Sentence examples for observer standing from inspiring English sources

The "point of view" from which we draw the picture is that of an observer standing above the plane looking down on all of it.

An observer standing on Pluto's surface would see the Sun as an extremely bright star in the dark sky, providing Pluto on average 1/1,600 of the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth.

More specifically, Boykoff focuses on the cultural politics of climate change, and "why and how media representations of climate change are produced, negotiated and disseminated through unequal power and inequalities of access and resources (page ix)." For Boykoff, the news media is not a neutral observer, standing apart from cultural, economic, and political forces.

The Shortest Day, for soprano and orchestra, set a sequence of three poems specially written by Dr Rowan Williams, in which an observer, standing outside time, sees the tragic events unfold yet is powerless to affect the outcome and even less the suffering.

If we adopt such a procedure we will find that the speed of light is infinite, if special relativity is correct about time dilation: with the car going at the speed of light according to an observer standing on the road, the clock on the car will not advance at all while the car passes any number of milestones.

For an observer standing right beneath the blast, it would have appeared 30 times brighter than the sun when it disintegrated.

"Asphalt Renaissance" is an art book, with startling color photos of the work in situ, often with observers standing around providing context.

One portrait quilt by Alice Beasley, a lawyer in Oakland, Calif., depicts observers standing behind the yellow tape of a disaster scene reminiscent of the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing.

Those 30 minutes came in the form of three 10-minute performances that observers — standing, sitting or lying on their backs by the Bancroft Library — could see, hear and capture on smartphones.

They arrested primarily journalists and legal observers standing on a state highway, rather than the activists remaining in camp.

They primarily arrested journalists and legal observers standing on a state highway rather than the activists remaining in camp.