Sentence examples for boats from inspiring English sources

Anelay said: "The government believes the most effective way to prevent refugees and migrants attempting this dangerous crossing is to focus our attention on countries of origin and transit, as well as taking steps to fight the people smugglers who wilfully put lives at risk by packing migrants into unseaworthy boats".

The storm sewer drains into a lake and rescue crews were using sonar and boats to search.

Labor introduced a controversial "no advantage test" on 13 August last year in an unsuccessful attempt to stop asylum boats from coming by insisting that those applying for refugee status in that way received no benefit compared with those who stayed in refugee camps in the region.

So it would seem, as I have said before, the success we're having in stopping the boats is stopping the questions as well!

Amnesty International wrote to the home secretary last month criticising the woeful response from European countries to the unacceptable scale of the loss of life from the influx of refugees and migrants on boats across the Mediterranean.

"So far, none of boats I filled with people have sunk".

Libyan coastguards think smugglers could move three or four times as many migrants if they had more boats, but most only make a single trip, and new vessels are getting harder to find.

"All our passports and money got wet by the time we reached the plastic boats.

But we're seeing cracks in a clearly unsustainable legal situation and boats are still attempting to come, even if they are being turned back".

The Australian government has been accused of failing to allow either asylum-seeker boat to arrive in Australia in order to keep its election promise to "stop the boats".

Boats of all kinds ply back and forth to Naples, Capri, and Ischia, while the Circumvesuviana Railway offers cheap and frequent services to Pompeii and Herculaneum.