Latitude
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144 examples of Latitude in a sentence
Malaria has natural limits, determined by latitude, altitude and, in some cases, human intervention.
The model law also offers strategies to help authorities rewrite sentencing guidelines in such a way that judges have more
latitude
to consider mitigating factors when meting out punishment.
In Russia, the Revolution of the 1990s has clearly entered its stabilization phase: there is broad acceptance of the market and private property; the period of feeble state authority and weak government is giving way to enhanced state power as an exhausted society allows today’s rulers wider
latitude
for political maneuver.
They want much wider
latitude
to intervene.
That increase would enable Treasury mandarins to maintain their
latitude
in setting fiscal policy, while making it unnecessary to streamline special-account budget financing for gargantuan public corporations, into which retiring bureaucrats parachute for lucrative jobs.
In these economies, innovation was powered not by global scientific progress, but by the population’s dynamism – their desire, capacity, and
latitude
to create – and willingness to allow the financial sector to steer them away from unpromising pursuits.
By contrast, American universities have retained the spirit of independence, and faculty are often given
latitude
to channel entrepreneurial ideas into new programs, institutes, schools, and research.
This credibility deficit gives Trump latitude, but it also poses a challenge for him as he moves from campaigning to governing.
The foreign-policy implications of the election are somewhat different, because, under the US Constitution, the president enjoys considerable
latitude.
The loosening of the security relationship has given Turkey greater
latitude
in foreign policy.
Evolution may have equipped humans with the ability to eat meat, but it left us with plenty of
latitude
to decide how much, if any at all.
Countries have too much
latitude
to make whatever commitments they want, relatively unconstrained by a common set of “top-down” rules imposed by the agreement.
Even if China’s leaders decided that they had the necessary fiscal
latitude
to pursue such a strategy, they probably would not, owing to the risk of inflation, which, perhaps more than any other economic variable, tends to lead to social unrest.
Owing to the checks and balances built into the American constitutional order, presidents have much wider
latitude
in how they engage with other countries than they do in steering domestic affairs.
The Biden administration will face fewer obstacles concerning foreign policy, where US presidents have wider
latitude.
This leaves plenty of
latitude
for each side to tell its own story, and not bother too much its factual accuracy.
In contrast, the Bank of Japan may purchase private-sector securities such as equities or corporate bonds, giving it potentially greater
latitude
to expand its balance sheet and stimulate corporate finance.
The government must provide reasons, but in considering those reasons, the court would give them “a great deal of latitude.”
The court could not give
latitude
to any reasons, because no reasons had, or could, be given.
Alternatively, the agency could be granted greater
latitude
to make such decisions on its own, provided the legislature does not issue a veto within a specified time period.
Fifteen days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in
latitude
42 degrees 15' north and longitude 60 degrees 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich.
On March 5, 1867, the Moravian from the Montreal Ocean Co., lying during the night in
latitude
27 degrees 30' and longitude 72 degrees 15', ran its starboard quarter afoul of a rock marked on no charts of these waterways.
On April 13, 1867, with a smooth sea and a moderate breeze, the Scotia lay in longitude 15 degrees 12' and
latitude
45 degrees 37'.
By then the frigate lay in
latitude
31 degrees 15' north and longitude 136 degrees 42' east.
You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves."
Raising his sextant, Captain Nemo took the altitude of the sun, which would give him his
latitude.
I bowed, and the commander went on:"We're in longitude 137 degrees 15' west of the meridian of Paris, and
latitude
30 degrees 7' north, in other words, about 300 miles from the shores of Japan.
Then my eyes focused on a huge world map displayed on the table, and I put my finger on the very spot where our just-determined longitude and
latitude
intersected.
I consulted the world map; and in
latitude
32 degrees 40' north and longitude 167 degrees 50' west, I found an islet that had been discovered in 1801 by Captain Crespo, which old Spanish charts called Rocca de la Plata, in other words, "Silver Rock."
Three miles off, in
latitude
8 degrees 57' south and longitude 139 degrees 32' west, I spotted Martin Point on Nuku Hiva, chief member of this island group that belongs to France.
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