Sentence examples for brief voyage from inspiring English sources

In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 bounced back from a brief voyage below the 13,000 level, but it closed 0.2% lower nonetheless, at 13,039.69.

That includes, of course, the giant, grim, militaristic parade the Chinese leadership recently organized in the streets of Beijing, which U.S. news reports left you feeling had taken place, like the brief voyage of those five ships, somewhere in close proximity to U.S. territory.

Except for a voyage to Guam in March 1900 to deliver stores, and a brief voyage to Hong Kong for repairs, Concord remained in Philippine waters until June 1901, when she sailed by way of Alaskan waters to San Francisco, arriving 28 September 1901.

Often, it is a brief but intense voyage of discovery for the rising stars of the corporate world.

My voyage was brief -- less than a half-hour on the Staten Island ferry, to make my way to Historic Richmond Town, where the tattoo exhibition is on display.

An anonymous 17th-century manuscript states that Hues circumnavigated the world with Cavendish between 1586 and 1588 "purposely for taking the true Latitude of places"; he may have been the "NH" who wrote a brief account of the voyage that was published by Hakluyt in his 1589 work The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation.

The ship carrying William Arnold and his group sailed from England to New England in 1635, with some brief particulars of the voyage given by his son Benedict in the family record: "Memorandom my father and his family Sett Sayle ffrom Dartmouth in Old England, the first of May, friday &c.

Of this preparation, Finney writes,...To prepare Mau Piailug for the voyage, David Lewis briefed him on the geography of the islands in this part of the Pacific and the winds and currents that could be expected along the way, all information that an early Polynesian navigator acquainted with this route would have carried in his head.

What I learned in the subject was limited to Mendel's experiment and conclusions, and a brief idea of Darwin's voyage and theories.

The women's letters in Amours de Voyage are few and brief, but cleverly reveal character.

Day-trippers get a safety briefing at the start of each voyage, though on the whale-watching voyages I have taken the biggest risk that concerned me was that the cetaceans might stay hidden.