Canis Major is a prominent constellation because of its many bright stars.
The monastery, this structure of stone that endures, between the bitter waters and precipitous cliffs, with its oven and its inkwells, its mill and its cesspool, its constellation of sacred fonts and the unadorned graves of its dead, is perhaps, more than Bethlehem or Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity.
The 20% decrease in neonatal mortality in Uganda between 2000 and 2010 was attributed to its constellation of evolving policies – e.g., its Roadmap to Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality and Child Survival Strategy – many of which called for increased training and deployment of HRH to meet the strategic objectives [ 59].
Not surprisingly the United States, with its global sense of mission; its constellation of different security agencies; and its technical abilities, has a much longer reach than most.
AOL still enjoys a huge audience for its main portal and its constellation of related sites, but it is losing ground to rivals.
A color photograph of a galaxy 165 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus revealed its strange crosslike configuration, as if two galaxies had intersected.
In an age of lockstep partisanship, there's a lot to admire about this unusual constellation of ideas, and its sweeping critique of American politics as usual.
Obiora Udechukwu reverses the tonal equations in an etching of an all-black animal, a hybrid of chameleon and vulture with a constellation of stars in its belly.
Rather than trying to catalogue or historicize South Africa's vast constellation of artists, however, its directors focus on communicating the sense of thrilling momentum that's gripping the country as its distinctly national sounds begin to coalesce.
