Sentence examples for firing distress from inspiring English sources

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With only enough fuel for one landing attempt, Sweeney and Albury brought Bockscar in at 150 mph instead of the normal 120 mph, firing distress flares to alert the field of the uncleared landing.

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To make matters worse, it is in the middle of a slump caused by too many ships chasing too little trade.As the deadlines for all these rules approach, shipping bosses are firing off distress flares.

There are the rockets fired off in distress, which one passenger recalled as paling against the dazzling starlight.

But with Slickey leaching money, Pelham fired off a distress call in a further frantic attempt to lure audiences.

According to Linzee, "After the master was landed I found I could not do him any good, or distress the rebels by firing, therefore I left off".

Across the Middle East and Africa, agrarian distress and the Salafist firing up of a Sunni self-perception of victimhood, usurpation and grievance are making for a wide vulnerability to this new collective fervor for Da'ish (ISIS).

The ship's captain, Robert Salmond, ordered that the anchor be dropped, the distress rockets fired, and the lifeboats lowered, and then he loaded all the women and children onto them.

Distress rockets were fired every few minutes to attract the attention of any ships nearby and the radio operators repeatedly sent the distress signal CQD.

It also found that she inflicted severe emotional distress when she fired him in March 2001 after about four months on the job at Park Lane, the luxury hotel on Central Park South.

Signal fire: The international sign of distress is 3 fires in the shape of a triangle.

In a district serving large numbers of students suffering from poverty and the social issues that accompany it -- violence, malnutrition, family distress, etc., educators were expected to produce dramatic results or be fired.

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