Sentence examples for compassing from inspiring English sources

Henry plays the part with such conviction that for a moment we forget that he's been far from constant to Falstaff, who, during the play, dies heartbroken and nearly unnoticed by Henry, or to his father, whose overthrow and subsequent murder of Richard III he calls "the fault / My father made in compassing the crown".

Jon Hawksley, London EC1 It is interesting that when Pepys was reorganising and re-financing the Royal Navy in 1666 he could write: "So long as we and the world must be subjected to these bankers, I do despair of compassing it".

It's a tough hike and you need a map and compass but the rewards are stunning: views across shimmering waters to the isles of Rhum, Eigg and Skye, where the entire Cuillin ridge stands tall.

First, the future of leadership challenge will seek to accelerate a new kind of inclusive leadership underpinned by a moral compass of being fair, honest, positive and creative.

People have been telling Labour they'd lost their moral compass and they didn't listen".

It is hardly surprising that, for some of us at least, our political compass currently feels confused.

Obama has tugged at the needle of our moral compasses several times with soundbites loaded with ethical ordnance.

The main reason Mercator's projection became so popular was because of its navigational usefulness; in his map, straight lines represent lines of constant compass bearing.

It is as if when we left Italy, my internal compass – but not that of my parents – simply couldn't stop pointing north.

"The planning, the precision of the pilots who with just a stopwatch and a compass landed gliders in the dark within 47 yards of the bridge is astonishing, even today.

But he's like John Donne's compass: he always circles back to home.