Sentence examples for in foreign waters from inspiring English sources

The right has been extended to merchant ships in foreign waters.

During the upheaval of the Civil War, such was the duality of American naval power and diplomacy in foreign waters.

The Royal Navy alone lost at least 2,227 vessels between 1605 and 1918; some 1,373 in foreign waters.

In July 1889, the newspaper reported that a crowd gathered at the plaza to watch the new young alligator "disport himself in foreign waters".

During communist rule, ocean fishing in foreign waters was developed rapidly to supplement the domestic catch and to increase the export of meat.

Those catch quotas for domestic waters led to increased fishing in foreign waters, particularly in the Barents Sea and off the coast of Newfoundland.

Danish commercial fishing also extends into foreign waters in search of Atlantic cod, Norwegian pout, and North Sea sprat (bristling).

He referred to the 10 US sailors who were detained overnight in Iran for sailing into foreign waters.

Every series, sergeants Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester and Damien Scott Sullivan Stapletonon) land in turbulent foreign waters – Chechnya, Colombia, Somalia, Lebanon – giving the impression they've probably run there.

She also supported a bill requiring overseas companies to pay the cleanup costs for oil spills in nearby foreign waters.

Since seizing a group of Filipinos in March, and then entering foreign waters in April to kidnap 21 people from a Malaysian island resort, the Abu Sayyaf has become one of the Philippines' fastest growing franchises.