(n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
(n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
(n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Example Sentences:
(1) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(2) Most of the main protest zone at Admiralty remains, although a small patch was cleared last week and protesters still hold a third site at Causeway Bay.
(3) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
(4) It is rare for Hong Kong.” Police had already said they would support the enforcement of a court order for the removal of protestors from three sections of the Admiralty site, but made it evident that they planned to clear the whole area.
(5) I never thought I would see anything like this in Hong Kong ,” a resident marvelled as we rounded the corner of the flyover and saw for the first time just how many people had flowed into the roads around the government offices at Admiralty.
(6) However, as they returned to the scene of last year’s occupation outside government headquarters in Admiralty on Monday, activists young and old vowed to fight on.
(7) History was made the next day, when Hong Kong’s annual gay pride parade culminated in Tamar park, adjacent to the Admiralty occupation.
(8) The demonstrators, equipped with goggles and face masks to ward off teargas and pepper spray, flooded the streets around the government complex in Admiralty – a bustling commercial area in downtown Hong Kong – leading authorities to divert bus routes and shut down a subway station.
(9) Eighteen-year-old Wong became the face of the movement following his earlier arrest at Admiralty at the very beginning of the pro-democracy protests, as some voiced unhappiness about Beijing’s restrictions on who is eligible to stand as the territory’s next chief executive in 2017.
(10) At 5.58pm on Monday – the exact time that a volley of police tear gas is credited with kicking off the occupation – activists will return to the site of the main protest camp in Admiralty to remember, to celebrate and in many cases to mourn a movement that shook Hong Kong.
(11) A few hundred slept on the tarmac at the main occupation zone at Admiralty, around government offices, but allowed workers to enter the buildings.
(12) Banks was born in Dunfermline, the only child of an admiralty officer and a former professional ice skater.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) The other Churchill was then a father of two, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty under Herbert Asquith's Liberal government.
(15) Speaking at a press conference at Admiralty House marking the end of the parliamentary term, the deputy prime minister said: "I don't think it helps at all, when we are looking forward at trying to work out what comes out of the discussions on the reform of the eurozone, to prioritise what we think we can kind of get out of it.
(16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
(17) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
(18) Last night I was in Mong Kok, but tonight I am here as I worried the police might do something in Admiralty,” said Samantha Choi, a trader who has been part of the movement since its early days.
(19) He tweeted: “Please all my friends, at this stage, do not surrender before the battle even begins – we still have a chance.” Yvonne Leung of the Hong Kong Federation of Students told local broadcaster RTHK: “Further actions include a possibility of some escalations pointed at government-related buildings or some of the government-related departments.” After almost two months demonstrators are still occupying the main protest area at Admiralty and a smaller site at Causeway Bay.
(20) It’s another second world war airfield, bigger than Momote, blasted and built by the Americans to receive and launch their bombers in the Admiralty Islands campaign.
Maritime
Definition:
(a.) Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; marine; pertaining to navigation and naval affairs, or to shipping and commerce by sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(2) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(3) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(4) In a bizarre moment, Campbell turned to Morrison and asked: "Minister, is the government considering now or in the future a change to Australia's border security policies regarding illegal maritime arrivals?"
(5) International maritime regulations on pollution were created.
(6) Monday’s budget request, an increase of 2.2% on last year, demonstrates a shift in Japan’s security emphasis from its northern maritime border with Russia to its long and porous southern reaches.
(7) Supporters of the construction argued in a 2006 presentation that they could capture 4.5% of world maritime freight traffic and earn a 22% profit margin by 2025, although their cost estimates at that time were much lower than those of the current project.
(8) Your writers have defended the extraordinary introduction of an export block to halt their legitimate purchase on the basis of their artistic value, yet you will be storing them in a maritime museum.
(9) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
(10) Judge Yehia el-Dakroury declared that Egypt’s maritime border would not be redrawn, meaning that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir would remain under Egyptian sovereignty.
(11) It was just one of two maritime Predator B drones equipped with radar specifically designed to be used over the ocean.
(12) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(13) A new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft will be scrapped even though £3.6bn – about the amount of money the entire defence budget will be cut by over the next four years – has already been spent on it.
(14) Maritime search experts said this meant acoustic hydrophones would usually be towed in the water at depths of up to 2km in order to have the best chance of hearing the signals.
(15) Little blue men: the maritime militias pushing China's claims Read more Tensions between China and the United States are high in the South China Sea , where Beijing has been building islets into military bases and is asserting sovereignty over large parts of the critical waterway.
(16) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(17) Moas was planning to act under the instructions of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Rome, which covers the zone crossed by migrant boats from Libya and can order any vessel to undertake a rescue.
(18) One viable option is a gradual and direct involvement of reliable third countries in the maritime surveillance and search and rescue activity.” It said contacts with the Egyptian and Tunisian authorities were being explored, but that “EU member states and relevant EU institutions and agencies have to take adequate, quick and effective actions ...
(19) Four aircraft have been tasked to search the area by Australia’s maritime search agency.
(20) I have never known such joy, in my whole life.” Lawyers for Ferouz welcomed Morrison’s “change of heart”, which overrode a ruling by the full bench of the federal court in Brisbane on Thursday that Ferouz was not eligible to seek protection because he was deemed an “unauthorised maritime arrival” like his parents.