Sentence examples for earlier sinking from inspiring English sources

Soviet wildcatters and engineers had probed the West Qurna deposit earlier, sinking 300 wells in 1979 alone in preparation for pumping oil.

The United States, analysts said, is taking its lead partly from South Korea, which under President Lee Myung-bak has mixed tough words with restrained action in responding to both the artillery shelling and the earlier sinking of a Navy warship, the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors.

Recruit, commissioned four months earlier, sank with 54 of her complement.

Davis, the outstanding point guard for the Charlotte Hornets, had given his team hope moments earlier by sinking one of their three 3-pointers of the night.

Having got herself into all sorts of bother with a dodgy CV and her "as a mother" mantra, she sensibly withdrew early on, sinking without trace as quickly as she had risen.

Its magnificent central square, the Zócalo, built out of the destruction of an earlier civilisation, is sinking slowly into the marshes from which it had once been claimed.

Michael Chopra's early goal sunk the south coast club.

But you'll want to turn in early and sink into the crisp white sheets as a gentle mountain breeze lulls you to sleep.

Grissom had maintained that the hatch blew without his input; the fact that he had no bruising was seen as evidence that he had not blown the hatch early and sunk his capsule, but that it was a mechanical malfunction.

Sears Holdings lost early momentum, though, sinking 1.9% for the day despite better than expected results.

'THE PLAY OF DANIEL' The return of this 12th-century work is always welcome, especially now that really early music is mostly sinking back into obscurity.