Sentence examples for just a displacement from inspiring English sources

Much of what happened north of East 161st Street was just a displacement of activity from the south side, rather than a creation of new activity.

Now on the other hand, if I put the system like this, which is, in fact, what's referred to as an inverted pendulum, although we could conceivably get this to balance, just a slight displacement because of the fact that the pendulum is inverted, a slight displacement and the output becomes unbounded.

This is just a temporary displacement," Morabito says.

With just a small displacement of the transducer the results are altered.

The engine is surprisingly flexible despite wringing so much power from just a liter of displacement; some credit must go to the fuel system, which uses two injectors per cylinder and variable-length intake tracts.

But home improvement can just as easily be a displacement activity, a distraction from underlying problems unrelated to décor.

He argued that banning Facebook would just shift any "displacement time" onto something else, which I suppose could be doing the crossword or having another fag break.

"But there's a displacement.

Recently, the precision and accuracy of real-time satellite orbit/clock information has reached sufficient levels for the detection of coseismic displacements of just a few centimeters (e.g., Daud et al., 2008; Ohta et al., 2012).

"Smugglers just use cheaper boats that are terrible quality," said Aurélie Ponthieu, a displacement specialist with Doctors Without Borders.

But their sense of displacement was not just a matter of sentiment.