Sentence examples for center force from inspiring English sources

One of those forces is centrifugal ("to flee from the center") force, the inertia that makes a body on a curved path want to continue outward in a straight line.

The Nashville Pike and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, the two direct routes between Nashville and Murfreesboro, ran from the northwest to the southeast near the west bank of the river, passing through the Federal lines between the center force, under Thomas, and the right wing, under Crittenden, before crossing the river in the Confederate rear.

This was to allow the Japanese Center Force to enter the gulf through San Bernardino Strait.

Between 22 and 25 October 1944, as part of Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force (also known as Force A or First Striking Force), Yamato took part in one of the largest naval engagements in history the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Kongō sortied as part of Admiral Kurita's Center Force, scoring hits on an American escort carrier and sinking or damaging two destroyers during the Battle off Samar.

Planes from his carriers sank four of the Japanese carriers, as well as a destroyer and a cruiser, while New Jersey steamed south at flank speed to meet the newly developed threat of the Center force.

The Islanders, flat for much of the game tonight, finally had an opportunity when Bates, a center, forced a turnover.

Baxter recorded an assist in the sixth inning when his throw from shallow center forced Beltran into a rundown between second and third.

It can be felt in the desperate solicitations of a downtown day care center, forced to lay off half its teachers, begging the public for donations.

The collapse of the World Trade Center forced the Board of Education to close seven buildings and shift nearly 6,000 students to other schools around the city that were already overcrowded and understaffed.

Nine months after the attacks on the World Trade Center forced the staff of The Wall Street Journal to flee its nearby offices, the paper's executives say the former newsroom is ready to reopen.