Sentence examples similar to metre rigid from inspiring English sources

Their solution was the Lifeboat in a Box – a 12 metre (40ft) shipping container kitted out with a 4 metre, rigid-hulled inflatable boat, a maintenance workshop and changing room – which could be delivered to coastlines where no adequate lifeboat service existed.

Perhaps most excitingly, the fleet consists of nippy little 11-metre rigid inflatable boats, pictured, that each carry just 12 life-jacketed passengers and make the two-hour crossing something of an experience (though landlubbers will be relieved that the boats are fully enclosed and even centrally-heated).

Proponents of rigid airships also claim that their babies are more resilient, thanks to the protective outer skin which shields the gas compartments.Rigid Airship Design (RAD), a Dutch consortium, plans to build a 180-metre rigid airship on the blueprint of the original Zeppelins, but using modern materials.

Since 1997 Zeppelin Luftshifftechnik, the direct descendant of the original Zeppelin company, has been testing the LZ-N07, a 75-metre semi-rigid design that can carry two tonnes of cargo, or 12 passengers.

It was in the nineteen-thirties that Nima Yushij, who had grown up in a small village but studied European poetry at a Catholic school in Tehran, took a cue from French Symbolism, breaking not only with the courtly tones of older Iranian poetry but also with its classically rigid metre.

He was also inspired by such younger poets as WD Snodgrass, William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg, who motivated him to relax the rigid conformity to traditional metre and rhyme that characterised his early poetry.

It happens partly as a result of Skinner's halting delivery: like a teenager forced against his will to read poetry aloud in an English lesson, he dutifully obeys rigid rhyme schemes and metres at the expense of natural rhythm, lurching from line to line, putting emphaSIS on unlikely syllaBLES and break... ing words up in o der to make them fit.

Pass it by and you'd probably take it for another pharaoh: the four-metre-tall figure has an Egyptian ruler's kilt, rigid arms and left foot striding forward.

Initial polyps divide themselves into daughter polyps, and they divide in turn, growing into colonies that can be up to several metres in diameter, all held together in one continuous rigid calcareous skeleton.

Ahead stretches a rigid platform of barges as much as 1,500 feet (460 metres) long and with a designed draft of 9 feet (2.75 metres).

My fellow 11 swimmers and I were based at Ilios Club Hotel & Villas in the fishing village of Yemi, and each day, after breakfast, we'd meet swim guide Mia on the nearby jetty and she would take us out in a rigid inflatable to The Big Blue's boat, Mowgli, a 15-metre mahogany motor yacht.