Sentence examples for tether that from inspiring English sources

And it went beyond the tether that connects dog and boy in public.

The tether that connects a missing person's poster to its unseen story is what Graham MacIndoe, 49, examines in his photo series, "Missing Persons".

"We mount the turbines on a rigid wing and fly the wing around in circles, and transmit electricity back to the ground through the tether that connects the wing to the ground," he said.

Alone with her uke, she reflects on this unforgiving trial by media in Bigger on the Inside, a song from the end of a tether that is brilliantly cathartic and humane.

Under pressure from the Bush administration to create majority-black districts in 1992, the General Assembly concocted a 165-mile-long district that connected black population centers in Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham with a tether that was often no wider than Interstate 85.

Powered by a 6-mile-long wire — make that "space tether" — that generates energy as it is pulled through the Earth's magnetic field, Edde would sidle up to a piece of junk, whip out a disposable net to catch it and then move to a lower orbit, where air friction would coax the item to re-enter the atmosphere.

The collar fits over the driver's shoulders and includes tethers that are attached to a driver's helmet.

Some parolees say they try to keep their ankles out of sight because they must wear electronic ankle tethers that help probation officers keep track of them.

The Internet banking services that have been sold to customers as conveniences, like online bill paying,  serve as powerful tethers that keep them from jumping to another institution.

Ford and G.M. are also working on technologies that would provide a range of inflation options for an air bag, beyond two settings, as well as tethers that alter how far out the air bag will protrude.

She watched as the new arrivals flopped into the river, tugged at their tubes and adjusted the tethers that connected tubes with human payloads to tubes with cooler payloads.