(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
Whipped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Whip
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(4) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(5) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(6) Lovely play by Gervinho, muscling his way far too easily past Carvalho inside the box and then finding the ball whipped away at the last by Alves.
(7) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(8) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(9) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(10) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(11) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(12) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(13) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(14) She added: “Jeremy then went on for the next two months refusing my insistence that he speak to Thangam, indeed refusing to speak to either of us, whether directly or through the shadow cabinet, the whips, or his own office.
(15) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(16) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
(17) The strongly pro-EU and vocal Alistair Burt was whipped back into the Foreign Office where he had been before, while Steve Baker of the ultra-hardline anti-EU faction was made a minister in Davis’s department.
(18) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.