Sentence examples for main engine s from inspiring English sources

Ship machinery installations have two principal sources of excitation: the main engine(s) and the propeller(s).

Reading it, Modiano records, he felt a sudden "malaise": "Too young, I had written a first book in which I skirted the essential …" He doubted his own talent, and he also doubted fiction: "Since literature's main engine is often memory, it seemed to me that the only necessary book was a memorial, as Serge Klarsfeld had done".

These engines, with their bore and stroke of 36 inches, were larger than the main engines of the s.

Exports have been Germany's main engine: they jumped by 21.7% in the year to November.

Consumption is at last edging out investment as the economy's main engine.

Until recently, investors considered that revenue to be the main engine of the company's growth.

In 20-foot high waves, the ship's main engine had failed.

And exports, which account for a larger share of the German economy than the American economy, have been the main engine of Germany's recovery.

In the bubble years the main engine of Ireland's economy was a housing boom that eventually ran out of control.

Industrial production fell in November, underscoring a slowdown in the corporate sector, which had been the main engine of Japan's recovery.

The company also prepared for the first launch, scheduled for 2001, of its Delta IV, which employed a low-cost engine derived from the space shuttle's main engine.