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Sentence Examples He isn't sure of his real age, he seems to have been married a number of times, and, by his own reckoning, had dozens of kids. Simple reckoning of the ages at which each of the biblical patriarchs produced his son would not suffice. New York police did not release an official crowd estimate, but the march was, by anyone's reckoning, enormous. By Catherine Walter's reckoning, it was at 10 o'clock on Sunday night that the Board members of the National Australia Bank reached a deal. Each film, by his reckoning, is taking the medium of computerized animation a giant leap forward. Because, to my reckoning, amputating limbs is a far more than cosmetic process. By that reckoning, we'd have to give everyone gas masks and surround every building with the National Guard. It takes place in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, introducing expectations of an ultimate reckoning. In a political sense, there will be a reckoning and it will not be too far off. This is my best chance and I swear that if you ruin it there will be a reckoning! That teenage boy is going to do his best to identify the nameless, faceless tormentors, and draw them into a public reckoning. If there is to be a reckoning over this war and its disorderly aftermath, it will come in next year's elections. Jacob has bid us farewell with an angry post threatening us all with a divine reckoning. One way or another, by accident, divine reckoning or human error, an avenging fire is turned against them. Either way, the sense is likely to be one of unfinished business and a reckoning postponed. We knew there was a greater reckoning ahead, but we could not quite feel it yet. They themselves will be among the players bidding to break into the reckoning for Cardiff. I'm setting myself a target of a run a ball and hopefully that will get me back in the Scotland reckoning. Dobson, very impressive during his last spell with the Wasps in 1998, will also come into the reckoning against the newly-formed Eagles. But there comes the day of reckoning when statements drop through the letter box and interest charges and penalty payments are revealed. Show More Sentences Sunday was a day of reckoning, when the harshness of this past winter's riding made itself known. If your employees don't do the work effectively or efficiently, then sooner or later the day of reckoning will come and the company will close. But the decadence and blindness on display in that nation simply mean that the inevitable day of reckoning will be that much more convulsive. Some day, on that day of reckoning, they will have to account for their crime against human language! The worry is whether, given the huge imbalances in their economy, they may be postponing the day of reckoning. Finally, Is the day of reckoning for Bangalore's honeymoon with the IT sector closer than we expect? After years of cavalier behaviour, the day of reckoning for the British insurance industry was long overdue. The statute of limitations on war crimes does not run out, and the day of reckoning will come. If we continue along the pace we are now, it's unsustainable and there will have to be some day of reckoning. The day of reckoning was postponed by a series of maneuvers, and the banknotes remained intact. Since medieval times, mariners have employed dead reckoning to navigate their vessels. Because by my reckoning, this is the first out-and-out Total Stinker of this year's selection. Chapter 13 consists of 55 verses on arithmetic, mensuration, and shadow reckoning. The five remaining men blanched and trembled with fear as they were faced with something beyond their reckoning. The blind mole rat is the first animal found to navigate by combining dead reckoning with a sense of Earth's magnetic field, researchers say. The author explains how, aided by a thousand eyes, ants navigate and how they use dead reckoning. By such reckoning, three million men will go on stag sorties and three million women will go on hen happenings. As discussed in the accompanying article, land vehicles such as buses can navigate using dead reckoning. For accurate dead reckoning, calibration is required for the odometer pulses and the gyroscope. According to Lewis Carroll, who loved this painting, there are more than 165 fairies, and by my reckoning half of them are starkers. Show More Sentences If property prices were included in the reckoning, London would easily outstrip the rest of Britain. There are 22,000 schools in Britain, many, by this Government's own reckoning, failures in the business of education. Much too far by their own reckoning but not far enough in the eyes of ardent nationalists and radical land reformers like Davitt and his cohorts. By any reasonable moral reckoning he deserves all the comeuppance of his bad faith. But that was without giving due reckoning to this team's indomitable spirit. The day of reckoning has past and somehow I managed to survive reasonably intact. When a positive fix was not possible, the position was deduced from reckoning. It looks like things went fairly well for you, but it says here you only brought in three fleeces and no lambs at the spring reckoning. Our material ease and the freedoms it has spawned are dangerous illusions, and now comes the reckoning. As the day of reckoning dawned, it was the grown-ups who were struggling with their emotions as the 50,000 students headed off. Due to this appalling weather the convoy had to rely on dead reckoning for navigation. For centuries, the only way to navigate was to look at the position of the sun and stars and use dead reckoning. The pure navigational techniques of celestial and dead reckoning should have been superseded at this time by pilotage. It was the Greeks who pioneered modern methods of navigating by calculation rather than by dead reckoning. Steady course and speed or continuous monitoring of their changes is required for effective dead reckoning. I had been going by dead reckoning, traveling up the incline, letting the slope of the incline guide me. Considering the weather conditions, dead reckoning or entering accurate data on the GPS was not a possibility. I decided to refigure all my dead reckoning and try to at least get some general idea of where I should be. Christopher Columbus used dead reckoning for his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. There is no corresponding southern pole star, so dead reckoning became the primary navigating process. Show More Sentences In dead reckoning you estimate distance traveled along a given heading as a function of velocity and elapsed time. They had been in clouds since the beginning, navigating only by dead reckoning. Turner must be, by my reckoning, the most frequently exhibited artist of all time. I have five shelves just of his catalogues. Fragrant, aromatic whites seem to go best by my reckoning, but there's plenty of scope for simple, fruity reds too. By 1982 then, these were the two superpowers, France always in the reckoning, poor old Ireland bringing up the rear with the Scots. We're reckoning on a two to three-year project this time, giving us time for a bit of a life outside the project. They are also subject to sharp revision, often in ways which suggest that political factors were at work in the numerical reckoning. They have failed to win any of the seven games since, a slump which has seen them pick up only three points and crash out of the reckoning for a play-off finish. But it would be hard to find two more opportunistic men than they, and by almost any reckoning, the right moment had come for a full public account of West's early years. Decentralization will not be complete for several years and even then a good deal of time will have to elapse before a thorough reckoning of its success will be possible. Sometimes he takes one route, and sometimes another, just as his fancy inclines him, he pays no attention to the compass, but sails by dead reckoning of his own devising. Also crucial in his reckoning of a good care system is having a good team of paramedical staff and counsellors who will help patients cope, post-surgery. Even if you choose to find your way by dead reckoning, the rear-view mirror has a little LED display to tell you which point of the compass you are heading towards. He partook of a leisurely breakfast, paid his reckoning, had the ostler bring his horse, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air. So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it. The only thing so far saving the economy from a terrible reckoning is the fact that there aren't great prospects for profit anywhere else in the world either. Those corporations face a terrible reckoning when he falls from power. Justice permits the doer of evil to be held accountable for every iota of harm that ensues as a result of the evil act, and that reckoning can be terrible indeed. By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing. The day of reckoning has arrived not just in Ferguson, Missouri, but also across America. Show More Sentences They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza. Regardless of how talented or athletic or smart the people are, death seems to be the reckoning that will eventually come. But the cold hard numbers that Korb advances foreshadow a day of reckoning, just not yet. And one of the ways of rekindling that hope in the justice of God was with the sense that ultimately there will be a reckoning, and justice will be done. With the St. Kieran's senior and under 21 teams gone out of the reckoning in their respective championships, much attention will now be focussed on the minors. Although Kelly was unwilling to name players who might come into the reckoning, it seems certain that there will be new faces and some surprises when the invitations go out. But another contender, centre Craig Reed, is out of the reckoning until November, recovering from an ankle injury as well as having work commitments. But the nine-year-old has slipped to a very favourable rating and it would be unwise to rule him out of the reckoning in the Sean Graham Handicap Chase. Recently at least, they are, for the most part, ignominious liars, dissemblers, shape-changers, not particularly attractive people, even by their own reckoning. They are in second place, only 11 points adrift of Surrey, but fourth-placed Leicestershire could also come into the reckoning if they defeat Yorkshire. James Drinkall is definitely unavailable, so Alex Mathie and Joe Connor come back into the reckoning, while Brown could add a few of the club's talented juniors to the squad. When the day of reckoning comes, we will have to face some unpleasant truths. Garrymore, lacking the overall balance of their opponents, did make a spirited effort to get into the reckoning in the third quarter, but could make little headway. He has spent, by his own reckoning, almost half his career tracking down and debunking conspiracy theories. What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him. After I crossed the first two rivers my dead reckoning told me it was time to take the turn south, but the high mountain checkpoint was not in sight. When human mariners and lunar astronauts navigated by dead reckoning they used charts, tables, various measuring instruments, and a considerable amount of mathematics. The plane's captain added to the error by steering the plane on compass alone, backed up by dead reckoning and astro-fixes from a periscopic sextant. Continue on as you have and a day of reckoning will find you. He just hung on as long as he could until the day of reckoning. Show More Sentences The missions are generated using a twenty-digit alphanumeric seed code, which, with a little simple reckoning, leads me to over 1031 possible combinations. Direct reckoning, or the ability of animals to calculate their position by adding up successive movements, is evidence of read-write memory, he said. However, in Mahaz's own reckoning, it achieved 75 per cent success as it also takes into the account the second places secured by its supported candidates. There will be a day of reckoning for our lying Prime Minister. James McClean and Robbie Brady are the only other outand-out wingers in the squad so they come into the reckoning. The German destroyers frustrated two attempts to enter the harbour, which left the fleet without sighting data and reliant on dead reckoning. You might as well forget or throw mythopoesis out of your reckoning of the originality and authority of artistry in Soyinka's poetry and drama. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. I did a little Kantian reckoning and inwardly came down on Hartman's side. Technically, bagpipe playing, where there are no protective earplugs available, will become illegal and in my reckoning that is just ridiculous. He would later use his previous measurements of the compass variation to adjust his reckoning. Clearly, something better than dead reckoning was needed to find a way through dangerous waters. But this was a particularly hard task in an era where longitude was determined largely by dead reckoning. Nothing but air and water was seen for 40 days and by their reckoning they ran 2,000 miles and fortune deserted them. The books were thoroughly gone through and checked, and a reckoning of profits would be made. If only one line of position is available, this may be evaluated against the Dead reckoning position to establish an estimated position. Inertial navigation system is a dead reckoning type of navigation system that computes its position based on motion sensors. Five o'clock by the Dutch reckoning would be five o'clock in the Dutch rather than, e.g., a Canadian time zone. In the Eastern reckoning, that full moon is derived from the Metonic cycle while in the West it is referred to the meridian of Jerusalem. The assessors' reckoning of a man's holdings and their values, as recorded in Domesday Book, was dispositive and without appeal. Show More Sentences Data vary considerably from culture to culture, region to region, and even from one system of reckoning dates to another. But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? Chris Tremlett has been retained from the initial squad for the third Test and Graham Onions brought back into the reckoning for a possible return on his home ground. However, by the reckoning of Bede's time, passage from the old day to the new occurred at sunset, not midnight, and Cuthbert is clear that he died after sunset. For longitude, early ocean navigators had to rely on dead reckoning. The oldest such reckoning is preserved in the Sumerian king list. So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us. Scotland finished on the same points as both Yugoslavia and Brazil but the samba stars scored one more goal against Zaire which was crucial in the final reckoning. The purpose of this book is to give the pilot a clear understanding of avigation by dead reckoning, the system used by Colonel Lindbergh in his memorable flight. Examples from Classical Literature Keep the Black Maria, and when the play goes we will have a mighty reckoning. To each period of the chronologic reckoning should be added the 1900 years of our era. Then he takes a fresh sheet of paper and resumes his ciphering and reckoning. The reckoning, the retribution, the retaliation to be just must be most stern. But an almost unbroken 50 years of deficit spending has finally brought us to a time of reckoning. Further south are the Salish tribes, who have evolved something like the modern family, reckoning on both sides of the house. The real reckoning of outraged society is not with him, but with scrabble Alley. By the shipman's reckoning they were now about midway between the two shores. For more than twenty years I have been tossed about as a helmless vessel, without compass or reckoning. You are probably reckoning on my speedy departure to Simbirsk, and hoping I may not have time to settle your business. In the big storm Captain Mawson might have made a mistake in his reckoning. How escape deserved reckoning in the one and unmerited accounting in the other? Of their vaward they made a forelorne reckoning, and the like did the vaward of them. This long cycle was an application of the vigesimal system to their reckoning of time. Could he but obliterate as completely the dread reckoning of another world! Her 'ont want no more knockin' on the head, this zide of yester, to my reckoning. There's less of it with you to provide for, and it's less a perturber of your reckoning. He told me once there should be a day of reckoning between us, sooner or later. Sin' thou knowest me, thou knowest also that he who feasteth with me must pay his reckoning. It was reckoning with the near-coming day and was lessening in fury. Show More Sentences Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning. Yes, Mr. Clawbonny, he is reckoning on a good feed of human flesh! Other vengeance than mine had called him to the day of reckoning, and had exacted from him the penalty of his life. He stood for a moment, concentrated, reckoning his own strength, interrogating his heart, before he followed her hastily. Out, you diminutive pint-pot, whelped of an overgrown reckoning! Of course, this only set back the day of reckoning and seduced us into spending more than we would have spent on a cash basis. I'm not like others to keep you waiting, and making up accounts and reckoning fines. I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us. They'd had ramps built, floors leveled, railings installed, and Michelle waited sleeplessly for his rage and sorrow to descend like a reckoning. Such reckoning, of course, only holds good of thrifty, homely France. The quipu, or knotted reckoning cord was in use in Peru, as in China. She had a conviction that sooner or later the magnanimity which she persisted in reckoning as a chief ingredient of Clare's character would lead him to rejoin her. The noble woman met with none but common souls in whom the reckoning of actual interests was paramount, and who knew nothing of the nobler calculations of sentiment. This he used to call his day of reckoning or faire la lessive. There was a general disappointment among the passengers, who, without reckoning the delay, saw themselves compelled to trudge fifteen miles over a plain covered with snow. The other, SiRFDRive, optimizes positioning solutions for automobiles by intelligently combining measurements from GPS and dead reckoning sensors such as odometers. On inappreciative March 14 sinners, you have committed a cardinal sin against our party and the time of reckoning is well at hand, Raad concluded. The landlord, to get him out of the inn, replied with no less rhetoric though with shorter words, and without calling upon him to pay the reckoning let him go with a Godspeed. If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him. If you wouldn't think it going too far, Thquire, to make a little thpread for the company at about three and thixth ahead, not reckoning Luth, it would make 'em happy. Show More Sentences It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, It had somehow contrived to lose count, And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains By reckoning up the amount. Find more words! 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