Sentence examples for sailing figure from inspiring English sources

At 53, Sir Peter was a larger-than-life sailing figure who had twice led New Zealand to victory in the America's Cup and then become immersed in environmental research.

In the same viewing condition, the resulting "Sail" image (Figure 6c) with lower PSNR generates consistent visual quality at lower entropy.

I am secretly hoping that the box, like its namesakes, will somehow turn out not to exist, meaning that I will somehow not have bought it, meaning that I am somehow not a suburban dad, but rather a mythical figure sailing uncharted holiday oceans.

In the above subjective viewing test, the compressing outputs for the original color "Sail" and "Leaf" images (Figures 6a and 7a) are shown in Figures 6b and 7b, respec-tively, where the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the compressed "Sail" image is of 35.36 dB at en-tropy of 0.739 and the PSNR of the compressed "Leaf" image is of 34.73 dB at entropy of 0.491.

With £2.94m already achieved, and the holiday to come, Insurgent looks likely to sail past that figure.

While other temples to commerce worldwide are facing declining sales, this British flagship is sailing ahead, with figures at a time of financial chaos showing increases over 2008 — which was already "our best year ever," said Paul Kelly, the chief executive of Selfridges.

These PBMC subpopulations were not found to be sensitive to anti-SAIL ADC (Supplementary Figure 3).

Determined to revive the town, a handful of local figures and sailing enthusiasts came up with the Hermione II idea over a wine-filled dinner on the site in 1992.

You see, over cold beers on my patio, with the crescent moon a delicate princess fingernail low in the west, I told Steve Wong that if he threw, say, a hammer with enough muscle, said tool would make a five-hundred-thousand-mile figure eight, sail around that very moon, and return to Earth like a boomerang, and wasn't that fascinating?

The financial damage could sail into nine figures -- and if the attack was not launched by weapons-grade hackers (or even if it was) the mess leaves a lot of serious questions regarding the future of doing business in the age of the super hack.

BBC reporter Rob Walker matched Cracknell's rowing figure with his sailing prediction, noting that Ben Ainslie would win gold as he took "the opportunity to become the greatest-ever Olympic sailor".