(1) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
(2) Rail engineers Includes: Aircraft engineers, ship and hovercraft officers, and other transport professionals Average pay before tax: £74,402 Pay range: £40,490 (20th percentile) to £98,507 (75th percentile).
(3) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(4) Describing the harrowing job of recovering the bodies, RNLI rescue hovercraft commander Harry Roberts said that none of the victims had had any safety equipment, and some had stripped naked as they tried to swim to safety.
(5) From highly trained heart surgeons to hard-working vegetable pickers, immigrants will be told today that they will only be considered for UK citizenship if they can correctly answer "Britishness" questions on a range of topics, from the principles of medieval land ownership to the invention of the hovercraft.
(6) There is a sense that you have failed a little, having not come up with some more constructive diversion, such as making a hovercraft out of sticks, or, more fundamentally, not having created a child who will happily do puzzles in absorbed silence for prolonged periods of time.
(7) In October 1974 an over-hyped Liberal campaign, featuring a campaign hovercraft, ran aground and left the Liberals a little behind where they started.
(8) 2) He got through his audition on Parks And Recreation by improvising himself playing Grand Theft Auto (“Watch, I’m gonna drop a hovercraft on a hooker”).
(9) Firefighters have set up a command centre in the town and have a search-and-rescue hovercraft and lifeboat ready.
(10) Data were collected from 20,029 passengers on 114 voyages on 9 vessels: 6 ships, 2 hovercraft, and 1 jetfoil.
(11) Explore by fatbike (mountain bikes with over-sized tyres), try ice go-karting or board a hovercraft around the frozen islands.
(12) Two RAF helicopters and a hovercraft were scrambled.
(13) The landing craft, especially the mega hovercraft of the Americans, were monstrous, on a scale that would have awed D-day veterans.
(14) Such devices would best be avoided in hovercraft (air cushioned vehicle) pilots.
(15) During the night, rescuers using hovercraft began ferrying bodies back to shore from a sandbank in the northern part of the bay.
Submarine
Definition:
(a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.
(n.) A submarine plant or animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(2) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(3) He says: "Everybody in Britain wants to be safe in their bed at night, but they don't want to build the submarines.
(4) South Australian MPs were concerned if Japan was awarded the contract local shipbuilder ASC would miss out on the chance to build the submarines.
(5) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
(6) This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that personnel assigned to submarine duty would display less physical fitness as compared to shore-based personnel.
(7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
(8) A potentially serious, and expensive problem is that the UK and US timetables for building a new generation of submarines and missiles to go on them are out of sync.
(9) He promised to be consultative and then made a promise to a backbencher about awarding the submarines contract without consulting his cabinet, or even some of his South Australian ministers.
(10) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
(11) In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.
(12) Australian officials estimate developing up to 12 submarines to replace ageing Collins-class submarines will cost at least $50bn (US$40bn).
(13) America's biggest companies have spent a similar amount beefing up their cybersecurity in the past five years, but analysts say this hasn't been enough to prevent "significant military losses" involving stealth, nuclear weapon and submarine technology, though none of the companies involved will admit it.
(14) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
(15) Repetitive, three-month separations and reunions are experienced by a group of United States Navy submariners and their wives.
(16) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
(17) In some situations the precrash position of the occupant allowed him to submarine beneath the belt system, allowing the belt to ride up on the soft belly wall.
(18) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
(19) By combining earlier results from ICESat and data from other studies, including measurements made by submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, Laxon said preliminary analysis now gave a clear indication of Arctic sea-ice loss over the past eight years, both in winter and in summer.
(20) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.