second or two. |
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It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering power, And it was all aimed at me … Blossoms rupture and rapture the air, All hover and hammer, Time intensified and time intolerable, sweetness raveling rot. |
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Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone. |
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Singer and guitarist Tom Smith's sage-but-nervous tones hover between those of Ian Curtis and Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, intoning oblique lyrics that double as kiss-offs and riddles. |
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Hedge funds now hover like harpies over any economy that is described as weak ready to devour and befoul any area they can get their talons on. |
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Simply drag a camera from the digital map, and drop it into a window to view it in real time, or hover over the mapped camera to get a view of the live video. |
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Multiple small weight increments of personal items and equipment can cause a progressive and remarkable degradation to the specification hover and take-off performance in smaller helicopters. |
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The slow speed and large mono chamber of the hover barge actually helps reduce the effect of wave action, giving a very smooth ride. |
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When the pilot attempted to lift off into the hover, the torque and engine temperature rose, but the main rotor rpm decayed and the helicopter would not take off. |
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This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. |
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As a helicopter moves from hover to forward flight it enters a state called translational lift which provides extra lift without increasing power. |
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And plants in nurseries are today pegged as air cleansers to wage war with traces of lead paint, radon and asbestos that hover about in the built environment. |
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If the pilot pushes the cyclic to the side, the rotor disk tilts to that side and produces thrust in that direction, causing the helicopter to hover sideways. |
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It was later found that the craft's hover height was improved by the addition of a skirt of flexible fabric or rubber around the hovering surface to contain the air. |
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Twitter's URL shortener will also display the target link if users hover the mouse pointer over the shortened link to give users a better idea of where they are going. |
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This supplement allows operators the ability to improve hover in ground effect and hover out of ground effect with increased payload in high and hot conditions. |
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But, in the haze and visual undecidability of Lyons' St Albans facades, perhaps some remnants of both these lost ideals also hover. |
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Originally, we had wanted to be in a 30-foot hover, so, if we lost an engine, we already would be in ground effect. |
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