(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.
Somerset
Definition:
(n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immigration enforcement officers have arrested 139 suspected immigration offenders at locations including London, Durham, Manchester, Wales and Somerset.
(2) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(3) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.
(4) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(5) And asked why he had not apologised to residents, he said: I have said to the people here what we did last year, what we’ve been preparing now, the work we’re currently doing, and I think the important thing now is to work out what we can do for the future of Somerset, what can now happen, and that’s what I’m primarily talking about with the local people here.
(6) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(7) Somerset were due to resume their first innings on 87 for three in reply to 400 and took six points from the game; Lancashire collected nine.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) Led by the Tories since 2009, Somerset county council has struggled with £80m of cuts to its budget.
(10) Musgrove, which is part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, has revealed that it has finished the inquiry and has shared the findings with patients and would talk to healthcare bodies such as the Care Quality Commission about them.
(11) We're back again in the morning to see what happens at Chester-le-Street, which will bring Notts level with Somerset on games played and clarify the County Championship equation for next week.
(12) I think a lot of people in Taunton and Somerset were greatly looking forward to this fixture and a good day's cricket.
(13) David Lund Winscombe, Somerset • You mention four scenarios, but miss out the most obvious and most European one.
(14) Downing Street summoned business and community leaders to a meeting of the Big Society Network at Somerset House to revive Cameron's flagship initiative, which has faced intense criticism from voluntary and local authority leaders in recent weeks.
(15) ITV News was today banned from a press conference by Avon & Somerset police after broadcasting a critical report on the force's investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates .
(16) With preferential rates for artists and partnerships with the likes of Somerset House and the Royal Court, you’re likely to end up arguing over Brechtian dramaturgy or post-internet art in the lift.
(17) Avon and Somerset police said the case was a "tragedy".
(18) And, just hours before a signing ceremony was due to take place at the site in Somerset, May put off government approval until early autumn.
(19) Filmed in a marquee in the grounds of Harptree Court in Somerset, and making unlikely TV stars out of judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Bake Off (as it is known to its fans) is made by the independent production company Love Productions.
(20) The government is to send in the army to help tackle the floods in the Somerset Levels.