Named after the ship that disembarked the first Jamaicans on to the quays at Tilbury docks in 1948, the migrants arrived as fodder for a racist post-colonial enterprise enabling Britain to pay rock-bottom wages to black citizens of the crumbled empire for menial work to which white Britons considered themselves ill-suited.
When William, Catherine and baby George disembark, first in Wellington and later in Sydney, they will be welcomed not merely as the "super-celebrities" they undoubtedly are, but as prospective kings and as a future queen consort of New Zealand and Australia.
The contrast with meticulously excavated Jamestown, where English settlers first disembarked on the coast of Virginia in 1607, speaks volumes about how differently two neighbour-nations can treat their early history.
Bleary-eyed travelers, many of whom have disembarked from the first plane ride of their lives, are randomly chosen at Passport Control to have their eyes digitally scanned by an American security company.
O'Keefe disembarked at Eighty-sixth Street, where a couple waiting for a bus were counted out, on the basis of marriage, but weighed in, anyway, on what New Yorkers have in common.
Resist the urge to push your way out first; let those nearest the exit disembark the plane first.
On June 18 , 2007 the first group disembarked in Juneau from the Holland America Line's M.S. Oosterdam, and went to the governor's mansion, a white wooden Colonial house with six two-story columns, for lunch.
I have no reference point since this was my first show, but from the first second you disembark the monorail and look down over the sprawling campus of the LVCC, you know you won't see everything.
If I give in and get on first, I have to ask the whole gang to get back out 20 seconds later so I can disembark on the second floor.
