The navigator also had to add any movement of the ship to the side caused by waves or the wind.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun,wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

"Want me to go back along with you in the cart and wind it for you,Ranse?"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

This time,scientists hope to learn more about the formation, wind speed and shape of tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

It takes the right combination of wind,temperature,pressure and humidity to create even a weak tornado.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Cloth sails were used to catch the wind to move a ship through the water.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Don't forget to wind the clock tonight." "You are goin' to your brother Ed's?"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Warm air rising from below causes the wind tube to reach toward the ground.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

He wanted to play music that showed the power of fire and stars just for the old man, and with the storm and the wind to join him.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

A few days later the wind began to blow about their fields.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It is cold outside. The wind blows to make it even colder.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

But birds or the wind can reintroduce them to the land.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

The wind began to blow stronger.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Crozier says the wind patterns that are pushing the volcanic dust towards Europe are expected to persist for days to come.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

If a large financial institution should ever fail, we will have the tools to wind it down without endangering the larger economy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"And there is no way to know if the current or the wind or the waves or what is going to affect it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Meteorologists and aviation authorities are monitoring wind direction and the ash cloud's movement from Iceland to determine where and when to shut down airspace in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

With a solar powered sail and using the sun and wind to power the batteries, the purpose of the mission is to show that renewable energy works.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

We need to move on." McCoy believes the best way to get more solar,wind and tidal power on the grid is to offer renewable energy generators a government guarantee.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

especially right now,he says. In Germany, the above market price paid to wind and solar farm owners adds about two to five Euros to the average household's monthly power bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23