Sentence examples for of airstrip from inspiring English sources

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins on a cold April morning in a deteriorated London, the major city of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, where, despite advances in technology, the weather is still lousy and residents endure a seemingly endless austerity.

In the novel – published in 1949 – citizens of Airstrip One (which used to be Great Britain) are subjected to a brutal regime that watches their every move, and attempts to monitor their every thought.

The figure of Big Brother towers over the citizens of Airstrip One, his image looming from billboards across the city; the eyes following Winston Smith, even home into his flat, peering into his eyes, reminding him that he is always being watched.

The less you are familiar with the idea of the agent provocateur as an instrument of oppression and rule the more you will shudder at the wiles used by the Ministry of Love in Mr. Orwell's London of 1984, "chief city of Airstrip One, Oceana".

We saw a demo of AirStrip, an app for health care providers.

Co-founder of Airstrip Dr. Cameron Powell took to the stage at the Apple live event this morning to demonstrate how the app works with the human body – including monitoring heart rate, contractions during child birth and the ability to differentiate between the baby and the mother's heart rate.

There is evidence of airstrips being built.

As the state's public-use airports have declined, the number of airstrips and helipads for private use has increased.

In July 1956, the first glider-like U-2 flights soared 70,000 feet over the Soviet Union, bringing back clear pictures of airstrips and missile sites.

Mr. Young led his fighters into battles against Communist forces and directed the construction of airstrips to be used by Air America, the C.I.A.-financed airline that supplied the hill tribes with weapons and supplies.

They administered care to the Yanomami with donated medicine from the United States and transported them to clinics on small propeller planes using dozens of airstrips carved out of the jungle.