Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
The locals rather ran aground on the three-man back line of Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzaglia and Leonardo Bonucci with Gianluigi Buffon a reassuring presence at their back.
However, the Paris talks ran aground over the length of the contract on offer – a year, with an option for a further 12 months – and Russia's apparent insistence that he see out a notice period.
Deadwood ran aground midway through series three.
Thus far, Wisconsin's HFA has offered $52 million in mortgages to 450 buyers.The HFAs are state programmes to encourage homeownership that ran aground during the crisis and which are now being supported by Fannie Mae.
The "responsibility to protect", an evolving humanitarian concept embraced by the UN, owes something to his words and deeds around the turn of the millennium.If the government's ethical ambitions were largely met in its first two years, and exceeded in the next two, they ran aground in Iraq.
But all such proposals have run aground in Congress; the last big push, in 2009, cost many Democrats their seats in the next year's mid-term elections.Many House Republicans doubt that the planet is heating up at all.
It is no surprise that ships ran aground or sank with such tragic frequency.
In the past even discretionary spending cuts ran aground when congressmen rallied to defend their favourite programmes.
Canary Wharf, London's gleaming financial district, is largely the creation of two booms: the one in the late 1980s, after which the area's initial developers ran aground, and the massive expansion of the city's financial-services industry during the past ten years or so.
The new owners' plan to boost cashflow by hiking rents ran aground after a court ruled that they weren't allowed to.
