(n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
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Sponson
Definition:
(n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
(n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
(n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was "an important milestone", he said, as from now on the parbuckling would continue helped by the entrance of sea water into the sponsons which would help push the ship downward and onto to the underwater platforms.
(2) All commands and signals – eg activation of strand jacks, opening and closing of sponson valves, information about the position of the wreck – will be sent to and from the barge control room via two separate “umbilicals” (one used as a back-up for the other); these are cables arranged between the control room and the ship guaranteeing communication between the two.
(3) Engineers would start studying how to go about fixing the damage and welding on more sponsons, he said.
(4) If it succeeds, the team will be able to move on to the next phase of the salvage - establishing the extent of the damage to the starboard side, attaching additional sponsons to it, and then using the huge steel boxes to add buoyancy to the water-logged ship and help it to re-float.
(5) But in the final stage the speed mounted dramatically to a rate of about eight or nine degrees an hour as gravity did its work and the water-loaded port-side sponsons effectively pushed the ship down on to underwater platforms.