Sentence examples for scopes from inspiring English sources

This was Australia's very own "Scopes Monkey Trial" … a "disgrace to universities"… a "grotesque betrayal of the tradition of free thought" … a "craven surrender to the mob".

SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced "skoh", as in Scopes.

Evangelical or "born-again" Christians make up a quarter of the population; and they are on the march.In the wake of the creationist "Scopes monkey trial" in 1925, the evangelicals (though technically victorious) realised they had lost the PR battle, and retreated from American public life.

Meanwhile Beretta diversified, buying Burris, a maker of sports binoculars and precision scopes based in Colorado, as it started to reshape itself from a gunmaker into a luxury outdoor brand.

When passed through flexible scopes, pairs of them can move independently of the tip, so that they can oppose one another, making triangulation possible.

This is where amateur bird-watchers will drag their scopes and cameras, and cause the world's professionals to admit they've been out-twitched.Dominic Ziegler: Tokyo bureau chief, The Economist.

Fishing tackle and rifle scopes are expensive.The southern traditions that deserve to survive mostly have, and will continue to do so.

They offer laser sights that paint an assassin's red dot on distant prey, rangefinders that work at 1,000 metres and night-vision scopes so advanced that they are covered by federal arms-export restrictions.

On appeal, the state Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1925 law but acquitted Scopes on the technicality that he had been fined excessively.

Optional enhancements to the M16 family include the M203 grenade launcher, a bayonet, and an assortment of rail-mounted flashlights, scopes, and laser-targeting systems.

Evolving from the American and European "shoot-and-stuff" mania of the 19th century, bird-watching became a sportlike activity based on rapid identification the rarest being the most rewarding with the aid of binoculars and spotting scopes.