Sentence examples for boarding vessels from inspiring English sources

Another, Greenpeace, developed the hallmark tactic of boarding vessels at sea to advertise its protests.

China has clashed with Vietnamese and Filipino fishing ships in the region, sometimes boarding vessels or chasing them off with water cannons.

For law, in the charged atmosphere of Boston in the late seventeen-sixties and seventies, with redcoats patrolling the streets and customs men boarding vessels in the bay, was inescapably involved in issues of resistance and authority.

But, the report said, those Somali pirates still in business were more effective in boarding vessels, so that the success rate of pirate attacks improved even though the total number dropped.

Australia and three other nations conducted a joint maritime exercise in the Coral Sea aimed at stopping and boarding vessels suspected of carrying cargoes connected with weapons of mass destruction.

In some rural coastal areas where it was common for refugees to converge before boarding vessels to connect to the long-distance naval vessels taking them south, the Viet Minh installed mortars on the beaches to deter prospective immigrants.

§ 176.78 Use of power-operated industrial trucks on board vessels.

Ballast water is taken on-board vessels into ballast water tanks to maintain vessel draft, buoyancy, and stability.

Local pilots who knew the shoals boarded vessels in the harbor or at sea and took them safely through.

each country shall have the right to place observers on board vessels of the other country and to board and inspect such vessels.

The Navy continued to query, and even halt and board, vessels in the north Arabian Sea suspected of smuggling Al Qaeda members out of the region, Pentagon officials said.