Sentence examples for fleets setting from inspiring English sources
The scientists say Thera's outburst produced deadly waves and dense clouds of volcanic ash over a vast region, crippling ancient cities and fleets, setting off climate changes, ruining crops and sowing wide political unrest.
Unilever says it will buy all its fish from sustainable fisheries by 2005.Many other options have been proposed to deal with the problem of overfishing, such as reducing the capacity of fishing fleets, setting up marine reserves, removing government subsidies or assigning property rights to individuals or groups of fishermen to provide an incentive for good stock-management practices.
And the Thames was paramount to the growth of the British Empire with great fleets setting sail from the capital to embark on voyages of exploration.
The sailors from the three fleets set to construct siege engines within a few days.
As the fleet set out from Pier 59 at 18th Street under sunny skies after a two-week rain delay, warm southern winds pushed into the falling tide.
Aulis was traditionally held to be the port from which the Greek fleet set off to the siege of Troy and the scene of the related sacrifice of Iphigenia, the eldest daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae.
The Volvo Ocean fleet set off from London for the eighth of nine stages in the round-the-world yacht race yesterday, but the start was one to forget for Assa Abloy.
Boeckel, 34, the professional captain of the 66-foot Blue Yankee, was lost at sea just hours after an 86-boat fleet set out from Stamford, Conn., to begin the Storm Trysail Club's annual Block Island Race.
The cemetery stands close to Scapa Flow, from where the British grand fleet set out for the Jutland Bank to repel German forces attempting to break a British blockade.
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has addressed a rally at the port of Ushuaia, where some of the Argentine invasion fleet set sail for the Falkland Islands 30 years ago.
After stopping at Manila in the Philippines, the fleet set course for Yokohama, Japan.
