Sentence examples for jettisoning from inspiring English sources

The word 'jettisoning' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to express the action of throwing away cargo or discarding something that is no longer needed. For example, "The captain had to jettison some of the ship's supplies in order to lighten the load."

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jettisoning

verb

Present participle of jettison

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It is worth jettisoning things just for the kick of being empty-handed".

But this should be done with the purpose of reinforcing, not jettisoning, these things that we strive for in their purest form.

The New Democrats – led by bearded, experienced Thomas Mulcair – have emulated Tony Blair's New Labour by jettisoning their old-school socialist baggage and veering onto the centre-left terrain previously monopolized by the Liberals.

Mr Singh's leftist parliamentary allies will balk at anything that smacks of toeing America's line, and especially of jettisoning close ties with Iran, an American priority.

The new minimum retirement age is unpopular among youngsters who wrongly believe that jettisoning older workers will open up job opportunities for them.

The result is a plane that can, potentially, stay aloft for months though its longest test-run so far is a fortnight.The Zephyr team achieved all this by following the principle of "adding lightness"—jettisoning anything that did not help make the aircraft fly higher and longer.

But if IBM's history is a guide, Microsoft may yet end up jettisoning its leader.

According to the Wiglaf Journal, airlines can save up to $90,000 per-plane per-year in fuel costs alone by jettisoning in-flight systems.

Along with its layoffs and office closures, marchFIRST is in the process of jettisoning its 1,000 smallest clients to focus on its biggest.

Mr Kissinger, appealing to what he asserts were such "unfashionable concepts" as "honour" and "moral obligation", argued against "simply jettisoning an entire people to which we were allied".Here his notion of morality overcomes his realism.

Jettisoning his party's ideological commitment to small government, he came up with new spending and tax breaks worth C$40 billion ($33 billion) over the next two years.

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