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Departing in sentence

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Rosetta had to turn around to get its cameras to actually look at Philae while it was departing and to be able to communicate with it.
This is a picture, a photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope taken by the shuttle Atlantis as it was departing after the last human space flight to Hubble.
Now, with the voyage departing, he had one final announcement to his shipmates: They were going to head in the opposite direction.
Departing from the lines, I decided to tackle the idea of points, like which is more similar to the type of representation that we find in photographs themselves.
Now, you or I might feel relief, but in Baining culture, departing guests are thought to shed a sort of heaviness so they can travel more easily, and this heaviness infects the air and causes this awumbuk.
In one typical passage, Nubi gazes out the window at the departing caravan and waxes poetic: "Always the gypsies, they sing.
It's also very unpleasing when they only have one raft departing dock open and not the two, like they are supposed to.
Departing from Herzog's usual themes, Little Dieter is a fascinating and uplifting character study about a brave man and his efforts to go on living after a life-alteringly traumatic experience.
STARLIFT features two Air Force soldiers hoping to meet fictional starlet Nell Wayne (a mask-like Janice Rule) and persuading a bunch of Warner Bros stars to put on a show for the departing troops.
This feeble effort is an unintentional parody of the genre - all the classic clichéd scenes are here from ridiculously elaborate misunderstandings to running after departing trains to declare one's love.
If this film strikes you (as it did us and, apparently, others departing the theater) as disappointingly thin, it may be because the subject herself is mildly disappointing.
Setting off for France in the dead of night, the sequence of shots features the hotel where they had stayed and the harbour they were departing - all picked out with 'practical' lights blazing through the hotel's windows and other bright lights strung all around the harbour walls!
For nefarious reasons, the conquerors keep lovely Lottie for themselves, sadly separating her from departing sweetheart Moore.
When the bloc loses a single member state, it looks like a misfortune that can be attributed to the departing country’s domestic peculiarities.
Just before I left Hong Kong in 1997, after departing from my post as the city’s last British governor, I visited a hospital for the mentally ill, where an in-patient asked me an eminently sane question.
Admittedly, this would require departing from the Fund’s traditional lending in exchange for conditionality.
Essentially, his approach to international issues is pragmatic, and, in departing from his predecessor’s penchant for machtpolitik , Obama has pledged always to exhaust diplomacy first.
Of course, if that inhabitant already owned a house there that they can sell, they may regard the price increase as a windfall that they can claim by departing.
Countries departing for the northern euro should make a one-time contribution to these debt-reduction efforts.
Indeed, as far back as 380 BC, Plato warned against departing from traditional forms of music.
A few days after the deadline of April 15, bulldozers moved in, flattening the shops, previously dismantled by the departing Afghan merchants.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as one of his first initiatives, proposed a ban on “golden parachutes” for departing managers of firms traded on the stock exchange, in order to halt the practice of taking huge severance payments without the consent of shareholders.
Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for India’s Muslims; but, until recently (as Pakistan’s population continues to grow at a higher rate than India’s), more Muslims remained in India than lived in Pakistan.
He gave astounding orders to soldiers departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China: they should awaken fear as had the Huns of yore.
But “success” entails more than departing Israelis.
The IMF's departing Chief Economist, Ken Rogoff, warns that the surpluses put global stability at risk.
While there were calls to redraw the colonial lines, neither departing Europeans nor local elites were interested in the thorough reshuffling that this would have required.
This would not be all that the Umbrella Movement has demanded, but it should encourage the protesters to reach a compromise without departing from their longer-term goal.
Given that many Arab states are modern constructs invented by departing colonial powers, and therefore lack cohesive historical identities, their state structures often lack strong foundations.
And it now seems to be departing from its historical post-war approach to international economic policy.
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