Sentence examples for foundered ship from inspiring English sources

It is here, like a foundered ship, that the vast buildings of Nicosia International Airport sit in no-man's land.

After a dreadful start to their third Major League Soccer season, Coach Alfonso Mondelo of the MetroStars appears to have gained control of what was once a foundering ship.

Helicopters could be seen hovering over the foundering ship, the Costa Concordia — which hit either a piece of a rock or some coral late Friday — throughout the day as fire brigades airlifted passengers out.

Coming at a point when Europe creaks like a foundering ship in a heaving sea of sovereign debt, and the world fights doubts about the European Union's cohesiveness and stability, this is one ugly notion.

In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Schuck provides a wide range of examples and an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domestic policies go awry and how to right the foundering ship of state.

This legendary figure was reputed to have been eight feet tall and to have lifted horse-drawn carriages with his bare hands and to have rescued a foundering ship by blowing smoke rings into its sails.

Ms. Cox and Mr. Rathvon wrote in an e-mail message, "We offered to consider a pay cut, but evidently no amount of extra weight could be carried by the foundering ship".

With Bannon's departure, those who saw his truculent blend of nationalism and racial grievance — Bannonism, if you wish — as the ballast in Trump's otherwise foundering ship have been left to ponder who will now lead whom and where it will all end.

Maybe IE9 will be enough to right a foundering ship?

Best Buy has been struggling over the last year, and many see the company as a foundering ship, so buoying itself on the back of inventors and innovators is certainly an interesting play.

A short distance from the foundering ship, Baalham's boat encountered the partly filled port quarter boat.