A helicopter is able to take off and land straight up and down.

Chopsticks Upright in the Rice Bowl

A vacuum never survives for long.

This vacuum has now been filled by the Arab Awakening.

Two small nozzles were affixed to the belt and directed vertically downward.

So there is no policy framework within which to situate stem cell research or reproductive or therapeutic cloning.

Into this vacuum has stepped President Bush.

For that experiment they need a complete vacuum.

Tribal feelings national, ethnic, and religious are filling the vacuum.

The ideological vacuum left by the death of Marxist orthodoxy was filled with nationalism.

Other governments and intergovernmental bodies have not filled the gap left by the US.

And, without a dominant regional power, a dangerous strategic vacuum has emerged.

Vietnamese elders will react in horror if you ever stick your chopsticks upright into your rice bowl.

Ever gotten a slap on the hand when you stick your chopsticks upright into your rice bowl in Vietnam?

Can Thailand s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fill the regional leadership vacuum?

But the window for the military to fill the power vacuum will be open only briefly.

It also filled a geopolitical vacuum at the heart of the continent, placing a check on Germany and Russia.

As it comes out of the grinder, you just have a little tray, and you just take it off in little passes, build it up, slice it vertically.

The red ornament design on the national flag was, until 2012, 1 12 the width of the flag, and 1 9 with the white margin.

One can only hope that the vacuum created by America s withdrawal doesn t implode in violence.

So fortunately, one of the other definitions of suck that was in there, it does create a vacuum.

The Bush administration s habits of falsehood have undone its aggressive proclivities, leaving a gaping vacuum.

But a political vacuum in Lebanon only makes violence more likely, which Hezbollah doesn t want.

The final pointer of the UK election may partly reflect the vacuum in national leadership that such silence epitomizes.

In short, there is a vacuum of global leadership just at the moment when it is badly needed.

This left an ideological vacuum, swiftly filled in the 1980 s by greed, cynicism, and corruption.

Robert Boyle was the first to show in 1660 that vacuum is lethal to small animals.

It's the same basic game except I introduced a new piece, a square piece that can move both horizontally and vertically.

Transmission of viruses can be vertical, which means from mother to child, or horizontal, which means from person to person.

The vacuum that the PA left elsewhere, including the social sphere, was filled by Hamas.

This vacuum may encourage, as in previous historical periods, the ambitious and the aggressive to seek their own advantage.

Into this vacuum burst Hamas, with its network of schools, welfare services, community centers, and support organizations.

Over the last six years, the Putin administration has encouraged the nationalization and consolidation of private sector defense firms into large, vertically integrated, state controlled holdings.

LONDON The war in Georgia has clearly exposed the security vacuum in the surrounding region, as well as a lot of raw nerves.

Until recently, China feared that Russia's withdrawal from the region would create a vacuum that the US would fill.

But, in Iraq, flushing out the military and the police merely left the country in a domestic security vacuum.

And it's very empty. The vacuum there is one million times less dense than the highest vacuum that our best technology on Earth can currently create. So that's how different a typical place is from this place.

Well, this has emotions if you like, because it signals the waiter that, Hey, I'm finished. See upright.

So there was a vacuum to fill, accompanied by a strong desire among the party faithful for revival. Royal s chief virtue is that she has not taken part in the numerous internal battles that infuriate socialist militants and voters, and her lack of direct association with the party s leadership has enabled her to avoid blame for its mistakes.

The Assembly sought to fill this policy vacuum by outlining steps that her government must take to jump start the economy.

Indeed, nationalist politicians and religious leaders have been the first to spot the vacuum, and they are rapidly filling it.

So there was a vacuum to fill, accompanied by a strong desire among the party faithful for revival.

In fact, most theories of particle physics predict vacuum fluctuations that would give the vacuum this sort of energy.

Ever since the former Soviet Union withdrew its invading army from that country, a political vacuum has existed.

The vacuum was filled in Italy by the rise of Silvio Berlusconi, which may have been less of a good thing.