Sentence examples for impeding shipping from inspiring English sources
In April, coastguards in Alaska used a cannon to sink the Ryou-Un Maru, a crewless and rusty fishing boat which had drifted within sight of Sitka and was in danger of impeding shipping lanes.
They say a barrage would impede shipping, adversely affecting ports such as Bristol, Sharpness, Gloucester and Cardiff, and put at risk thousands of jobs.
The words: "The barrier could generate between 5GW and 8.6GW of renewable electricity at a cost of about 3p/kWh, but that it would impede shipping and lead to permanent flooding over more than 100 miles of shoreline," were wrongly attributed to Parsons Brinckerhoff.
While workmen were blasting out the Holland Tunnel, in 1924, the protective layer of clay deposited over the blast area to keep the explosions from blowing a hole in the river bottom and causing disaster to the tunnel-diggers rose high enough that it impeded ships.
Cleveland Bridge Company was chosen to design a bridge which solved the problem of how to cross the river without impeding the ships taking coal, iron and steel downstream.
The United States, the European Union, Canada and Australia have approved national sanctions that aim to choke off Iran's access to foreign capital, halt investment in its energy sector and impede its shipping industry.
Mr. Salehi was arrested by the Afghan police after, investigators say, they wiretapped him soliciting a bribe — in the form of a car for his son — in exchange for impeding an American-backed investigation into a company suspected of shipping billions of dollars out of the country for Afghan officials, drug smugglers and insurgents.
Slovenia, whose coastline is only 46 kilometers long, insists that this would impede its ships from direct passage to the high seas.
