Sentence examples for loose formations from inspiring English sources

It is with New Year Letter (1940), a long verse letter in couplets, that one begins, perhaps, to become really irritated by Auden's pomposity, by the spiritual wrangling and the grand gestures: "Under the familiar weight / Of winter, conscience and the State, / In loose formations of good cheer, / Love, language, loneliness and fear".

A single gain varies the importance of the relative and absolute position terms, allowing for tight or loose formations.

To fulfil this scientific mission goal, a constellation of spacecraft is required, flying in loose formations around the Earth and sampling three characteristic plasma scale distances simultaneously, with at least two satellites per scale: electron kinetic (∼10km), ion kinetic (∼100 2000km) and magnetospheric fluid (∼3000 15000km).

In another town south of Kirkuk city, men were recently filmed standing in loose formation wearing mismatched uniforms.

Behind them drifted a loose formation of men and women perched atop well-groomed horses and wearing boots, breeches and hunting coats.

That is certainly true of al-Shabaab, which was born out of the Islamic Court Union, a loose formation of Islamic judicial systems that managed to restore some sort of civil order after years of a violent anarchy in Somalia, opening the Mogadishu airport and earning the support from a Somali majority.

Indeed, such a future concept will consist of a two-satellite long-distance loose formation, where each satellite is controlled independently to be drag-free, GOCE-like.

We ride in a loose formation, forcing the sheep into a single bunch as we move towards the neck of a valley.

It might not have been the fastest, quietest or most luxurious airliner, and it has often been described, fondly, as 'a collection of parts flying in loose formation,' and yet pilots and operators worldwide liked to say that the 'only replacement for a DC-3 is a DC-3.'.

A loose formation is however liable to suffer very heavy casualties under the same conditions.

Others acted in some sort of loose formation to brace themselves for the SPVM's entrance as they strode through the building as its rightful owners.