(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(2) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(3) The whalers began blasting conservationists on one raft with a water cannon, knocking one man off his feet and leaving him with cuts and bruises, Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone.
(4) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(5) The court said there was no research justification for the high kill targets set for Japan's whalers.
(6) Sea Shepherd's founder, Paul Watson, accused the whalers of deliberately ploughing into the front of the boat.
(7) Japan's whalers usually leave for the southern ocean in December and return in April.
(8) Of course you think maybe you are going to risk your life, or there might be an accident, but your beliefs are your engine.” A decade after Greenpeace activist Mark Hardingham was left in intensive care after getting in the way of a Norwegian whaler, Mompo sailed into Bergen to campaign for the protection of Norwegian coral reefs.
(9) Two historic ships are being repaired in dry dock, and a 17th-century whaler is moored near three tempting fish cafes.
(10) Wadaura's whalers will contribute 26 whales to the total, but they would like to be able to hunt many more.
(11) A court in Tokyo has handed a suspended sentence to an environmental activist after finding him guilty of assaulting a Japanese whaler and obstructing the country's whaling fleet.
(12) Glenn Inwood, the institute's spokesman in New Zealand , said the whalers' footage of the incident disproved the activists' account.
(13) Through cutting kill quotas by blocking their lethal operations, we have reduced kill numbers dramatically, saving more than 4,000 whales and costing the whalers their profits.
(14) Japan catches almost 17,000 smaller cetaceans off its coast every year – a tradition that its whalers say stretches back centuries.
(15) Anti-whaling activists today accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking one of their boats as international tension over Japan's annual "scientific" culls in Antarctic waters grew.
(16) Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers were found in contempt of court for continuing their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica.
(17) The ninth US circuit court of appeals on Friday ordered a commissioner to determine how much Paul Watson and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society he founded owe Japanese whalers for lawyer fees, damage to their ships and for violating the court order to stop their dangerous protests.
(18) The fisheries agency blamed the poor catch on bad weather and "sabotage" by Sea Shepherd, which has confronted the whalers every year since 2005.
(19) The Japanese whalers are demanding $2m in addition to their attorney fees and damage and cost to their ships for warding off the protests.
(20) Afterwards, the whalers contacted Greenpeace to apologise.
Whopper
Definition:
(n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
(n.) One who, or that which, whops.
(n.) Same as Whapper.
Example Sentences:
(1) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
(2) For more debunkings of Rose's article you can look at Hot Whopper , Carbon Brief and Media Matters among others.
(3) Nobody’s going to pick him over the Whopper or the Big Mac, but still a perfectly legitimate choice nevertheless.
(4) Few of these misleading liberal memes come close however to the avalanche of inaccurate claims made by Trump over the course of the election: from trivial boasts about the size of his crowds through to whoppers like claiming Mexico will pay to build his wall.
(5) The September issue of US Vogue is the most important magazine of the fashion calendar, a whopper that often comes in a over 900 pages long, and had its own documentary in 2009.
(6) The scientists who went in search of whoppers netted only a host of minnows.
(7) When Lynch denied the claims Ellison published the slides from a presentation it claimed Lynch had given at Oracle's head office and issued a press release titled: "Another whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch."
(8) I've seen some whoppers in my time, but Dion's is something else" - his verdict on Dion Dublin's lunchbox, according to the then Coventry chairman Bryan Richardson, in 1994.
(9) magazine and adult television programmes such as Wobbling Whoppers 2 is looking at ending current news provider Sky News's £9m a year contract early and creating a populist, new-look bulletin.
(10) The whoppers that this guy has told – it’s been so outrageous, that the straight-talk thing, honestly – he has his own version of the facts.
(11) There’s a whopper that, in order to get our certificates, we must catch with an upturned pot and a piece of card, lift off the table, and place down again.
(12) "Now me pa was a Kilfenora man tru and tru," he says, launching into a series of unsolicited anecdotes about his forebear, each more incredible than the last, culminating in a real whopper: "In world war two pa's brother got captured by the feckin' Germans and locked up in Colditz.
(13) EU referendum: Sturgeon accuses Johnson of telling £350m 'whopper' Read more In France, the Front National of Marine Le Pen, who is poised to reach the second round of the 2017 presidential poll, has long said it would seek to renegotiate France’s EU membership if it took power, and hold an EU referendum.
(14) Conversely, whoppers as large as the one Tesco has been caught telling won’t suddenly have popped out of the mouths of a mere handful of managers.
(15) Obama responded by describing the "apology tour" as "probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign".
(16) When arch-rival Burger King finally entered the market last year it was greeted with similar excitable scenes – almost 5,000 people descended on its launch branch in Cape Town , some even sleeping on the street to ensure they got their hands on a Whopper.
(17) Fisher is the more physical and aggressive player out of the two, but really they were choosing between a Big Mac and a Whopper.
(18) The shed is no longer off limits, and the other day I happily coexisted in the house with a whopper (we’re talking a 12cm leg span).
(19) Nicola Sturgeon has led a concerted onslaught from senior remain campaigners aimed at discrediting Boris Johnson, in a heated television debate that saw him attacked for telling “whoppers”.
(20) Sturgeon accused Johnson – who repeatedly defended the number during the debate – as “driving around the country in a bus with a giant whopper painted on the side”.