Sentence examples for damage control team from inspiring English sources

Eva Travers Cambridge, Mass., April 2 , 2008• To the Editor: Re "Straight Shooting From Tuzla," by Lissa Muscatine and Melanne Verveer (Op-Ed, April 1): Hillary Rodham Clinton's damage control team complains that the media are responsible for the "single-minded focus on the landing in Tuzla" and omitting "any discussion of what Mrs. Clinton accomplished on her trip".

As the fire approached an ammunition locker that would have exploded and destroyed the ship, Mr. Clark — who broke his collarbone in the attacks and was the only survivor of a damage control team — grabbed a hose typically operated by several men and doused the flames.

He was the only survivor on the eight-man damage control team he served on.

We all sense he had to do it at the urging of his damage control team.

(These are rhetorical questions addressed primarily to the hospital's damage control team since no one else seems to have asked them).

At 13 33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamatos damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms.

"...We will probably see their damage control teams going hard lobbying media with bullshits to discredit this," the statement reads at one point.

After the initial explosion of propellant charges, the ship's commander tried to organize damage control teams at the stern.

On the upper hangar deck, at 10 32 damage control teams attempted to control the spreading fires by employing the one-shot CO2 fire-suppression system.

Damage control teams managed to correct the list with counter-flooding, and although draft increased by 1 m, Scharnhorst was able to leave for Brest at 19 30.

However, she likely would have avoided these had she been underway, and if she had been hit, damage control teams would have kept the ship afloat.