Sentence examples for like fishermen from inspiring English sources

LIKE fishermen who keep watch on the weather report, smart business owners stay apprised of Washington's ever-changing tax and regulatory climate for developments that could affect their profits.

"The Indian government's motto is all about industrial development, but traditional communities – like fishermen and farmers – are going into poverty because of the IFC," said Bharat Patel, head of the Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers' Rights in the Kutch area of Gujarat, where the Tata power plant was built.

Other connections were deeper, like fishermen in the Szczecin Lagoon estuary (Slides 11 and 19).

Third parties like fishermen could sue the responsible parties or companies like Cameron and Halliburton.

"Runners are like fishermen," said Bart Yasso, a well-known marathoner who was on hand as a celebrity guest, not a participant.

Dressed like fishermen, we traipse through forests and crawl through brush as weather fronts whip through inlets and rumble along the outer coast.

The island is home to three distinct groups: the denizens of the titular harbor, and the militia-like Fishermen; a group of runaway synths holed up in a haven called Acadia; and the radiation-obsessed Church of the Children of Atom cult, who have set up shop in an abandoned submarine base they've named the Nucleus and staunchly protect the radioactive fog that smears the island.

He builds his "happenstance" novels—"The Lunatic" (1987), for example, or "Painted Canoe" (1989)—around such bizarre and humble characters as the goat-like fisherman, Zachariah, or the madman-lover, Aloysius.

Hotels have struggled to fill rooms, despite significantly lower rates, and at leading attractions like Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown, crowds have been decidedly thinner.

The Rodarte show earlier today was full of gorgeous surprises, the biggest being expressions of sportswear, which showed in the form of things like fisherman sweaters and cargo pants, previously unheard of in a collection by Laura and Kate Mulleavy.

There will also be other television commercials; print ads; billboards; ads online; a Web site, youknowyouloveit.com; a presence in social media like Facebook and Twitter; and even "noodle art" — replicas of macaroni noodles, 20 feet long and 9 feet high — placed in and around landmarks like Fisherman's Wharf and Wrigley Field.