In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.
If the Crocker fault system is the expression of a bending-moment fault above a tectonically driven thrust fault that verges into Sabah's offshore faults, the potential for even larger earthquakes sourced from the underlying thrust fault would exist.
Determination, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, firmness (of purpose), steadfastness, backbone, drive, push, thrust, enthusiasm, ambition, initiative, enterprise, motivation, single-mindedness, commitment, conviction, dedication; get-up-and-go.
In addition, the euro was introduced across Europe in 2002 and thrusting ambition drove the world's leading cities to compete over who could build the most impressive towers.
From the Late Jurassic through the Cretaceous, collision between the North American and Farallon plates drove extensive thin-skinned thrusting and crustal shortening that resulted in substantial relief in the North American Cordillera.
At the same time, the Byzantine left managed to launch a successful counter-thrust which drove back the opposing Persian right in disarray.
Some squids (Onychoteuthis, Thysanoteuthis) are able to "fly" for several hundred feet, driven into the air by powerful thrusts from their jets and gliding on their expanded fins and arm keels.
Demand for greater engine efficiency and thrust-to-weight ratio has driven the production of aircraft engines with higher core temperatures and pressures.
Driving this GT Up was a delight, the little car thrusting forward on a rush of energy to the deep, tuneful note of its engine.
May drives a car made of washing machines, while Jeremy sits on a thrusting dragster of fridges and food blenders.
