Sentence examples for during the scramble from inspiring English sources
Our aircraft cleared supersonic during the scramble.
Teodoro said two men and a child had drowned during the scramble to escape the ship.
Set during the scramble for Africa by the European powers in the 1890s, it portrays the devastating impact of English Christian missionaries and colonial laws on Igbo culture.
The French seized a small coastal area at the entrance to the Red Sea during the "scramble for Africa" in the late 19th century.
Hundreds of passengers fell from the vessel when it listed, he said, and others fell into the water during the scramble to reach the military rescue boats.
He would later tell investigators that, despite trying to activate the device before drawing his gun, the cord attaching the camera to its power pack had pulled loose during the scramble.
Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's president and chief executive during the March 2001 scramble to avoid having to report a half-billion dollars in losses, told the committee that he had known little of what happened.
Or, as Rudyard Kipling expressed it during the previous scramble for Africa: "To seek another's profit, / And work another's gain... / Fill full the mouth of Famine / And bid the sickness cease".
Victor Anichebe and Alan Stubbs had both gone close before Liverpool failed to deal with a corner in the 38th minute and during the resulting scramble, Sami Hyypia deflected the ball past Jose Reina.
In the eighteen-eighties, during the colonial scramble for Africa, Leopold II had acquired the country as private property and exploited it with such extraordinary brutality that, in 1908, it was wrested from him by Belgian civil authorities.
This test, involving a treadmill, wires to the chest, isotopes shot into the arm, another injection of stuff that made the top of my head feel as if it were about to blow off, ate up half a valuable day during the hectic scramble to pack and get to Kentucky to meet the Army's 101st Airborne, the division I would travel with to Iraq.
