Reenactments showed that 12 islanders were able to lift a 25-ton statue about 10 feet off the ground and to tilt it on end on top of an ahu; this work took 18 days with no tools other than two wooden logs that were used as levers.
A gannet's skull is built like the nose of a Concorde: strong, delicate, unpierced, and able to tilt downward on landing but hold straight ahead when passing at great speed through the water.
But equally important, in principle, is the reverse feedback the need to tilt researchers' attention on the questions that are, or should be, on the policy agenda.
Modern planetariums tend to tilt the dome on edge and seat the audience in the same direction in more comfortable reclining high-back chairs.
He came back with Junior's black brimmed parade hat, slipped it over my forehead, then showed me how to tilt it back on my head so it would stay put.
The US supreme court begins a final day of hearings over the constitutionality of Barack Obama's sweeping health reforms that has taken on added significance after a majority of justices appeared to tilt against the legislation on Tuesday.
Voters in Florida, as elsewhere, have tended to tilt toward the Democrats on such issues as Social Security, Medicare, a prescription drug benefit, protection against abuses by health maintenance organizations, and education.
But there are many alternative ways to tilt a portfolio depending on your access to funds and risk preference.
With your knowledge that life, with endless vigor, seems to tilt the playing field on which we all live, in favor of unhappiness and hate... this is what your heart tells you to do?
Subjects tended to tilt anteriorly around 4.4° on average during full movement cycle.
You may want to tilt the figures depending on where you want the bat to face.
