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The ship lies broadside to the current, with the main topsail backed and the fore and mizzen topsail full: essentially a hove-to position. Selective backing and filling of these sails moves the ship ahead or astern, so allowing it to be kept in the best part of the channel.
Fore or forward: at or toward the front of a ship or further ahead of a location (opposite of "aft") [1] Preposition form is "before", e.g. "the mainmast is before the mizzenmast". Inboard: attached inside the ship. [15] Keel: the bottom structure of a ship's hull. [16] Leeward: side or direction away from the wind (opposite of "windward"). [17]
Continuing along a road more often traveled is advantageous if anticipating what lies ahead is important. Taking another road just to circumvent the road more often traveled, the road that policy is built on, is not always smooth and is more likely to result in the need to navigate more unexpected occurrences.
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Slow ahead/astern, the number of revolutions is standardized for the individual ship and is unstated; Half ahead/astern, accompanied by an order for a power setting (e.g., "half ahead both engines, revolutions 1,500") Full speed ahead/astern. This is reserved for emergencies and as such the word "speed" is included to distinguish it from the ...
After Oct. 7, Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza returned the Palestinian cause to the global agenda. But a year later, the story is the vulnerability of Iran.
What Lies Ahead is the second-season premiere episode of The Walking Dead. What Lies Ahead also may refer to: "What Lies Ahead", a song by +/- from Jumping the Tracks, 2014 "What Lies Ahead", a song by Kensington from Time, 2019; What Lies Ahead, a thriller film starring Rumer Willis
Henry Fuseli's painting of Odysseus facing the choice between Scylla and Charybdis, 1794–1796. Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". [1]