Each can turn on its own axis.
Not even creationists argue that the Earth's rotation on its own axis disproves evolution.
(Coffin's own "axis of evil" consists of "environmental degradation, pandemic poverty, and a world awash with weapons").
The rotation of the Earth about its own axis also causes pseudoforces for observers at rest on the Earth's surface.
Mr. Roh was simply trying to send a conciliatory message to Pyongyang, forming his own Axis of Engagement to soothe Mr. Kim and start a dialogue himself.
"We're there to help the Pakistanis, but we're also there to extend our own axis of security to their nuclear stockpile".
* * * DANA: U up? JASON ADAM KATZENSTEIN: "Up" is sort of an interesting concept, when you consider Earth's rotation, both around the sun and around its own axis.
Hydra, on the other hand, spins on its own axis an astonishing eighty-nine tines in the course of a single lap around Pluto.
Then, with respect to its own axis, each point on the circular cross section in Figure 22 moves with instantaneous tangential linear speed vc = Rω.
An ever more polished speaker, he duly laid into George Bush for fashioning his own "axis of evil" out of fiscal irresponsibility, foreign adventurism and special interests.
In terms of classical physics, angular momentum is a property of a body that is in orbit or is rotating about its own axis.
