Sentence examples for land axis from inspiring English sources

No monument (besides, eventually, Canberra's small unimposing foundation stone) was ever placed on the land axis.

Griffin's plan focused on an ornamental lake in the east-west Molonglo floodplain and a north-south land axis.

Its focus is on the parliamentary triangle and the land axis from Mount Ainslie north of Lake Burley Griffin to Parliament House on Capital Hill to the south.

From 1941 the great stone St George looked along that gun barrel straight land axis across the plain (there was no lake then) towards the war memorial.

The land axis dissected a vast triangle formed by Kings and Commonwealth Avenues with their cross-water bridges, and Constitution Avenue at right angles on the northern flank of the lake.

From the distant steps of the newly opened war monument it didn't so much resemble a double-sided statue as a displaced Besser brick – an odd disjunctive barrier to the eye following the otherwise unbroken land axis.

It stands at the point where the West Pier once joined the land, on axis with the disintegrating metal island that is most of what remains of the old construction.

With the majority of the fighting on African fronts, the British Command fostered resistance movements in the occupied countries, hoping to undermine German morale and Nazi infrastructure in lands the Axis had already pacified.

5 1998 NLA Basis for forming multi-axis land structure 2010 2015 (1) nature-rich living environments, (2) Urban renovation of large cities, (3) Clusters among regions, (4) Extensive internationally networked area.

A computer model refining the theory purports to show an earth wobbling crazily on its axis as land masses come together and then break apart, forming the continents we have today.

Again descending, but this time tilting off axis, the land sweeps down the vale to playful structures and follies waiting, hidden, below.