How To Use Latitude In A Sentence

  • The principle of the itinerary engine is simple: from a departure address and an arrival address, or from longitude/latitude coordinates, Maporama International's servers calculate an optimized itinerary, respecting several constraints: the shortest or the more rapid itinerary, a pedestrian or car itinerary, a multimodal itinerary… Internet News: Travel Archives
  • Al-Mahri used astronomical observations of the height of stars to determine the difference in latitude between two places.
  • The polar ice caps will expand to reach around 45 degrees latitude north and south.
  • These birds only survive in temperate latitudes.
  • At these latitudes the sun does not rise at all on winter days.
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  • Found it to be in south latitude 28 degrees 55 minutes by meridian altitudes of sun, Aquilae (Altair), and Lyra, and in longitude about 121 degrees 10 minutes East. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
  • Albicores, bonitoes, and dolphins followed the ship for several days in succession; and one albicore, which had a mark on his back, from which we knew it, followed us from 3 degrees north latitude to 10 degrees south latitude, a distance of eight hundred and forty miles. Mark Seaworth
  • Parallel on the Korean peninsula is located 38 degrees north latitude, near a military demarcation line.
  • It breeds in high latitudes from Scandinavia, across northern Russia and again in north-west Canada and Alaska.
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart, with the time and date. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • It was charted and well known to all navigators, lying on the line of 16o west longitude, right at its intersection by the tenth parallel north latitude, and only a few miles away from Diana Shoal. Goliah
  • The latitudes of those parts extend from the fiftieth parallel to almost 60 degrees North.
  • As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
  • Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.
  • On leaving this we dug a hole and let the remainder of the water into it, in the hope of its longer continuance, and halted after a long journey in a valley in which there was a kind of watercourse with plenty of water, our latitude being 28 degrees 21 minutes 39 seconds. Expedition into Central Australia
  • Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
  • She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father. The English Novel
  • It owns self characteristic. We can research a textbook from historical, pedagogical, sociological, ethnological and philological latitudes.
  • To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.
  • The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
  • The second and third groupings were obviously longitude and latitude coordinates.
  • In fact several inversions have been found to form clines with higher frequencies at low latitudes near the equator.
  • Rather, the nature of the orders themselves determines the latitude allowed in how they are carried out.
  • While Joffe, given the right access, resources and latitude, might end up being an outside voice for change -- her background certainly suggests it -- I'd guess her hire is as much strategic adviser as it is a step toward reform. Goldman's new outsider
  • As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
  • It's a must-have for the new sport of geocaching - a high-tech treasure hunt in which you're given a latitude and longitude to help you find a hidden stash.
  • Here that would be the angle between OP and the Earth's axis, known as the co-latitude of P.]
  • Their only latitude is the ability to use advertising to neutrally encourage voting. Innovation
  • Rethinking reactive halogen budgets in the midlatitude lower stratosphere. Future changes in ozone in the Arctic
  • La gente que se siente afectada por no tener el ultimo chichito tecnologico o pagarlo un poco más, solo piensan en su hedonismo y no en el país, que sí necesita afianzar su industria, como la supo tener y que necesita dar trabajo a los argentinos, en lugar de darle trabajo a los obreros de otras latitudes; es muy mezquina la actitud de los detractores a esta idea. Global Voices in English » Argentina: Proposal to Increase Taxes on Some Technology Products
  • It's a trite and hackneyed old platitude - but sometimes, you do just have to stop and look at what's around you.
  • I’m used to working with my DoP Francesco Pezzino on film and doing a telecine grade with him at The Farm in soho, where the look of the film has so much depth and latitude that HD can’t really compete yet. Mark Davis: Plastic: Interview | SciFi UK Review
  • The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts of the world (although some travellers assert that in more southern latitudes they prefer cooked meat), and with good reason, for it is much more nourishing than cooked flesh; and learned, scientific men, who have wintered in the Arctic regions, have distinctly stated that in those cold countries they found raw meat to be better for them than cooked meat, and they assure us that they at last came to _prefer_ it! The World of Ice
  • To this Tycho objected, and Kepler had great difficulty in convincing him that the new move would be any improvement, but undertook to prove to him by actual examples that a false position of the orbit could by adjusting the equant be made to fit the longitudes within five minutes of arc, while giving quite erroneous values of the latitudes and second inequalities. Kepler
  • The latitude of the island is 20 degrees south.
  • Apparently there were celestial pyrotechnics on a scale almost-unknown at this latitude.
  • Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates. The English Is Coming!
  • The combination of warming temperatures and the fertilizing effect of increased carbon in the atmosphere could fuel a northward expansion of what is known as the boreal forest, the coniferous timber lands that run across the earth's northern latitudes and include forests in Canada, Finland, Russia and Sweden. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
  • It appears to consist of him turning up at factory gates and pointing off into the middle distance, at some pipes or cables or suchlike, and mouthing platitudes about ‘jobs and prosperity’.
  • a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers. Nicholas Nickleby
  • Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
  • Wink looked at the chart and at their position listed as latitude and longitude in a continuous readout on his PTID. FLASH POINT
  • The noontime sun is shining directly over the latitude line called the Tropic of Capricorn, which lies 23.5 degrees in latitude south of the Earth's equator. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • The younger players were well marshalled by their opponents and did not get the same latitude as they did in previous games.
  • Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up.
  • Thinking that a few motivational platitudes and clichés will save them, the rest of the band plod on, uninspired and surrounded by yes men.
  • Barnes found that the amount of garbage, particularly plastic, floating in the ocean has enabled travel by marine species to roughly double in the subtropics and more than triple at high latitudes.
  • To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Here is a table of the number of daylight hours as a function of the time of year for the first 26 weeks of the solar year, for several co-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • But they must be allowed more latitude to play what's immediately in front of them.
  • No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
  • The theory says the high latitudes should warm up more than the lower latitudes.
  • I am referring to the word that means ‘insincere talk, especially concerning morals; pious platitudes’.
  • Essentially, his reading gives very wide latitude for both federal and state gun control laws.
  • The angle between the normal SP and the equatorial (X-Y) plane is called the geodetic latitude (f) of point P. Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • The effects of deglaciation on tropical regions are not fully understood, but ambient temperatures at equatorial latitudes were cooler by approximately 5C during the last glacial maximum.
  • During a heavy gale we encountered, when near the latitude of the Cape, one of the so-called midshipmen fell overboard and was drowned. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific
  • But nothing approaches the demonstration by the materiality of the fact, and it is struck with this truth that the organisators of the Exhibition resolved to erect an improvisated town, including houses of all countries and all latitudes. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
  • I discovered that these folk needed far more than the pious religious platitudes I had to give them. Christianity Today
  • A northern mid-latitude scene consisting of craters, intercrater plains, and mantled material is visible in this HiRISE image. Tucson Weekly
  • This method allows very little latitude for error.
  • From the concentrations of birds and mammals in high latitudes has grown the myth that all polar seas are immensely productive.
  • Our white ducks are gone, and, in south latitude thirty-five, we are wearing the garments of a temperate clime. CHAPTER XXVIII
  • Laid out on the table in front of me were the pious platitudes of Government Ministers responding to the loss of 350 permanent jobs in Donegal.
  • It is for this string of real life problems that young people demanded unfettered media latitude to have their voice megaphoned far and wide on issues close to their chest.
  • As warmth gradually returns to the northern temperate latitudes, so do the birds that migrated south last autumn.
  • As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
  • All you have are pat answers and glib retorts that turn out, on ten seconds' worth of thought, to be mindless platitudes.
  • He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there. Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one
  • There is a race of quill-drivers, confined in the columns of the budget between the first degree of latitude (a kind of administrative Greenland where the salaries begin at twelve hundred francs) to the third degree, a more temperate zone, where incomes grow from three to six thousand francs, a climate where the bonus flourishes like a half-hardy annual in spite of some difficulties of culture. Father Goriot
  • Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
  • We have given lots of latitude and flexibility with a young and inexperienced squad. Times, Sunday Times
  • In South America they are not found farther than 48° of latitude, measured from the southern pole; in North America it appears that the limit of their transportal extends to 53½° from the northern pole; but in Europe to not more than 40° of latitude, measured from the same point. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • Quite unlike today's northern barrens, it combined Arctic tundra with fertile loess soil and low latitudes the Eurasian tundra belt having been pushed far to the south by the Scandinavian icecap.
  • At night I observed the latitude of our camp, by alpha Aquilae 34 degrees 12 minutes 52 seconds S. by beta Leonis 34 degrees 12 minutes 35 seconds S. and assumed the mean of the two, or 34 degrees 12 minutes 43 seconds as the correct one. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • The Degree Confluence Project is an interesting initiative to take an organized sampling of the world by visiting and photographing each point of Earth’s surface where latitude and longitude intersect in integer degrees. Reflective Surface - Archives: 2003 April
  • Representation of the wind system and precipitation area stippled in a middle - latitude cyclone.
  • It is unsurprising, then, that the exchange led to this, a bloated tear-stick of a song that desperately wrings emotion from the blandest of platitudes. This week's new singles
  • The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
  • This method allows very little latitude for error.
  • We therefore calculated this variable as the difference between mean breeding latitude and mean wintering latitude (in centesimal degrees).
  • If he decides that you aren't, he will just give you the usual platitudes. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are primarily seen at 40 degrees south latitude, and they appear at many longitudes.
  • Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee.
  • Such a response alone would achieve the compensatory effect needed to adjust the onset of emergence to latitude, but without the need to invoke genetic heterogeneity between populations.
  • The CNIL has asked Google to register the Latitude system with the organization, but the company disagrees that French laws require it to do so, the CNIL Secretary-General Yann Padova said Monday. Google Fined in France Over Street View
  • Polar bears live in high-latitude environments characterized by cyclic variation in form and extent of sea ice.
  • No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
  • From palaeomagnetism we can determine palaeolatitude and the rotation of a terrane through time, but the palaeomagnetic data give no insight into palaeolongitude.
  • Broad environmental conditions, particularly average temperatures, differ less among populations in equatorial regions than at higher latitudes.
  • From that vntill Munday (18) three a clocke in the morning ten leagues Northnortheast: and then we went North and by East, because the winde came at the Westsouthwest with thicke miste: the latitude this day at a South sunne sixtie three degrees and a halfe truely taken: at this season we had sight of our Pinnesse againe. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Contracting parties are given considerable latitude, consistent with the doctrine of freedom of contract.
  • The mashup involved "geotagging" photos from Flickr by adding latitude and longitude data, and locating them on Google Maps.
  • These belts are the doldrums, the trades and antitrades, the horse latitudes, the westerlies, and the polar winds
  • Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.
  • Moreover, subartic, midlatitude and tropical atmospheric profiles were included in the database code.
  • The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months.
  • Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
  • Latitudes and Attitudes does an all-day heli-hike, starting with whirlybird sightseeing over Haleakala and ending with a 15-mile catered hike from Kaupo Gap through the volcano's crater.
  • Upon arriving in Georgia she was led to enjoy the contrast between the snow-clad hills of New England, to which she had bidden "adieu" a few days previous, and the mild atmosphere of a hitherto untried latitude. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
  • Step Into Liquid is a surfing documentary that offers a satisfactory amount of thrills within a tsunami of platitudes and hyperbole.
  • You decorate a bus with your name writ large, pump up the patriotic platitudes, head out on an "all-American road trip" and, by golly, you just can't understand what all the fuss is about. NPR Topics: News
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  • Our position is latitude 32 degrees north.
  • When geomagnetic activity is low, the aurora typically is located, in the hours around midnight, at about 67 degrees magnetic latitude.
  • The two vessels made for land at Mount Egmont, but the shore was so steep at this point, that Marion put back to sea and returned to reconnoitre the land upon the 31st of March in 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
  • The power to regulate commerce among the several States can not include a power to construct roads and canals, and to improve the navigation of water courses in order to facilitate, promote, and secure such commerce with a latitude of construction departing from the ordinary import of the terms strengthened by the known inconveniences which doubtless led to the grant of this remedial power to Congress. San Francisco Chronicle Op Ed: The Unholy Lust of Scientists « Climate Audit
  • On Great Slave River, the higher latitude is offset by lower altitude, and on June 2, 1907, while among the tall white spruce trees I measured one of average size -- 118 feet high, 11 feet 2 inches in girth a foot from the ground (3 feet 6 1/2 inches in diameter), and many black poplars nearly as tall were 9 feet in girth. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
  • He also gives the tables of the longitudinal and latitudinal parallaxes for certain geographical latitudes, tables of eclipses, and tables of the visibility of the moon.
  • The latitude of the eastermost, which is also the largest, is 5° 48 'S. and its longitude, west of Tonikaky, 7° 52'. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • Many hurricanes eventually drift far enough north or south to move into areas dominated by westerly winds (found in the middle latitudes).
  • As a result, there is much less interaction between the lower troposphere air masses of the polar regions and middle latitudes.
  • The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
  • Now she mouths all the normal platitudes about how the Real Message of the Gospel is Social Justice.
  • His other instruments still worked fine - sextants, reflecting circle, artificial horizon, telescope, chronometer, several compasses and probably a couple of thermometers - and he continued recording latitudes and longitudes.
  • Pupils enjoy considerable latitude in deciding what they want to study.
  • Even before the sun grew high the dhow was a comfortless indecent thing, more crowded than anything Noah can have had to tolerate: and we lacked Noah's faith in omniscient guidance, in addition to sailing in a hotter latitude, and having more fleas on board than the pair he is reported to have carried. The Ivory Trail
  • DeKaser said that the economy was currently in the "Goldilocks zone - not too hot and not too cold," giving the central bank the latitude to continue hiking rates at a gradual pace.
  • It's pretty much downhill from there, with everyone speaking in moral platitudes and Hanks looking troubled.
  • It recrudesced the laughter and the song, and put a lilt into my own imagination so that I could laugh and sing and say foolish things with the liveliest of them, or platitudes with verve and intensity to the satisfaction of the pompous mediocre ones who knew no other way to talk. Chapter 29
  • High southern latitudes were not invaded by angiosperms until the end of the Cretaceous.
  • From the evolute, draw the line SF, and parallel to it, draw TW; then EW is the latitude of the point F on the surface of the spheroid. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • The 26th we made the coaft of Chiniai, and Pedra Blanca, an infulated white rock in the middle of the fea, fituate, accordmg to Sir Erafmus Gower, in latitude twenty-two degrees nineteen minutes north, longitude eaft of Paris one hundred and twelve degrees thirty - feven minutes*. Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
  • The spherical polar angles are the colatitude angle θ and the longitudinal (azimuthal) angle φ. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • We have more pious language, more platitudes, no clear definition, no consistency, and no clarity for those people who have to work under the Act.
  • Modern viticulture Uzbekistan is in the very heart of central Asia, on the same latitude as Italy.
  • Canada Canada is the world's second largest country, with an area of 9971500 km 2, most of it being north of the 49th parallel of latitude and extending to the high Arctic.
  • Latitudes are the lines that go from east to west.
  • Her certificate of discharge even recorded the longitude and latitude at which the company's contractual obligations ended.
  • I cannot, however, think that botanical evidence of such a nature is sufficient to warrant a satisfactory reference of these Indian coal-fields to the same epoch as those of England or of Australia; in the first place the outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera, and much more so of fossil fragments: in the second place recent ferns are so widely distributed, that an inspection of the majority affords little clue to the region or locality they come from: and in the third place, considering the wide difference in latitude and longitude of Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • The birds breed in northern latitudes.
  • In contrast, glacial and periglacial deposits, such as dropstones, were formed at high latitudes; these are notably important in the late Carboniferous and early Permian.
  • Among tetrapods, most species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and chelonians are larger at higher latitudes.
  • And protesters should indeed be given great latitude. Times, Sunday Times
  • Afterwards he sailed on to reach 68° south, which was at the time the furthest southern latitude attained by any sailing trip, before having to turn back.
  • Cooler summers at high latitudes result from a reduction in the amount of solar radiation falling on the surface, and this in turn depends upon both changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis and variations in its orbit about the Sun.
  • Courts can show a considerable degree of latitude when it comes to applying the law.
  • It's easy enough to gauge an asteroid's longitude and latitude (ascension and declination in astro-speak), but figuring out its current celestial position is tricky.
  • In addition to these main lines of work, many observations of a miscellaneous character were made, including those on the occurrence and nature of parhelia or “mock suns,” which were very common, and generally finely developed, and observations of the auroral displays, which were few and rather poor owing to the comparatively low magnetic latitude. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
  • This communication deals with the latitude correlation between variations of local zenith airglow and ionospheric data for typical winter and early summer nights.
  • Generally, it is agreed that such stars need to be low in latitude and near the ecliptic.
  • There is also a "parallactic" libration, depending on the earth's rotation; and a species of nodding movement -- the "libration in latitude" -- is produced by the inclination of the moon's axis to her orbit, and by her changes of position with regard to the terrestrial equator. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
  • What I heard was a seemingly endless string of mind-numbing platitudes.
  • The punctilious playwright is no issue-driven browbeater; he simply loves an exchange of dialogue regardless of the subject matter's latitude.
  • All sorts of weather systems can have an impact, dependent on the location, such as mid-latitude cyclones, subtropical anticyclones, monsoon systems, and tropical cyclones.
  • This amazing feat is consistent with the westerly airstream prevalent in the latitude of South Africa.
  • Here the zero lines of longitude and latitude - the Greenwich meridian and the equator - bisect.
  • Migrants from equatorial latitudes to countries with reduced light exposure are seriously affected by these climatic changes.
  • In these extreme northern latitudes of Baffin Bay, bycatch consisted primarily of gelatinous snailfish, Arctic skate, and four-beard rockling.
  • ‘The ‘great’ national historian Macaulay,’ Trotsky wrote, ‘vulgarises the social drama of the seventeenth century by obscuring the inner struggle of forces with platitudes that are sometimes interesting but always superficial.’
  • The Incas in South America followed a similar strategy and built 5,230 km of road running from north to south across 35 degrees of latitude.
  • We forget that Bethlehem is located in a desert, at a latitude of 31.68 degrees north, an elevation of 2,250 feet.
  • Ocean, inclusive of the Bering Sea, which is situated to the north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude and eastward of the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude from Greenwich till it strikes the water boundary described in Article I of the treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and following that line up to Bering A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
  • Longitude lines converge; latitude lines don't.
  • Such little strips of open land would seem very mean in other latitudes, but at the equator, where there is vertical sun and luxuriant vegetation, they can work and be pleasant to look into, if not be in.
  • Strong westerly winds circle the globe in middle latitudes around this vortex.
  • Fifty-four degrees and forty minutes of north latitude was the northern boundary of the territory.
  • Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement. Tick, tick, tick (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • If allowing the colonists wide latitude in governing themselves was the price for general prosperity, then so be it. The Times Literary Supplement
  • That failure could be his Achilles' heel, for whenever he addresses environmental activist groups he offers platitudes, but little promise of action.
  • But all Wright does is repeat platitudes from his last confab at Brookings.
  • This collision results in frontal uplift and the creation of the subpolar lows or mid-latitude cyclones. Global-scale circulation of the atmosphere
  • We've seen that pragmatism in the latitude given to France to breach its deficit targets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of the third kind of stadia, 833-1/3 were equal to one degree of the equator; calculating that 1000 of these were sailed during a day and night's voyage, Pytheas would arrive in the latitude of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
  • Leaders who expect progress must allow some latitude for chaos and failure. Christianity Today
  • Steering about North 81 degrees East magnetic, over lightly-grassed country, thinly wooded for sixteen miles, we camped a mile and a half west of Mount Malcolm, in south latitude 28 degrees 51 minutes 19 seconds by meridian altitude of Aquilae (Altair), and in longitude about 121 degrees 27 minutes East. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
  • The greatest part of Europe is situated above the 45 th degree of Northern Latitude.
  • Worldwide mountain climate data sets show that rainfall tends to decrease upslope in many tropical mountains, while it increases with elevation in most middle-latitude mountains.
  • Both of them are currently mouthing the proper platitudes.
  • We must lift our eyes from the misleading and myopic platitudes of our politicians and look to the future.
  • Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
  • It was the brief Indian Summer of the high latitudes.
  • This change resulted, in turn, in the northward displacement of midlatitude cyclones over Argentina, southern Africa, southern Australia, and Tasmania.
  • This year more than ever, the hack politician's laziest platitude is true: ‘This election is about the future.’
  • The jacana invariably lays four eggs, and the gallinule, at this latitude, six or eight, yet only a fraction of the young had survived even to this tender age. Edge of the Jungle
  • High in the mountains, the scenery is almost alpine, with peaks reaching 3,000 ft and opportunities for some fine, uncrowded skiing on snow that, surprisingly, lasts until April, despite the area lying on the same latitude as Tuscany.
  • These layers are aligned with latitude lines, due to Saturn's east-west winds.
  • I don't mean that anyone should offer platitudes to people who may have lost their jobs or their savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a cop show that dispenses with all the worn-out platitudes of cop shows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some degree of latitude is required in interpreting the law on this point.
  • Another island of large size in the latitude of southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, would be “almost wholly covered with everlasting snow, ” and would have each bay terminated by ice-cliffs, whence great masses would be yearly detached: this island would boast only of a little moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its only land inhabitant. Chapter XI
  • For almost 6 hours he nailed all of his supporters in the National Assembly, the diplomatic corps, a large group of Venezuelan public servants and soldiers who probably had better things to do such as repair highways than to listen the answerless rant of Chavez, a long string of platitudes, accusations, bad jokes and assorted vulgarities. The Church, in Chile and in Venezuela
  • The custom software passively logs the latitude and longitude, the signal strength, the network name, and other vital stats.
  • CO2 exchange between air and water in an Arctic Alaskan and midlatitude Swiss lake: Importance of convective mixing. Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.
  • As you sidle up close you can hear voices swapping art world gossip, platitudes and dirt on various celebs, institutions and artists.
  • They should stop playing to the public gallery by mouthing platitudes and begin thinking seriously about the very nature of crime and punishment.
  • Our gastrosopher was speaking only of the culinary caprices of man rendered fastidious by the sweets of life; but he might, in a more serious department of thought, have given his formula a wider and more general bearing and applied it to the dishes which vary so greatly according to latitude, climate and customs; he might above all have taken into his reckoning the harsh realities suffered by the common people, when perhaps his ideal of moral worth would have been found in More Hunting Wasps
  • It is fitting that a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude compiled a book on the theater crammed with platitudes. Ionesco: the Theater of the Banal
  • They are primarily seen at 40 degrees south latitude, and they appear at many longitudes.
  • At the mid-latitudes, the winds are called the westerlies, and at the highest latitudes, the winds are called the polar easterlies.
  • And though "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" makes for a usually-wise platitude, Voltaire wasn't dealing with the exorbitance of American health care or the ecological cataclysm of global warming. Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity
  • A latitude extending thus far might lead to results incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
  • Latitude does not altogether govern the climate in Canada, when you find wheat of good quality, 62 lb. to the bushel, is grown at Fort Simpson in latitude 62. The Span of a Canadian Generation
  • antipodean latitudes
  • Although Muslim Malaysians believe that Islamic rites should be rigorously observed at all times, the doctor and part-time model, chosen from 10,000 applicants, has been given a certain latitude during the flight. We're Bored With Space Travel; They're Fascinated By it - NASA Watch
  • The impartial balance means the Crittenden Compromise, whose impartiality the North fails to see in any other light than a fond leaning to the South, giving it all territory South of a certain latitude, a _latitude_ that never was intended by the Constitution. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Understanding that kids are excellent innovators, Latitude Research in conjunction with ReadWriteWeb recently conducted a study asking children to ideate concepts for new computer and Web technologies - and the results are in. The Future Of Tech According To Kids: Immersive, Intuitive And Down-To-Earth
  • This ruling helpfully confirms that national governments retain considerable latitude in interpreting the law. Times, Sunday Times

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