In "Ghosts of the Abyss," he uses every means of probing that modern science has put at his disposal -- electronic, mechanical, sonic -- only to find that the tragic reality of the Titanic, its myths and its meanings, remain tantalizingly beyond his reach.
The tools he has put at her disposal include rotary fermenters and curving pipes that move grape clusters gently and prevent the forming of bitter flavors.
Arvida and its parent company, the JMB Realty Corporation of Chicago, have put at his disposal their corporate army, from a battery of secretaries to public-relations experts.
The death of Sophie Volland in February 1784 was a great grief to him; he survived her by a few months, dying of coronary thrombosis in the house in the rue de Richelieu that Catherine the Great had put at his disposal.
Such situations invariably tempt me to reevaluate the credit I have put at the disposal of the other and to reassert the question of durability concerning the affective element of my availability to the other.
The Corporation of Brighton has put the Royal Pavilion at the disposal of the Congress.
If his rivals want to do a real public service, they should dig deeper into whether he has put his office at the disposal of deep-pocketed donors.
Sudan: The African country has put four fighter jets at the disposal of Saudi Arabia, the Sudanese information minister, Ahmed Bilal Osman, has said.
His quasi-nationalisation of natural gas has put plenty of money at his disposal, a windfall far more valuable than the aid he receives from his friend Hugo Chávez, the like-minded president of Venezuela.
"The Met has put its considerable resources at your disposal and spent millions of dollars for costumes and scenery to help ensure the artistic success of 'Boris,' " he wrote.
With an amazing battery of certificates and degrees at its disposal, education has put its seal of approval on a minority, and its seal of disapproval on the many who fail to shine from the time they are relegated to the bottom streams at the age of seven or before.
