Sentence examples for ground tackle from inspiring English sources

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ground tackle

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Equipment, such as anchors, cables, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.

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Mooring gear and ground tackle were sized, in part, by modeling the designed system using a finite element program.

While tugs might seem small from a distance, compared with the ships they pull and push, this was an ocean-going vessel -- 204 feet long with a 17-foot draft, a crew of about 100 men, loaded with ground tackle and pulleys and wedges, not to mention antiaircraft guns and depth charges.

Over decades in the industry, Kirby was never afraid to break new ground, tackle difficult topics or punch out the occasional Nazi.

Smalling has been struggling with a leg injury, while Jones suffered a toe problem in a training ground tackle made by his team-mate.

Many television commentators are already starting to wonder if there couldn't have been more aerial support to help people on the ground tackle the fire, although firefighters have pointed out that the structure would have likely collapsed under the weight of the water.

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Next Generation Nepal is one organisation on the ground tackling these problems head on.

Obama, who spent almost an hour with the pope, had earlier signalled in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he hoped to focus on their common ground: tackling poverty and inequality.

The 26-year-old striker has struggled to recover from an injury he first suffered on England duty in August 2006 following a training-ground tackle by Shaun Wright-Phillips.

The 26-year-old striker has struggled to recover from an injury he first suffered on England duty in August 2006 following a training-ground tackle with Shaun Wright-PhillipShaun

Aides described the talks as a new attempt to "find common ground" and tackle "the persistent racial disparities in our criminal justice system".

His comments came in a section of the debate in which all the candidates rejected the idea of deploying soldiers on the ground to tackle Islamic State forces.

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