Sentence examples for apogee by from inspiring English sources

Pageantry as represented in apogee by this royal wedding should be preserved, paid for from a controlled budget, and enjoyed.

In the 1950s, the beatniks co-opted it as a symbol of intellectual bohemia, the style reaching its apogee by the time a black-turtlenecked Audrey Hepburn did her modern dance, all long limbs and jagged angles, in "Funny Face".

Propellant venting increased the apogee by 6.4 nautical miles over the 2 hours, 44 minutes and 30 seconds spent in the parking orbit.

Where Polanski and Towne raised noir to a black apogee by turning rearward, director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader brought the noir attitude crashing into the present day with Taxi Driver (1976), a crackling, bloody-minded gloss on bicentennial America.

For example, crops of sweet potatoes exceeded original Mars base prototype projections by an average of 46% (53% for best crop) ultradwarf (Apogee) wheat by 9%23%3% for best crop), pinto bean by 13% (31% for best crop).

Desserts are Wildfire's apogee, epitomized by a warm, tangy apricot tarte tatin, with an exquisite puff pastry crust.

Whitesides' comments two weeks ago made it clear that thermal protection, and not the height – or apogee – reached by the craft, was his main concern.

Outrage over Tom Daschle's tax woes didn't even come close to reaching the dull apogee achieved by critics of Timothy Geithner on Sunday, with Daschle allies -- like John Kerry -- briskly making the "to know him is to love him or at least wish him no specific set of injuries" case, and opponents adopting a mostly wait-and-see attitude.

To our knowledge, a similar maintenance schedule has been organized in other Africa countries where Auto40 flow cytometers have been implemented [local distributor or technician; on-site maintenance organized by Inodia (France); specialized mission in case of unresolved issues organized by Apogee Flow Systems Ltd. (UK), concerning about 15 analyzers throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The disgraceful fever, which ruled out all but a trickle of immigration and so cost countless lives, reached its historic apogee in 1944 — by which time the Holocaust was more or less complete.

J. Samsó informs us that Ptolemy's calculation of the apogee was wrong by approximately 30º and that az-Zarkâllah calculated the apogee in another work only with an error of 10º (Samsó 1993 1994, pp. 676 677).