Sentence examples for slingshot from inspiring English sources

"We think we have an agreement, but we are not sure what it is," came the reply from one weary negotiator.By their own admission, the leaders themselves at times struggled to understand the complex financial engineering which they were being asked to approve to turn their inadequate financial slingshot into the "big bazooka" that the world had asked them to assemble.

These robots, typically launched by foot soldiers with a catapult, slingshot or hand toss, far outnumber their larger kin, which are the size of piloted aeroplanes.Global sales of UAVs this year are expected to increase by more than 10% over last year to exceed $4.7 billion, according to Visiongain, a market-research firm based in London.

So a team from JPL has got together to analyse all of the slingshot manoeuvres that have been carried out over the years, to see if they really do involve a small but systematic extra boost.

The conclusion, therefore, is that although it is best to have no pests at all, there are at least some circumstances when two invasives are better than one.In this section Golden slingshot Is it plane?

His emotional range is wide and subtle; he knows how to surprise an audience's ear with different intonations (a trick he says he learned from another British actor, Bill Nighy) and he has the vital ability to stay absolutely motionless while projecting emotion like a slingshot.

Hundreds of scientific papers have been written on the Pioneer anomalies, many of them trying to find explanations beyond the current laws of gravity.Dr Anderson himself points out that several features of the Pioneer anomalies and the slingshot anomalies suggest they may have a common explanation.

This repurposing involved a series of intricate flybys of the Earth and the moon to slingshot the satellite into its comet-tracking trajectory.

Instead, they act as beacons for the delivery of doses of energy that destroy cancer cells physically, rather than chemically.In this section Golden slingshot Is it plane?

The compressed primary season could turn Iowa into a powerful slingshot: Mr Obama or, more probably, Mr Edwards could shoot straight from a victory there to the head of the pack.The first argument is obviously true as far as it goes: "inevitability" is a dangerous word when a personal scandal could blow Mrs Clinton's campaign apart.

The reason for its long stay in space was that it was launched on a low-powered rocket, and the only way to give it enough oomph to get to Mars was to steal extra energy from Earth's orbit, which is what the slingshot manoeuvre is designed to achieve.

On the 19th, it will swing past Earth in a "slingshot" manoeuvre that will set it on course for Mars.