Sentence examples for leaking boat from inspiring English sources

In the final scene of The End, the narrator is chained to a leaking boat, his life seemingly draining away.

It was a Norwegian freighter that had rescued the refugees from a leaking boat; it was not itself leaking.

Whether it's an overcrowded leaking boat, a suffocating container or climbing over razor wire fences, UNHCR recognises that individuals are willing to take any risk that increases their chances of starting a new life abroad.

Australian officials here and United Nations officials in Geneva said today that Nauru and New Zealand had agreed to accept the 460 refugees rescued from an overloaded leaking boat heading for Christmas Island from Indonesia, some temporarily, others for settlement.

The captain of the naval boat said the capsize happened once panicked passengers moved towards the side of their vessel, frightened of being stuck on a leaking boat, and hopeful of getting rescued first.

He also carved the Medina Fountain in San Martino, and the Barcaccia (1627 29), a fountain in the form of a leaking boat in the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, is believed to be his work, though some have attributed it to Gian Lorenzo.

He also fixed several of Gems' leaking boats.

This means that they will continue to cross the sea in leaking boats – and a few of them will continue to set up camps at Calais – until there is a safe, legal and realistic means of being relocated to Europe.

Wednesday's dramatic capsize, photographed by the Italian navy, showed that even when European navies attempt to rescue these kinds of tightly packed, leaking boats, it is very easy for them to overturn and cause fatalities.

This suggests that the only logical alternative to the disorderly current nature of migration (the leaking boats across the Mediterranean, the camps at Calais) is not the short-term tactic of repatriation but, conversely, the formal, organised resettlement of a significant number of refugees to Europe.

In August 2001, Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, determined to halt what had become a flood of boat people trying to reach his country's shores, turned away a leaking refugee boat called the Tampa.