A " laser broom " has been proposed to sweep space debris from Earth orbit.

This means that the ramjet scoop must sweep 10 < sup > 21 </ sup > cubic meters of space ( approximately the volume of the Earth ) to collect one kilogram of hydrogen.

The sweep of white drapery on which the goddess lies ; and the glowing landscape that fills the space behind her ; most harmoniously frame her divinity.

Concrete blocks weighing several tons had been placed around the footings of these piers and the space between the blocks and the piers backfilled with gravel, but the lahar was strong enough to sweep these away.

In Athens when Assembly was called, a contingent of public slaves would sweep the open space of the Agora with ropes dipped in miltos: those citizens that loitered there instead of moving to the Assembly area would risk having their clothes stained with the paint.

A laser broom is a proposed ground-based laser beam-powered propulsion system whose purpose is to sweep space debris out of the path of other artificial satellites such as the International Space Station.

In the original algorithm, this was a burst of white noise, but it can also include any wideband signal, such as a rapid sine wave chirp or frequency sweep, or a single cycle of a sawtooth wave or square wave.

In the province of Drenthe in The Netherlands in the late 19th, early 20th century it was custom to use a stiff broom to sweep patterns in white sand to form simple decorations on the tiled floors of the houses, mostly for special occasions or celebrations.

The units were outshopped in a new livery of white, with a grey band across the window area, blue and yellow bands on the lower half of the body, red doors, and a grey sweep at the cab ends.

From September through June, and especially during the winter and spring, the cold fronts of these advancing air masses sweep powerfully across Bermuda, preceded by two or three days of progressively stormier, wetter, and more overcast weather.

Most's approach to anarchism stressed two main ideas: first, that it was necessary to abolish not only the state, but also the social institutions known as private property and the free market ; second, that the intelligent anarchist must avail himself of what Most and many other anarchists of the time called " propaganda of the deed " — acts of violence that would inspire the masses and sweep them up in revolutionary fervor.

Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post gave a negative review, saying that The Scorpion King " has none of the qualities — epic sweep, relative originality and heartfelt bloodthirstiness — that made Conan so trashily entertaining.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

Other standard iterative methods for matrix equation solutions can also be used, for example the Gauss – Seidel method, where updated values for each patch are used in the calculation as soon as they are computed, rather than all being updated synchronously at the end of each sweep.

Bolstered by a resurgent economy in the mid-1980s, Mitchell led his party to an unprecedented sweep of all fifteen House of Assembly seats in the 1989 elections.

The Zulu monarch was killed by three assassins sometime in 1828, September is the most often cited date, when almost all available Zulu manpower had been sent on yet another mass sweep to the north.

The absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, makes all locations vulnerable to high winds and rapid changes in weather as fronts or storms sweep across the country.

The victory over the legions was followed by a clean sweep of all Roman forts, garrisons and cities — of which there were at least two — east of the Rhine ; the remaining two Roman legions, commanded by Varus ' nephew Lucius Nonius Asprenas, were content to try to hold that river.

Overall Sweden won seven out of a possible fifteen medals in the nordic events, including all three gold medals and a sweep of the 18 kilometer race.

The crest of the snowy range connecting the Oberalpstock with the Tödi nowhere sinks to 9, 000 feet, but makes a sweep convex to the north, forming a semicircular recess, whose numerous torrents are all poured into the Rhine through the Val Russein below Disentis.

The media misinterpreted this and assumed Moses was predicting that the 76ers would sweep all three rounds to win the title, with the minimum 12 games.

The Pistons summarily won all three games in Portland, becoming the first NBA team to sweep the middle three games on the road.

Despite their success against Calgary, round 2 would prove to be a disaster for the Sharks, when they lost in a four game sweep to Detroit ( in a rematch of the previous year ) without even holding a single lead in all 4 games.

However, as with all guitar techniques, each individual player can seek to integrate sweep picking into their existing repertoire and make use of it in an individually stylistic manner.

Despite the large Fuzhou population, most of the Chinese businesses in Chinatown are still Cantonese owned and because of still the large Cantonese population on the Lower East Side, especially with the Cantonese Community still being the main Chinese commercial district for all of Chinatown and with the Cantonese people living in more affluent residencies that are also important customers to Chinatown's businesses, Cantonese is still a strong Lingua Franca in Chinatown even though Mandarin is beginning to sweep Cantonese aside as a Lingua Franca allowing Cantonese to still dominate the cultural standards and economic resources of Manhattan's Chinatown.

Norman got payback of a sort in the 2001 Skins Game, in which he not only defeated Woods ( as well as Colin Montgomerie and Jesper Parnevik ), he also was the only person in Skins Game history to sweep all the prize money ( 1 million dollars ) and leave the other players, including Woods, empty handed.

The Court found that personal cultivation of marijuana fell within the scope of federal regulation by employing an expansive definition of economic activity, a definition described as " breathtaking " by Justice O ' Connor in her dissent because it " threatens to sweep all of productive human activity into federal regulatory reach.

To sweep all your chimneys,

In the 1954 team match against the USA ( held in New York ), Bronstein scored an almost unheard-of sweep at this level of play, winning all four of his games on second board.

They paddle in a general canoe style since canoes dragon boats, proa's and rafts are all distinctly differing paddle craft all paddled similarly variations exist due to the size and seating position in the boat ( Note that the sweep is not a helmsman or ' coxswain ', which are British-based naval and competitive rowing terms ( coxswain is also a Canadian War Canoe racing term ) for the person in charge of the boat.

The Red Sox secured the AL Pennant and then went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series, 4 games to 0 ending the curse once and for all.

Do not sail " by the lee " except for brief durations ( such as to avoid an obstacle ), and only when keeping all crew clear of the boom swing and the arc of the mainsheet sweep.

Nos fils ( 1869 ), the last of the string of smaller books published during the author's life, is a tractate on education, written with ample knowledge of the facts and with all Michelet's usual sweep, and range of view, if with visibly declining powers of expression.

However, its original purpose was to evade an opponent's floor sweep and flip to the antagonist's exposed side or it may be used as a double aerial kick to an opponent standing off to the side.

On some CRT monitors, the beam sweep rate may be fixed, resulting in a fixed native resolution.

The sweep oared boat has to be stiffer to handle these unmatched forces, so consequently requires more bracing and is usually heavier – a pair ( 2 -) is usually a more robust boat than a double scull ( 2x ) for example, and being heavier is also slower when used as a double scull.

In theory this could also apply to the 4x and 8x, but most rowing clubs cannot afford to have a dedicated large hull which might be rarely used and instead generally opt for versatility in their fleet by using stronger shells which can be rigged for either sweep rowing or sculling.

An uncontrolled jibe can happen suddenly by itself when sailing downwind if the helmsman is not paying attention to the wind direction and can be very dangerous as the main boom will sweep across the cockpit very quickly and with great force.

On December 15, in another nationally-televised game, the Bills completed a season sweep at Giants Stadium, beating the Giants 17-13, a game which was close, but would prove to be not as close as this one.

** Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.

Barrage jamming may be accomplished by presetting multiple jammers on adjacent frequencies, by using a single wideband transmitter, or by using a transmitter capable of frequency sweep fast enough to appear radiating simultaneously over wide band ( e. g. a carcinotron ).

By changing its sweep angle in this way, drag can be reduced at high speed ( with the wing swept ) without sacrificing low speed performance ( with the wing perpendicular ).

This type has a major advantage since sweep speeds can be much faster, allowing for less blurry imaging of moving structures, such as the heart and arteries.

Boas believed that the sweep of cultures, to be found in connection with any sub species, is so vast and pervasive that there cannot be a relationship between culture and race.

Knowing the area ( S < sub > w </ sub >), taper ratio () and the span ( b ) of the wing, and whether the wing has sweep or not, the chord at any position on the span can be calculated by the formula:

The Flyers looked to be headed toward another sweep against the New York Islanders after winning the first three games.

Ultimately, once mastered, sweep picking can be applied to virtually any idea — arpeggio or otherwise.

County Down is where, in the words of the famous song by Percy French, " The mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea ", and the granite Mourne Mountains continue to be renowned for their beauty.

However, in winter the city can be vulnerable to windstorms and Arctic cold fronts that sweep across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

) If the subject is arrested in a home, police may search the room in which they were arrested, and conduct a " protective sweep " of the premises where there is reasonable suspicion that other individuals may be hiding.

However, many modern protocols recommend against the use of the finger sweep since, if the patient is conscious, they will be able to remove the foreign object themselves, or if they are unconscious, the rescuer should simply place them in the recovery position ( where the object should fall out due to gravity ).

A single sweep may be adequate or it may be necessary to average the graphs obtained in several sweeps with the averager triggered by the sweep cycle.