Sentence examples for mountings from inspiring English sources

In the late 18th century knife cases were also made in the shape of urns and were veneered in wood (first walnut and later mahogany) and sometimes decorated with silver mountings.

The heaviest guns could be assembled on large mountings, which in turn could be carried on a number of wheels so as to distribute the load evenly onto a railway track.

The advent of lightweight missiles also threatened to render the light gun obsolete in the 1950s, but two decades later the development of electro-optical sights, using television and thermal-imaging technology and allied to computers and powered mountings, led to a resurgence of this class of weapon.

In World War I, field artillery pieces up to about 90 mm (3.5 inches) in calibre were converted to antiaircraft use by mountings that enabled them to fire nearly vertically.

There were new productions of Williams's major works, ranging from straightforward interpretations to radical experimental versions; mountings of his rarely seen late-career one-acts and stage adaptations of his short stories; and even original plays about Williams himself, assaying aspects of his life and his creative impact on American drama.

Also, rapid-loading and fuze-setting devices were incorporated into gun mountings so that a high rate of fire could be achieved.

Mr. Medlyn refers several times to trees, calling them "helpless observers rooted in place" and asks, "what does the mounting dread mount to?" He gets no answer, at least none that satisfies.

By next year even he could be forced to rely upon the central government to guarantee the floundering city's mounting debts.

But terrorism-watchers are growing increasingly worried that al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups from across north Africa have attached themselves to Nigeria's Islamic sects, which feed off ever-mounting resentment of its wretched government.

MOUNTING the podium in London's Guildhall to receive her second Man Booker prize on October 16th, Hilary Mantel mused on the delayed gratification of a writer's life.

MOUNTING toward his conclusion in a much-discussed post attempting fairly and precisely to pinpoint the ways in which libertarians have and have not made the world lousy, Ezra Klein says this:That libertarian dreams of a privatized (or completely dismantled) Medicare system haven't come to pass is no more relevant than dreams of minarchy.