Sentence examples for means sailing from inspiring English sources

SELLING any print advertising these days means sailing against the wind, but as some categories battle a gale, the safest harbor is in ads for luxury consumer products.

This means sailing through polar ice floes, plunging over a waterfall, and winding up on a barren strand; or, if you are the director, Gore Verbinski, it means putting your blockbustering on hold while you try your hand at an art movie.

One of the more extreme cases of yachting fantasy was proposed by the designer known as Yelken Octuri — Yelken means "sail" in Turkish — whose Web site proposes a concept flying yacht, a trimaran-seaplane with folding sails that convert into wings.

But if they think this means smooth sailing between the two performers, they've got another thing coming.

Mingling with political luminaries has not always meant smooth sailing.

The trip had given me a flavour of the isolation and misery of Bunce Island, but it had also allowed me to understand something about the loneliness of what it means to sail upriver in Africa.

But that doesn't mean smooth sailing.

The route shaves thousands of miles and many days off the traditional means of sailing between Asia and Europe south through the Suez Canal, though it is open only a few months, in the summer.

That meant Alinghi sailed less distance faster, yacht racing's ultimate goal.

Bowie's monochrome edginess meant he sailed through the insurrections of punk.

The ship, nicknamed "the plague ship" after a virulent flu outbreak afflicted hundreds of passengers in 2003, was meant to sail to 40 ports in 23 countries over 103 days, but never made it much past the Isle of Wight.