Sentence examples for foreign sailors from inspiring English sources

Her slum, Boston, said to be named for a red-light district once frequented by foreign sailors, erupted in celebration.

Gunmen attacked a supply tugboat off the coast of Nigeria's southern delta and kidnapped four foreign sailors, officials said Monday.

Around the world, the US navy routinely provides assistance to foreign sailors in distress, and we appreciate the timely way in which this situation was resolved".

Western boxing, as it was known, had first appeared in the nineteen-twenties, in the port cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou, where foreign sailors were pitted against local fighters.

In the pivotal role of Mother God Damn (a name, she explains, foisted on ignorant Chinese girls by foreign sailors who told them it means "I love you"), Jade Wu delivers a formidable performance.

Re "Shore Leave Is Casualty, Too: Foreign Sailors Must Stay Aboard Ships in New York" (news article, Nov. 28): You do not mention that chaplains are unable to board ships coming into the Port of New York and New Jersey at some tanker terminals.

How could it not in a nation so deliciously attuned to the minutest nuances of social class difference - and whose sense of ethnic identity has been so colourfully altered over the centuries by the wave after wave of priapic foreign sailor folk?

Add that Oracle was caught cheating during the contest, and that the team was made up almost entirely of foreign mercenary sailors, and the true picture starts to come into focus.

There was also a small, windowless cube of a building that housed a medical clinic for visiting sailors off foreign ships.

Hamid Reza Asefi, a spokesman for Iran's foreign minister, said the sailors were being questioned by the Iranian Navy and had admitted that they entered Iranian territory.

Also to be expected, morale was considerably down; officers and sailors in foreign ports were all too aware that their old wooden ships would not survive long in the event of war.