Sentence examples for fill boats from inspiring English sources

The industry is not well regulated and operators are known to fill boats to dangerous levels.

West Australian journalist Nick Butterly was referred twice – once in February 2014 for a story about people smugglers struggling to fill boats and once in May 2014 for a report on an intercepted asylum seeker vessel – by the head of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Services, Michael Pezzullo.

Companies have to fill boats and tours, so they offer amazing last-minute deals.

Colonel Qaddafi, who had earlier threatened to "turn Europe black," began intentionally filling boats with Africans as punishment for Italian participation in the NATO campaign.

Despite the hour, in past years more than 3,500 people have attended, filling boats that make numerous trips to the island.

Architects of the $700 billion Treasury Department program concluded too late that something unabashedly promoted as a Wall Street "bailout" conjured images of well-heeled suspects sprung from jail or water feverishly tossed from a rapidly filling boat.

Gerry Simpson in Geneva, with Human Rights Watch, noted that the Libyan coast guard says that smugglers in Libya often try to cut costs by filling boat motors with just enough fuel to get migrants into international waters, where they'll hopefully be picked up by the Italian navy and be brought to land.

He carries the child into a boat; her relations come too and they fill several boats.

Companies are slashing fees to fill buses, boats and planes.

In the pre-dawn gloom in a small harbour on Easter Island, three fishermen fill their boats.

A growing backlog means that new orders take as much as six months to fill, for boats with barely any creature comforts that nonetheless start at $200,000.