Sentence examples for flag of convenience from inspiring English sources

"The Taliban is a flag of convenience for them".

The ship is of Panamanian registry, a flag of convenience.

The situation gave rise to the so-called flag of convenience ship.

To others, their attachment to Britain is a mere flag of convenience.

Tells about several disastrous maritime accidents; describes the negligence of some flag of convenience crews.

Politically, using the church as a St George's flag of convenience may not fly.

Much of this traffic is foreign flagged and on "innocent passage," under a Flag-of-Convenience, with a Crew-of-Convenience, and with lower safety standards.

Rogue regulators from flag-of-convenience states sell ship's papers for as little as $6,000.

Summers said the bankruptcy of the Hanjin Shipping Company showed the potentially "disastrous" consequences of relying on flag-of-convenience ships for Australian domestic coastal trade.

A Senate inquiry into flag-of-convenience ships has heard union concerns that there were poor checks on both the background and welfare of their crews.

In 1999, the governments of Japan and the US tabled evidence identifying 345 flag-of-convenience vessels fishing for tuna in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.