Not only can the direction-finder be used to pilot a ship into a harbor, but it will also serve to prevent collisionsat sea, because a ship equipped with a radio compass can tell whether another ship is coming directly toward her.
Right was in all cases made completely subservient to might; and the competitors for power kept armed ruffians in their pay, whose collisions with each other were often of the most desperate character.
The collision becomes inevitable, and as this cannot produce any real solution so long as it does not break in pieces the capitalist mode of production, the collisions become periodic.
Broadly I propose to arrange a series of collisions with the German frontier authorities.
Every night the enemy sent down fire-rafts, but these, though occasioning annoyance to the fleet, were productive of no serious damage beyond collisions arising from them.
The current, and collisions with their own vessels, had somewhat disarranged the apparatus, but it was essentially in this condition when the bombardment began.
The hulls had been much injured by the enemy's fire, and by frequent collisions in the lower river, due to the rapid current and the alarms of fire-rafts.
The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.
In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable.
Some of the legends certainly refer to recent collisions with Europeans, and it is not easy to say what value can be attached to the others as evidence of an extermination of the last Norsemen.
It has been said that, if the Upper Yang-tsze were navigated by steam, collisions would be of frequent occurrence, but not more so than in the section between Hankow and Ichang.
Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
As the Anglo-Saxon race gradually extended itself, like a vapor, beyond the western base of that range, collisions with the native tribes began to ensue.
The numbers of jinrikishas, and the peculiar habits of the people, necessitate lynx-eyed vigilance to prevent collisions every hour of the day.
The general engagement that all expected did not occur, none of the small advantages accruing, now to this side and now to that, in isolated and accidental collisions being followed up.
If ships that are damaged below the water-line always settled in the water on an even keel, that is to say without any change of trim, the loss through collisions would be greatly reduced.
For if the huge steamships of our day, moving at high speed, are such potential engines of destruction, it follows that the damaging effects of collisions are proportionately increased.
That there are collisions between heavenly bodies is an indubitable fact, and if collisions do happen to any, allow time enough and they must happen to all.
On the whole, I question whether collisions and collusions do not cause as much good as harm.
It sets down all collisions as foreordained, and never observes that they occur because people will not smooth off their angles, but sharpen them, and not only sharpen them, but run them into you.
Most of the collisions tend to cause fracturing of the surface, which results in jagged edges.
Collisions do occur, but they aren't the violent smashes that make the brilliant meteor displays of Earth.
In submerged peace-time navigation the dangers are those of collisions with surface vessels, uncharted rocks, or sunken ships.
It is possible that collisions with submerged obstructions may have been responsible for some of the mysterious submarine fatalities.
With their subjects on our borders no new collisions have taken place nor seem immediately to be apprehended.
All their court then was paid to the crown and its creatures; and they Philipized in all collisions between the King and the people.
In this way, those collisions would be avoided between the vessels of war of different nations, which beget wars and constitute the weightiest objection to navies.
Your recollections on that subject are certainly corroborated by his known anxieties for a close connection with Great Britain, to which he might apprehend danger from collisions between their vessels and ours.
Gravity eventually brings the nebular particles into closer aggregations, and increased collisions finally vaporize the entire mass, forming planetary nebulae and gaseous stars.
The entire energy of a molecule of gas, for example, is not measured by its momentum, but by this plus its energy of vibration and rotation, due to the collisions already referred to.
The considerations that led Clerk-Maxwell to take up the computations may be stated in his own words, as formulated in a paper "On the Motions andCollisions of Perfectly Elastic Spheres.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collisions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
