Sentence examples for Long fixed from inspiring English sources

Archaeologists have long fixed their sights on the grandeur that was ancient Egypt, the pyramids, temples and tombs.

Japanese banks have long fixed their attention on being big and important rather than on actually making money.

Justice Alito, in a separate dissent that seemed directed to sentencing judges, said the majority's opinion did nothing to affect even quite long fixed sentences.

I sat down to this movie expecting to see one of the long, fixed camera-position takes, in medium- or long-shot, which McQueen has made such a brilliant signature with his cinematographer Sean Bobbitt.

The filmmaker Paz Encina does wondrous things in an overly familiar style of international art-house formalism: long, fixed takes of carefully arranged scenes; the meticulous orchestration of environmental noises; an oblique handling of character and continuity.

A range of short brown stiff feathers, almost six inches long, fixed in the uropygium, is the real tail, and serves as a fulcrum to prop the train, which is long and top-heavy, when set on end.

But the new boss's to-do list was long: fixing GM's loss-making European arm, keeping up momentum in China amid signs of a slowdown and rejuvenating the product line.

Only time will tell whether such a long fix at this rate represents great value, but even the experts and economists don't know with any certainty when rates will rise and this has made long-term fixes tricky to assess.

Dropping the artificial segmentation into the (quite long) fixed-length documents then enables much more finely grained time resolution when looking for the relevant passages.

Long term fixed rates are also heavily penalised and this is a problem.

Put together, the tent poles should be six or ten feet long, snapped, fixed, or screwed together.