(n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
(n.) Same as Loadstar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as one New Labour shibboleth after another, from nationalisation to higher taxes on the rich, has fallen under the pressure of the crisis, it has certainly underlined the price of the corporate embrace that has been its lodestar from its inception (and the Conservatives', naturally, long before that).
(2) After all, allowing those in work to keep a larger stretch of income before the state sees fit to withhold some of it is supposed to be a governing lodestar.
(3) Ever since Ronald Reagan famously dubbed government “the problem, not the solution” in his historic 1980 presidential campaign, Republican money, Republican leadership and Republican policy have all clustered around the lodestar faith that the basic operations of government – and the existence of a public sphere – were nothing less than a metaphysical affront to the one true faith of unalloyed laissez-faire.
(4) But optimism is his lodestar: "Of course I'm optimistic," he says.
(5) But a recent Resolution Foundation commission report on the minimum wage, chaired by Prof Sir George Bain, the first chairman of the Low Pay Commission (LPC), recommended a rate at 60% of average earnings as a "reasonable lodestar".
(6) Anguished rumours abounded on Twitter and elsewhere as South Africa contemplated the loss of its moral lodestar, an event that will be a national trauma .
(7) Her political lodestars, she says, "are people like Arundhati Roy.
(8) We describe a Drosophila maternal-effect gene, lodestar, mutations in which cause chromatin bridges at anaphase.
(9) lodestar maps to cytological position 84D13-14, and we identified the lodestar gene in germ-line transformation experiments by the ability of a genomic fragment to restore fertility to females homozygous for lodestar mutations.
(10) "The first was that the Conservatives have no ideological lodestar ...
(11) Two of those sons later became estranged from the family, and were eventually bought out of Koch Industries, but for Charles and David, the rightwing free market ideology was their lodestar.
(12) Brecht and the ballet: these, you could say, were Gaskill’s twin lodestars and from them both he learned the importance in theatre of creating stage pictures that combined meaning and beauty.
(13) Undergraduates' discontent matters, because economics has long been the west's political lodestar.
(14) lodestar encodes a potential nucleoside triphosphate binding protein, which is a novel member of the D-E-A-H box family of proteins.
(15) If there is melancholy in the tributes it is because the lodestar of that diaspora has gone missing.
(16) Antibodies raised against the lodestar gene product detect a protein that undergoes cell cycle-dependent changes in distribution in the embryo.
(17) It is restricted to the region enclosed by the spindle envelope during metaphase and anaphase; but by telophase, the lodestar protein is contained entirely within the reforming nucleus.
Navigation
Definition:
(n.) The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
(n.) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.
(n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.
(n.) Ships in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
(3) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(4) Since the introduction of universal credit we’ve made sure staff know how to support customers navigating the new claim system.
(5) It is clear that different subsets of navigational cues guide sensory afferents to muscle and to cutaneous destinations.
(6) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(7) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(8) Further, the results identify the hippocampus as a structure critical for the regulation of navigational behavior that manifests itself in a natural setting.
(9) Right parietal lesions resulted in deficits in both tasks, but especially landmark navigation.
(10) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(11) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(12) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(13) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(14) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.
(15) We are considering how to demonstrate freedom of navigation in an area that is critical to world trade,” a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(16) Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that navigating axons may respond to multiple guidance cues during development.
(17) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(18) But I also know, from my own family’s navigation of a shocking event, that there can be the inverse response as well.
(19) The rats also showed good acquisition of escape response in a water maze task carried out 13 weeks after ischemia, but showed slight impairment of spatial navigation in the transfer test.
(20) This mode of navigation can be modeled as an input control process that selectively retains favorable and rejects unfavorable consequences of the random responses.