Individuals go streaking by, and long skeins of birds, incoming or outgoing, cross the sky far away.
Wondering why he has woken so early, he sees a plane with one of its engines on fire, streaking like a comet towards Heathrow airport.
PETER MANDELSON's political memoir "The Third Man"—streaking into bookshops now—opens with a careful explanation of the book's title.
With its airliner division streaking ahead of America's Boeing, EADS is in a better position to work on building up its less successful military and space businesses: some 98% of the company's pre-tax profits come from Airbus.
The chapter on streaking retells the well-worn stories of long-ago escapades at sporting events, but the reader longs to hear from the participants.
Such a deal gives the impression of an industry streaking ahead of its regulator.The FCC, as Mr Kennard himself noted in a 1983 law journal article, operates under a vague "holy grail" directive to uphold "the public interest, convenience and necessity".
No one doubts that asteroids have hit Earth in the past, with nasty consequences, but because the chances of any such event happening in a given year are so low, most people have been content to ignore the risk.Today, however, a meteor was seen streaking through the sky above Yekaterinburg in Russia.
They destroyed a powerful Arab army and ignited a civil war, driving a wedge between Sunnis and Shias that has sent fissures streaking across the region.
After years of grinding pain following its takeover in 1998 by Daimler-Benz, Chrysler is now streaking ahead thanks to a move upmarket propelled by superior products.
A Yazidi elder reached by phone said they were trying to climb high enough into the nearby mountains that members of the Islamic State would not follow.The Islamic State, an extremist group that operates in Iraq and Syria, took over the northern town of Mosul in June before streaking across Iraq.
WITH bombers streaking overhead during a military passing-out ceremony in Belgrade on September 13th, there was no mistaking the expression of satisfaction on the face of Boris Tadic, Serbia's president.
