Sentence examples for fixed courses from inspiring English sources

Mercator's breakthrough was to provide sailors with a map on which they could plot fixed courses as straight lines.His projection was a navigator's godsend, but as a representation of how things are, it came with well-known costs.

In high school, a typically 1960s experimental establishment called The School Without Walls, in which there were no fixed courses or even classes, young Baker, who played the bassoon, was drawn not to literature but to music: "His teacher thought he was the bassoon heir apparent," remembers Steve Massa, who accompanied him on piano.

It might be easier for everyone if it just went with a set menu: three fixed courses, take it or leave it.

Formula races around pylons originated in the United States in 1947, the principle being that aircraft of a similar performance would race round a fixed course defined by pylons, rather like an automobile racetrack.

Next, we compared how students performed on the posttest with a model that included Pretest score (fixed), Treatment (fixed), Course (random) and OLRE (random) as predictor variables (Table 4).

As none of the institutions surveyed had a fixed course sequence, we did not know precisely the exposure each student had to evo-devo concepts.

A fixed three-course meal costs $75 pesos pp (£14) exc drinks.

Many times problems are not so easily fixed, of course, especially when files or programs disappear.

They can be fixed, of course, but that takes time — and meanwhile wind power isn't being gathered.

The hole in the window has long since been fixed, of course, and on Wednesday, a young man from Rotterdam, who stood near it aiming a camera into the distance, said he was just capturing a streetscape.

Mr. Christophers himself left Oxford and immediately joined a small-scale opera company, a move that might well have fixed the course of his career but for a useful accident of timing.