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How to use the word motion in a Sentence? Page #11

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Life is in infinite motion; at the same time it is motionless.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

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They are like the sensors in your steering wheel but they are just a lot more sensitive than that. We use that sensor to track the motion, to do motion tracking of the blade but monitor also what we call the dynamic response, every time a blade moves we are monitoring it and that tells us something about that conversation that is happening from one turbine to the next.

Doug Adams

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9 years ago

It helps reduce the swelling around the joint, and that's what I’m trying to improve: range of motion and stability.

Ben Famiglietti

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I'm sure I get credit for a lot of things that I'm part of but not necessarily the whole of, we began a great university and those who followed continued the motion forward.

Theodore Hesburgh

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9 years ago

I fully expected, sadly in some ways, that in my time as the commander of United States Cyber Command the Department of Defense would be tasked with attempting to defend the nation against those kind of attacks, i didn't realize that it would be against a motion picture company, to be honest.

Kim Jong-un Rogers

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9 years ago

It’s the things that we find from flying over a target and having an FMV, a full motion video, or being able to take pictures, or being able to do a different type of geo-spatial analysis or predictive analysis on the enemy.

Brigadier General James Linder

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9 years ago

I guess for them it was kind of like watching a car crash in slow motion. You can see things getting worse and worse, but you feel powerless to help. And that's how she felt and then it ended in this tragic way, so she was pretty devastated. The whole family is.

Laura Beil

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9 years ago

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

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9 years ago

Walking and hiking are the original forms of motion and should be more recommended by public health campaigns to face this epidemic of inactivity.

Gunther Neumayr

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9 years ago

What is important not to lose sight of is that 'Selma,' which is a fantastic motion picture, was nominated for best picture this year, and the best picture category is voted on by the entire membership of around 7,000 people.

Boone Isaacs

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9 years ago

The way that you interpret gravity is 24/7, even when you’re asleep you’re constantly having to maintain balance and posturability helps you push your eyes into certain directions, helps you not get motion sickness, it’s a very important system and if you damage it, it needs to be rehabilitated with sensitive therapy.

Cagan Randall

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9 years ago

Instead of grasping the breast and the nipple, the baby could be using a chewing-like motion.

Irene Zoppi

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9 years ago

Even when the other person didn't speak English, you hold your camera up and make the motion and they understand.

Sarah Kinling of Baltimore

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9 years ago

This is a most unusual sale motion in that we have an objection from Polo North to their own sale, in my 23 years in practicing bankruptcy, I have yet to see that.

John Cunningham

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9 years ago

The devices can help control excessive motion in the foot, the shoe should be the correct size for the child and not too flimsy from toe to heel.

Alan MacGill

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9 years ago

Before we heard of Motion Resources, his partner contacted our office through his lawyer and indicated to us that he could explain the entire conspiracy to us.

Chris Myers

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9 years ago

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Dorothea Brande

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9 years ago

To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.

J. William Fulbright

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10 years ago

“Aberjhani's voice should be heard around the world. He is an extraordinarily gifted writer whose words are more than inspirational, intriguing, and eloquent ... they are poetry in motion.”

Reginald V. Johnson

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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

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As an author I found it fascinating interviewing luminaries of the jazz world for over 15 years, beginning with a phone call from Red Rodney on a Thanksgiving Day in 1989 and then a phone call from Stan Getz on Christmas Day; their comments set in motion the quest to write a book about my first husband, Al Haig, the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (who gave me the moniker 'Lady Haig' one blustery cold night outside of Birdland on a January night) - and later Stan Getz.”

Grange Lady Haig Rutan

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