Sentence examples for by mooring from inspiring English sources

Like every pier around the coast it was walloped by many a passing storm and steamer, and seriously weakened by being chopped in half during the second world war by the War Ministry, lest the Germans hatch the dastardly plan of invading Britain by mooring at the end (pausing only to buy an ice cream and have their fortunes told).

The whole concept is then moored by mooring dolphins.

The floating structure Kulluk, which operates in the Arctic, is modeled as a rigid body restricted by mooring lines with the linear stiffness.

As an example, a set of observational data collected by mooring buoys at the Liwan block (19 20°N, 115 116°E) of the northern SCS are used to calculate the propagation speeds and directions of measured ISWs.

This is accomplished by building very large monolithic floating structures from floating moulds utilizing sprayed concrete laminating techniques developed by mooring or grounding these large structures at the sites of high natural energy potential.

For fear that its ebullience might carry it away, "Maebe" is held in place by mooring ropes.

The dock is represented by a lumped mass, the mooring cables by equivalent nonlinear springs and the hydrodynamic forces are modelled by a modified Morison equation.

In addition to the traditional measures of skewness and kurtosis, we also obtain the Bowley's measure of skewness, introduced by Bowley (1920), and the Moors' measure of kurtosis, introduced by Moors (1988).

The floating capture system is mooring by steel chains and the anchoring system is concrete gravity blocks.

A huge conservation effort led by Moors for the Future is now trying to put this right.

The slaves are mainly black Mauritanians in an Islamic republic that is dominated politically and economically by Moors (of Berber or Arab extraction).