Sentence examples for could not sail from inspiring English sources

His clients were tycoons who bought yachts but could not sail them.

Israeli officials said that the captain of the ship had been told he could not sail into Israeli-controlled Gazan waters and that he replied that he would therefore head for El Arish in the Egyptian Sinai next to Gaza.

Whether the newspaper is read as revealing a dark or a happy family life (and, naturally, both are true), certainly the family stuff throws up events that will never be forgotten by the writer: the loss and recovery of her boat on the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, the great frost on the Thames, the day that Master Adrian Stephen was disappointed because he could not sail to the lighthouse.

For example, Manila galleons could not sail into the wind at all.

The surviving Spanish ships limped back to Cádiz after the battle, and to ensure that they could not sail again without risking a repeat action, Jervis arranged a close blockade of the port so that by April there were 21 British ships of the line and numerous frigates watching the Spanish fleet at anchor.

Try as he might, Van Liew, 35, couldn't sail clear of the storm, and he ended up passing through its eye.

Intended to express the idea that improvements to the economy help everyone, it was originally code for economically excluding the Jews, who, it was correctly believed, couldn't sail.

There was nothing more we could do and Iain couldn't sail the next race".

"Our reconstructed sailing conditions during the period of East Polynesian colonization would have enabled all of the known colonizing routes, and others," to have been successfully navigated by canoes that couldn't sail into the wind, the authors report online today, also in PNAS.

Bob now realized that Einstein may have been considered a genius who revolutionized physics, in league with Copernicus and Newton, but he certainly couldn't sail a boat very well.

The replica ship HMS Surprise was used for Barbossa's ship, the HMS Providence, and all the scenes aboard the Providence were shot on the Long Beach shore as the Surprise could not be sailed to Hawaii.