Sentence examples for of alighting from inspiring English sources

On this album they also share the dragonfly's instinct of alighting on an idea and then, just as swiftly, moving on.

"We have got to find ways of alighting on policy, and if you're a democratic party you've got to have that debate and I'm sure Trident is one of those issues where we'll do that," he told Mr Marr.

"We have got to find ways of alighting on policy, and if you're a democratic party you've got to have that debate and I'm sure Trident is one of those issues where we'll do that".

It was also confirmed that the piercing scowl that many years ago attached itself to Hermione Norris's face, as firmly as the creature to John Hurt in Alien, shows no sign of alighting in a new planetary environment.

The parafoil that controls the fairing's descent twisted during its return to Earth, and so the component crashed into the water a high velocity instead of alighting softly on the barge as intended.

The corresponding occupancy demand consists of the number of alighting passengers multiplied by the elementary length of time required to alight, plus the number of boarding passengers multiplied by the elementary length of time required to board.

I was not there, but I like to think of him alighting from his Bentley, the ducal coat of arms on its doors, and approaching the organisers (with a request to speak) wearing his long ducal greatcoat.

He pointed to a group of men alighting from a car and said that they were traders — "businessmen," he called them — who drove along the coast, snatching up the best fish for hotels and restaurants.

He pointed to a group of men alighting from a car and said that they were traders—"businessmen," he called them who drove along the coast, snatching up the best fish for hotels and restaurants.

The number of passengers alighting from train i at station j is V_{i,j} = y_{i,j} sumlimits_{K = 1}^{j - 1} {W_{i,kj} y_{i,k} },ii = 1,2, ldots,M;, j = 1,2, ldots,N.

The number of flies alighting in the top section was summed and multiplied by four, the number of flies alighting in the second highest section was summed and multiplied by three, and so on.