Sentence examples for breaking the boat from inspiring English sources

With the fast-flowing waters breaking the boat rather than catching the surge, Florence finished with a time of 89.47sec, which left him over four seconds behind the 1996 Olympic champion Michal Martikan, of Slovakia, whose time of 85.13sec led the field after the first of the two races.

On the morning of 15 December 2010, an asylum seeker boat, labelled Siev (suspected illegal entry vessel) 221, unpowered and drifting off the coast of Christmas Island, was dashed into the cliffs of the island by massive swell, breaking the boat up and throwing dozens of the 89 asylum seekers on board into the sea and onto the rocks.

"We didn't break the record, but we didn't break the boat, either," Crichton said.

And if communication between the unmanned boats and the sailor overseeing them were ever broken, the boat would automatically shut down.

"It just comes down to making sure we don't break the boat — backing off at the right times and bringing the boat back in one piece".

One of the Bulgaria's engines was broken, the boat intended for 140 passengers and the crew was overloaded with 208 people, and it listed even at the dock.

The twofold reason: If the current wing were to break, the boat would be useless, and there wouldn't be time to build another for a September defense.

"The Australian people know that as a result of our successful policies, the people-smuggling trade has been broken, the boats have stopped and innocent women and children are no longer in peril of being drowned at sea".

However rather than breaking over the boat, the wave lifted it and flipped it over.

On Wednesday, 66 MPH winds broke the massive boat free from the dock it was tied to, sending it careening into Urk's quaint little harbor, the NL Times reports.

The idea was that if pirates attempted to creep up to the piers and steal freight, their boat would break the beam and sound an alarm.