Sentence examples for drifting ship from inspiring English sources

The plot device may be clumsy, but it serves its purpose of putting Guilbert aboard this doomed, drifting ship of state while absolving him of any moral compromise; he's only along for the ride.

In blunt post-mortem assessments, they describe the program as a drifting ship -- poorly designed, leaking money and controlled by a Security Council that was paralyzed by its own disputes over Iraq policy.

A ship passed by the drifting ship on Tuesday but did not stop.

The low-permeability barrier buffered the impact of the drifting shipping container and reduced the impact force on the barrier.

The observations were carried out from the drifting ships over four meridional lines crossing the equator from 5°N to 5°S between 53°E and 93°E (Knauss and Taft 1964; Taft and Knauss 1967).

Off West Africa, it said, there is a much higher boarding rate than off the coast of Somalia, partly because vessels tend to be attacked "while at anchor, drifting or conducting ship-to-ship transfers of refined products cargo".

"Many vessels are attacked while at anchor, drifting, or conducting ship-to-ship transfers of refined cargo," said the IMB report.

No larger meaning is derived from anything they do or say, and the play ultimately trails off, like an abandoned ship drifting into the mist.

The main gallery building atop the columns, loosely inspired by Le Corbusier's 1952 Unité d'Habitation housing block in Marseille, suggests a ship drifting through the city.

"Jet Lag" sends the dystopian message that we are all captive passengers on a ship drifting rudderless across the techno-environment we have made.

The observing system consists of point-wise measurements of the pycnocline displacement, either at fixed locations or from a ship drifting in the soliton current.