How To Use Compass In A Sentence

But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
That's, kind of, the heart of what they call compassionate conservatism: that the American experience must be alive and viable for everyone, and that government has a role to help people have the tools so they can help themselves. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004
According to CAF, the Museum precinct will essentially encompass the buildings, hangars and aprons on the airfield side of Williams Road.
Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.

I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
Egypt, was meant to encompass the whole world of learning. Times, Sunday Times
The space radiation environment encompasses a broad spectrum of radiation ranging from infra-red to galactic cosmic radiation.
Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
Will Ralphie boy have a similar experience and actually convert from his corrupt “moneychanger” fake Christian mentality and embrace more liberal, compassionate Christian beliefs and behaviors? Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty
After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
It points to every direction on the compass, north, south, east and west… what more do you want.
Each patrol is also given a first-aid kit, a global positioning system compass, an astrocompass and a shortwave radio.
The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
This implies a net magnetic moment less robust than the compass needle of single-celled magnetotactic bacteria.
The little kids did not like what we said and had their compasses and dividers out, ready to give us a poke so we scooted out.
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A broad definition would encompass all disclosures of malpractice, as well as illegal acts or omissions.
Then, using an electronic compass and ultrasonic sensors, it cuts the area about 10 times, ensuring a minimum of missed patches.
Their music is firmly rooted in the Irish tradition but also encompasses an unusual blend of hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque.
If I didn't have a shoulder to lean on or a compassionate ear willing to listen to me rant, I might've been tempted to quit.
But the slippery term keeps expanding to encompass more and more groups.
Andrew Carnegie has been called the patron saint of compassionate capitalism.
The fact that compassion is both voluntary and learned differentiates it from other kinds of suffering, which are involuntary and connate.
It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble.
I was prepared to be magnanimous, prepared to feel compassion for him.
For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
It is the unmanaged Nature that stressed our developing beings to make us strong, that provided not only physical sustenance but the avenues for both love and loss: the genesis of human compassion.
To highlight the point, the following terminological distinction has been suggested: The term choice should be used to encompass the sorting out of options, whether conscious or nonconscious. THE MORAL DIMENSION
The Baroque approach also encompassed music, costume and performance. Times, Sunday Times
They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head. Times, Sunday Times
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
They were godlike in their wisdom and compassion.
It is easy to describe a circle if you have a pair of compasses.
Part of all Christian faith is the claim that the church of Christ, in an encompassing sense, is indefectible.
The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass.
The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes.
The questionnaire was produced especially for this study, and it encompassed aspects and problems of nursing documentation revealed by the literature review.
As in an authentic Moroccan riad, the home encompasses an enclosed court-yard with a shaded arcade for lounging.
We measured them with the compass,' having no astronomical instruments. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
The needle on a compass always points to magnetic north.
The aircraft's magnetic compass probably appeared to be working well, and setting up the astrocompass would have been a nuisance.
But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about. Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room
There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior.
I was about to start drawing rhomboids and then stabbing the sharp part of the compass through the paper.
In between are 11 pages of useful information, including dry facts and quirky anecdotes, encompassing every area of life.
Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher
Telemedicine is an umbrella term that encompasses any medical activity involving an element of distance.
Lucas found that neither the gyrocompass nor the rudder angle indicator worked. The Attack on the Liberty
Men on the other hand rely on compass points and have a far better sense of north and south. Times, Sunday Times
I was hoping she might show a little compassion.
Use your compasses to draw a circle.
The compass needle points to the magnetic north pole.
On recognising their talent, the school authorities turned compassionate and rendered all assistance.
Hikari, the idiot savant, under various names is, in Oe's hands, an effective and necessary literary device; no single version could encompass his profound meditation on his son's – and the human – condition. Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
Then, as the highway approaches Three Rivers, the view opens to encompass the snow-covered Sierra.
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
Roughly, one measures everything with a ruler and compass and sets things up according to strict astrological correspondences.
Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
How stupid and uncompassionate can a person be?
The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
There is nothing wrong with making money, but are we supposed to be sorry for the inept and obtuse customer care services (ever look at a invoice from a insurance company?) and compassion less “death panels” of the health insurance industry and the thoughtless, cavalier and deceptive practices of the financial dealings on wall street (GS and the Greek economy comes to mind)? Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble.
Humans are discussed as arrogant and blundering, an unflattering contrast to the innocent and compassionate chimps or gorillas.
Ricciardo loving this Madam Catulla, and using all such means whereby the grace and liking of a Lady might be obtained; found it yet a matter beyond possibility, to compasse the height of his desire: so that many desperate and dangerous resolutions beleagred his braine, seeming so intricate and unlikely to affoord any hopefull yssue, as hee wished for nothing more then death. The Decameron
True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. Allan Lokos
It is the path that was first taught more than 2,500 years ago by the Buddha Shakyamuni, who succeeded in achieving complete realization of perfect wisdom and compassion.
For example, if one places a compass on the ground, it spins confusedly without finding a set destination.
They are as though adrift at sea without compass or destination, so they might as well demand that theirs be a pleasure cruise. Christianity Today
Physicians must learn to engage in gentle but direct truth-telling in the dispensation of their duty to patients who depend on them for accurate yet compassionate descriptions of their condition.
He had no pity, no compassion, no understanding of what the victims of war suffered.
With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
The integrated density of a background box was subtracted from that of a box encompassing each sample.
Presented by a large cast of colourful characters, The Quare Fellow paints a portrait of life inside an Irish prison, in which songs, humour and compassion evoke the banter between inmates and wardens.
No one yet has identified how big the firebreak would have to be, but it could easily encompass not only portions of Michigan but areas of Ohio and Indiana.
But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
Three types of people live an unlivable life: those who are overly compassionate, overly irritable, or overly sensitive.
Broken beat, for lack of a better term, encompasses underground dance music fused with soul, funk or jazz.
It turns out that they were moral defectives, willing to bear false witness to a world audience, and it looks like Francisco is yet another ID advocate with a degaussed moral compass. zcowboy The New Antievolution Strategy: Just Make Bizarre Stuff Up - The Panda's Thumb
Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady. Brit Wit
This ancestral biogeographic distribution encompassed a much broader range, comprising Siberia and southern Europe-northern Africa.
Chief among his trophies was Uri Geller, an Israeli-born, disco-era mentalist who claimed, among other things, that he had the ability to soften metal and move a compass needle with his mind.
If you set your pelorus, so that it will exactly coincide with the course you are steaming as shown by the compass in your chart house and then get a bearing of the sun by noting where the shadow from the pelorus vane cuts the circumference, this bearing will be the bearing of the sun by compass. Lectures in Navigation
Path comes and goes, compass bearing is 255 degrees magnetic.
This isn't to knock all priests who hear confessions - many are compassionate and have a gift of knowing just what to say.
Veterinarian Peter van Dongen DRSUtrecht CERT.V.R, MRCVS comments: Noel is one of the most compassionate, caring and dedicated vets I have ever met in my professional life. Archive 2008-08-01
Nonetheless, he applauds how Edinburgh and Glasgow have both moved away from traditional jazz in order to encompass wider definitions of the genre.
Religion, rather than rigidifying our political ideologies and psychological orientations, ought to be destabilizing our certainties, as certainty is too often an enemy of compassion. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
As a purist in his own right, Sparky has his own thoughts on what pool would encompass if he had his druthers.
But in a statement the force said her re-employment at her old station was a 'rare, exceptional and compassionate case'. The Sun
After missing a couple of early sighters, Carter kicked goals from all points of the compass.
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
Although this reader is offered under the rubric of book history, in fact it encompasses the many forms of American print culture, including newspapers and magazines.
Each tribe encompassed a number of neighboring villages, most of which during the fifth century were unfortified.
He filled his writings with discussions of plows, air pumps, compasses, canal locks, balloons and steam power.
When the programme is completed, it will have encompassed more than 1,200 pig herds.
Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice.
And this is not just confined to the big companies but also encompasses smaller firms. Times, Sunday Times
What follows are seven creepy experiments—thought experiments, really—that show how contemporary science might advance if it were to toss away the moral compass that guides it.
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look at his unskillful behavior, and the ways he shut himself off, with compassion instead of contempt and fear.
They also house a compass, map and knife sheath. Times, Sunday Times
The last part of the book, ‘Tools and Methods for Experiments and Measurements’, encompasses a variety of preparative methods and experimental designs offering an insight into the formulation of emulsions and suspensions.
Himself of the whole; and the curvative — the steady progression and the productive condition; and the circular the same, and the holding together the middle and extremities, which encompass and are encompassed, — and the turning to Him of the things which proceeded from Him. Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897)
Forcing people to recognize that the term sexism encompasses sexist attitudes and actions against men is the very first baby step towards making this happen. MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
The MCA said the study looked for impacts on compasses and various kinds of communications and positioning systems as well as radar.
When it comes to compassion and humanity, everyone I talk to is furious over such behaviour.
The sergeant major picked up a compass, and the knobber didn't have a clue what he was doing with it," Dinger went on. Bravo-Two-Zero
Point the truck west and the engine is now to the left, so it pulls the compass needle left.
We should aspire, along with being world champions in the sporting arena, to being the most humane and compassionate people on this planet.
We even relocate daybreak and sunset, which, one might surmise, are logical ways to determine the beginning and end of a given day, within the compass of clock-time.
The panpsychist conception of mind must be sufficiently broad to plausibly encompass humans and non-human objects as well.
One requires a fair amount of information to utilize an astrocompass properly, including the time, date, and longitudinal and latitudinal location, as well as an astronomical chart such as a nautical almanac.
In order to compass our object we must work hard.
Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck.
In other words the Greek seems to encompass a profound complexity of meaning as regards the placement (if that is the right word) of the head cloth, napkin, or, in fact, the σουδαριον/sudarium (in essence the same word, evidently a technical term in the repertoire of near eastern undertakers in Roman-occupied Palestine). Archive 2009-04-01
The term human resource management, is used in this book because it encompasses the management of people as well as the administration of personnel systems. Human Resource Management in Government
The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime. The Australian | News |
And this compass is the best I can make – though my next will be. better! Spice and the Devil's Cave
It is huge, encompassing the navy's shipyard, where three 1,200-ton corvettes are being laid down.
And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
There was something involuted and heartbreaking in his friend's compassion for him. THE BROKEN GOD
Above these foundation stones compassionate capitalism rises like a beacon.
I am tempted sometimes to say that the only point of conspicuous compassion is action, the rest is self-flattery.
a process that will continue into the first quarter of 2009 as the BBVA Compass banner is introduced in markets across the 'sunbelt' region. San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
The peace camp was offered new accommodation by the landlady of the Axe and Compass public house in Kempsford.
Provincia Romana which encompassed Provence and Languedoc, that is a large part of Occitania. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The freedom to manifest religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching encompasses a broad range of acts.
The fog soon encompassed the whole valley.
He is immortal 6, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible 7voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion 8and sacrifice9 and endurance.
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200 - degree wide angle.
The question is whether that school falls within the compass of this particular legislation.
The main body lies roughly to the north-east, though I advise against using a compass.
The main body lies roughly to the north-east, though I advise against using a compass.
It requires our full humanity - our rationality, our ability to sort out truth from falsehood, our intuition, our compassion, our vision, and our morality.
Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
Although the compass carries no maker's marks, it is designed to fit across the transit's trunnions and has a pin that fits a hole on the transit.
The vicar remained, his son said, utterly uncompassionate.
Both move questions of theodicy away from attempts at explanation and defense and toward compassionate response and solidarity with those who suffer.
within the compass of this article
A compass needle always points north.
He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
The result is an effort that encompasses a multitude of styles, from funk and soul to stirring ballads constructed around strong melodies.
Today the term antioxidant usually encompasses vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene and other related carotenoids, as well as the minerals selenium and manganese, which are needed by several free-radical-destroying enzymes in order to work properly. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler.
They have shown no compassion, no understanding, no tolerance, and especially, no patience.
The course will encompass physics, chemistry and biology.
In a meadow on the hills that encompass the city, I found the American dandelion in bloom, and some large red clover, and started up some skylarks as I might start up the field sparrows in our own uplying fields. Winter Sunshine
When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress.
Then with deliberate grace, Hilda rose from her chair, a tall figure among them, looking down with a hint of compassionateness on the little man at her left. The Path of a Star
That this is a party which wishes to base itself upon compassion and inclusion is beyond doubt.
They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head. Times, Sunday Times
The compass needle aligns itself with this field (perpendicular to the wire).
The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
Because they tend to be compassionate and sensitive, they respond best to personal recognition and acknowledgement.
We compassed the earth
Our vision of life surely should encompass the abled and disabled alike.
The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events involving those affiliated with the university, as well as its surrounding community.
No single definition, no matter how detailed or succinct, can encompass the whole. Christianity Today
Still thou canst listen to me, and grant me thy compassion. Chapter 10
She also has a strong moral compass. Times, Sunday Times
She taught us how to use a compass to find true north and to orient a map accordingly.
Instead she targeted the very people who treated her with such compassion.
There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness, intolerance into compassion or war into peace.
Like most other volumes in the Compass Guide series, the book is a delight to look at and read.
A strange and compassionable satisfaction beamed from her face; it was evident that this sad business was the poor thing's _forte_. Suburban Sketches
Their cakes have the charm of iconic line drawings, all elegant right angles and perfect domes and maraschino cherries that might have been placed with a compass.
Highlights include, from Philadelphia, two sets of fine Queen Anne side chairs and a rare Queen Anne compass-seat footstool; from Massachusetts, a Chippendale mahogany chest-on-chest and Simon Willard wall clock; from New York, a spider-leg drop-leaf table; from Rhode Island, a Chippendale mahogany block-front desk and bookcase and several colorful maritime paintings by Thomas Chambers. Auction Watch
Inaudible victims do not win compassionate co-workers with the ease of those who can articulate their needs in cogent words.
From this point of view, it is also very important to practice compassion and patience.
No surprise, then, that in the compassionate noughties, the antimaterialist backlash has begun. Times, Sunday Times
Under the government's definition, the rules encompass both hard-core and soft-core photos and videos as long as there's sexual activity - even if it's solo.
When we expand political economy to encompass women's unwaged labor, including the multitude of forms of emotional labor (which Anthony McMahon gathers under the rubric of "taking care of men"), then it becomes clear, according to sociologist Anna G. Jónasdóttir, that "men ... continually appropriate significantly more of women's life force and capacity than they themselves give back to women. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects. Five Weeks in a Balloon
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels). Archive 2007-09-01
I have always felt that I manifest a felicitous combination of his compassion and her boundaries.
What's the moral compass you should use? Times, Sunday Times
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Another archbishop believes the government ‘is destroying our international reputation, brutalising the nation's attitudes and making us a less compassionate people’.
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer
Officials from the Fire Island National Seashore, whose boundaries encompass all Fire Island communities, have expressed wariness of such projects.
This extra half-mile should be within his compass and he can land this less competitive contest. Times, Sunday Times
Regardless of whether one is a welfarist or a rightist I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do. Marc Bekoff: Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?
Protecting the vulnerable is an essential function of government and affordable compassion is an indelible element of contemporary liberalism. The New Face of Government
In essence most of these religions have the same essence of love, brotherhood and compassion.
If, however, you want to see more wreckage, then from the cave return to the stern of the Mohegan and follow a compass bearing to the south-west until the depth is just less than 18m.
The needle of that compass is kindness, simple human kindness.
The device includes an electronic compass, direction indicator, route planner and real time clock. Times, Sunday Times
Separate from the Banking Codes is the statutory Financial Services Ombudsman Service, encompassing eight previous private and public ombudsmen within the financial services sector.
This approach encompasses initiatives that aim to work with current drug users.
Of course infanticide is a crime, but our treatment of it must be handled with compassion when such delicate issues as teenage pregnancy are involved.
From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble. The Reality Check
If, now, the compass were correct it would agree with the pelorus in showing the ship's head to be North. Lectures in Navigation
Against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc and compass breastpin.

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