(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.
Jib
Definition:
(v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
(v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
(v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely performed for treatment of excessive obesity.
(2) Thirty women, operated on with JIB 11 to 17 years earlier, were examined by colonoscopy with multiple biopsies, systematically taken for histologic evaluation and flow cytometric DNA analysis.
(3) Numbers of intestinal goblet cells containing specific acid mucins were determined in male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving azoxymethane (total dose 90 mg kg-1) with or without jejunoileal bypass (JIB).
(4) Contents of sulphomucins and especially sialomucins were consistently higher in the small bowel and colon of rats receiving azoxymethane alone, but again the highest values were observed in animals with azoxymethane plus JIB.
(5) Malabsorption of calcium and low fasting urinary calcium excretion in the JIB patients were associated with high tubular reabsorption of calcium, the latter presumably attributable to a compensatory increase in circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(6) Arthritis after JIB appears to be associated with circulating immune complexes containing secretory IgA.
(7) The use of a protein supplemented diet alone markedly reduced the detrimental effects of JIB.
(8) In Experiment 1 rats given a cherry-flavored solution immediately after JIB surgery subsequently displayed a strong aversion to the cherry flavor compared to Bypass and Sham-Bypass control groups.
(9) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been a widespread operation for treatment of morbid obesity.
(10) Louis van Gaal likes the cut of the German’s jib, and would apparently cost around £20m.
(11) Forty-five patients who had been subjected to jejuno-ileal bypass (JIB) surgery for morbid obesity and 10 obese nonsurgery subjects were studied.
(12) We conclude that hyperoxaluria in JIB patients is associated both with intestinal hyperabsorption and with enhanced tubular secretion of oxalate, and that in some patients with IHC hypercalciuria is due to reduced tubular reabsorption of calcium.
(13) Patients with JIB have a marked and persistent increase in cell proliferation in the large intestine and may be at increased risk of developing colonic cancer.
(14) Still, if you like the cut of Ukip's jib, you might like to think of its members as bold trailblazers for the future of the radical right.
(15) Particularly well-documented are the feeding and drinking effects of JIB and vagotomy.
(16) In rats JIB causes adaptive colonic hyperplasia and enhances colorectal neoplasia.
(17) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely used to treat patients with morbid obesity for the past 20 years.
(18) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(19) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.
(20) The role of the kidney in states of hyperoxaluria and hypercalciuria was investigated in seven patients with hyperoxaluria after jejunoileal bypass (JIB) and six patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria (IHC).