Sentence examples for absolute land from inspiring English sources

Steve Fossett, the millionaire businessman and adventurer perhaps best known for circumnavigating the world nonstop in a hot air balloon, was preparing to break the absolute land speed record -- 763 miles per hour -- when he died.

The team behind the project believes this trio of power units could secure the absolute land speed record for Britain for many years to come.

In 1937 he built a massive new car, Thunderbolt, powered by two R engines to attempt the absolute land speed record.

Generally, according to panelists, the flexible sidewalls of pneumatic tires were preferred over the solid disc wheels used on the Thrust SSC land jet that set the absolute land-speed record of 763 m.p.h in 1997.

The car last ran in 1997 in an attempt to break the then-absolute land speed record of 633 miles per hour.

This land-revenue system underpins Hong Kong's low rate, simple tax system.The Hong Kong experience demonstrates that one of the greatest historical, fiscal follies across the developed world has been the near universal practice of disposing of absolute title to land upon sale by the state.

Along the way, some experts argued that copyright should be perpetual, because intellectual property was like ownership of land — absolute until alienated by sale.

Without sufficient water storage, irrigation becomes nearly impossible, and the relationship between irrigation and prosperity is absolute: if your land is fed by water, you are far less likely to be poor and far more likely to be educated.

In August, the U.S. Geological Survey released a study that sought to differentiate submersion related to climate change (the ocean rising) from variations in absolute elevation (the land falling).

With 42-inch fins, bullet-shaped turn signals and brake lights, the 20-foot Biarritz "coupe" was the absolute king of land yachts.

In both of these cases, policy makers should be redirected toward policies to improve the technical efficiency index (EFFCH) in order to achieve the gradual transition from non-decoupling to relative and subsequently to absolute decoupling of land use in the case of Germany and to achieve absolute decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and material flows in the case of Greece.