Sentence examples for its shipwreck from inspiring English sources

Reprints Related items The World Bank's Doing Business report: Reforming through the tough timesSep 10th 2009 A golden chanceSep 10th 2009In stark contrast to its shipwreck during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, Indonesia has sailed through the credit crunch without leaking much water.

The pop-up brainchild of the people behind The Supper Club, it books months in advance to taste its shipwreck-themed cuisine; a Stargazy Pie of mackerel and vegetable dotted with fish heads and a Shipwreck Pavlova that comes complete with edible sails and a Jolly Roger.

Instead, it licenses private companies, such as Seabed Explorations, to salvage its shipwrecks in return for a 50% share of the profits from selling artifacts.

The area off Cape Hatteras, N.C., is known as the graveyard of the Atlantic, so numerous are its shipwrecks.

Its harrowing shipwreck scene, reminiscent of Stephen Crane's "Open Boat," was unrelenting in its man-versus-nature drama.

Earlier this month, the Pearce campaign nearly staged its own shipwreck, after Pearce supporters and family members were caught in a backdoor effort to prop up a sham candidate to siphon votes away from Lewis' growing and broad bipartisan campaign.

It's the tale of the Nantucket whale ship Essex, which sunk in 1820 after it was rammed by a sperm whale, leaving its crew shipwrecked in the South Pacific for 90 days.

The news comes after the Netherlands defence ministry said this week that it had launched an investigation into the disappearance of three of its own shipwrecks, also in the Java Sea.

There's the country's skeleton coast, replete with its famous shipwrecks, and Walvis Bay, where friendly seals literally jump into tourists' boats.

In its aftermath, the shipwreck of the Medusa would figure in the machinations of the moderate king and his republican opponents to discredit the ultra-royalists who wanted to recreate the ancien régime.

"And the real success for the island will come only once people around the world will stop remembering it for the shipwreck rather than for its natural beauty," she said.