Sentence examples for displaced in front from inspiring English sources

Since Aristotle supposed that a) whenever there is motion there must be something which imparts the motion, and b) mover and moved must be in contact, he was led to conclude that the air displaced in front of the projectile somehow rushes round it and pushes from behind, thus propelling the projectile along.

Running spiders displaced air in front of and above their body trunk (Figures 2 & 3).

The cuboid is also displaced inward in front of the calcaneus.

No civilians were displaced in Daggar, Maj.

This immediately suggests a northward propagating signal, since phase fronts in that case would cross stations at the same magnetic latitude essentially simultaneously, but be delayed at the more northerly station of a pair displaced in magnetic latitude.

7.6 million internally displaced in Syria.

The dot was displaced in three brainstems.

Nemchinov's injury resulted from a clean LeClair hit along the left boards, which displaced the glass in front of the Flyers' penalty box far enough to allow Nemchinov's face to meet a metal stanchion.

The walking HCW displaces air in front of it and carries air in the wake forwardly, meanwhile pressure difference drives air from two lateral sides into the wake.

Preservationists say the ramp would displace the garden in front of the building, setting a precedent that could destroy what makes the neighborhood special.

This crest is displaced towards the front in the living colugos, but less so in D. chimaera.