Sentence examples for battleship from inspiring English sources

To Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, he was "like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe".

"The automobile business is a gigantic battleship, and after 30 years I may have moved it an inch," reflects Dr Frank.

The Jarrett is one of the smallest ships in the navy, but with fire-power greater than that of a battleship of the second world war.

At some point, as unit prices rise, one of two things must happen: countries must either scale back their ambition, or seek game-changing technology, as they did when the battleship gave way to the submarine and aircraft-carrier.

And underlining his promise to stop interference by Iran and Syria, and to destroy their networks, on January 11th American troops raided an Iranian consular office in northern Iraq.Mr Bush admitted he had made "mistakes", accepted that more Americans were likely to die, and told his audience not to expect a "surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship".

Common military terms had words of their own: a fighter plane was a hummingbird, (da-he-tih-hi), a battleship was a whale (lo-tso), a destroyer a shark, (ca-lo).

Today the renamed BTG Pactual is owned again by its partners and led by Mr Esteves who has a 25-30% stake.The firm is less a boutique and more a pocket battleship, with a leading position in capital-raising and dealing in shares and bonds.

He was no submariner himself, having done his wartime service on the battleship USS New Mexico, and no sailor subsequently, just a civilian engineer and naval civil servant devoted to the sea.

For Linux to have a chance against the battleship from Redmond, it needs a powerful escort fleet.

In March poets from both countries held a reading aboard a captured Peruvian battleship moored as a museum in a Chilean port.

At some point, as unit prices rise, one of two things must happen: countries must either scale back their ambition, or seek game-changing technology, as they did when the battleship gave way to the submarine and aircraft-carrier.Mr Pugh also identified another intriguing trend: the race for bigger, better weapons is fiercest in peacetime but tends to fall once war actually breaks out.