To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euclid’s Window] Reference

These were straight-line winds that caused the damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference

Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

One Ingersoll straight-line compressor from the old power-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157] Reference

Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

But the straight-line winds are going to be the biggest deal here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004] Reference

That's when you know you got some pretty strong straight-line winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008] Reference

Three Rand straight-line compressors from the original power plant at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157] Reference

It's not going to be a straight-line or a steady linear kind of result.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference

But our '08 projection, frankly, is just sort of a straight-line projection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2007] Reference

In Mississippi they had just straight-line winds that caused a lot of damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Storm Ravages Mississippi - February 24, 2001] Reference

That probably has some straight-line winds that did some damage at east Waco.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference

If all of the trees all fell down in one direction, that's a straight-line wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2002] Reference

Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897), mathematician and lecturer on straight-line linkages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

Does it look like a possible tornado from high winds -- straight-line winds, rather?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006] Reference

From what we've seen so far, it could be straight-line winds; it could be tornadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2009] Reference

But keep in mind, at times, straight-line winds can be just as deadly as any tornado.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006] Reference

What do you think, a tornado or what you have described as those straight-line winds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2006] Reference

The exact straight-line linkage in a single plane was not known until 1864 (see p. 204).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

And you don't -- you can't get damage 60 stories high if it's just a straight-line wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference

The appearance in 1864 of Peaucellier's exact straight-line linkage went nearly unnoticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

He found that the two principal straight-line linkages then in use were Watt's and Evans '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

I'm not exactly sure if this is caused by tornadic activity or either by straight-line winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008] Reference

LAWRENCE: Partha Sarkar says current building codes are designed to withstand straight-line winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007] Reference

WOLF: Well, I mean, at a minimum, we have some devastating straight-line winds, possibly tornadoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2009] Reference

Richards high-speed engine indicator of 1861, showing application of the Watt straight-line linkage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

All four-bar straight-line linkages that have no sliding pairs trace only an approximately straight line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference

The test is a simple straight-line run down pit lane, with a minimum time (depending on the class) of 15 or 18 seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automotive X Prize: The roller-coaster excitement of competition] Reference

Things are operating at an even slower speed now than they were a decade ago, and politics is not a straight-line universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: Is Bush Unbeatable In 2004 Election?] Reference

Incomprehensibly, Congress is considering making masters degrees in science and engineering a straight-line path to citizenship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Sorscher: The Best Job Training Is a Job] Reference

However, no tornado has been confirmed, and all of the damage the Weather Service has surveyed resulted from straight-line winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [An inside view of Sunday's severe weather] Reference

The quest for a straight-line mechanism more accurate than that of Watt far outlasted the pressing practical need for such a device.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference