Sentence examples for direct sighting from inspiring English sources

Since then, researchers have confirmed the existence of exoplanets from rhythmic changes in starlight as an orbiting object moves across the face of the star, but that, too, is hardly a direct sighting.

Astronomers also caught one transiting the face of its star, a more direct sighting that confirms the previous indirect observations of extrasolar planets.

Population structure from direct sighting of elephants showed that adult male elephants constitute just 2.9% and adult females 42.3% of the population with the rest being sub-adults (27.4%), juveniles (16%) and calves (11.4%).

Pilots and crew often opted to use their own judgement by direct sighting with considerable success.

The likely stimulus causing animals to flush is noise, as there was no significant effect of direct sighting of the helicopter on mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) reactions once the effect of distance of mountain goats to the helicopter was accounted [ 17].

Ottens was the first of her family to go to college, a nursing career in direct sights.

Not only would that wall block physical access but it would also diminish the designers' goal of direct sight lines into the plaza from the surrounding sidewalks.

In keeping with this theme, we'd been content to gaze out at Isola San Giulio from our apartment window, three floors above Piazza Motta and with a direct sight line to the island.

Inspired by the American Great Camps, built for wealthy industrialists in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, North Star Club is more like a swanky hotel surrounded by forest than a campsite – and with not another human or cabin in direct sight.

But any cross-border car chase must be abandoned as soon as the pursued vehicle falls out of direct sight of the police car, Ms. Bonfanti said, restricting such cross-border interventions to five last year.

"It was important to have direct sight lines throughout the building," says Woods. "So if we're having an open session on Iraq down here in the forum, we can wave up to our Iraq expert upstairs".