Sentence examples for like harnessing from inspiring English sources

So energetic is this imaginary machine that using it would be like harnessing a thermonuclear reaction.

This might seem, as it did to many at the time, a waste of Goethe's genius — like harnessing Pegasus to a cart.

Turning the appeal of games toward useful ends would be like harnessing the energy of nuclear fission: the power is tremendous, and the mechanism seems simple and clean.

Called the Spring Road Marketing Conference, the weeklong meeting draws more than 400 theater managers, marketers and other theater staff members to see shows and attend panels with titles like "Harnessing the Power of Your Web Site".

This is a landmark bill, achieved through the messy and maddening processes of representative democracy, like harnessing tabby cats to push a plastic garden hose uphill, during which you read dozens of interesting articles about the fatal flaws of the Democratic party and the twilight of the Obama administration, but what a difference a day can make.

In these circles, sustainable solutions are discussed on a grand scale, like harnessing the vast wind and geothermal resources of East Africa or tapping the enormous water reserves in Congo.

One dress had a cage-like harness bodice (a requisite McQueen flourish), which devolved dramatically into waves of chiffon ruffles.

But I carried my 10-pound dog in a BabyBjörn-like harness on hikes, and after an hour my back ached.

After Warren has entered the room, wearing a boxfresh Hugo Boss polo shirt, tracksuit bottoms and pristine trainers, he has to put on a bright red seatbelt-like harness.

And with no body weight to pull him down, Peake must be anchored to the treadmill with bungee cords and carabiners that latch on to the rucksack-like harness he wears when he runs.

Mr. Marshall attached his first Crittercam to a captive sea turtle with a backpack-like harness and quickly made his most important discovery: the turtle did not seem to mind the contraption or change its behavior because of it.