Sentence examples for beacons to guide from inspiring English sources

By 1924, coast-to-coast airmail service had developed, using light beacons to guide open-cockpit planes at night.

Marge and Jim Russell recently stood at the water's edge with their grandchildren and several hundred other people, ready to launch more than 1,000 paper lanterns on the receding tide, beacons to guide home ancestral spirits believed to have returned that night for a Japanese Buddhist ritual known as a bon dance.

On 15 August 1944 the brigade's pathfinders landed in the south of France and set up Eureka beacons to guide the main brigade force to their drop zones.

"They told me the Ófeigskirkja had been used as a beacon to guide people through the lava field for centuries, so they asked me to write to the mayor to halt the road".

On occasions where no knowledge of temperature is needed, the FNDs in the nanohybrids are still useful as a photostable beacon to guide researchers to achieve target-specific optical transfection [41] or light-activated therapies [42] with the constituting GNR nanoheaters.

The vessels themselves had search radar and could activate a homing beacon to guide lost aircraft towards the ships' known locations.

Declare who you want to be and what you want your life to resemble and use that declaration as a beacon to guide every decision.

The S class submarine would leave before the rest of the convoy and be in position to act as a navigational beacon to guide the convoy into the Loire estuary.

Many of the routes which cross America are based on where hilltop beacons were lit to guide Charles Lindbergh's mail flights in the 1920s.

Modern planes use GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite navigation much as cars do, and also have radio beacons called VOR VHF Omnidirectional Radio Rangee) to guide them into airports.

In short, many opposition leaders have no plans to clean up the mess the dictatorships always leave behind, and have failed to become beacons of hope to guide their people out of despair.