On the other hand, you could check instruments and programs forever and still miss something.

He got up and walked around the lab, checking instruments out of long-standing habit.

Gasoline was being poured into the tanks and they were checking instrument controls.

'Someone needs rescuing, we got to go,' he went on as a member of the crew checked instruments.

Ever the practical sort, he was checking instruments.

He strapped himself in and began checking instruments.

"I reversed some leads, just in case a checking instrument was out by the same amount as a circuit," he told the technician.

Pamir shook his head, checking instruments and a series of nexuses.

He secured himself, checked instruments, received clearance, and lifted.

It happened too quick to check instruments.

I waved again to acknowledge and then checked instruments and made a calculation on the log.

Sulu, checking instruments, looked up in surprise.

Like a pilot checking instruments he rearranges his desk, clears his throat and soon we are airborne.

He checked instruments.

Check instruments."

The engines were run up, the plane taxied and then flown by military crews to check instruments, radios and single engine operation.

Just forward of Vor's work station, the Dream Voyager's captain, an autonomous robot, checked instruments unerringly.

At left, an engineer from Morton Thiokol, the booster's builder, checks instruments on a section of booster rocket mounted on a test stand.

"Not only price," he said, "but repair terms, the chance to check instruments out and the opportunity for partial refunds if an instrument doesn't live up to its billing."

Instrumental methods for measurement of dissolved oxygen have widely supplanted the routine use of the Winkler test, although the test is still used to check instrument calibration.

Going through four thousand feet I checked instruments and brought the log up to date and changed course by five degrees to take me north of the missile site at Voliapin.

She'd managed that for very short periods and with some disorientation, but never this long or this easily-and certainly not while also covering a range, checking instrument readings, and keeping tabs on the rest of the Arm.

Because of a nationwide reduction in the use of checking instruments, the Chicago Fed and most other Reserve Banks ceased processing paper checks on November 17, 2009 and electronic checks in 2010.

I checked instruments and noted the new course on the log card and took her up to four hundred feet because there were low hills on the map and I couldn't see them: I couldn't see anything.

The odd, rare breakdown was something the engineers could handle, but carrying out repairs under accurate cross-bow fire from unseen hostiles was something everyone preferred to do without - and that also applied to checking instrument packages and changing the batteries.