Sentence examples for mining expedition from inspiring English sources

This was not an exercise in self-improvement but rather a mining expedition.

With campaign and lobby reports, something like that is a simple electronic search; here, it's a mining expedition.

In the remote Australian outback, multinational companies are embarking on a secretive new kind of mining expedition.

From the outside looking in, though, these investigations, however necessary, sometimes feel stalled, like a mining expedition faced with an impenetrable tunnel.

In the hut, I catch my scruffy, frost-edged view in a scruffy, frost-edged mirror: is it a frightened tramp, gearing up for a mining expedition?

The part-military, part-scientific crew have discovered a spaceship of extraterrestrial origin dislodged during a mining expedition, and bringing it aboard results in the almost instantaneous death of the base commander, who promptly reappears in the form of an eyeless, gibbering ghost.

Punitive treatment of foreign slaves or of native fugitives from their obligations included forced labour, exile (in, for example, the oases of the western desert), or compulsory enlistment in dangerous mining expeditions.

The military protected mining expeditions to the Sinai during the Old Kingdom and fought civil wars during the First and Second Intermediate Periods.

Driven by the demand for new bio-pharmaceuticals a number of genome mining expeditions have been launched during the past years.

He embarks on a "porknocking" (or diamond-mining) expedition in the volatile company of a charismatic ne'er-do-well, and gives a booze-addled account of the country's raucous, open-to-all weddings.

Most of those customers have been businesses: One group of McDonald's restaurants bought 1,200 to set up their wi-fi networks, he says, and a Canadian diamond-mining Arctic expedition installed the space-saving computers in its planes.