Miniature Indian paper flags.

The world community seems to be losing its strategic bearings.

The left, which had previously looked to Marx, lost its bearings.

Miniature horses are found in many nations, particularly in Europe and the Americas.

The country is often referred to as Africa in miniature for its geological and cultural diversity.

In short, the global economy replete with get rich quick schemes, overpaid bosses, and corporate fraud has lost its moral bearings.

They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually less than 1 cm in diameter.

Small units often have direct drive generators, direct current output, aeroelastic blades, lifetime bearings and use a vane to point into the wind.

In earlier years, Dr. Khan and his collaborators published a number of papers detailing critical issues regarding the balancing of centrifuges and magnetic bearings.

HealthyEgypt A few miniature servings of coffee at intervals works better than one large mug to keep you alert and focused.

So Biosphere 2 was essentially a three acre, entirely sealed, miniature world that I lived in for two years and 20 minutes.

Using the optical or prism sight, such compasses can be read with extreme accuracy when taking bearings to an object, often to fractions of a degree.

By carefully recording distances (time or paces) and magnetic bearings traveled, one can plot a course and return to one's starting point using the compass alone.

We were like a miniature United Nations, which was fun, except whenever something negative, with regards to a nation or a religion, took place.

A precautionary firm would look like a miniature version of today s regulatory state, whereas a proactionary state would operate like a venture capitalist writ large.

Yugoslavia is but a miniature version of what might happen in Ukraine if Yanukovich s tactics are allowed to bring ethnic antagonisms to the boiling point.

It's full of all kinds of gyroscopes and pulleys and gadgets and ball bearings, and they don't work as well as they ought to in the heat of battle.

Here the cheerful façade is composed of Russia s miniature president, Dmitri Medvedev, whose job like that of the American First Lady is to keep up appearances.

For example the power of a drill (or any other machine) is proportional to the volume, while the friction of the drill's bearings and gears is proportional to their surface area.

Inside of the bronze ball there's a lead weight that is free swinging on an axle that's on two bearings that pass in between, across it, like this, that counterbalance this weight.

A miniature replica of a proposed design, about one foot (0.3 m) in diameter, can be tested and the laboratory measurements applied to the final application with high confidence.

It used mirrors to create the illusion of tiny people performing on a miniature stage. Now, I won't use mirrors, but this is my digital tribute to the tanagra theater.

Bearing compass A bearing compass is a magnetic compass mounted in such a way that it allows the taking of bearings of objects by aligning them with the lubber line of the bearing compass.

(a) Radioisotope NPS with electrical capacity ranging from a few milliwatts (for miniature spacecraft) to several kilowatts, in the form of RTG and RHU using Stirling cycle and TPE conversion systems

Though only a miniature version of America s imperial predicament, Britain s current policy, as its new prime minister, Gordon Brown, is defining it, may anticipate the direction taken by the next American president.

Hong Kong artist, Kwong Chi Kit worked in conjunction with a local poverty concern group, SoCO (the Society for Community Organisation), created miniature 'cage people' as part of an anti poverty campaign.

It has received several different names, according to the country where it was adopted mass radiography, miniature chest radiograph (United Kingdom and USA), roentgenfluorography (Germany), radiophotography (France), schermografia (Italy), photoradioscopy (Spain) and photofluorography (Sweden).

First of all, there was a lot of new manufacturing techniques, not to mention really cheap miniature motors brushless motors, servo motors, stepper motors, that are used in printers and scanners and things like that.

Instead of one point in the brain, we can devise devices that span the brain, that can deliver light into three dimensional patterns arrays of optical fibers, each coupled to its own independent miniature light source.

In these miniature circuit breakers, the current is run through a solenoid, and, in the event of excess current flow, the magnetic pull of the solenoid is sufficient to force open the circuit breaker's contacts (often indirectly through a tripping mechanism).

A decade ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes. Yugoslavia is but a miniature version of what might happen in Ukraine if Yanukovych s tactics are allowed to bring ethnic antagonisms to the boiling point.

The technology available at the end of the Second World War was still very modest The area under examination in the interior of the human body was illuminated with miniature electric lamps alternatively, attempts were made to reflect light from an external source into the body through the endoscopic tube.