Sentence examples for distress off from inspiring English sources

In 1805, an American seal hunter named Amasa Delano spotted a slave ship in distress off the coast of Chile.

There are now more than 20 boats in the command, and firefighters aboard them are being given a wider degree of tasks, like saving surfers in distress off the Rockaways and patrolling the eastern and western shores of Manhattan.

Chapters four and 15 – regulating the "taking of unreasonable distresses and the removal of distrained goods out of the debtor's county" and the "levying of distress off the tenanted property or on a public highway" – are scheduled for the axe.

Relegated from that division last season they found themselves in distress off the field as well as on it and with debts of £25m they face one of those winding up orders from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that are the wake-up call the game needed in ruinously extravagant times.

— ANDY NEWMAN A three-masted tall ship that is a replica of the H.M.S. Bounty was in distress off the coast of North Carolina with 17 people aboard, as Hurricane Sandy barreled up the seaboard early Monday, the Coast Guard reported.

On Christmas Day 2010, an aerial team of wildlife spotters saw a whale in distress off the eastern coast of Florida.

If that happens, it will be as if the Knicks did add a new player this summer, and that would go a long way in eliminating the distress of this off-season of disappointment and adversity.

But mostly "The Silver River" is a resonant tale about the wonderment and distress set off when mortal and celestial worlds mingle.

Last night, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was riding his bike home, heard a cry for help from a damsel in distress, hopped off his bike and saved said damsel from a pack of "feral girls".

Note the lack of an obvious effect of rizatriptan Fig. 2 Subjective units of distress after off-vertical axis rotation following pretreatment with rizatriptan vs. placebo.

There was also no statistical difference between participants and non-participants in terms of proportions meeting the distress cut-off.