(1) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
(2) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
(3) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
(4) 'Libyan coastguard' speedboat attacked migrant dinghy, says NGO Read more The central Mediterranean route has always been a riskier option.
(5) When he was diagnosed as terminally ill two years later, he set up a Facebook page with a bucket list of things he wanted to achieve, including sky-diving, crowd-surfing in a rubber dinghy, and hugging an animal bigger than him (an elephant, it turned out).
(6) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos.
(8) Even as the expulsions were under way, a rubber dinghy with about 40 men, women and children arrived from the shores of Turkey; on the other side of the Aegean, dozens of others were arrested trying to follow in their wake.
(9) Photograph: Eduardo Ruiz Samuel always tells people that his journey to reach Spain by dinghy lasted two years.
(10) A terrorist who comes into Greece via a dinghy from Turkey posing as a refugee couldn’t just pop up in London.
(11) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
(12) A dry-land winter training programme for dinghy-sailors is described.
(13) Their day had begun at the family’s home on a barge on the Thames, where neighbours had carpeted one community dinghy named Yorkshire Rose with 1,000 roses.
(14) Threatened with guns, 40 Syrian men, women and children got onto a small inflatable dinghy and were pushed into the water.
(15) Bharat Tamore, an assistant supervisor at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, was gazing out to sea when he spotted the dinghy drifting noiselessly towards the beach.
(16) Along the roadside, entrepreneurs sell everything from wellington boots and lifejackets to blocks of foam and inflatable dinghies.
(17) We have been told by the people who have arrived that the traffickers would literally push people to board rubber dinghies with weapons.
(18) Getting there is all a bit Blue Peter: at just gone 9am on a freezing weekday, I bounce over the waves in a motorised dinghy, then clamber up long-eroded steps - clinging nervously to a frayed length of rope - into a huge circular courtyard.
(19) But in a major tragedy last week, more than 300 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea when their overcrowded rubber dinghies collapsed and sank in stormy weather.
(20) Four rubber dinghies, each carrying up to 100 west African migrants, are believed to have capsized after leaving Libya for Italy several days ago, the UN refugee agency said, based on accounts from survivors.
Dory
Definition:
(n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
(n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
(n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(2) I had a week in New York before going out to Indiana and, as everybody did in those days, I went to Radio City Music Hall, and the movie playing was The Pajama Game , which had one of my favourite stars in it – Doris Day.
(3) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(4) Recent reports from this laboratory indicate that exposure of cholesterol-loaded macrophages to high density lipoprotein 3 (HDL3) stimulates not only cholesterol efflux, but also results in a two- to threefold increase in apoE accumulation in the media (Dory, L., 1989.
(5) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
(6) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(7) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(8) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
(9) In Alfred and Emily (2008), Doris imagined different outcomes for them.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
(11) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna, she first came to the UK in 1927 to train as a Montessori teacher.
(12) At the G4G there were talks on how to envisage a Rubik's cube in four dimensions (which drew a huge round of applause), new methods of making shapes fit together, the launch of a puzzle game called Doris, and demonstrations of how laser cutting is changing wooden mechanical puzzles.
(13) Doris Lessing has always been a writer interested in the future, so I doubt this would come as any surprise to her at all.
(14) I never thought that we would end our days like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pippa Clewer, right, at her 92-year-old mother Doris’s bed.
(15) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.
(16) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(17) She is one of the voices in the new Disney Pixar film, Finding Dory , the sequel to Finding Nemo, due for release in 2016.
(18) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
(19) Small angle x-ray diffraction patterns were recorded from isometrically contracting Limulus (horseshoe crab) telson levator muscle using a multiwire proportional-area detector on the storage ring DORIS.
(20) M. scoleciformis was found in the biliary bladder of the John dory, Zeus faber (on 1 from 4 fishes), M. formosus was found in the urinary bladder of the whiting Merlangius merlangus (on 2 from 9 fishes).