It draws everything into its vantage in a mighty torrent that has burst its bounds.
Officer Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman, said having a helicopter was particularly useful in Oakland because from its vantage point above the city, it could handle 10 times as many calls as a patrol unit during a much shorter period of time.
But if large portions of "After the Music Stopped" feel familiar, the book nonetheless benefits from its wide-angle perspective, as well as from its vantage point in time, now that it's possible to assess the fallout of decisions that were being made on the run by White House and Treasury officials under extraordinary pressures.
They claim that the Palestinian group, from its vantage point in the Gaza Strip, has supported Islamist militants based in Sinai who have waged an insurgency against Egyptian police and soldiers since Morsi's removal.
The congregation sees perhaps 100 pipes from its vantage point in the pews.
And thanks to its vantage point in space, the craft's telescope can obtain much clearer images than Earth-based instruments.
From its vantage point in Citic Tower, Victoria City Seafood Restaurant overlooks Victoria Harbour and Kowloon and is perhaps best known for its exceptional dim sum.
In traditional theism, the temporal world is spread out before God who can see it in its entirety from an eternal vantage point, like an observer on a hill viewing travelers in a caravan.
But geology, in spite of all the rocks in its pockets, provides a lofty vantage point, one that forces us to acknowledge the ephemerality of the present moment while also empowering us to travel freely across time, glimpsing geographies and ecosystems that are simultaneously foreign and familiar, one dissolving into the next, an unbroken narrative leading to the present.
From a good vantage point, relaxed in a comfortable chair at a time of day when the entire room is in its best light, use a set of printed or actual wood samples to make some comparisons.
