Sentence examples for docker from inspiring English sources

Minutes of the secret cabinet committee, Misc 101, reveal Thatcher and her closest ministers were unsure of what to do: "It was not clear how far a declaration of a state of emergency would be interpreted as a sign of determination by the government or a sign of weakness, nor to what extent to which it would increase docker support for the miners' strike".

To make matters worse, Preti's model for the saint was a humble Neapolitan docker.

His family was large, money short; he became a docker, a builder, a lottery-ticket seller.

The tale is woven around a young couple, an out-of-work docker called Frank and his girlfriend Susanne.

After demobilization he remained in France, working as a docker in Marseille, and became a militant trade unionist.

The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics across the world, most of whom consider him God's representative on earth, managed to cause a stir at his mass weekly Vatican address by seemingly dropping the F-Bomb with all the ease of a drunken docker in a public house.

My dad, a docker of 30 years, was made redundant soon after.

My dad was a docker who was a beneficiary of the National Dock Labour Scheme, introduced in 1947 by Atlee's Labour government in an attempt to give dock workers job security and end casualisation.

Roan Hackney, 31, and friend Andrew Norman, 33, described how their efforts to hug Mr Goodeve-Docker to keep him warm and to sing morale-boosting songs as they were "squeezed by two walls of snow" failed to save their friend, who is believed to have died only a few hours before they were rescued.

Mr Goodeve-Docker, an events organiser from Chilbolton in Hampshire, died hours before the group were finally rescued by helicopter at noon on 28 April.

By the morning of 28 April, Mr Hackney told the hearing he was unconscious with hypothermia and said that Mr Goodeve-Docker must had died a few hours before the rescue.